Lisa Simpson was the first thing thing I thought of when I saw Barack Obama’s speech on the Senate’s shameful and irresponsible corruption-driven filibustering of the common sense gun control bill. They even furrowed their brow and scowled the same way. The disappointment is palpable.
Happy Valenstein’s Day everyone! His theories may challenge the conventional assumption that mental illness is biochemical, but I’m “crazy” for him, biochemically or otherwise!
Now, I KNOW everyone thinks Valenstein’s Day has become “too commercial,” but I think it’s as much about mental illness as ever.
I think if you forget about all the Hallmark materialism and just get back to the fundamental neurology, it’s just as special and magical as it ever was. HAVE FUN TONIGHT ;)
What’s funny about this picture is that it’s just a picture of a blanket on a couch, but it kind of looks like a wrinkly dog with a cast on its leg. Don’t be fooled, it’s just a blanket.
Mishu
(Source: animalswithcasts)
This is a great essay about the Lana Del Rey backlash, with a solid deconstruction of this elusive “femininity,” giving good basis for why I think that word is misused and misunderstood.
“By femininity, I am not talking about what women are, but rather about all that we expect women to be. The debate over Lana Del Rey’s authenticity is interesting to me because it speaks to the lack of authenticity inherent in the definition of the feminine.”
“Although both the feminine and the masculine represent social constructions, detached from the realities of who people are, it is important to realize that we attach to femininity a series of external, and therefore performable, qualities…”
So it’s kind of weird that people are now quoting me about hating Lana Del Rey. I don’t actually hate her, although I know a lot of people who do. Actually, I can count the number of people I hate on one hand—and none of them are pop stars.
The piece that I wrote about Lana Del Rey many months…
Generally speaking, I hear ya, spell check. I don’t have any guesses either.
Simple. Masculine. GOOD. You can do this.
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Malcolm never faced a problem like this…
Caption Assist from a Re-Blogger: “Life is unfair…”
