Good Reads

[IrezumiKiss]

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[IrezumiKiss]

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Activist Lizzie Velasquez Knows Beauty Isn’t Skin Deep

Lizzie Velasquez knows that being beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like on the outside. In an interview with HuffPost Live on Sept. 24, the 26-year-old activist and motivational speaker discussed her journey to self-acceptance after a cruel online commenter dubbed her the “world’s ugliest woman.”

After being labeled the “world’s ugliest woman,” she’s learned to reconsider traditional beauty standards.

http://huffingtonpost.tumblr.com/post/129875185623

 

[Minalick]

Good read

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[gotsnowgotslush]

As she begins to write her newest novel for the Hogarth Press Shakespeare project, the iconic playwright will have the most significant influence on her work yet. Margaret Atwood, along with other renowned authors all over the world, have each selected a play to revisit in the form of prose fiction. She has chosen The Tempest.

“Wouldn’t you know that a Canadian would have to pick something with weather in it,” said Atwood. “I’m busily at work on it even as we speak. Here’s a hint: the play is about illusions as we know, and about vengeance vs. mercy like so many moments in Shakespeare. But it’s also about prisons.”

Atwood said she’s not giving anything else away, but she’s inspired and ready to be able to put her own spin on a play she loves so much.

The Hogarth Shakespeare is set to launch in 2016 for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.co...theatre-to-talk-about-shakespeare-in-her-work

 

[Que]

The road to hell is paved and the fall of the empire is begun with good intentions. SMH. Couldn't they just bring a security blanket?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I'm reading GOOD BYE DARKNESS by William Manchester, for like the 5th or 6th time.

Its his memoir of World War 2 as a boy Marine. Its honesty is painful at times because he exposes himself and everyone's faults and blemishes for public display. He's rough on the Brits and Commonwealth. The real heros of the war were grunt Marines, Philippinos, and the black skinned islanders of the Southwest Pacific. Ozzie Diggers get an honorable mention....mostly cuz they were all in Egypt fighting.

The book is several 100 pages of vignettes in no particular order. Things begin with a graphic account of the first Japanese soldier Manchester killed. Manchester omits none of it. He does the same with the first time he got laid. And everything else.

War brings out the best and worst in people and their societies. We shoulda dropped a bomb on New Zealand.

 

[Laurel]

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Was this man what he claimed to be: an alien-human-hybrid superspy who needed a 1,200-gun arsenal and multiple assault vehicles to protect the world from extraterrestrial invasion?

Or was he just another obsessive gun-stroke, an American eccentric who wrote for obscure websites, who shrouded himself with lawyers and abused people’s love of mystery and desire to feel important as he seductively spread fear – a sociopath who enriched his life using his very human powers of manipulation?

A woman who knew him said it’s either one or the other. There is no third way.

His neighbors called him Skinny Bob. But when he was born on Dec. 3, 1954, his parents named him Jeffrey Alan Lash.​

- read the full article Baby, I’m a Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here to Save the World (from Playboy)​

 

[Que]

....But there’s one thing the newspapers have generally danced past, and it happens to be the role that has cast the longest shadow out of a career of thousands: His performance as Mr. I.Y. Yunioshi in the classic 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
In the decades since the film was released, Rooney’s portrayal of Yunioshi — taped eyelids, buck teeth, sibilant accent and all — has become one of the persistent icons of ethnic stereotype, brought up whenever conversation turns to the topic of Hollywood racism...

The Mickey Rooney Role Nobody Wants to Talk About.

 

[trysail]

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A detail of Billy the Kid (left) in the original tintype.​

It's not every day you can plop down two bucks and walk away with some "junk" that is worth a fortune. But that's what happened when a collector purchased an old-timey photo from a Fresno, Calif., antiques shop.

It turns out, the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid is in the photo, apparently taking part in a leisurely game of croquet.

The image could be worth up to $5 million.

Kagin's Inc., a numismatics firm, announced it had authenticated the photo earlier this month. The 4-inch-by-5-inch tintype shows Billy the Kid in the summer of 1878. It may have been taken at a wedding, and he is alongside several members of his gang...



$2 Photo Found At Junk Store Has "Billy The Kid" In It: Could Be Worth $5 Million


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[Laurel]

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Is the Parthenon designed after the Golden Ratio? NOPE!


In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. Greats like Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalí have used the number in their work. The Parthenon, the Pyramids at Giza, the paintings of Michelangelo, the Mona Lisa, even the Apple logo are all said to incorporate it.

It's bullshit. The golden ratio's aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don't use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance. There's also no science to really back it up. Those who believe the golden ratio is the hidden math behind beauty are falling for a 150-year-old scam.​

- read the full article The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth (from Fast Company)​

 

[Sean]

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Mike Segalov's hilarious report of the Britain First march in Burton:

"Watching the crowds walk past was Josh and his mate, both locals. I wanted to know what they made of the whole thing, because if you took Golding's word, the non-Muslims of this town had become pariahs, force-fed halal curries as local vicars were burnt at the stake.

"If they want to build a mosque, then they're entitled to build a mosque. Only those pricks over there would do something like this," said Josh.



The Britain First members were vastly outnumbered by locals, who almost without exception stood outside their homes, shops and workplaces to tell the demonstrators to fuck off."

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/my-f...acebook&utm_campaign=viceuk&utm_medium=social

 

[PayDay]

#NoLivesMatter by the Eternal Voice of a Mountain
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/all-lives-meaningless/

...it is a mistake to believe that #BlackLivesMatter or even that #BlueLivesMatter when all before me will eventually face a shortage of resources and descend into violence and anarchy. The oceans will rise to swallow up your "great" cities and the sun will burn away the atmosphere.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Last week, a group of legal experts ruled the November 2014 police shooting of 12-year old Tamir Rice “objectively reasonable.” Rice was shot as he sat in a local park, near the recreation center where he frequently played, holding a pellet gun. When officers responded to 911 calls that a “guy was sitting in the park pointing a gun at people,” they did not know that 195-pound Tamir Rice was only 12. But there were exactly four seconds between the time that the police cruiser pulls into the frame of the surveillance camera that recorded this incident and the time that Tamir Rice drops to the ground. There are less than two seconds between the time the police make contact with Tamir and the time he falls to the ground. That means there was almost no time for the officers to communicate any set of instructions to the boy about what they wanted or what they needed him to do. They drove up and started shooting.

This is unreasonable.

The horrifying lesson of Tamir Rice: White America will use “objectivity” to justify the murder of black children

#BlackLivesMatter

 

[DesEsseintes]

A depressing read, but vital, for anyone who thinks that the Conservatives are not destroying the NHS:

I can't face being a doctor any more.

And, equally moving but perhaps less desperate, on dementia.

The very idea of memory loss is counterintuitive. Even when we know that dementia is mercilessly erasing experiences, we still feel that its victims are capable of keeping emotional tabs on their relationships, since those bonds were formed gradually over time. Memory isn’t just a mechanism that records events; it’s an internal clock responsible for the impression of moving forward in time. Because Mr Schecter’s clock had stopped while mine continued to tick, he and I were perpetually out of sync. Because I remembered, I derived meaning from our encounters, while he, who soon forgot everything, could not. Although I spent a great deal of time with Mr Schecter, he (in his reality) did not spend time with me – which is why each of us, in a very different way, ended up living alone in his apartment in the Bronx.

 

[Jessie_Pinkman]

Are cats domesticated?

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Recent genetic and archaeological studies suggest that house cats are wilder than we think.

"The cat does not offer services,” William Burroughs wrote. “The cat offers itself.” But it does so with unapologetic ambivalence. Greet a cat enthusiastically and it might respond with nothing more than a few unhurried blinks. Later, as you’re trying to work, it will commandeer your lap, keyboard, and attention, purring all the while. A cat will mew at the food bowl in the morning and set off on a multiple-day trek in the afternoon.

Whereas our ancestors quickly harnessed dogs to useful tasks, breeding them to guard, hunt, and herd, they never asked much of cats.

The New Yorker

 

[NOIRTRASH]

A depressing read, but vital, for anyone who thinks that the Conservatives are not destroying the NHS:

I can't face being a doctor any more.

And, equally moving but perhaps less desperate, on dementia.

FYI Memory is a delusion. It doesn't exist per se. What we sense we were born with. If you doubt it reveal for us all your memories of ultrasounds and infrared experience. What we do is move thru the world and the world plays our keyboard, the number of your keys may vary.

 

[DesEsseintes]

FYI Memory is a delusion. It doesn't exist per se. What we sense we were born with. If you doubt it reveal for us all your memories of ultrasounds and infrared experience. What we do is move thru the world and the world plays our keyboard, the number of your keys may vary.

No, that isn't quite how memory works, though it is beautifully put. Long-term memory doesn't develop for the first 2-4 years, which is why we tend not to keep those memories. And, as you probably know, in terms of the brain's pathways, when we remember something we are actually remembering the last time we remembered it.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

No, that isn't quite how memory works, though it is beautifully put. Long-term memory doesn't develop for the first 2-4 years, which is why we tend not to keep those memories. And, as you probably know, in terms of the brain's pathways, when we remember something we are actually remembering the last time we remembered it.

Let me recommend Gerald Edelman to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Edelman


Back in college my Memory professor scribbled on my paper I CANT GRADE WHAT I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. I invited her outside and suggested she try and keep up.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

GODS, GRAVES, AND SCHOLARS by Ceram is a fascinating accounting of several archeological geniuses including Champollion, the lad who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/champollion_jean.shtml


The book is a keeper for two reasons: 1, Amateurs make many of the great discoveries, and 2, great discoveries require new paradigms for the existing fund of knowledge.

 

[doctor_insanus]

92 Percent of Earth-Like Planets Are Yet to Be Born, NASA Study Says

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Racist Halloween Costumes That Are Actually Made For Kids

In the most recent episode of MTV News: Decoded, a web series that breaks down issues of race and culture, host Franchesca Ramsey looks at racist costumes made for kids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racist-halloween-costumes-that-are-actually-made-for-kids_5629371de4b0443bb5633799?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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For the past three years, I've traveled around the city, talking with New Yorkers as they experience gentrification. There is little consensus on the topic — even the word itself is defined differently by each of us. I've spoken with tenants, activists, lawyers, investors, architects, construction workers, real-estate agents, drug dealers, business owners. Many people occupy several of these spaces at once, a fact that underscores just how quickly this conversation becomes complicated.

Ephraim is both developer and landlord. His thick beard and heavyset frame make him look much older than his 26 years. He is a Hasid, and he started buying buildings a few years ago, in the wake of the housing crash.

A real-estate agent introduced us. "Anything for that guy," Ephraim told me when I asked if I could interview him. We met in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens where I found him sitting in his parked car with the engine running. I hopped into the passenger seat and went for an afternoon ride-along through the neighborhoods where he does most of his business: Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights.

It is important to remember that Ephraim is one voice on a wide spectrum. And it is important to know that Ephraim is a pseudonym for reasons that will become obvious.

‘I Put in White Tenants’: The Grim, Racist (and Likely Illegal) Methods of One Brooklyn Landlord

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/grim-racist-methods-of-one-brooklyn-landlord.html?mid=twitter-share-di#

 

[Que]

While there have been observations of mate copying among both males and females, there is a strong theoretical reason for believing it occurs more frequently among females. Specifically, it solves a more important adaptive problem for females than for males—getting information about a potential partner. Because men are often initially concerned with the attractiveness of a partner, they can look at a female and instantly discern a fair bit of mate-relevant information. That's often less the case for women.

Think of mate copying as the real-life equivalent of LinkedIn’s endorsement feature: By being seen as John’s partner, Amanda (his girlfriend) is implicitly endorsing him for the skill of being a competent romantic partner. This information is pretty valuable, especially to some other women. It also turns out that this endorsement carries more weight depending on your own mate-relevant profile. In other words, how desirable you are as a mate helps to determine how desirable your partner is as a mate.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mating-game/201510/have-we-discovered-the-most-powerful-element-attraction

 

[Bacigalupo]

The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian

You’ve seen a painting of Norbert Grupe. A heavy, creased brow and shoulder-length hair framing a frightening scowl, the massive work hung in the fictional Manhattan Museum of Art in Ghostbusters II. When the medieval sorcerer pictured within the painting begins to physically manifest, it is on the Ghostbusters to rally the city’s positive emotions and trap him back in the painting forever. Most people will only ever know Norbert Grupe as Vigo the Carpathian. But Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.

 

[Super-Surprise]

Little tidbits such as this, is the reason I appreciate "the internet" so much...

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