Never been more proud to be a Gold Award Girl Scout and former employee of the organization. I helped out with those Journey books!
Just posted this on my Facebook. This makes me want to wear my Gold Award everyday! Girlscout4ever.
this song is huge, can’t stop listening on repeat.
“I feel like certain cities, when it’s really affordable to live there, it’s easier to get by… I nearly moved to Austin before I moved to New York, but then I was like, “That’s not the kind of place that’s going to kick me in the ass.” I needed to be kicked in the ass at that time, and New York was really motivational for me because you’re surrounded by people that are doing ten different things at the same time. So you’ll say, “What do you do?” “Well, I’m an actor and a chef, and I DJ, and I play music as well and sometimes I volunteer…” You know? They do so many different kinds of things ……… One of my first roommates was a baker and also a photo assistant, and she moved over from Germany and just really made a path for herself. Just being surrounded by that kind of creative, positive energy. I don’t want to be surrounded by stoners all the time that are just watching cartoons and working at a video store. Not to say that that’s wrong, but for me I need to be surrounded by people that are being productive and are doing things. There’s something to be said for getting something accomplished in your life.”
— Sharon van Etten in this interview two months ago. Resonating with me today. Sometimes I feel like I’m supposed to feel bad about the fact that I’m always working on a million different projects and stressing myself out, but uh, F that, “there’s something to be said for wanting to get something accomplished in your life.”
Ladyfest Boston is so soon! So psyched. Feb 3-5 @ Cambridge YMCA. Friends from NY/other places — come to Boston for this! Here is the full line-up + a compilation of trax by bands playing.
“[This is] probably the only time in human history that capitalism is so not only globally dominant but so deeply entrenched in shaping who we are, in the very fibers of how we think about who we are, our gender, our sex, it commodifies everything … Capitalism seems to have become triumphant in a way where its almost hard to see what would be beyond it. And in a way that’s created this sense of possibility for people to have a sense of shared suffering under capitalism … Capitalism so structures how we feel about the world that it does feel wrong to most people now.”
— Cindy Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, talking about the complexity of individuals being drawn to the Occupy Movement because of feelings and intuitions vs. distinct political motivations. This was during a talk on “Occupy and Anarchism” at the Lucy Parsons Center in Jamaica Plain last week; I posted a quick recap on ThePhoenix.com.
“[Brownstein] has always felt more defined by her work than by her relationships. “I never think of sexuality as an identifier,” Brownstein wrote in an e-mail. “What seems to have defined me more is that I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on—returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy—is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.”
— From the Carrie Brownstein profile in this week’s New Yorker (via jennpelly)
(via jolieage)
• If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe.
• Barbie calls this a “full figure” and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
• At 5’9” tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
• Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.”
(Source: bitchalacarte, via stfuconservatives)
I Speak Vegan: Resolutions And Kale...Such a Winning Combination!!!
Greetings veganistas!!! So sorry for another time lag. I sustained quite a lovely injury to my shoulder, and was in a great deal of pain, and typing was seriously excruciating. So I decided to do the right thing, and stay off of my laptop for a few days. It was actually a post-reaction to an…
Mother Pelly on the history of kale + buying quinoa in the suburbs. SO GOOD.
Reporting on the revolution: a round-up of my #Occupy articles, photos and live coverage since October 2011
10/03/11 #OccupyBoston Protesters march to the State House and Fox News; debate whether to thank the police (+ videos) blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/04/11 Northeastern students to join #OccupyColleges #OccupyBoston national student walk-out blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/05/11 Full video recap: Cornel West addresses #OccupyBoston & National Nurses United protesters photos, video + blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/06/11 #StudentsOccupyBoston plans Student Solidarity March starting at the Commons on Monday blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/06/11 Watch the movement: twelve #OccupyTogether videos to inspire and inform blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/07/11 #StudentsOccupyBoston hold general assembly, plan for Monday blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/07/11 #Occupy your long weekend: three days of #OccupyBoston’s main events blog post for ThePhoenix.com
10/08/11 VIDEO AND PHOTOS: Saturday’s #OccupyBoston march and sit-in at the Federal Reserve live reporting & photos for ThePhoenix.com
10/11/11 Live tweeting: the first BPD raid on Occupy Boston’s attempted October 11th expansion via my Storify page
10/12/11 “The anarchist’s playbook: Occupy Boston takes a page from the radical underground” printed in October 14 issue of the Boston Phoenix
10/18/11 “OCCUPY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY” a Tumblr I created w/ a related “OCCUPY CMJ” flyer that I printed and distributed at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. Flyer referenced in this New York Times article.
11/8/11 #OccupyBoston expands to Harvard Yard tomorrow blog post for ThePhoenix.com
11/14/11 Locked out: Scenes from #OccupyHarvard’s first night live reporting & blog post for ThePhoenix.com
11/16/11 “After the occupation: Does the Occupy Movement have a future after the occupations?” printed in November 18 issue of the Boston Phoenix
11/18/11 #OccupyBoston holds “historic” general assembly, decides on three reps for court-ordered mediation with city and police live reporting & blog post for ThePhoenix.com
11/29/11 Miley Cyrus supports #OccupyWallStreet with a song and video blog post for ThePhoenix.com
11/30/11 #OccupyBoston Women’s March set for this Sunday blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/1/11 #OccupyBoston goes to court: tweets from the Suffolk Superior Court bathroom live reporting & blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/4/11 Photos: Occupy Boston Women’s Caucus March via my Tumblr
12/7/11 Read the decision: Court rules against #OccupyBoston, lifts restraining order blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/7/11 Dispatches from Dewey: The vibes are nervous, but campers seem prepared blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/8/11 Occupy protesters respond to tonight’s “midnight deadline” issued by Mayor Menino blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/8/11 Is Occupy Boston dismantling the Dewey Square camp? photos & live reporting for ThePhoenix.com
12/8/11 Live tweeting: #occupyboston prepares for eviction with huge GA, rally, dance party via my Storify page
12/13/11 Occupy Boston’s Anarchist Alliance calls for neighborhood-based general assemblies; Occupy Allston-Brighton meeting Thursday blog post for ThePhoenix.com
12/14/11 “Police state: name that non-lethal weapon” printed in December 16 issue of the Boston Phoenix
+ Many more to come.
+ Later this week, planning to index some more of my fall 2k11 occupy-related live tweeting on Storify.
things i would like to do in 2012
- drink less coffee, sleep more
- run a half marathon
- do more yoga
- write more letters
- write more in general
- make zines
- go to Europe for Primavera festival in May
- tour w/ a friends’ band to SXSW again
- go to California
- listen to more music made before 1990
- host/attend more house shows & fewer shows @ bars
- make the show-booking collective a thing
- go to New York more often
- be more responsible for my finances
- drink more water
- be a better/safer biker
i also made this funny “101 in 1001 days” goals list back in september but then i started covering occupy and never had free time for anything anymore. it is a sort of light-hearted list.
/edit/ my mother says i need to add “answer my text messages” to this list, and actually i think she is right, i would like to be better about that.
