It’s been 8 years to the day since Elliott Smith died, so a special musical offering. I love his stuff, and wish he’d hung around to create more of this gorgeous music.
I wish I had seen him live, too.
Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
This is the piece about #OWS that says it best, for me.
No one deserves to live in a world built upon the degradation of human beings, forests, waters, and the rest of our living planet. Speaking to our brethren on Wall Street, no one deserves to spend their lives playing with numbers while the world burns. Ultimately, we are protesting not only on behalf of the 99% left behind, but on behalf of the 1% as well. We have no enemies. We want everyone to wake up to the beauty of what we can create.
It’s a gorgeous piece, full of wonder and optimism: It’s not supposed to be like this.
Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fucking cigarette? No?
Whatever. It’s cool.
I especially like this bit:
But that’s okay. Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger, much more vocal, demographics. But whatever! Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child.
Generation X is used to disappointments.
Oh yes we are.
They’re otherwise famous for the video of “A Million Ways” but I had their “I Want You So Bad I Can’t Breathe” come up on Pandora the other day, and so went hunting for it, which is when I discovered their lovely cover of “Antmusic” — which is a song I never expected to like a cover of, so props to them.
so bad i can’t think straight /
so bad all my bones shake /
so bad i can’t breathe.
From GLAAD, via Bilerico:
Bilerico explains:
This month GLAAD is working with organizations including GLSEN, GSA Network, PFLAG and The Trevor Project as part of National Bullying spiritday.jpgPrevention Month to inspire Americans to wear purple on Spirit Day. The Bilerico Project will be joining the campaign by changing our logo purple for the campaign. Wearing purple on this day symbolizes support for LGBT people and against bullying of LGBT teens.
& GLAAD lists the tons of participants:
Conan O’Brien will join CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Simon Hobbs, Dr. Drew of CNN, E!’s Marc Malkin, Thomas Roberts of MSNBC and hosts of CBS’ The Talk by wearing purple on-air. Seventeen magazine will turn its Twitter avatar purple for the day.
MTV will be turning the on-air logo purple along with its Facebook, Twitter, MTV.com and MTV Act logos. Online and on-air logos for MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, MTV James and RateMyProfessors.com will also turn purple. MTV 44 and ½, the jumbotron in Times Square, will also light purple for Spirit Day. Continue reading “Wear Purple on 10/20”
GLAAD put together a group of trans advocates to watch Chaz Bono’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars.
Nice work, no?
Anyone else remember Human Sexual Response or this song “Cool Jerk”? Nifty video I’d never seen before, too:
(You may remember their song “Jackie Onassis” instead.)
Have a lovely weekend. If you can, do try to make it to an Occupy Your Local City: Saturday the 15th should be a remarkable day all over the country. (I’ll be in Madison.)
A friend of mine put up this Daily Kos “letter to the 53%er” whose image and letter have been showing up all over the place.
I was disgusted by the condescension, and maybe that’s because I’m a working class asshole like that guy in his photo.
But liberals – oh, I love you liberals, and know that I’m one of you – really sometimes get caught up in their own superiority to such a degree that I don’t want to be a part of them at all. I understand, when I read a letter like that, guys like the 53% who think we’re all a bunch of overeducated elites.
So here’s my letter to that guy:
Dude, watch the movie Animal Farm. You’re the horse. Don’t fall for it.
Topeka, Kansas isn’t currently enforcing domestic violence laws put on the books to protect women. They say they can’t afford to.
& Honestly, I’d like to know when exactly we’re going to realize that our courts are clogged with minor drug offenses instead.
I haven’t had the performance of a poem make me cry in a long time.
Thanks to Reiko of LU for bringing it to my attention.
Happy Coming Out Day, everyone!