Next week’s TIME Magizine: Global cover vs the U.S. cover
I am not amused, America.
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LAME!
pop culture enemies hug it out (via The Mary Sue)
Art Project of the Day: The latest low-commitment project (“making stuff happen with little time and energy”) from Brittany Powell is called “Sandwich Artist” and does what it says on the tin: Open-faced sandwiches that pay tribute to well-known artists.
Above: Mondrian, Hirst, and Duchamp.
[booooooom.]
Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues is celebrating his 46th birthday today. The 5-foot-3 guard, who played for four teams during his 14-year career, is the shortest player in NBA history. In this 1985 photo, Bogues measures himself against his Wake Forest teammates. (Susan Weinik/SI)
LIDZ: Wake Forest’s 5-3 Bogues is dyna-mite (2.16.87)
NEWMAN: Bogues proves size doesn’t matter (4.12.93)
GALLERY: Best Basketball Players 6-Foot-5 And Under
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You’ve followed the year in news with newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Now take a look back at the biggest stories of 2011 as told through Facebook.
Diane Arbus
Xmas Tree In a Living Room in Levittown, L.I.
1963(via jockohomo)
The Way We Live Now: Debtors’ Prisons are making a comeback, reports Kevin Drum. When did the 21st century turn into a bad Dickens novel?
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After interviewing 1,100 teenage girls, the Girl Scouts concluded that reality show-watchers are more likely than non-watchers to agree that gossiping is a normal part of girls’ relationships, that it’s “hard to trust” girls, and that girls are naturally “catty” with each other.
But not all reality TV is created equal. We find five reality shows that don’t totally suck.
If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
…And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think ‘oh, I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly’, don’t you know, that’s not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn’t turn around shit.
When you don’t have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.
”Margaret Cho (via thechocolatebrigade)
Everything about this is so glorious.
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If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour… then you are considered a minority in this world. …And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere.” #truethat
