December 2011
27 posts
Han Dong (via algae)
November 2011
23 posts
“Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won’t direct you to the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she’ll suggest you pay a visit to the 1st Choice Women’s Health Center, an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you’ll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.
Ask in New York City, and Siri will tell you: ‘I didn’t find any abortion clinics.’
” —10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion (via interwber)
“Black Friday is about cheap stuff at cheap prices, and I mean cheap in every connotation of the word.”
—Dan de Grandpre on ‘Black Friday’ deals
are you interested in anybody right now?
Quite the personal question, Anon. But at the moment, no. If you were to have asked a month ago it would’ve been a different answer.
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall.”
—Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Goshen
Beirut
Artist: Beirut
Title: Goshen
Album: The Rip Tide
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or the Whale
‘MY WIFE IS ACCEPTABLE’
During work on Thursday, a coworker showed me a photo she was scanning. It was an image of a headstone that a significant other wrote with praising words. Overhearing this exchange, my boss felt the need to rebut my coworker’s photo with the image above.
The photograph is by photographer Jim Goldberg for a series called Rich and Poor. Although the series is supposed to juxtapose the two economic classes in a manner which highlights their differences and similarities, this photograph is used in a completely different context when applied to my real life situation. In this series, Goldberg asked the subjects to write their comments, thoughts, feelings, etc. on their photo. There is a sense of irony and sadness when I look at the image above.
Transcription:
‘My wife is acceptable. Our relationship is satisfactory.
Edgar G.’
‘Edgar looks splendid here. His power and strength of character came through. He is a very private person who is not demonstrative of his affection; that has never made me unhappy. I accept him as he is.
We are totally devoted to each other.
Regina Goldstine’
‘Dear Jim:
May you be as lucky in marriage!’
