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lets-make-love-baby:

Freedom

kcwchan:

Molecular Science Building - Lyons Architects

city-of-vultures:

“Falling Off The Workout Wagon”

Marcos Chin (United States) via Curioos

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1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don’t. It will not be beautiful. It will not be brave. It will be selfish. It will be broken. Your mother will cry.

2. Don’t write for him. Write for you. Write for others like you. Write so the girl that thinks about stepping in front of public transportation doesn’t. Don’t be selfish.

3. When you will yourself to sleep and it doesn’t come- get up. It doesn’t matter that it’s 3 am. There will be other 3 am’s. Take a shower. Take two. Wash him out of your hair. Write a poem. Read the same book you’ve read 202 times again. The 203rd time might tell you something different. Don’t stay in bed- you will think about the bus again.

4. Don’t kiss him because he’s broken. Don’t kiss him because his laughter never reaches his eyes. Don’t try and fix him. Fix yourself first. Be selfish. He can’t save you.

5. Date yourself. Take yourself out to eat. Don’t share your popcorn at the movies with anyone. Stroll around an art museum alone. Fall in love with canvases. Fall in love with yourself.

6. Dress up and wear red lipstick and get drunk with your friends. They’re the ones that will pick you up. Don’t kiss him. Or him. Don’t fall asleep on strange couches with strange boys. When his hand slides up your dress walk away. Hit him. Don’t kiss him. He can’t save you.

7. Get another tattoo. Get five more. Get another hole in your ear. Don’t listen to your dad. You will still be able to get a job. Did you really want to be employed by someone like your father? Haven’t you had enough of judgmental old white men anyway? Get fuck you tattooed in tiny letters on your hip.

8. When you feel the yearning for a new city- start over. Take 200 bucks and a three suitcases. Work anywhere that will have you. Meet strange people and forget your name. Call yourself Ruby. No one will know the difference. Remember to call your mother. Don’t be selfish. Come home when you find yourself in the strangers and the small one bedroom apartment.

9. Don’t whisper evil things into your own ear. Other people are going to shout them at you. Be your own hero. Keep a sword on your key ring.

10. Don’t step in front of a city bus. It will not be beautiful. Live. Stay up all night with a boy that promises you everything and means it. Live. See shitty local bands with a friend. Wear a different band’s t-shirt. No one will care. Live. Have a baby girl with tiny fingers and tiny toes someday. Pour love into her until it’s overflowing. Live. Wake up. Staying in bed all day is not poetic.

Live. Live.

Live.

Do you hear that? It’s me. It’s your life. Wake up.

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We women, with our sumptuous breasts and our shapely hips, have to be funny in order literally to survive. Our curves render us useless for just about anything except cracking wise and quip-firing.

— Ellie Kemper, “Can Men Be Funny?” http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201306/ellie-kemper-june-2013#ixzz2TuGxkOWr

#GQ

gq:

Ellie Kemper Asks: Can Men Be Funny?

“Reading a chapter from Warren Buffett’s Tap Dancing to Work the other day, I was surprised to find myself chuckling out loud. Now this guy is kind of funny, I thought to myself as I turned the page and grabbed another Danish. This guy is kind of making me laugh. And those thoughts that I had quietly, in my head, to myself, made me realize just how rarely I do have those thoughts in my head. And that thought led me to another thought, which was: why is that? Why, on the whole, are men just not that funny?”

Read On: Can Men Be Funny? A scientific-y investigation

gq:

Ellie Kemper Asks: Can Men Be Funny?

“Reading a chapter from Warren Buffett’s Tap Dancing to Work the other day, I was surprised to find myself chuckling out loud. Now this guy is kind of funny, I thought to myself as I turned the page and grabbed another Danish. This guy is kind of making me laugh. And those thoughts that I had quietly, in my head, to myself, made me realize just how rarely I do have those thoughts in my head. And that thought led me to another thought, which was: why is that? Why, on the whole, are men just not that funny?”

Read On: Can Men Be Funny? A scientific-y investigation

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hamdoullahcava:

Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft

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PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

fascinasians:

On Tuesday, May 21st, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin considering amendments to sections of the immigration bill dealing with family-based visas. Judiciary Committee members need to hear from supporters of family reunification from across the country - not just those who live in their states - about the affect these amendments will have on our communities.

Please call TODAY, May 20th and TOMORROW, May 21st. On both days, Senate staff will be reporting on the number of calls for and against each amendment to the Senators. Phone numbers are below.

Tell them: “I urge the Senator to SUPPORT Hirono amendments #6, #7, and #8, which preserves family reunification. I also urge you to OPPOSE Cruz #4 and Sessions #48 amendements that would hurt immigrant families. “

Senator Hirono’s Amendments #6, #7, and #8
(Amendments #6 and #7 would retain or restore the family-sponsored visa categories for older married children and siblings of US citizens. Amendment #8 would raise the age cap of adult married children to 39 for family-based, merit-based, and non-immigrant visas).

Senator Cruz’s Amendment #4
Amendment #4 would completely eliminate family-supported visa categories for married-adult children as well as siblings.

Senator Sessions’ Amendment #48
Amendment #48 would not give points for brothers and sisters for US citizens under the proposed merit-based immigration system.

Please Tweet, Facebook, and whatever over social media outlets you have access to, these following messages:
“I urge the Senator to SUPPORT Hirono amendments #6, #7, and #8, which preserves family reunification.
I also urge you to OPPOSE Cruz #4 and Sessions #48 amendements that would hurt immigrant families.”

Please use the following handles and #hashtags:
#CIRmarkup, #SJC (Senate Judiciary Committee), #timeisnow, #familyunity.

Also, Tweet Judiciary Committee Members:
@SenatorLeahy, @SenFeinstein, @ChuckSchumer, @SenatorDurbin, @SenWhitehouse, @amyklobuchar, @alfranken, @ChrisCoons, @SenBlumenthal, @maziehirono, @ChuckGrassley, @OrrinHatch, @SenatorSessions, @LindseyGrahmSC, @JohnCornyn, @SenMikeLee, @tedcruz, @JeffFlke

If you do not have access to Social Media, please call ALL of the Senators below:
Senator Charles Schumer (NY): (202) 224-6542
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA): (202) 224-3841
Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT): (202) 224-2823
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI): (202) 224-2921
Orrin Hatch (UT): (202) 224-5251
Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN): (202) 224-3244
Senator Christopher Coons (DE): (202) 224-5042
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT): (202) 224-4242

THE NEXT TWO DAYS ARE IMPORTANT AND WILL HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE BILL!
Let’s make sure that we have our voices heard and support the amendments that support our communities!

If you have any question, please e-mail Janet Namkung, Namkung.Janet@gmail.com!

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nikolawashere:

NY under water.

The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.

It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

The new down under.

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