December 2011
22 posts
The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
I hope this gets loads of press!
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and...
“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story
(via wreckandsalvage)
“This was primarily a U.S. event and we wanted to make sure the Western media was...”
– U.S. military spokesman Col. Barry Johnson, explaining why Iraqi media weren’t invited to the U.S.’s Iraq withdrawal ceremony. (via officialssay)
I think this neatly summarizes my massive ambivalence about the end of the war. Good luck cleaning up the mess, Iraq.
“I think these are the debutantes and these are the STD cells…”
– Hanging out with people who are studying for their art history final.
distorte:
Amazon and Barnes & Noble let you sample the first chapter of every digital title they carry, and you can do so without leaving your couch, or ever having to feel harsh winter sunlight on your skin. The sounds of humans living will trouble you no more. You will never again feel cold, tired, frustrated on footpaths. Say goodbye to the twinge of pedestrianism in your hamstrings....
“The speaker charged with explaining Anonymous’ idiosyncrasies was Biella...”
– This woman gets me. And by me, I mean my thesis on hactivism and all its complications.
"But for the camera, you smile" →
ofanotherfashion:
Dressed to the nines and going to Manzanar internment camp. ”In an act as seemingly trivial and trite as smiling for the camera, these women interrupt and take some control of the historical, political, and visual frames through which they’re being viewed. And in this way, these kinds of photographs exemplify precisely the goals at the heart of this alternative archive: to...
I love my friends.
Friend: [Redacted] was having a conversation with someone--he won't tell me who--in which they listed the female leaders on campus you wouldn't want to fuck with. Guess who's on the list?
[We point at each other]
Friend: Exxxxxactly.
Portrait Hall of Fame!!
perezhamilton:
He’s just grabbing his balls like it ain’t no thang!!
Check out this RIDICulous portrait of Joost de Hertoghe painted by our favorite queen artist Anthony van Dyck.
He should have gotten his beauty sleep before his big portrait day, that boy is looking exhausted!! And what is he pointing to?? Maybe he’s yelling at his stylist for putting him in that hideous shiny bag??
Better...
The Dalai Lama is on Google Plus. I’m so proud that he is my Spiritual Leader of Choice.
“See, when talking about “origins” or “reality,” we can no longer do so without...”
– Gaga Stigmata
Love the MTN video so, so much. 