KatherineJane

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:34:12 -0400

"You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun,..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:01:55 -0400

““You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.””

- William Shakespeare (via beastly-)

thedailywhat: Another Movie Trailer of the Day: And the breast...

Sat, 12 May 2012 21:42:38 -0400

thedailywhat:

Another Movie Trailer of the Day: And the breast cancer awareness backlash continues, with film festival darling Pink Ribbons, Inc. making its stateside debut June 1. The Canadian documentary shows how the movement has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns, and frankly, the trailer alone is enough to change the way you think about the Susan G. Komen foundation: “If people actually knew what was happening, they would be really pissed off.”

[theaggregate]

galasai: Ben Visbeek

Sat, 12 May 2012 21:26:42 -0400

galasai:

Ben Visbeek

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Sat, 12 May 2012 21:25:11 -0400

decrepito: Maya Felder

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:07:29 -0400

decrepito:

Maya Felder

thrashbrowns: Mental note.

Thu, 10 May 2012 21:59:15 -0400

thrashbrowns:

Mental note.

woeismee: This is where I live. All the videos of Portland that...

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:33:26 -0400

woeismee:

This is where I live.

All the videos of Portland that I watch never capture rain… I love Portland in all weather conditions, but people should really stop creating false perceptions of Portland because videos like these represent only 3-4 months out of the year.

thedailywhat: This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Another...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:50:54 -0400

thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Another day, another appalling undercover investigation from the Humane Society of the United States: The animal advocacy group has released evidence — and video footage — of pig abuse at a factory farm that allegedly is a supplier to Tyson Foods.

Video shot in April at the Wyoming Premium Farms facility in Wheatland shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls; swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs; striking mother pigs with their fists; and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

A Tyson Foods spokesman denies the company buys directly from the farm:

Tyson Foods does not buy any of the hogs raised on this farm for our pork processing plants. … A company that we own has purchased hogs from the farm. We will not purchase from this farm until we’ve had a chance to investigate.

(Heads up — video contains graphic images of animal abuse.)

[bi]

Did a project on this for a class. Know what you are eating when you choose meat.

thedailywhat: Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:43:19 -0400

thedailywhat:

Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay Marriage: [UPDATED] President Obama has publicly announced his support for gay marriage in an interview today with Robin Roberts. (Watch the video here.)

I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Obama, who is the first U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, had come under fire this week for remaining mum on the subject after Joe Biden and Arne Duncan publicly declared their support. The president’s announcement comes a day after North Carolina voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans marriage equality.

Obama’s interview will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer.

How we do it in Portland. (Check out 2:55)

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:01:50 -0400

How we do it in Portland. (Check out 2:55)

campfiresmell: very, very well done. ~Tim

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:29:20 -0400

campfiresmell:

very, very well done. ~Tim

How To Become A Smoker

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:28:27 -0400

How To Become A Smoker:

extinction:

Go for coffee with a guy you used to sort of know. Get all the awkward small talk out of the way. Feel unsure if you are interested. Take the cigarette he offers you. It’s a first date. Don’t be rude.

Walk with him to the art show. Sip on wine and discuss the art. Discuss whether or not art should be discussed. Agree that neither of you like people who discuss art. Laugh tipsily, bail on the art show and go smoke a cigarette.

Wander to the bar. Before you start a game of pool, have a drink and smoke a cigarette. Play doubles with another couple and banter wittily about your first date with him. Win the game. Show off your dance moves. Drink too much and walk back to his place.

Listen to him promise he won’t try anything. Feel disappointment. Realize you like him, you love him, you want him. Snuggle into his bed. Try things. Feel comfortable. Marvel at how, over the course of one evening, your feelings have changed so drastically. In a vain attempt to please him, make him like you, make him think you are cool and interesting and sophisticated, smoke another cigarette.

Start seeing him regularly. Learn all the good things about him and show him all the good things about you. Start buying your own cigarettes. Buy him cigarettes to make up for the times you smoked his. While walking his dog, talk politics, talk religion, agree and disagree, be honest, begin to feel a real connection, smoke cigarettes.

When he is out of town, talk to him, on the phone, everyday, while you smoke your cigarettes.

When it comes time to express your feelings toward each other, be nervous. Feel vulnerable. Smoke cigarettes. Have the talk. Acknowledge that you are both having fun. Be afraid to commit. Things are good; you are happy, don’t ruin it. Relieve the tension of defining the relationship by smoking a cigarette.

Go away for a while, don’t talk to him, sleep around. Repress the urge to smoke a cigarette.

Miss him. Come home. Establish contact. Continue spending time together. Continue smoking cigarettes.

Become dependent on him; see him every night. Smoke cigarettes naked in his bed. Let him tell you things. Ask him all the questions you were afraid to ask in the beginning. Let him tell you about his past and tell him all about yours. Let him see your bruises. Prove to him that you have depth and emotion, that you have been hurt. Try to heal each other. Smoke a lot of cigarettes.

Be too loose with your emotions. Become reckless. Cry. Be more intimate than you have with anyone in years. Think that because he shared with you, you can share with him. Think that you both love smoking cigarettes. Think that you are on the same page. Listen when he tells you he could love you. Feel like you could love hum. Feel like you could tell him anything. Appreciate that he doesn’t judge you, even for smoking cigarettes.

Decide that it’s time to commit to him. Decide that this is real. Imagine your future together. Fabricate a life in which the two of you live romantically in a studio apartment that allows smoking and dogs. Be oblivious to his feelings on the subject. Yes, he’s going to be yours. You like him. You like smoking cigarettes. Nothing can hurt you.

On your way to his house, stop to buy a pack of cigarettes. When you arrive, feel confused when he tells you he is no longer smoking. You both love cigarettes.

Lay in bed with him. Confess that you love him. Listen as he tells you he isn’t sure. Begin to panic. Cry. Try to leave. Feel betrayed. Let him convince you to stay. Let him soothe you. Cling to connection you felt with him only minutes earlier. Cling to the idea of the two of you, in love and happy.

Continue seeing him. Continue smoking cigarettes, despite the fact that he has quit. Hear from him less. Sleep with him, only when he is drunk, only when you are drunk, only after you’ve been smoking several cigarettes.

While you wait for him to call, smoke more cigarettes. Ask your friends why he hasn’t called you. Ask yourself what you did wrong. Regret being so open with him. Regret smoking cigarettes. Smoke cigarettes.

Resent him. Smoke cigarettes.

After weeks of feeling sorry for yourself, come to terms with the end of your relationship. Come to terms with your addiction to cigarettes.

Two months later, see him at the drug store, buying cigarettes.

moon-apple: …moon|apple…

Mon, 07 May 2012 20:11:47 -0400

moon-apple:

…moon|apple…

still-owleyed: echinoderma: adimal: neat Eli I got some...

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:13:45 -0400

still-owleyed:

echinoderma:

adimal:

neat

Eli I got some oregano for those cramps all right
/wonk

or you could just smoke marijuana and solve all of these

except “always tired” and “congestion”

oh.

Sun, 06 May 2012 22:27:01 -0400

oh.

lisagidley: Portland, 2012.

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:50:59 -0400

lisagidley:

Portland, 2012.

thedailywhat: Window Display of the Day: Jacqueline Traide, a...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:27:22 -0400

thedailywhat:

Window Display of the Day: Jacqueline Traide, a 24-year-old performance artist, recently volunteered for a starring role she won’t soon forget: 10 hours of torture — cosmetics testing — in a Lush Cosmetics window display. The shocking performance, during which thousands of London passersby witnessed Jacqueline being roughly manhandled and administered to by a “lab technician,” was meant to draw attention to the pain and cruelty inflicted on animals during lab tests for beauty products.

Dressed in nothing but a flesh-colored body stocking, Jacqueline and her counterpartre-enacted widely used tests. She was given injections and had her skin abraded and smothered in lotions and potions, then endured eye irritants and having a strip of her hair shaved off on one of Britain’s busiest streets.

“I hope it will plant the seed of a new awareness in people to really start thinking about what they go out and buy and what goes into producing it,” Jacqueline said.

[dailymail]

thedailywhat: Burger King Announcement of the Day: Burger King...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:22:54 -0400

thedailywhat:

Burger King Announcement of the Day: Burger King said today that it will begin buying eggs only from farms that don’t cage their hens — and similarly, pork only from producers that don’t use gestation stalls to confine sows — with a plan to complete the transition by 2017. The decision is the first of its kind by a global fast food industry giant, and comes amid recent undercover investigations by animal rights activists and concessions from major companies.

“So many tens of thousands of animals will now be in better living conditions,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States. “Numerically this is significant because Burger King is such a big purchaser of these products.”

[nydn]

"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on,..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:50:24 -0400

““I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.””

- Bansky (via cite-belle)