May 2013
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Webcomics, where they give the cow away for free and occasionally ask you if...
– me describing the current trend of it being cheaper and cheaper to be a reader in the modern world (with all positive intentions). (via whatthehellamiwriting)
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The Committee Building: click for full page! “i’ve... →
thecommitteebuilding:
click for full page!
“i’ve three sisters, christmas is a hassle, but it’s done.”
Tobias and Cherysha and Laura and Madeline huddle by a frosty window, each with a mug of something very specifically age-appropriate between layers of gloved fingers, and they watch and watch and…
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kellysue:
MALE-TYPE-GUY-DUDES! The truth will set you FREE!
Look. Here’s the deal: you’re not fooling anyone. We know you’re not Geek Girls. (Your unsightly stubble and Adam’s apples give you away.)
It’s okay. We understand. Being a Geek Girl is a pretty fabulous thing. We get it and love you for your aspiration. But the thing is, you’re not a Geek Girl… because you’re a guy.
So quit...
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Superman, then, is the agent of modern fable — the most compelling
fable the...
– Warren Ellis, WHY THEY’LL NEVER LET ME WRITE SUPERMAN Brief, Disconnected Notes On An American Mythology (via ragnell)
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A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat...
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Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)
FUCK
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I’m just frozen. Absences of women in history don’t “just happen,” they are made.
(via queereyes-queerminds)
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Pay What You Like Month - an experiment in digital... →
monkeypipestudios:
Trying something out for the month of May the MPS website…
HHMMMmmm!
Hmmm.
The early days of MTV were all about epic narratives and the dazzle of rapid...
– Lindsay Zoladz considers the past, present, and future of the music video in her latest Ordinary Machines column. (via pitchfork)
This had been bugging me a lot lately; how much I’ve come to seek out and value environments where I’m not necessarily under stimulated so much as… is...
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Informers are variously known as squealers, noses, moles, snouts and stool...
– Grass up (via iamdavidbrothers)
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April 2013
60 posts
In 1845, the New York City Police Department hired its first female jail...
– History of the New York City Police Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via iamdavidbrothers)
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HOORAY STORE
thecommitteebuilding:
By the way? You really want this book. It’s on sale now in our store—and it comes with a free sketch and haiku of your choice inside the book. We’re selling them now and indefinitely through our TCB store.
Now. About this store.
I, Jesse, have this wonderful power of underestimating how long it takes to do ANYTHING, so right now there’s just 3 things in the shop, but...