Middle Child Musings

this is my life philosophy.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:48:25 -0400

this is my life philosophy.

solange can do no wrong.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:44:39 -0400

solange can do no wrong.

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please.

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please.

s-nn-mero: purdysouth: Louis CK is my favorite tears of love

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:18:36 -0400

s-nn-mero:

purdysouth:

Louis CK is my favorite

tears of love

myeyesareshutandclosed: Takashi Murakami “Randoseru”...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:50 -0400

myeyesareshutandclosed:

Takashi Murakami “Randoseru” 1991

“Randoseru Project comprises eight backpacks (Randoseru) that mimic the leather backpacks that many Japanese children wear, whose design is originally based on a military pack. Thus, in addition to evoking the omnipresent Prada bags that many Japanese consumers covet, these backpacks have a more bellicose connotation. Murakami exaggerated this quality by making the backpacks not a leather but a materials such a great blue shark, cobra, crocodile, two tyês of harpseal, hippopotamus, ostrich, and sei whale skins. He was of course aware that certain materials were controversial, if not illegal, for use in luxury goods. With “Randoseru Project”, Murakami intended to comment the exploitative use of endangered species to produce luxury goods, but not to do so cynically. He also exploring art’s status as a luxury good, an issue he would mine further in collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.”

thepeoplesrecord: There are now more Americans in jail than...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:09:23 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”

And it’s not just a relative population thing.

The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?

It’s 7-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,

Germany has 90 per 100,000

France has 96 per 100,000

South Korea has 97 per 100,000

Britain has 153 per 100,000

And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”

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bellecs: Goldie Hawn, Foul Play 1978

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:20:27 -0400

bellecs:

Goldie Hawn, Foul Play 1978

suicideblonde: Rooney Mara in Givenchy on her way to the Met...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:06:19 -0400

suicideblonde:

Rooney Mara in Givenchy on her way to the Met Gala in NYC, May 6th

terrysdiary: Punam in his store.

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:11:52 -0400

terrysdiary:

Punam in his store.

"He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations...."

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:26:26 -0400

“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: ‘celebration.’”

- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (via maddierose)

"I wonder how many people in this city live in furnished rooms. Late at night when I look out at the..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:48:24 -0400

“I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me,
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down.”

- I wonder how many people in this city, Leonard Cohen (via bbook)

"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:42:37 -0400

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism (via jaded-mandarin)

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