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[insert literary reference]: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:40 +1000

[insert literary reference]: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But…

the-metres-gained: legit shrieked a little

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:11:04 +1000

the-metres-gained:

legit shrieked a little

I have come to the conclusion that for all intents and purposes I’m a charisma black hole.

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:24:32 +1000

I have come to the conclusion that for all intents and purposes I’m a charisma black hole.

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:32:33 +1000

Anyone else excited for the new Daft Punk album?

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:53:19 +1000

Anyone else excited for the new Daft Punk album?

courtnu: communismkills: squigggle: zeldatits: lieutenantker...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:31:32 +1100

courtnu:

communismkills:

squigggle:

zeldatits:

lieutenantker:

WWII Facebook Style

I love these so much you don’t even know

greatest history lesson ever created

I LULED SO HARD

I need this on my blog.

Fucking Hindsight and Common Sense are what got me holy shit

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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:02:11 +1100

indogyears: That’s a CD not a tape. Mixtape is one of those...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:45:55 +1100

indogyears:

That’s a CD not a tape.

Mixtape is one of those words that doesn’t mean what it used to. Like gay, or literally. I think it’s appropriate in this context.

emmajeans: Tonight. 7pm, The Front Gallery, Wattle St, Lyneham,...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:28:43 +1100

emmajeans:

Tonight.
7pm, The Front Gallery, Wattle St, Lyneham, ACT, Australia.
Be there!

The art is for sale, as are the art books - bring cash.

If you’ve pre-ordered the book, come and pick it up!

Tell a friend!

okbjgm: hey america, do you remember that time when you...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:00:08 +1100

okbjgm:

hey america, do you remember that time when you wondered if there would ever be a high-quality, high-res, professionally shot, non-play-listed version of the now-legendary 2009 san diego comic con middleman cast reunion and table read of the lost episode “the doomsday armageddon apocalypse?” yeah…me too!

beyondtheseawaiting: pushingdailydaisies: According to this...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:31:03 +1100

beyondtheseawaiting:

pushingdailydaisies:

According to this article and this article and the tweet above (!!!!), Bryan Fuller is seriously looking into doing a kickstarter to raise money to make a Pushing Daisies movie!!!

Not sure what we can do to help at this point, but following Bryan on Twitter and commenting on articles about the topic, is probably a good place to start (?)!! Any other ideas?

-Oh, by the way- he has already written part of the movie!!!!!

OH MY GOD

allthearchersbowshavebroken: :’(

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:38:26 +1100

allthearchersbowshavebroken:

:’(

“I identify with Lars more than with any other character I’ve...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:28:32 +1100

“I identify with Lars more than with any other character I’ve ever played. I feel that awkward, too. I feel a separation between who I think I am, who I actually am and how I’m perceived to be. It’s hard to truly connect with people. He wants to connect, but he doesn’t feel that he has the tools to do it. I don’t think it’s just me. I think there’s a little bit of Lars in all of us.” - Ryan Gosling

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:02:30 +1100

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:41:16 +1100

Squirrels & Apostrophes: Mr Cave

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:13:44 +1100

Squirrels & Apostrophes: Mr Cave:

squirrels-and-apostrophes:

It was the first concert that I have been to with someone to hold me. No, that’s not true. I saw G.U.D with my first ex and I saw The National with my second.

It was the first concert that I have been to with someone who held me.

His tan was darker. He seemed more eager to please. Perhaps he had…

nataliemorales: As promised. Middle ID’s. (Thanks to...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:25:14 +1100

nataliemorales:

As promised. Middle ID’s.

(Thanks to @joshcheek aka joshprops)

it8bit: Wallpaper Wednesday Download NES Controller, Gameboy,...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:21:39 +1100

it8bit:

Wallpaper Wednesday

Download NES Controller, Gameboy, NES 2, SNES and Famicom.

Created by Doctor-G

myheadisbleeding: mentalreboot: So I heard you like perfect...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:38:28 +1100

myheadisbleeding:

mentalreboot:

So I heard you like perfect loops

Devilish

"Seth MacFarlane made a whole bunch of sexist, reductive jokes at the Oscars last night. It’s..."

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:43:46 +1100

“

Seth MacFarlane made a whole bunch of sexist, reductive jokes at the Oscars last night. It’s frustrating enough to know that 77 percent of Academy voters are male. Or to watch 30 men and 9 women collect awards last night. But MacFarlane’s boob song, the needless sexualization of a little girl, and the relentless commentary about how women look reinforced, over and over, that women somehow don’t belong. They matter only insofar as they are beautiful or naked, or preferably both. This wasn’t an awards ceremony so much as a black-tie celebration of the straight white male gaze.

MacFarlane’s opening musical number, “We Saw Your Boobs,” might as well have been a siren blaring, “This isn’t for you.” Come on, everyone likes boobs, right? No. The answer is no. They’re not something I hate, and heck, I have a pair to call my own, and yet my takeaway from The Accused was not “Finally, I’ve seen Jodie Foster’s breasts.” My lasting memory of Boys Don’t Cry is not “Hey, free breasts!” At least there was that super timely and relevant reference to Kate Winslet’s many nude scenes.

Jeez, the song was a joke! Can’t you take a joke? Yes, I can take a joke. I can take a bunch! A thousand, 10,000, maybe even more! But after 30 or so years, this stuff doesn’t feel like joking. It’s dehumanizing and humiliating, and as if every single one of those jokes is an ostensibly gentler way of saying, “I don’t think you belong here.” All those little instances add up, grain of sand by grain of sand until I’m stranded in a desert of every “tits or GTFO” joke I’ve ever tried to ignore.

Then came the joke about actresses getting the flu to lose weight. “It paid off,” MacFarlane said. “Looking good.” Well, thank God, because what matters to all women is that we look good for Seth MacFarlane. How many women did he introduce over the course of the night by mentioning how they looked: “Please welcome the lovely ___ ,” “the beautiful ______”? How many men?

Uh, those are compliments! Now he can’t even give women compliments? Compliment away, friends. Let’s compliment the shit out of each other. But let’s be really cognizant of what we compliment each other on, and what that says about what we expect from each other, and what we consider valuable and worth mentioning. It doesn’t matter what Salma Hayek says, because she’s so pretty!

You just don’t like Seth MacFarlane’s sense of humor. What did you expect? Actually, I do like Seth MacFarlane’s sense of humor. (Sometimes. No one likes everything all the time!) I’ve been a loyal Family Guy viewer for almost fifteen years. I’ve been to — and adored — Family Guy: Live. If MacFarlane had sung “Shipoopi” all night, I’d be writing a really different story right now. Instead, there were jokes about how Rex Reed would probably call Adele fat — because that’s what’s important about her — and how someday Quvenzhané Wallis will be old enough to date George Clooney — because that’s what’s important about her — and how sometimes, gasp, a woman might have body hair — because that’s what’s important about them. Women are nags, and Jews run Hollywood! Thank you, Seth MacFarlane, for this cutting-edge humor. Like Mark Wahlberg said, the party’s at Jack Nicholson’s house. You remember, that place where Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha.

I dream of someday watching women win all the non-performance categories, of women making as many films as men do, of women and men being nominated for a comparable number of awards. There are a lot of reasons why that day is far, far in the future. But I’ll tell you what’s not helping: the biggest night in film being dedicated to alienating, excluding, and debasing women. Actual gender equality is a ways away, but I’d settle for one four-hour ceremony where women aren’t being actively degraded.

”

- —-Why Seth MacFarlane’s misogyny matters

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/why-seth-macfarlanes-misogyny-matters.html

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