“ …You know, it (photography) gives you a passport to approach absolutely anybody who interests you for absolutely any reason, and to say ‘I’m willing to be vulnerable with you if you’re willing to be vulnerable with me.’
Traci Matlock (via louobedlam)
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Some People Wake Up
“Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world. “
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Submitted by my good friend, Kirsten Liske. Thank you, and Happy New Year!
Update to all: I have been unemployed since the day after thanks giving…I have also been looking for a job since a month prior to that (trying to get out of the job I had). I have had two promising interviews one of which turned me down for the job and the other I am waiting to hear back from (interviewed three days ago).
On another note, duncan the irish wolfhound is doing great and getting to be quite large..photos later.
This period of unemployment is causing me to consider going back to school but not for networking, this time I will likely go for automotive tech.
That is all for now.
Eventually we’re going to start shooting back.
This MSNBC reporter is going OFF! Political Panic is an understatement —-omg god love his heart —his message, a rare moment of clarity from the mass media, needs to be heard…it needs to EXPLODE!!!
(Source: witfw)
“ We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future. But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable that it chokes the life out of that built-in desire. Everything from our pop culture to our economy to our politics feels oppressive and unresponsive. We see 10 million commercials a day, and every day is the same life-killing chase for money, money and more money; the only thing that changes from minute to minute is that every tick of the clock brings with it another space-age vendor dreaming up some new way to try to sell you something or reach into your pocket. The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob’s Ladder nightmare with no end; we’re entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shitness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer.
Preach it. (via joshuanguyen)
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I just placed an order for an axe.
It’s a Wetterlings 26” Forest Axe and it’s magnificent.
I called the dealer and made sure they hand picked one with straight grain and a good edge because these puppies are hand forged the old fashioned way in Sweden.
Can you say STOKED!!
“ It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Oscar Wilde
kateoplis: “I’ve already gone off on this more than once, but it bears repeating....
“I’ve already gone off on this more than once, but it bears repeating. Bankers on Wall Street pay lower tax rates than most car mechanics. […]
Goldman, Sachs in 2008 – this was the same year the bank reported $2.9 billion in profits, and paid out over $10 billion in compensation — paid just…
I LOVE this song..can’t stop listening to it in fact. 
Naomi Wolf: how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street
“Last night I was arrested in my home town, outside an event to which I had been invited, for standing lawfully on the sidewalk in an evening gown.
Let me explain; my partner and I were attending an event for the Huffington Post, for which I often write: Game Changers 2011, in a venue space on Hudson Street. As we entered the space, we saw that about 200 Occupy Wall Street protesters were peacefully assembled and were chanting. They wanted to address Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was going to be arriving at the event. They were using a technique that has become known as “the human mic” – by which the crowd laboriously repeats every word the speaker says – since they had been told that using real megaphones was illegal.
In my book Give Me Liberty, a blueprint for how to open up a closing civil society, I have a chapter on permits – which is a crucial subject to understand for anyone involved in protest in the US. In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of “overpermiticisation” – requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. One of these made-up permit requirements, which are not transparent or accountable, is the megaphone restriction.
So I informed the group on Hudson Street that they had a first amendment right to use a megaphone and that the National Lawyers’ Guild should appeal the issue if they got arrested. And I repeated the words of the first amendment, which the crowd repeated.
[…] On our exit, I saw that the protesters had been cordoned off by a now-massive phalanx of NYPD cops and pinned against the far side of the street – far away from the event they sought to address.
I went up and asked them why. They replied that they had been informed that the Huffington Post event had a permit that forbade them to use the sidewalk. I knew from my investigative reporting on NYC permits that this was impossible: a private entity cannot lease the public sidewalks; even film crews must allow pedestrian traffic. I asked the police for clarification – no response.
I went over to the sidewalk at issue and identified myself as a NYC citizen and a reporter, and asked to see the permit in question or to locate the source on the police or event side that claimed it forbade citizen access to a public sidewalk.”
GET ON THE MAGIC TAR-DIS!
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yep, he’s got it right
