Last night’s Daily Show is f amazing. Here’s a quick clip about an amazing 10 year old in Arkansas named Will Phillips.
FOLEY!
nerd, metalhead, eavesdropper
- me: Online dating sites have taught me two things: I put out a weirdo vibe, and talking to guys out of the blue is the one thing I'm too intimidated to do.
- Perfect!
- Bunny: I like your weirdo vibe, but I can't help you with the second part.
- me: Maybe I need to get a bottle of wine AND THEN send emails.
- That's fool proof.
- Bunny: Good plan!
- Also, agree to meet in out of the way places and don't tell anybody where you're going.
- Because that?
- Guaranteed party.
I don’t know how to feel about this.
It's not too late to participate in GiveMN.org's "Give to the Max Day"
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I would love to, but I’m afraid I qualify more as a recipient of charity.
A local human rights organisation reported today, 12 November, that it has a photograph of a fresh grave in the city of Kermanshah. The grave contains the body of Ehsan Fattahian, who was buried in secret and without the knowledge of his family. This seems to suggest that the political prisoner Ehsan Fattahian was not alive while the freedom-loving people around the world were gathering signatures and making appeals to the Iranian authorities to prevent his ‘execution’. In his letter from prison, he mentions how he was forced to ‘confess’ under torture.
— The ‘execution’ of a young Kurd / signandsight.com
Oh, yeah. We’re totally fucked.
Why am I?
These are the things thousands of people are asking themselves, and Google, so often that they appear as suggested searches. We’re in trouble.
Kick-Ass Trailer: a Clockwork McLovin? — Vulture
WHO WILL TAKE ME TO SEE THIS?
I don’t find every single person on the planet attractive; why should I worry about whether or not every single person on the planet finds me attractive in return?
I wouldn’t want to give up the positive opinions of those people that matter. But I wouldn’t want just anyone’s opinion to matter either. That’s kind of the trick of the thing. It’s easy to say that the only thing that counts is what’s going on INSIDE of a person. It’s not as popular to say that, well, the outside counts, too. It just doesn’t count the way the world wants it to count. And all of that inside stuff has an impact on how the outside stuff gets perceived as well.
Here’s the plainest I can say it (and maybe I should just delete all of that wordiness above and come right down to this): External validation is nice. But it cannot be the only thing you have or you have nothing. Because there is no way to make everyone appreciate your outside no matter what it looks like. External validation can be nice; it can also be creepy and scary and full of pressure and expectation. It isn’t the end-all, be-all of worth, not for anyone but especially not for women. Let’s reprioritize the external validation, move it way down on the list. And if someone appreciates your outer package, let’s make sure it’s YOUR outer package, not one you’ve ripped out of a magazine because you think that’s what people want from you, because you think that’s the only way you can be acceptable.
