Urban Isolationist.

on my last day at work i want to destroy all the shitty abstract expressionist art around the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:50:00 -0400

on my last day at work i want to destroy all the shitty abstract expressionist art around the hotel.

i have access to so many rooms. no one would even know.

festival of the moon/sun is so overpriced and boring. there is nothing to do but stand around while...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:33:00 -0400

festival of the moon/sun is so overpriced and boring. there is nothing to do but stand around while bands no one knows play and one has nothing to consume but stadium-priced food and drinks.

i need to start a dirtbag gathering for the rest of us.

not to mention a dirtbag breakfast place, you know one that seats more than 15 people and doesn’t make you wait over an hour. and a beer place with a good beer under $6.

things that have saved my life, like i did them instead of killing myself.

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:11:12 -0400

listened to everclear’s so much for the afterglow a lot with my dog.

moved from my hometown,

read the a song of ice and fire series,

brewing beer.

a baby bird fell out of the hole in the attic its mom used for a nest next door. it splattered.

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:47:34 -0400

a baby bird fell out of the hole in the attic its mom used for a nest next door. it splattered.

tragedyseries: New items, including a print of today’s image,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:40:28 -0400

tragedyseries:

New items, including a print of today’s image, are available in the emporium!

i’ve always been an indoor’s kid.

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:44:01 -0400

i’ve always been an indoor’s kid.

decayedintelligence: Mors Triumphans, by Leonaert Bramer...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:58:01 -0400

decayedintelligence:

Mors Triumphans, by Leonaert Bramer (Nestelghat); picture from Hampel Auctions; 17th century

Why won't you marry Emily?

Mon, 13 May 2013 02:43:00 -0400

[I forgot to respond to this a while ago so hopefully who ever asked it sees this.]

First off, I love Emily and it is really hard for me to feel feelings or emotions, or to think I feel them.

Marriage is bourgeois. It is social-control. It is consumerist. Marriage adds nothing to a relationship but self-imposed pressure and strife. I don’t feel the need to add any definition to my relationship with Emily. We coexist, we are partners, we are friends, we are best buds with a dog and share a kick ass house.

Right now I feel she is making some really cool improvements to her life. Sure she is struggling here and there, but she is getting herself started on a good path. I however am staying the same. I am a dirtbag, I don’t care, and I don’t have much ambition to change anything. I am barely trying to work toward goals such as graduating (which like, fuck school but it seems like a sense of security), getting good at brewing, and maybe owning a business idea or five.

We are existing and pursuing and struggling together. What the fuck would marriage add to that?

I work in banquets and I work at least a dozen weddings a year if not more. I hate them. I hate automatic family. I hate tradition. I hate childhood friends. I hate societal dictations. I hate parents. I hate structured fanciness. I hate DJs. I hate shitty, over-priced three course meals. I hate banquet centers. I hate prayers, priests, and blessings of food. I hate running these stupid fucking events and making sure their day is perfect for fucking $70 (if that) while their bartender is tipped over $300 for giving idiots watered down booze.

And I know weddings =/= marriage, but it means nothing to me besides bourgie, religious bullshit.

kittensandskeletons: caterinasforzas: brandi maxxxx is a...

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:29:54 -0400

kittensandskeletons:

caterinasforzas:

brandi maxxxx is a supportive, genuine, generous, positive person that is so endearingly, sincerely proud of herself, her profession, and women in positions of power but is still not respected by some characters (especially leslie, which makes no sense and is a huge wasted opportunity)

“i guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies.”

but brandi maxxxx is just as awesome a lady as leslie/the others, just in a different way, so can p&r give her the powerful depiction that she deserves?

Yes! Honestly I love Brandi and my partner and I have a theory that she has a huge crush on Leslie and that’s why she’s always glowing about her and offering to do films with her. She secretly just wants to drink a bottle of wine with her and cuddle on the couch.

Leslie is definitely sex-worker phobic, it is one of the few problems I genuinely have with her character.

the kids/underlings/employees called me dad today.

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:44:41 -0400

the kids/underlings/employees called me dad today.

tompeyer: Paper heart

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:14:05 -0400

tompeyer:

Paper heart

supchristine: Making the whiskey more sour

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:22:08 -0400

supchristine:

Making the whiskey more sour

THE 'MYTHIC SCI-FI' WORLD OF DESTINY [3/?]

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:32:58 -0400

THE 'MYTHIC SCI-FI' WORLD OF DESTINY [3/?]

thepeoplesrecord: Fast food strike wave spreads to Detroit, St....

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:32:13 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Fast food strike wave spreads to Detroit, St. Louis
May 10, 2013

St. Louis, and last month’s in New York and Chicago, today’s work stoppage is backed by a local coalition including the Service Employees International Union, and the participants are demanding a raise to $15 an hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation.

Organizers say that over a hundred workers joined the St. Louis strike between Wednesday and Thursday. That included a group of Jimmy John’s workers who alleged that management humiliated them by requiring them to hold up signs in public with messages including “I made 3 wrong sandwiches today” and “I was more than 13 seconds in the drive thru.”

“Sometimes I walk for more than an hour just to save my train fare so I can spend it on Ramen noodles,” St. Louis Chipotle worker Patrick Leeper said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. “I can’t even think about groceries.”

A spokesperson for Jimmy John’s declined to comment on Thursday’s strike; McDonald’s and Wendy’s did not respond to inquiries last night.

As I’ve written elsewhere, the fate of the fast food strike wave carries far-reaching implications: Fast food jobs are a growing portion of our economy, and fast food-like conditions are proliferating in other sectors as well. Organizers say the fast food industry now employs twice as many Detroit-area workers as the city’s iconic auto industry. These strikes also come at a moment of existential crisis for the labor movement, a sobering reality that was brought into sharp relief in December when Michigan, arguably the birthplace of modern US private sector unionism, became the country’s latest “Right to Work” state.

Along with a shared significant supporter—SEIU—the campaigns in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have apparent strategies in common. Rather than waiting until they’ve built support from a majority of a store’s or company’s workers, they stage actions by a minority of the workforce designed to inspire their co-workers. Rather than publicly identifying the campaign and its organizers with a single international union, these union-funded efforts turn to allied community groups to spearhead organizing. Rather than training all their resources on a single company, they organize against all of the industry’s players at once. And—faced with legal and economic assaults that have weakened the strike weapon—these campaigns mount one-day work stoppages that are carefully tailored to maximize attention and minimize, but not eliminate, the risk that workers will lose their jobs.

Whether these strategies can ever compel a fast food giant to negotiate with its employees remains to be seen.

“After what I would consider well over three decades of wage suppression, workers in this particular industry—and then I think it’ll go to others—are realizing that their only way up the wage ladder is through their own organizations,” CUNY labor studies lecturer Ed Ott said Wednesday. Ott, a board member of the community organizing group that spearheaded the New York fast food strike, added, “The only way these workers are going to be able to advance these jobs is through unionization. And I think that idea has finally gotten traction.”

Update (9:15 AM Friday): According to the campaign, a walkout by twenty workers at Detroit’s 10400 Gratiot Avenue McDonald’s prevented the store from operating. Some workers brought in as strikebreakers to replace those striking workers chose to join the strike instead.

Organizers say that by day’s end, today’s strike could be the largest fast food work stoppage yet, topping last month’s 400-strong strike in New York.

Source

supchristine: I’m about as good at wrapping presents as I am at having a future with a bright...

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:24:50 -0400

supchristine:

I’m about as good at wrapping presents as I am at having a future with a bright outlook.

I thought 22 was bad but at age 25 I have started to snore and developed allergies. What the fuck.

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:15:12 -0400

I thought 22 was bad but at age 25 I have started to snore and developed allergies.

What the fuck.

Tombstone:

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:27:08 -0400

He sighed a lot.

likeafieldmouse: Urs Fischer - Untitled (2011) - Paraffin wax...

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00:46 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Urs Fischer - Untitled (2011) - Paraffin wax mixture, pigment, steel and wicks

atompunk: weareallprostitutesandjunkies: Life On Other...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:37:49 -0400

atompunk:

weareallprostitutesandjunkies:

Life On Other Planets

The science fiction magazine Fantastic Adventures shows us a glimpse of life on other planets from their 1939-1940 issues. While the alien designs are quite strange, they are meant to illustrate the different conditions on each planet, like gravity and atmosphere. All the planets besides Earth are included, even Pluto, plus Io, one of Jupiter’s moons.

pixiedustparcels: Greek Late Classical Silver Rhyton (ancient...

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:45:16 -0400

pixiedustparcels:

Greek Late Classical Silver Rhyton (ancient drinking horn) in form of a Stag’s Head. (Photo from the George Ortiz Collection, based in Switzerland).