On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Smanging It
Honestly, I wouldn’t normally give some random internet video an entire blog post, but this… I’m… I’m still laughing at this. It’s brought such joy to me. Every time I watch it, I see something new. First, it was the fact that the main singer is reminiscent of Pootie Tang, and that they surely pulled in Charlie Murphy for the other guy. Then it was the ridiculous bodyrolls. Then it was the words. Then (thanks to Greg), it was the main singer’s stare. o_o And so I invite you to get on the “Lemme Smang It” bandwagon.
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SexyShred Cleanup: Watermelon Sorbet
One of my SexyShred food challenges is to take a recipe I might crave, and rework it in a Clean Eating way. I’m not really up for diving into my old comfort foods. A lot of that is garbage on more levels than just the ingredients, so I struggled to come up with something to convert. Cranberry sorbet was my first impulse, but not only did I not have cranberries, I’m sick of grocery shopping (been doing it a lot as part of SexyShred) and I knew the honey/water syrup would be pretty hard to get right. Hell, I hadn’t perfected it with sugar in a way that didn’t require…
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Now Is Another Opportunity to Reimagine Justice
I spent late Saturday night (while my neighbors were belting out Oasis’s “Wonderwall” to bad guitar accompaniment) watching Twitter and Facebook. The Zimmerman verdict (not guilty of either manslaughter or murder II) was out, and folks were outraged. “Not everything about race, dumbasses!” one person said. “Our justice system is broken!” said another. “No one in their right mind could say the prosecution proved beyond a doubt that Zimmerman didn’t fear for his life. That’s the letter of the law!” said a third. “Another black kid is dead, and Don West is crowing happily,” raged another. Whether or not Zimmerman made assumptions based on race, or had a racial motive…
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APW 2013: Intellectualism, Anarchy, Privilege and Power
(This is the fifth in a way-too-long-running series on APW 2013.) I am not educated on anarchy or intentional communities. I consider this a lack in my education. (Seems like reddit may have a good starting place for me.) Dennis Fox is a psychologist from Boston who focuses on a few interesting topics: intentional communities and critical psychology. What is critical psychology, you ask? When speaking of truths, Fox said, “current psychology’s truth is in finding ways for unhappy people to adapt to the current world, rather than in changing the current world.” That really resonated with me. So many of the unhappinesses we struggle with derive from trying to…
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Links! 7/12/2013
Some good reading: Wu-Tang Clan Had an ASL Interpreter at Bonnaroo and She Stole The Show No additional commentary from me needed, clearly. Delightful Helicopter Pilot Rescues Kid’s RC Plane From Treetop This is awesome. C/O Angi. Julius Escaping *ORIGINAL* Snake Opens Door – YouTube What the eff. Worlds Cutest Frog – Desert Rain Frog – YouTube Both creepy and adorable. All Hail the Queen? | Bitch Media "It is difficult to square the singer’s mainstream packaging with subversion of conventional and sexist views of gender. But ultimately, the policing of feminist cred is the real moral contradiction. And the judgment of how Beyoncé expresses her womanhood is emblematic of…