Jan 28 2012
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Prince - Darling Nikki
I’m pretty sure I told y’all the “I sang this song at a strip club’s karaoke night” before because of just how awkward the whole experience was — but I can’t find the post in Tumblr’s search function.
Anyway, that’s what comes up for me after acknowledging how awesome this song is.
(via thelovehater)
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[via filmdrunk]
Jon Stewart: just like us, cuz he spent time in the pit back in the day.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhke9b7R81qzpn6vo1_400.jpg)
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“ The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie, saying he’ll veto any bill the state legislature passes to legalize same-sex marriage, saying it should be passed by voter referendum and using a lousy analogy to do it.
Sure, white Southerners would have happily voted to give black people voting rights in the 1960s! Idiot.
There’s a bigger problem here, though: legislators are elected by the people (ostensibly), but now apparently it’s not enough that democratically elected representatives pass bills legalizing same-sex marriage; now the voting electorate has to legitimize it too, as if the general populace should have a say in who gets equal rights and who doesn’t.
Chris Christie: Blacks’ Voting Rights Should Have Been Decided By Southern White Voters: Gothamist
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this is what’s changed about my life in the past month
(Source: leetakeuchi, via workforbeer)
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thelovehater asked: I wonder though...if the subject of Shame put the voters off based on the fact that it is something that is like present & real. And this movie is just so raw - sex scenes aside - they are not pretty to look at. Personally the opening scene felt very clinical and guarded. He orders sex like a pizza. He's spiraling out of control and his rock bottom. There was a moment when he throws out all his porn (as if to say he's done). You don't see him feel "Shame" until the end. Very heavy subject.
well, there’s also that. The sex in Shame isn’t glamorized in any sense, and it’s really the focal point of the movie since it’s his addiction. Plus, I’d be willing to bet the voters are loath to give any plaudits these days to NC-17 films. Hollywood suffers enough bad press with the annual bitch-fest of “no one’s actually heard of these fucking movies!”
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Having Sex Like a Porn Star on YouPorn: Men's Lives: GQ
While this piece is entirely anecdotal, it’s notable for three things:
- “Where do you want this?” is probably one of the most crass things I can imagine saying in the middle of sex.
- I feel odd every time I read about the apparent obsession with ejaculating on a woman instead of inside her, or pushing for anal sex. Dudes (at least the dudes I’m friends with) often talk openly about this stuff. Maybe it’s just my circle of friends or we’re lying when we say this does nothing for us. I can think of nothing better and more romantic that yanking my dick out of your vagina and finishing the job with my hand just to come on your face or breasts. It feels absurd to even type.
- Glorious tag line: “Siobhan Rosen is the pseudonym this writer made up so that her grandmother would never know that semen has touched her face.” Oh, she knows, Ms. Pseudonym. Grandparents always know.
(via the Awl)
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“ I think it goes without saying that Fassbender, playing a tortured, joyless, addicted masturbator, would not be nominated. To some degree, less perhaps in recent years, the Academy seems afraid the public will confuse the behavior of nominated characters with their own characters. They don’t want to be seen as sympathizing with masturbators.
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Roger Ebert, probably expressing what I was thinking about Michael Fassbender’s snubbing by the Academy — it’s largely stuffy and has to do with outside perceptions of Hollywood being full of perverse, permissive libertines. Shame winning anything would somehow validate this.
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Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters, associates say - The Washington Post
So if the people who used to be involved in your operation with racist newsletters say you knew about the content, what other explanation can you give? Whether you actually believed the content or not appears to be irrelevant. The latter might be worse because of the depth of cynicism involved.
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
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