Coffee Shop Overheard
- Dude: Is that not some fucked up shit?
- Dude 2: guess...
- Dude: you don't think it's fucked up?
- Dude 2: could be. I just took a vow of silence against bitching is all.
From all over the US people are sending me photos and letters, letters and photos, and letters, and photos. Today: Baltimore, Maryland writer Timmy Reed absorbs “Thank You For Your Sperm” so thoroughly that the cover temporarily replaces his face. Also, he finds himself transported to Germany. Miracles that only books can achieve. Thank you for picking TYFYS out of the pile! — THANK YOU FOR YOUR SPERM can be bought at MadHat Press or via Amazon, and you can get Timmy Reed’s own collection “Tell God I Don’t Exist” here. If your face, demeanor or location are affected by TYFYS, please do not worry, everybody who’s been afflicted has eventually turned back to normal or perhaps you’re better off. Some readers of #TYFYS have reportedly turned into Playboy bunnies, others have morphed into enormous sperm. This made them very happy.
Today, PEN launches its groundbreaking report on free expression and human rights in China.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
—Buddhist Saying (via losed)
(Source: thelenaubr, via losed)
Tommy stares at the outside
Put your mouthful of words away
and come with me to watch
the lilies open in such a field,
growing there like yachts,
slowly steering their petals
without nurses or clocks.
Let us consider the view.
—Anne Sexton, from “From the Garden” (via weissewiese)
(via an-itinerant-poet)
Richard Berman: if you see this man in public, please spit on him. If you serve him food ever in any restaurant, please do the people of the world a favor and defecate in it.
April 29, 2013Yesterday we reblogged something from HumaneWatch.org, which was criticizing (& representing straight-up lies) against the humane society. One reader was kind enough to inform us that HumaneWatch is one of the many misinformation projects of Richard Berman’s. All of the above organizations are various projects run by Berman and Company, paid for by the ruling class, intended to spread misinformation & lies for the benefit of the ruling class.
Richard Berman is a Washington, D.C.-based hired propagandist who uses front groups to defend his corporate clients against the public interest. Using his lobbying and consulting firm, Berman and Company, as a revenue vehicle for his activities, Berman runs at least 23 industry-funded projects, such as the Center for Union Facts, and holds 24 “positions” within these various entities.
Make a mental note of the above organizations and keep in mind these brands. Never reblog (like I did) Berman and Company’s propaganda.
It was suggested to me that Charity Navigator is an honest & useful tool for actually evaluating how charities are spending their money. Here’s their information on The Humane Society of the United States. They have a 4 star rating.
The information in that post against the humane society was wrong, but it got 800+ notes (and we contributed to that count in a big way). Please reblog this & do some more reading/post your own posts about the propaganda campaigns Richard Berman is running to combat the misinformation.
I’m sorry we posted the original post, but let’s not allow this opportunity to expose this terrible organization go to waste.
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The original post spreading misinformation is still about 100 notes ahead of this one. I think we can change that this morning.
(via thepeoplesrecord)
Artistic process.
1) Messy Desk! Ugh! Nix writing.
2) Mmm Shots. Mmm art supplies. Yes. (Insert Homer Simpson voice)
3) Result.
4) More shots.
5) More result.
6) Ubiquitous selfie.
