The musings of LadySnarksalot

shallowsocialistheart: This one is for @ladysnarksalot

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:42:21 -0500

shallowsocialistheart: This one is for @ladysnarksalot

shallowsocialistheart: Inspired by all the women who are trying...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:41:31 -0500

shallowsocialistheart: Inspired by all the women who are trying to educate Doug Saunders on rape culture. Commissioned by @rachelmack

edithwithgooglyeyes: Good Heavens! A funny thing happened...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:19:56 -0500

edithwithgooglyeyes:

Good Heavens!

A funny thing happened today. Daisy was in my room starting the fire when suddenly cousin- err… brother-in-law, Matthew burst into the room to wake me. He came to tell me I had gone viral!

I screamed in horror at the ghastly prospect! With the Spanish flu being only a recent terror, I panicked and crammed the whole mattress into the fireplace! Daisy ran away instantly (lest Carson find her in the room while this occurred). Matthew just laughed at my hysteria. He then explained to me that “viral” is simply a term for when one’s reputation spreads rapidly, much LIKE a disease. I was positively embarrassed. I’m just happy Sir Anthony wasn’t there to see me.

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The Real Good Men Project: Why Good Men Flash Teenage Girls on the Subway

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:56:56 -0500

The Real Good Men Project: Why Good Men Flash Teenage Girls on the Subway:

ungoodmenproject:

Has any breed of nice guys been more maligned by bitter, man-hating feminists than the subway flasher? You’d think flashers are criminals prowling around the city, trying to get cheap thrills by scaring teenage girls, the way cyber feminists and these uptight bitches who take pictures with…

uchicagoadmissions: Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:57:43 -0500

uchicagoadmissions:

Indiana Jones Mystery Package

We don’t really even know how to start this post. Yesterday we received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.”. We sort-of shrugged it off and put it in our bin of mail for student workers to sort and deliver to the right faculty member— we get the wrong mail a lot.

Little did we know what we were looking at. When our student mail worker snapped out of his finals-tired haze and realized who Dr. Jones was, we were sort of in luck: this package wasn’t meant for a random professor in the Stat department. It is addressed to “Indiana” Jones.

What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one that was for sale on Ebay had we not seen some telling inconsistencies in cover color and “Ex Libris” page (and distinct lack of sword). The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included. It’s clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the “handwriting” and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting.

What we don’t know: Why this came to us. The package does not actually have real stamps on it— the outside of the package was crinkly and dirty as if it came through the mail, but the stamps themselves are pasted on and look like they have been photocopied. There is no US postage on the package, but we did receive it in a bin of mail, and it is addressed to the physical address of our building, Rosenwald Hall, which has a distinctly different address from any other buildings where it might be appropriate to send it (Haskell Hall or the Oriental Institute Museum). However, although now home to the Econ department and College Admissions, Rosenwald Hall used to be the home to our departments of geology and geography.

If you’re an applicant and sent this to us: Why? How? Did you make it? Why so awesome? If you’re a member of the University community and this belongs to you or you’ve gotten one like it before, PLEASE tell us how you acquired it, and whether or not yours came with a description— or if we’re making a big deal out of the fact that you accidentally slipped a gift for a friend in to the inter-university mail system. If you are an Indiana Jones enthusiast and have any idea who may have sent this to us or who made it, let us know that, too.

We know this sounds like a joke/hoax… it’s not (at least, from our end). Any hints, ideas, thoughts, or explanations are appreciated. We’ve been completely baffled as to why this was sent to us, in mostly a good way, but it’s clear this is a neat thing that either belongs somewhere else— or belongs in the halls of UChicago admissions history.

Internet: help us out. If you’re on Reddit (we’re not) or any other nerdly social media sites where we might get information about this, feel free to post far and wide and e-mail any answers, clues, ideas, thoughts, or musings to indianajonesjournal@uchicago.edu (yes, we did set up an email account just to deal with this thing).

Please Revise...: TROLL UPWARDS, NOT DOWNWARDS

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:12:03 -0500

Please Revise...: TROLL UPWARDS, NOT DOWNWARDS:

pleaserevise:

You may have noticed variations of the term “online trolling” creeping their way into the style guides of your parents’ newspapers and magazines over the past several months.

On the coattails of digitally-reified terms like curation and piracy, trolling has become the trigger-du-jour for…

markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: me...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:45:11 -0400

markcoatney:

sarahchristine:

howto-kissdistinctly-american:

meow-sense:

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x]

hot damn.

Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body…

"So tell me. How far can I walk on my own at night? How many metres, exactly, can I walk..."

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:07:23 -0400

“

So tell me. How far can I walk on my own at night? How many metres, exactly, can I walk unaccompanied without having to fear for my life?

How many drinks am I, an adult woman, allowed to have after work on Friday night before being dismissed as a “party girl” or “asking for it”? How high can my heels be, and how short a skirt can I wear, before being implicated in any crime against me? And, just so that I’m clear, how many metres can I walk to get myself home?

And if something happened to me, how harshly would I be judged? If I vanished on that walk to my front door, what would you have to say about me? Would I be tut-tutted at for not accepting the offer of an escort home? Would idiots take to Facebook to admonish me for supposedly leading some guy on?

Would do-gooders and commentators and Twitterati-types take my parents to task for not raising me to act sensibly? Would they lambast my friends and lovers for not taking adequate care of me? Would everyone in my life suffer because I exceeded my allocated metres of solo walking?

Would every media outlet in the country view my disappearance as an opportunity to point out that, as it happens, women have more to fear in our world than men?

Would you, quietly, at the back of your mind, think that if I’d just stayed home with my partner, like a good wife and woman, none of this would have happened to me?

Are you just looking for one big, smug fucking excuse to say that you told me so?

And just so that we’re absolutely fucking clear, how many metres am I allowed to walk on my own at night?

”

- http://itotallyhaveablog.wordpress.com (via neophytical)

Sun News covers a Toronto preacher telling women they're responsible for being sexually assaulted because of what they wear, saying they need to be legally prohibited from dressing "provocatively". Sun News said almost the same thing after our 2012 rally - women are 'asking for it'. So no, Sun News, we're not going to indulge your requests to speak to us until you recognize your victim-blaming and start to be accountable to it. In other words, you're just like this preacher.

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:36:07 -0400

Sun News covers a Toronto preacher telling women they're responsible for being sexually assaulted because of what they wear, saying they need to be legally prohibited from dressing "provocatively". Sun News said almost the same thing after our 2012 rally - women are 'asking for it'. So no, Sun News, we're not going to indulge your requests to speak to us until you recognize your victim-blaming and start to be accountable to it. In other words, you're just like this preacher.:

slutwalktoronto:

When a Toronto police officer said women could avoid being sexually assaulted if they didn’t dress like “sluts”, we were angry but not surprised. Sun News now reports on a Muslim street cleric spouting the same beliefs - that women are responsible for being sexually assaulted because of what they wear and they need to be told what to do by men who know better. People with these beliefs continue to show a deep disrespect towards victims and a lack of understanding in how many sexual assaults actually take place - that they’re most often committed by someone known to the victim and someone a victim previously trusted, that victims of all genders are most often under the age of 18 when they’re assaulted, and that clothing actually has no bearing on someone’s safety from sexual violence.

Sun News wanted an interview from us concerning this issue, asking, “Will SlutWalk Toronto denounce this Muslim preacher?” This question shows a lot of ignorance and comes from the same media source that published views rife with victim-blaming and slut-shaming, likening women to “deer” and men to hunters, suggesting as long as a man knew a woman was actually a ‘slut’ he could rape her and she ‘asked for it’. Sun News has shown no accountability to this, or to publishing transphobic ads last year. We’re understandably angry at the Sun and declined their interview letting them know why. Sun News has shown they don’t like to listen or be accountable to what they say, no matter how uninformed. It seems that Sun Media and this preacher have a lot in common.

kittenstache: Alfie & Milo

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:20:03 -0400

kittenstache: Alfie & Milo

hey torontostrife , this is for you..

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:34:20 -0400

hey torontostrife , this is for you..

How I feel because @torontostrife hasn't posted since May 28th...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:32:36 -0400

Why don’t you love us anymore torontostrife ??

dadsonvacation: Dad’s new family. Thanks Molly

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:05:12 -0400

dadsonvacation:

Dad’s new family.

Thanks Molly

jbomb11: robinmbrowne: cockenblog: chamberlain: Chambaland -...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:31:42 -0400

jbomb11:

robinmbrowne:

cockenblog:

chamberlain:

Chambaland - “Semi Charmed Call” (Carly Ray Jepsen vs. Third Eye Blind)

Welp, this is perfect.

crying

MASH UP PANTS OFF DANCE OFF — “Semi Charmed Call” (Carly Ray Jepsen vs. Third Eye Blind)

When I try to put on makeup without a mirror

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:46:39 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

When I'm drunk and my best friend says she feels fat & ugly

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:46:16 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

thelabmagazine: NICOLAS WINDING REFN INTERVIEW BY BRYAN...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:16:31 -0400

thelabmagazine:

NICOLAS WINDING REFN

INTERVIEW BY BRYAN CRANSTON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM HOOPS
ASSISTED BY DAVID TERRAZAS MORALES & AMI LERTPRICHA
STYLING BY LINDA CHAROENLAB
ASSISTED BY TUMM SOITHONG & PALOCH LILITTHAM
MAKEUP BY KITTY KITTIYA ANJIMAKORN
SUIT BY PRADA CLASSIC

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BRYAN CRANSTON—What’s your favorite color? Wait, damn it! I just wasted a question!

NICOLAS WINDING REFN—As I’m color blind, I would say red.

BC—You don’t drive a car or even have a license, which of course makes you the perfect candidate to direct a movie featuring driving. How did your involvement in Drive come about?

NWR—Bryan, it’s the only question I can’t answer anymore – please don’t force me, pal. I will only say that my film Drive came about because Ryan [Gosling] and I wanted to work together and we had a strange dinner just the two of us that led to a very mystical night drive through LA. Ryan turned on the radio and REO Speedwagon’s Can’t Fight This Feeling started to play and I started to cry in a mixture of emotional instability and being high as a kite. All those magical feelings gave me a vision of Ryan driving a car at night through LA listening to pop music and wearing a satin jacket.

BC—When you offered me the role of Shannon [in Drive], you told me that I could do whatever I wanted, and say or not say whatever I wanted in your film. It shocked and intrigued me. True to your word, several times before the film began shooting you asked the principal actors to meet in your living room to discuss our roles and pitch out what our characters would say or do, how they’d look, etc. It was a very empowering feeling as an actor. I felt invested in the storytelling as opposed to just being a hired hand for the film. Is this your approach on every movie? How can you maintain control over the finished product?

NWR—It’s how I make all my films. Even though filmmaking is a director’s medium you still need the collaboration of your creative partners, meaning the actors, and the more you engage them the more they will give of themselves and the better the movie will be. It’s not about controlling or not controlling because in the end a “good” director is the author of any film.

BC—Though you’ve made several cool films, Drive marks your “Hollywood” debut. What are the benefits and pitfalls, from your experience, in making a studio movie?

NWR—Drive never became a “Hollywood” film because all the studios passed on financing it so in the end it was an independent film, which was good because that was much closer to the world of filmmaking that I was used to in Europe. But making the film within the Hollywood industry was absolutely terrific. Within the LA community, you have the best resources to make a movie: the best crews, the best actors, the best writers, etc. And I will be honest, I did arrive in LA with my knife sharpened in case there was a show down but when I left Hollywood to go to Cannes with Drive I had made the film exactly how I wanted it to be. So in hindsight, I had a fantastic, first-class, super-cool Hollywood experience.

(Excerpt from Issue 05)

Enjoy more of this on thelabmagazine.com, coming summer 2012!

THE LCBO BEFORE THE LONG WEEKEND

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:21:57 -0400

torontostrife:

Really, this is probably every LCBO right now. Happy May24 everyone.

awfulfrontyards: concrete balls. elegant.

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:53:59 -0400

awfulfrontyards: concrete balls. elegant.

"Masks on,” Christian grins, and as he dons his simple black mask, my prince becomes something..."

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:42:34 -0400

““Masks on,” Christian grins, and as he dons his simple black mask, my prince becomes something darker, more sensual.
All I can see of his face is his beautiful chiseled mouth and strong jaw.”

- Fifty Shades Darker, p. 95.

christian pictured below:

(via 50shadesofsuck)