April Glick

A guide dog meeting Pluto at Disneyland.

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:11:58 -0400

A guide dog meeting Pluto at Disneyland.

ebonyeyes1984: School is really important: Reading, writing,...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:05:56 -0400

ebonyeyes1984:

School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic…then teach you reading, writing, arithmetic again. Then again, then again, just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy. And that’s where I think they messed up. There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education. No, REAL sex education class, not just pictures and illogical terms…There should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there not, their class is on…gym….Their class is like Algebra. we have yet to go a store and said, “Can I have X Y + 2 and give me my Y change back, thank you.” You know?…Like foreign languages. I think that they are important, but I don’t think it should be required. Actually, they should be teaching you English, and then teach you how to understand double talk, politician’s double talk. Not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and GERMAN. When am I going to Germany? I can’t afford to pay my rent in America! How am I going to Germany?

—Tupac, Age 17 On the Topic of Education, 1988.

"I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don’t you just tell her the same thing..."

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:04:03 -0400

“I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don’t you just tell her the same thing you’ve been telling her the last eight years?”

- - Mitt Romney, in response to lesbian woman named Julie Goodridge who asked what she should tell her daughter about why her two moms won’t be allowed to marry under Romney’s plan. [source]

It’s worth noting that he called her daughter “adopted” directly AFTER she’d told him about the complications she had GIVING BIRTH TO HER DAUGHTER and how her partner wasn’t allowed to see her in the hospital. There’s no excuse. (via ipomoeaandthestarstealers)

When girls younger than me get engaged

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:10:04 -0400

myfriendsaremarried:

WHEN YOUR CLASSMATE TURNS EVERY SCENE INTO AN ARGUMENT

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:57:27 -0400

whatshouldwecallucb:

WHEN YOUR PARENTS QUESTION YOUR COMEDY GOALS

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:13:47 -0400

whatshouldwecallucb:

When I need inspiration, to work, to play with language....

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:33:14 -0400

When I need inspiration, to work, to play with language. #shakespeare #bestgiftever (Taken with Instagram)

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Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:40:03 -0400

"The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been..."

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:12:56 -0400

“The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, “that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about Basketball Diaries?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?” The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.”

- Roger Ebert (via flowersofthecity)

HOW YOU FEEL WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND GAME

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:08:56 -0400

whatshouldwecallucb:

vanityfair: The Newsroom | Aaron Sorkin and His “Musical...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:01:31 -0400

vanityfair:

The Newsroom | Aaron Sorkin and His “Musical Dialogue”

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz

WHEN YOU'RE WAITING TO GET INTO CHELSEA AND SOMEONE IS EXITING GRISTEDES

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:00:14 -0400

whatshouldwecallucb:

Summer Rainpocalypse. #williamsburg (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:52:44 -0400

Summer Rainpocalypse. #williamsburg (Taken with Instagram)

and the lights come up. #nyc (Taken with Instagram at 160...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:59:10 -0400

and the lights come up. #nyc (Taken with Instagram at 160 Havemeyer)

retrogasm: The art of acting…

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:35:03 -0400

retrogasm:

The art of acting…

When thinking of third beats

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:39:22 -0400

whatshouldwecallucb:

ilovecharts: Stay in school, kids.

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:44:41 -0400

ilovecharts:

Stay in school, kids.

ilovecharts: Secret to Life - Bud Caddell

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:26:31 -0400

ilovecharts:

Secret to Life

- Bud Caddell

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:54:25 -0400

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.

This. All this.

A haiku

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:58:08 -0400

Hey to my body,
These allergies really blow.
Make my chest not burn.