TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: Happy Mother's Day! -
Music by and about mothers, featuring tunes from Tsumi, Domestica, Tilly and the Wall, Mates of State, Ember Schrag, The Golden Hearts, Kimya Dawson, Au Revoir Simone, Rainer Maria, Joni Mitchell, Parenthetical Girls, Jenny Lewis, Kate Bush, Lauryn Hill and more! Now to 3 p.m. CT, streaming live at http://KZUM.org/!
Best.new.tumblr. I’m crying from laughing. Dedicated to fellow Wisconsonians.
"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem -
On the flipside to tech culture’s bullshit misogyny is the attitude from many women in the tech industry who proclaim that they’ve never been judged or encountered problems of any kind on account of their gender. As much as brogrammer culture deserves to die a fast and painful death, so do the privileged attitudes from female allies in the tech scene.
Except a rainy, depressing, maudlin spring, apparently.
Featuring Jolie Holland, PJ Harvey, Blonde Redhead, M83, Bessie Smith, Azure Ray, Lucy Wainwright Roche, The Mynabirds, Irma Thomas, Architecture in Helsinki and more. Now till 3 p.m. CT, streaming live on KZUM.org!
My friend Christin, a teacher, put this stellar question on one of her tests.
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A Drink with a Stranger: Destiny Has a Nickname -
Harvey just took off his ring yesterday.
His marriage is over, and life is starting over for him again in Hastings, Nebraska. He doesn’t seem depressed as we sip our beers at the Hastings Keno Sports Bar, an aptly named place awash with television screens, boards lit up with Keno numbers…A Drink with a Stranger is tumblog chronicling the stories of people the author meets over a pint all across the country, including this entry from Hastings, Nebraska. Check it out for some neat character sketches.
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Can’t wait for climbing/camping/hiking this summer.
(Source: betog, via save-marlasinger)
beckstraordinary: Let's Get Down To (Lady) Business... by Rainbow Rowell -
[Here’s the link to Rainbow Rowell’s blog.]
I just started my period.
Sorry. I know. Too much information. Talking about it makes me uncomfortable, too, but apparently, this is for the greater good …
If you’re a woman, you should be talking about yours, too.
We all need to start talking…
Succession Of Terrible Events Fails To Befall 33-Year-Old Riding Longboard To Digital Media Job
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You “never got help from anybody.”
Nothing was “handed to you.”
All right.
Let’s say you scratched and you clawed and climbed the ladder of success. You never took a welfare check or charity, you worked three jobs to get through college. And at the end of it you look back on your labors and feel justified in saying, “I never got help from anybody.”
So … you were never a child? From birth, you were hunting and gathering your own food? You never had a mother to “hand” you milk?
You’re completely self-educated? At age 4, you sought out your own knowledge, and paid teachers out of your own pocket?
I don’t think you did. I’d have seen something about it on the news.
I think your parents poured untold resources into your hungry mouth. I think you had a roof over your head that was paid for by other people, I think you went to schools that were built and staffed and paid for by other people, I think you felt safe because the streets were patrolled by other people, I think you drove to your three jobs on roads paved by other people, in a car built by other people and burning oil that was drilled by other people in a nation whose borders were defended by other people.
According to the results of a recent Reuters poll, 33 percent of U.S. residents want nothing more than two freakin’ minutes when someone isn’t continually breathing down their necks. 28 percent can’t believe they’re still putting up with all this horse shit, and for what? And, in response to comments that 46-year-old Dave Perelson of Richmond, VA seemed to be able to handle things just fine without always screwing up, roughly 700,000 Americans snapped, ”Well, we can’t all fucking be Dave, can we?”
Additionally, son-of-a-bitch, 67 percent of Americans reported.