The Rolling Stones - Shattered (from “Some Girls, Live in Texas ‘78”) (by eaglerocktv)

One of my favorite songs about New York.

As a fan of ‘Girls’ and a as a fan of porn parodies, I don’t understand this.

colleenclarkart:

Just a lil baby watercolor exercise. Also, I love Amy Poehler more than anything.

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The Museum of the Moving Image said on Tuesday that it will create a gallery devoted to the work of Henson, the puppeteer and artist who died in 1990, following the donation of nearly 400 puppets, costumes and other props and objects from Henson’s family.

The Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens, which previously featured the exhibition “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” said in a news release that its 2,200-square-foot gallery for Henson’s work was expected to open in winter 2014-2015.

Among the works donated to the museum by the Henson family are artifacts from film and TV projects like “The Muppet Show,” “Sesame Street,” “Fraggle Rock” and “The Dark Crystal,” and about 200 puppets including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Elmo, Ernie, Bert, Count von Count, Gobo Fraggle, the Swedish Chef, and Statler and Waldorf.

That’s one good thing in Queens!

David Sedaris  (via jessicacabot)

“…WHAT BUGS ME IS THAT IT WAS PUT TO A VOTE IN THE FIRST PLACE.”

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I love David Sedaris.

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Did I reblog this already today? Doesn’t matter. It needs to be reblogged again.

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Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)

what a radical idea yo

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Bam. Kids “misbehave” for actual, real, valid reasons. And have feelings.

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For fuck’s sake, it takes the people in charge so long to figure shit like this out! Good for Lincoln High!

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This needs to be the policy EVERYWHERE…

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Spread this likw wildfire til every school has and actively employes this policy.

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Maybe the open palm approach will have more luck than the spate of elementary school arrests that seem to be the norm now. Fingers crossed.

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hodgman:

paulftompkins:

This is exactly right. - Paul

cameronesposito:

Seems like every 6 months or so - maybe once a year - there is a debate about rape jokes. Here’s how it goes:

A dude tells jokes about rape or deals with hecklers in way that includes rape. A woman hears these jokes or is the heckler. She publicly states that she is upset or didn’t like the joke…

I concur with PFT: C Esposito forever.

This post says everything I think with regards to joking about taboo subjects, especially rape. Whenever this comes up I always hear people defending themselves against censorship but I never hear anyone asking a comic to be censored. All art is subject to criticism. When a comic gets on stage, he or she is asking to be judged. When a comic jokes about something taboo, we’ll stick to rape for this post, he or she must know that they are venturing into touchy territory that  hurts real people on a very real level. Every comic has the right to tell whatever joke he or she wants, and every critic has the right to say why it did or didn’t work. Because rape jokes can hit at such a visceral level, the criticism of those jokes might be more emotionally charged, but the audience member or critic still has a right to challenge them.

Note: I generally do not condone heckling and I think that if someone has a problem with a joke in the moment the best thing is to wait and either discuss the issue with the comic personally or write a review that addresses the issue later. That being said, even the audience has a right to free speech but theirs can be stifled at the discretion of the club owner or manager (Actually, the comics’ right to free speech is also subject to the whims of venue management but they can and should be granted more leeway to test out material).

The bottom line is tell your jokes but expect a reaction. Isn’t a reaction what most comics are looking for anyway? If the reaction you’re getting isn’t the one you want, maybe you should reevaluate what you’re giving the audience to react against in the first place. 

Signed,

Blog girl with glasses

alternative-film:

the graduate (1967, dir. mike nichols)

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