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Celebrated cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry talks with Steve...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:10:08 -0600

Celebrated cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry talks with Steve Paulson about her latest book. Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, “What It is” reflects Barry’s belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. (via 091122B Channeling Creativity)

hometown via apatosaurus:fouroneoh: Photo by peacecharade

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:54:19 -0600

hometown via apatosaurus:fouroneoh: Photo by peacecharade

"From a student paper about Alexander Hamilton:“Isn’t it the American Dream, that the boy with..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:53:18 -0600

“From a student paper about Alexander Hamilton:
“Isn’t it the American Dream, that the boy with nothing can grow up to be the oppressor.””

- Quote of the Day [via] (via anthropophagous) (via unburyingthelead)

Installation in the Printed matter shop window from a while ago....

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:53:05 -0600

Installation in the Printed matter shop window from a while ago. thirdstitch

dominickbrady:ulkeptrce:lovealesia:B. Vikki Vintage

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:47:36 -0600

dominickbrady:ulkeptrce:lovealesia:B. Vikki Vintage

"At my university there was a group called the League Against Homosexuals. Their motto, spread on..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:16:58 -0600

“At my university there was a group called the League Against Homosexuals. Their motto, spread on leaflets across campus, was “Queers don’t produce, they seduce.” I adopted their credo as my own in the most public way possible.”

- I Hate Straights – Bash Back, Fags. [via] (via anthropophagous)

seven loaves

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:16:34 -0600

hierology:

Mark 8:1-8 (New Revised Standard Edition)

1 During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,

2 “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.”

4 His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?”

5 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

6 He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and they did so.

7 They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them.

8 The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

~~~

Religion: Christianity

Reflection: Unitarian Universalists (generally) don’t talk a whole lot about Jesus, and we certainly don’t talk much about the miracles of Jesus because it’s (generally) not our thing. But I love this story because of an interpretation I heard once. The interpretation goes like this: so Jesus hands out the bread and the people at the front take it and look behind them at all the people waiting. “I’m not that hungry,” says a man in the crowd to himself, and passes his portion along. “Someone else needs this more than I do,” says a woman in the crowd to herself, and passes his portion along. “Being with each other is enough for me,” says a child in the crowd, and passes his portion along. The bread makes its way through the crowd and everyone takes exactly what they need. In the end, the bread that is left is the bread that went in. We are fed by more than bread.

I love the idea of the miracle happening within the people, as inspired by Jesus, as opposed to the idea that the miracle was that Jesus manufactured so much bread that everyone had a whole loaf to themselves, which is sometimes the characterization of this story. I want to live in a world where we the people can make miraculous things happen.

Question: What feeds you other than food?

fuckyeahzenmind:(via unthoughtknown)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:15:16 -0600

fuckyeahzenmind:(via unthoughtknown)

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:12:47 -0600

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

-Annie Dillard

poetrynews:poetbabble

"Same sex marriage should not be put on the ballot for a vote. Just like abortion should not be on..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:58:58 -0600

“Same sex marriage should not be put on the ballot for a vote. Just like abortion should not be on the ballot for a vote. Just like protections for trans people should not be on the ballot for a vote. Because the majority is going to vote to protect its interests, for the most part, and that means that these measures are going to fail. And once a vote has gone through, it’s going to be harder to repeal, because of this whole “will of the people” argument that will get hauled out to defend inequality.”

- We’re Doing This Wrong [via] (via anthropophagous)

After the UC’s budget was cut by the state, the UC turned around...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:56:05 -0600

After the UC’s budget was cut by the state, the UC turned around and lent $200 million to the state. And people said, how can you lend $200 million to the state while you’re giving faculty furloughs and while you’re raising student fees and while you’re cutting classes? And he said, “When we lend money to the state, we make a profit from interest. But when we spend money just on teachers’ salaries, that money just disappears.” So, from his perspective, instruction is a losing proposition, and the university should just try to get out of the business of basically teaching students and hiring faculty.

…—what happened about 1980 was that states started to cut their funding of higher education, and so universities looked for other ways of making money, and so they concentrated on raising funds and doing research, and especially research funded by corporations and the federal government. And so, basically now at a lot of universities, instruction only represents about ten percent of the budget, and so it’s a minor aspect of the universities.

And most people don’t know that, that universities, in some ways, are just kind of fronts for investment banks and investments, because at the University of California, the regents, who are the main financial overseers of the university, are appointed by the governor for twelve-year terms. And most of the regents now are Republicans, who not only have voted against taxes and have not only tried to defund higher education—and they’re the ones in charge in many ways—but they’re also business people chosen by Republican governors. And those—and they are real estate people, they’re investment bankers. The new head of the—the chair of the UC Regents is the former head of Wachovia, and he actually—they sold subprime student loans, right? And they profit from the student loans. And also, they pushed the UC into investing heavily into mortgage-backed securities and into real estate right when those were tanking.

And so, I really think that the Board of Regents basically is forcing the UC or motivating the UC to make a lot of incredibly bad investments, and when the investments turn bad, then they try to take it out on the students, on the faculty and the workers

—Bob Samuels, president of the University of California American Federation of Teachers

As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide

anthropophagous:Race and white dominance in American...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:30:21 -0600

anthropophagous:Race and white dominance in American anthropology

igather: Big Bra from the series “Long Story” Check...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:29:49 -0600

igather:

Big Bra from the series “Long Story”

Check writtenafterwards, label founded by Yoshikazu Yamagata and Kentaro Tamai, Central St.Martins former student, well-known for their experimental work in merging fashion and fine ar (via playground&imperfection: maxi)

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation,..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:28:01 -0600

““By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.””

- Confucius (via quote-book) (via fuckyeahzenmind) (via hierology)

"i said i love the light the light of love hanging on with push and shove possession is the..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:04:55 -0600

“

i said i love the light
the light of love
hanging on
with push and shove
possession is
the motivation
hanging up the whole damn nation

looks like we always end up in a rut
trying to make it real
but compared to what?

”

- Roberta Flack - Compared To What/ Mainstream Isn’t So Bad…Is It?

Chancellor Birgeneau must be held accountable for violence against students « yaman salahi

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:30 -0600

Chancellor Birgeneau must be held accountable for violence against students « yaman salahi

Lessons from a Dog - Patrick Moberg

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:45:01 -0600

Lessons from a Dog - Patrick Moberg

lazz:Ceremonia Maya en Punta Rocas, Carlos Díaz

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:45 -0600

lazz:Ceremonia Maya en Punta Rocas, Carlos Díaz

lowendtheory: Bad cell phone pics from yesterday’s unbelievable...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:44 -0600

lowendtheory:

Bad cell phone pics from yesterday’s unbelievable protest at Berkeley. I thought I’d have something eloquent to say, but I’m still too exhausted. Suffice it for now to say that although 41 people occupied Wheeler Hall, their occupation brought probably 2,500 more people into an amazing field of collective action. Even more if you count the (maybe couple hundred) baton-happy, rubber bullet rifle-wielding, riot gear-clad police who attempted to hold us at bay.

To put it too vaguely now, yesterday felt like the continuation of something long in the making, but also the beginning of a movement that we’re really going to learn a lot from by learning to act together.

Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:12:09 -0600

Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Through performances—and parodies of them—these celebrations of national identity through music, dance, and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American. In The Day the Dancers Stayed, scholar and performer Theodore Gonzalves uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification.

Gonzalves traces a genealogy of performance repertoire from the 1930s to the present. Culture nights serve several functions: as exercises in nostalgia, celebrations of rigid community entertainment, and occasionally forums for political intervention. Taking up more recent parodies of Pilipino Cultural Nights, Gonzalves discusses how the rebellious spirit that enlivened the original seditious performances has been stifled. (via Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc.: Theodore S. Gonzalves, The Day the Dancers Stayed Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora)