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"He slept that night in his own country and he had a dream wherein he saw God's pilgrims laboring upon a darkened verge in the last of the twilight of that day and they seemed to be returning from some deep enterprise that was not of war nor were they yet in flight but rather seemed coming from some labor to which perhaps these and all other things stood subjugate."
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy


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#1. The Young Hollywood edition of Vanity Fair looks the exact same every goddamn year. Seriously. PLUS #2. Apparently the point of introducing the “fresh young stars of 2012” is to make them look like 10 years older than they actually are. I mean, Shailene Woodley looks terrible and she’s probably one of the most beautiful girls I’ve ever seen. Seriously, the heavy make-up ruined the entire photoshoot this year. 

#1. The Young Hollywood edition of Vanity Fair looks the exact same every goddamn year. Seriously. PLUS

#2. Apparently the point of introducing the “fresh young stars of 2012” is to make them look like 10 years older than they actually are. I mean, Shailene Woodley looks terrible and she’s probably one of the most beautiful girls I’ve ever seen. Seriously, the heavy make-up ruined the entire photoshoot this year. 

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Damn you, Oscars! →

So now I love Peter Travers. 

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Some jerk sent us two boxes of this awful book (SPOILER ALERT: George Washington - Patriot; George Soros - Pinhead) instead of anything soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan might need, like, say, food or soap. Just burned the whole lot of them on my Commander’s orders. 

Everything is better if you imagine it also happening on Generation Kill.

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Jay Smooth provides “A History Lesson For Chris Brown”

This guy also made that Polanski video that was like, “um, really? We’re all sticking up for this guy now?” In other news, this guy may be my media outlook soulmate.

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Procrastination Theatre: September 2, 2010 Yeah, so my friend still talked me into going to this (not really; I am now so fascinated by the horrible weirdness of the logic that I wanted a better account to take to my ex-thesis supervisor). And, like, the theatre was filled with middle-aged to older women. Like that is apparently this movie/book’s target audience. Which is scary, again. And then, as we were leaving the theatre, and as I was seriously considering stopping these women and being like, “Um, excuse me, exactly what do you like about this series? I’m honestly incredibly curious but also confused,” we heard two older women talking to each other about the movie. I heard snippets like, “and she survives” “Mmmhmm, yes she does.” And but so like really? Is that really what it takes for our culture to recognize strength in women? Must we watch a women get raped (in flashbacks), beaten, shot three times, buried alive, but survive before we recognize female empowerment and strength? ……Really? That’s what it takes? I feel like Stan in South Park right now. p.s. don’t even get me started on the obviousness of the paternalistic storyline plot twist. OH RLY. ITS HER DAD. OH RLY. p.p.s. but like noomi rapace is a super good actress? pity she’s in such a horrible series.

Procrastination Theatre: September 2, 2010

Yeah, so my friend still talked me into going to this (not really; I am now so fascinated by the horrible weirdness of the logic that I wanted a better account to take to my ex-thesis supervisor). And, like, the theatre was filled with middle-aged to older women. Like that is apparently this movie/book’s target audience. Which is scary, again.

And then, as we were leaving the theatre, and as I was seriously considering stopping these women and being like, “Um, excuse me, exactly what do you like about this series? I’m honestly incredibly curious but also confused,” we heard two older women talking to each other about the movie. I heard snippets like, “and she survives” “Mmmhmm, yes she does.”

And but so like really? Is that really what it takes for our culture to recognize strength in women? Must we watch a women get raped (in flashbacks), beaten, shot three times, buried alive, but survive before we recognize female empowerment and strength? ……Really? That’s what it takes? I feel like Stan in South Park right now.

p.s. don’t even get me started on the obviousness of the paternalistic storyline plot twist. OH RLY. ITS HER DAD. OH RLY.

p.p.s. but like noomi rapace is a super good actress? pity she’s in such a horrible series.

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