The function of man is to live, not to exist.

"Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how you wear it, how you..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:13:00 -0400

“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how you wear it, how you carry yourself, where you walk, when you walk there, with whom you walk, whom you trust, what you do, where you do it, with whom you do it, what you drink, how much you drink, whether you make eye contact, if you’re alone, if you’re with a stranger, if you’re in a group, if you’re in a group of strangers, if it’s dark, if the area is unfamiliar, if you’re carrying something, how you carry it, what kind of shoes you’re wearing in case you have to run, what kind of purse you carry, what jewelry you wear, what time it is, what street it is, what environment it is, how many people you sleep with, what kind of people you sleep with, who your friends are, to whom you give your number, who’s around when the delivery guy comes, to get an apartment where you can see who’s at the door before they can see you, to check before you open the door to the delivery guy, to own a dog or a dog-sound-making machine, to get a roommate, to take self-defense, to always be alert always pay attention always watch your back always be aware of your surroundings and never let your guard down for a moment lest you be sexually assaulted and if you are and didn’t follow all the rules it’s your fault.”

- Rape culture is just another word for patriarchy. Rape culture means turning female oppression into a psychological problem, relieving the institutions responsible for patriarchy and blaming certain thoughts & behaviors on individuals who just aren’t “thinking” about things the right way. Everything described above is a social behavior put in place by what? INSTITUTIONS, like a lot of the capitalist ventures that pay for things like the movies and products that reinforce these social behaviors. In matriarchal societies, rape rarely occurs. Rape culture is just the result of patriarchy.

End Rant.

amandapalmer: odditiesoflife: How Keys Work coooool Mind....

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:34:59 -0400

amandapalmer:

odditiesoflife:

How Keys Work

coooool

Mind. Blown.

redefiningbodyimage: nudiemuse: sydneyflapper: wonderfinch: u...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:32:25 -0400

redefiningbodyimage:

nudiemuse:

sydneyflapper:

wonderfinch:

unhistorical:

Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from a collection assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique of the1900 Exposition Universelle.

Library of Congress

Fuck everyone who says black people look wrong in period clothing or would not have had access to this sort of clothing. Just seriously fuck you.

William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois is a fascinating and inspiring figure, an uncompromising civil rights activist (literally uncompromising - he rejected Booker T Washington’s Atlanta Compromise, an unwritten deal struck with Southern leaders in the aftermath of the Reconstruction era, in which African-Americans would submit to.discrimination, segregation, lack of voting rights and non-unionized employment and in return Southern whites would “permit” blacks to receive a basic education, some economic opportunities, and justice within the legal system; Du Bois called for nothing less than full equal rights.)

Du Bois and Booker T Washington, who together organised the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique, worked with Washington’s friend Frances Benjamin Johnston (a pioneering female photographer and photojournalist) to take photos of students at the Hampton Institute. The photographs were specifically compiled to counter stereotypes and the predominant white narrative about African-Americans, showcasing their success and diversity. The exhibition won several awards.

This pleases me.

These images are amazing. Can we have a television show about these women please? I would watch the hell out of a show like that.

Beautiful.

Philadelphia Tribune responds to "Being White in Philly" article from Philadelphia Magazine

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:54:06 -0400

Philadelphia Tribune responds to "Being White in Philly" article from Philadelphia Magazine:

loladelphia:

The Philadelphia Tribune, a prominent African-American newspaper in the city wrote an excellent editorial response about the ridiculous “Being White in Philly” article from Philly Mag. You can read it here:

Philadelphia Magazine should be ashamed for this month’s outrageous cover story “Being White in Philly.”

The March issue of Philadelphia Magazine has an article by writer-at-large Robert Huber that purports to be a candid discussion about race in Philadelphia.

It is not. This is not brave journalism. It does not advance conversation on race. It perpetuates stereotypes.

This is poor journalism, filled with race-baiting and fear-mongering from a city magazine that appears to target white suburban readers. African Americans who make up 43 percent of the population are largely invisible from its pages with the exception of crime stories and articles on corrupt African American politicians. There are also no African Americans on staff writing full time for the publication.

The recurring theme of the cover story is that white people are afraid to talk about race because they are afraid how Black people will respond. Where is the evidence for this claim? None is given. To say that African Americans can not talk about race without getting upset is in itself racist. What African Americans are members of any group should not tolerate is someone or in this case a magazine making racist comments.

The “Being White in Philly,” article fails journalistically on many levels.

The writer repeatedly uses quotes that aren’t on the record. His sources are anonymous. Anonymous people are quoted making unchallenged racists remarks.

An exchange between a white Russian woman and the writer is a typical representation of the race-baiting throughout the article.

“Blacks use skin color as an excuse,” she says. “Discrimination is an excuse, instead of moving forward…It’s a shame – you pay taxes, they’re not doing anything except sitting on porches smoking pot…why do you support them when they won’t work, just making babies and smoking pot?”

Nothing is done to put this quote in context or challenge its racist assumptions. If anything the writer appears to endorse the woman’s comments. “If you’re not an American, the absence of a historical filter results in a raw view focused strictly on the here and now,” Huber writes, as if foreigners have a more accurate view of the behavior of African Americans.

The writer and the anonymous people he quotes talk about crime and drugs, and laziness as if race is the problem instead of class and the socio-economic conditions that factor into dysfunctional families, crime and poverty.

But more importantly the article gives a factually inaccurate view of most African Americans in Philadelphia. In a city with nearly 30 percent poverty rate, the unemployment rate among African Americans is 14 percent. This is unacceptably too high. But it also clearly means that most African Americans are working and are not sitting around “smoking pot,” waiting to collect a check from the government. Black lawyers, business owners, bus drivers, plumbers, nurses, and college students are not represented in this article. African Americans are not quoted either on or off the record.

Fortunately several white columnists and writers at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and City Paper and most importantly at Philadelphia Magazine have spoken out against the article. City Council members spoke out in council chambers Thursday to denounce the article. More leaders need to speak out including the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and other business and civic leaders.

The editor and publisher of Philadelphia Magazine must be sent a strong and clear message not to use sensationalist race-baiting articles to boost magazine sales.

——————

You can read my critique here.

3amorion: zuky: moniquill: bossymarmalade: I am really...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:32:25 -0500

3amorion:

zuky:

moniquill:

bossymarmalade:

I am really repulsed by this judgy, jingoistic new trend in calling food “clean”. Browsing Pinterest I saw a recipe for “Clean banana bread: with honey and applesauce instead of oil and sugar!” Prevention.com has an awards slideshow of the “100 Cleanest Packaged Foods”, which includes products like Stonyfield Greek Yogurt, about which the ad copy bleats, “it has just one ingredient. Now that’s clean”. Not a word choice I would use for a food that’s produced through bacterial fermentation.

Which is my point: it seems like a significant disconnect, the construction of Clean Food with no real concept of the realities of how your food works — and yet another way to make healthier food options into an issue of class, wealth, and morality. Calling foods that aren’t highly processed “clean” immediately renders other foods “dirty”, and the people who eat them dirty by extension.

Most of the clean items on the slideshow are pretty damn expensive, and you can only get them in certain stores; I say this as a Canadian with easy access to a car and multiple specialty groceries. Hell, I say this as a Canadian who, like many ordinary people, has already made an effort to simplify and streamline her diet to cut out more processed foods, within the confines of her budget and energy.

And all of this, of course, is before you even look at the fact that “clean eating” is touted as part of a fitness regime to help lose weight. Because being fat — like being poor, like eating foods that are part of your culture and include oil and eggs and sugar — is the same as being dirty. And clean eating will cure you of being dirty.

I mean, to me, “clean eating” means food security. It means you had access to safe water and food ingredients, somewhere adequate for food preparation, something clean to eat your meal off of. It doesn’t mean stuff that costs you way too much at Whole Foods, but will make you slim, sanitized, and superior to all those fat poor people eating their dirty food.

Reblogging for commentary.

Rank-ordering foods on a moral/orthdox scale is seriously problematic.

Know that constitutes healthy food? Food that provides you with nutrition in the form of accessible calories and doesn’t rip up your digestive system (subjective to individuals! Some foods are perfectly health for some people and unhealthy for others!) or cause you to have cancer (Carcinogenic ingredients should be banned at the processing level so that they’re not IN processed foods). That is healthy food. Butter pound cake with cream cheese frosting is healthy food. A chunk of flank steak smothered in whiskey and honey is healthy food. A giant bowl of chili is healthy food (with or without beans in it!). Duck fat melted into a pile of rosemary-infused mashed potatoes is healthy food. The overwhelming majority of foods that haven’t been utterly fucked with through super-refinement and chemical amendment are, by the grace of four billion years of evolution, HEALTHY FOOD.

Boiling a slice of potato in oil does not render it unhealthy.

And even when foods are unarguably unhealthy and cause the people who eat them to be ill?

EATING THEM IS NOT A MORAL CONCERN. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON IF YOU EAT UNHEALTHY FOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU DO IT.

Healthiness is not a moral choice. You are allowed to make decisions in the full knowledge that they are unhealthy, because your body and your life are your own. It can get dicey if your health choices legitimately cause harm to others (I.E. cause you to neglect or abuse other people for whom you are responsible like children or elders) but if that’s off the table? YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN. And in any case whatosever:

YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO BE OR STAY HEALTHY.

Sure, health is nice. Many people choose to pursue it. Longevity is nice. Many people choose to pursue that. But they are not the only legitimate choices on earth, nor are they inherently better than making other life choices that counteract or sacrifice the above.

If you tell me that eating all-butter pound cake will make me die at 50, whereas not eating that cake will allow me to live to 100, my choice becomes

A fifty-year life with cake

vs.

A hundred year life without

And know what? If I decide that fifty years of delicious cake is a worthwhile endeavor and a well-spent life, one I’d prefer to a cakeless life no matter how long? THAT’S MY CHOICE. IT IS PERFECTLY VALID.

(Note: Any civilization that is not attempting with all of its effort to ensure that every single person in it can CHOOSE healthy food if they want it is a piss-poor civilization in need of serious overhaul. Being poor should not mean being REQUIRED to eat unhealthy food to survive.)

On the same note and specifically concerning the article above, and pointing out how absurd it is?

Know what CLEAN food is?

FOOD YOU WASHED.

My home-grown organic veggies, which are super-nutritious and ‘wholesome’, grow out of a pile of composted horse shit, dead fish, and vegetation, in a soil that’s chock full of fungal mycelium and microorganisms and insects. They come into my house absolutely swimming with bacteria, fungal spores, etc. Then I spray them down with some nice 1:20 bleach solution and give them a good rinse and they become clean. That’s what clean means.

I’ve written for years about the intersection of racism, capitalism, and food culture. Coming from a (Chinese) food culture which has historically been deemed “unclean” by white supremacism, I’m all too familiar with what white people generally mean when they talk about some food being “clean” and it has nothing to do with health or hygiene.

hello vegans

also: what i would do to have my own fucking vegetable garden

neurosciencestuff: Bilingual babies know their grammar by 7...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:40:47 -0500

neurosciencestuff:

Bilingual babies know their grammar by 7 months

Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and Université Paris Descartes.

Published today in the journal Nature Communications and presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, the study shows that infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages – such as English and Japanese – with opposite word orders.

In English, a function word comes before a content word (the dog, his hat, with friends, for example) and the duration of the content word is longer, while in Japanese or Hindi, the order is reversed, and the pitch of the content word higher.

“By as early as seven months, babies are sensitive to these differences and use these as cues to tell the languages apart,” says UBC psychologist Janet Werker, co-author of the study.

Previous research by Werker and Judit Gervain, a linguist at the Université Paris Descartes and co-author of the new study, showed that babies use frequency of words in speech to discern their significance.

“For example, in English the words ‘the’ and ‘with’ come up a lot more frequently than other words – they’re essentially learning by counting,” says Gervain. “But babies growing up bilingual need more than that, so they develop new strategies that monolingual babies don’t necessarily need to use.”

“If you speak two languages at home, don’t be afraid, it’s not a zero-sum game,” says Werker. “Your baby is very equipped to keep these languages separate and they do so in remarkable ways.”

How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:13:00 -0500

How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color:

glitterlion:

As a minority group that regularly battles prejudice, violence, and ignorance from governments, hate groups, and the like, LGBTQ people know what it’s like to be discriminated against.

That’s why the gay community tends to pride itself on being anti-discriminatory and accepting of people from all walks of life.

Unfortunately, the gay community is not devoid of casual racism. Even though, in theory, people should know better, certain forms of racism in the LGBTQ community have become so normalized that they get brushed off as minor.

Before I go on, let me define the kind of racism I’m talking about to avoid confusion. Racism, in an institutional sense, is race-based discrimination from a position of power or privilege.

This means that a gay person with white privilege can be racist toward gay people of color and people of color in general.

I’m not talking about mustache twirling, KKK-grade, Hitler level racism that’s so obvious anyone with any sense of human decency would banish it from their mind.

I’m talking about the “little” things, like the fetishization of black men by gay white men, the stigmatization of Asian men by gay men of other races, mainstream LGBTQ campaigns with little racial awareness, and racial “preferences” that can be innocuous, but at times reflect an underlying prejudice.

As normalized as they are, they suck for LGBTQ people of color who are not well represented in either their own racial communities or the mainstream LGBTQ community.

The lack of acceptance from either group puts a strain on how safe LGBTQ people of color feel in a lot of the spaces they occupy.

So if you’re a white and LGBTQ and you want to make sure that LGBTQ spaces are as safe and inclusive for everyone as possible, here are some steps you can take to support people of color and be more racially aware.

1. Be Aware of Intersectionality

Be aware that your experience of being LGBTQ and white is not representative of being lesbian and Asian or gay and latin@, or queer and black. Awareness of intersectionality means recognizing that LGBTQ people of color can be discriminated against not as people of color or as LGBTQ people, but as both simultaneously.

For example, if you’re a gay white woman and you’re already aware of how your gender and sexuality intersect, remember that race is yet another intersection, and not a negligible one. In most cases race is highly visible, apparent from birth, and connected to cultural identity and family affiliation.

2. Don’t Think That Being LGBTQ Lets You Off the Hook for Being Racist

Keeping intersectionality in mind, understand that just because you’ve faced discrimination doesn’t mean you understand every form of discrimination or are immune from being discriminatory yourself.

We all have some form of privilege, and acknowledging your privilege when it comes to race means acknowledging the unconscious ways in which you can also be racist.

In the past, when I called out someone (who happened to be gay) for being racially oblivious, his response was that, as a gay person, he can understand what it’s like to be discriminated against for being black.

Here’s why I disagree with a statement like that: if a person who has directly experienced racism is telling you that you’re being racially oblivious and you dismiss everything they say because “I’ve been discriminated against too,” you’re devaluing the experiences of people of color just as much as the institutions that continue to exclude them.

When LGBTQ people of color call out other people in the community for being racist, they don’t want you to tear your clothes apart and fall to your knees weeping with white guilt.

What they want you to do is check yourself, listen to what they have to say, and be more aware of experiences besides your own.

Seeing casual racism in the LGBTQ community isn’t about demonizing white people or making people paranoid about causing offense.

It’s about making sure we’re all self-aware enough to check our cultural blind spots and truly listen to and value other people’s experiences.

3. Know Casual Racism When You See It

What does casual racism look like in LGBTQ spaces? A lot like casual racism everywhere else.

Casual racism thinks mixed race people are “exotic,” penis size is determined by race according to “some studies” that probably don’t exist, black women are aggressive, and just about every other common racial stereotype under the sun.

Really, stereotypes fuel casual racism in all its forms.

Casual racism also thinks that LGBTQ people have transcended all responsibility for dealing with racial issues.

For example, if you’re a queer person of color who wants to vocalize a racial concern in a predominantly white queer space and casual racism rears its head, you could be accused of being divisive (extra irony points if you were pointing out divisiveness that actually exists).

Sometimes casual racism masquerades as inclusion or open mindedness. For example, there are some gay people who go out of their way to date someone of another race just to say they’ve done it.

Such gays then receive the Congratulatory Cookie of Open Mindedness from people of color for letting us sleep with them.

But not really, because dating someone because of their race is as ridiculous as rejecting someone because of their race.

The same applies to predominately white gay groups that go out of their way to snag token people of color (oblivious to the fact that these spaces don’t always feel inclusive to the people of color in question).

Tokenism may seem progressive on its surface, but it’s really just another form of othering.

So if you see casual racism, remember it. And talk about it.

Notice if you’re ever guilty of it and, if you are, take responsibility for it.

I would say explain it to other white LGBTQ people, but it’s frustrating when it takes a white person saying the same thing people of color have been saying for ages to convince other white people to change their actions.

Instead, tell them to take the race related concerns of LGBTQ people of color seriously – as in listen to us.

As LGBTQ people ,we get silenced all the time, told we’re too sensitive, told not to flaunt our sexuality.

Sexual minorities of color can find themselves silenced further when their concerns about race are dismissed by the predominantly white, mainstream LGBTQ community.

Let’s keep working to change that.

What are some other ways we can help make spaces more inclusive of LGBTQ people of color? Please share in the comments below!

Jarune Uwujaren is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. A Nigerian-American recent graduate who’s stumbling towards a career in writing, Jarune can currently be found drifting around the DC metro area with a phone or a laptop nearby. When not writing for fun or profit, Jarune enjoys food, fresh air, good books, drawing, poetry, and sci-fi.

abagond: Broomberg and Chanarin say their work, on show at...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:13:23 -0500

abagond:

Broomberg and Chanarin say their work, on show at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery, examines “the radical notion that prejudice might be inherent in the medium of photography itself”. They argue that early colour film was predicated on white skin: in 1977, when Jean-Luc Godard was invited on an assignment to Mozambique, he refused to use Kodak film on the grounds that the stock was inherently “racist”.

The light range was so narrow, Broomberg said, that “if you exposed film for a white kid, the black kid sitting next to him would be rendered invisible except for the whites of his eyes and teeth”. It was only when Kodak’s two biggest clients – the confectionary and furniture industries – complained that dark chocolate and dark furniture were losing out that it came up with a solution.

‘Racism’ of early colour photography | Guardian

IN THE UNITED STATES

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:20:14 -0500

queriesofaqueer:

dannybriereisaliferuiner:

owning a gun

is a right

having healthcare

is a privilege

Preach.

theatlantic: The Soft Bigotry of ‘Kony 2012’ The...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:31:27 -0500

theatlantic:

The Soft Bigotry of ‘Kony 2012’

The much-circulated campaign subtly reinforces an idea that has been one of Africa’s biggest disasters: that well-meaning Westerners need to come in and fix it. Africans, in this telling, are helpless victims, and Westerners are the heroes. It’s part of a long tradition of Western advocacy that has, for centuries, adopted some form of white man’s burden, treating African people as cared for only to the extent that Westerners care, their problems solvable only to the extent that Westerners solve them, and surely damned unless we can save them. First it was with missionaries, then “civilizing” missions, and finally the ultimate end of white paternalism, which was placing Africans under the direct Western control of imperialism. And while imperialism may have collapsed 50 years ago, that mentality persists, because it is rewarding and ennobling to feel needed and to believe you are doing something good.

“African solutions for African problems” isn’t just a State Department slogan, and it isn’t about promoting African leadership, although that’s certainly important. Africans are already leaders. There are many reasons for Africa’s amazing rise over the last ten years, but one of the biggest has been African leadership. It’s not a coincidence that the 200 years of Western leadership in Africa were some of the continent’s worst. Africans have proven time and again that they’re better at fixing African problems. While helping is always good, and it’s great that people care, what Kony 2012 ignores is that Africans are not “invisible” and the last thing they need is for a bunch of Westerners to parachute in and take over (again). We sometimes mistake our position at the top of the global food chain as evidence that we’re more capable, that our power will extend into complicated and far-away societies, that we’ll be better at fixing their problems than they are. This assumption, both well-meaning and self-glorifying, has led us into disaster after disaster after disaster.

Read more. [Image: Invisible Children]

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill,..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:48 -0500

““There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.””

- Deepak Chopra (via thelifechronicles)

La Roux - I’m Not Your Toy (Nero Remix) (by UKFDubstep)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:01:41 -0500

La Roux - I’m Not Your Toy (Nero Remix) (by UKFDubstep)

I want to go here again, it really cleared my mind. Take another...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:17:33 -0500

I want to go here again, it really cleared my mind. Take another picture just like this one, except with new memory to attach to it. Thing is, I don’t want to go all by myself. Someone go with me.

rand0mflora: turtlesinadishwasher: minhovsstairs: bitch-: dre...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:24:27 -0500

rand0mflora:

turtlesinadishwasher:

minhovsstairs:

bitch-:

dressmedown:

“Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens and “Clocks” by Coldplay played over each other.

THE CHORUS.

#it sounds like an angel surfing down a rainbow on a unicorn made of happiness and cake and shit

Simply Wow.

One of the things I miss most about Pennsylvania is my...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:50:17 -0500

One of the things I miss most about Pennsylvania is my grandmothers backyard. It calmed my soul.

theepoetrysociety: THE SHOW YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! THE...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:36:54 -0500

theepoetrysociety:

THE SHOW YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

THE POETRY SOCIETY PRESENTS: The 11th Annual Color of Drums

THIS FRIDAY 1.13.12

@PEASE AUDITORIUM

7PM!

oats: Brown Bones Swab Party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn —-...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:29:51 -0500

oats:

Brown Bones Swab Party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
—- Friday, 4 November 2011

Would you brush your teeth twice if it could save someone’s life?

What if it was this guy? His name is Amit Gupta.

Maybe you’ve never heard of him, but Amit has touched the lives of thousands of people. We’re hoping maybe you can touch his.

He has leukemia. If he can’t find a marrow donor soon, he will die. He is Indian, so his best match will probably come from a South Asian donor.

Come to our free party on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY this Friday night 4 Nov 2011. Sign some forms, swab your cheek (it’s just like brushing your teeth), and have a drink on us. Plus cupcakes and dumplings.

Time is REALLY short. Amit has until November 30, 2011. Please help us save his life. More details at www.AmitGuptaNeedsYou.com

p.s. Most modern day marrow donations occur via PBSC, a procedure similar to donating blood. All you have to do is sit there. Saving a life has never been so easy.

p.p.s. Amit started a popular website, Photojojo.com. When he sends people products from the site he includes a couple of plastic dinosaurs. Just for fun, because dinosaurs are cool. That’s the kind of guy he is. Selfless, caring, honest. We’d like to keep him around. If you’re South Asian, please visit www.AmitGuptaNeedsYou.com Drop everything if you have to. His life depends on it.

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Brown Bones Swab Party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Friday, 4 November 2011

6pm - 9pm
Nick’s Tea Room
132 North 5th St #4i
Brooklyn, NY 11211

9pm - 2am
BabyCastle’s Closing Party with Wu Tang Clan
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=273665372656340
$15 for tickets to the concert, we’ll be swabbing outside

—- backup page at http://nickgray.net/brown-bones/ will have all current info

I miss...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:38:39 -0400

The smell of you left on my bedsheets….

“My blood is thicker than liquor, Your skin is thinner...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:57:00 -0400

“My blood is thicker than liquor,
Your skin is thinner than money,
I’ve seen a ghost in every picture you’ve taken,
This love is hidden in scripture,
My pen is splintered and bloody,
I hear a ghost in every record I’m making.”

Its like listening to the same song over and over againhoping...

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:30 -0400

Its like listening to the same song over and over again
hoping you’ll feel the same way the first time you heard it
and when you never do, you’re disappointed with yourself.