I Carry A Knife

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Are we dead yet?

thats great. I used to do plumbing for about 15 years and Roto Rooter were ultimately responsible for a lot more calls to my company than I care to admit.

did they at least shut the line to the house off and connect you to a willing neighbor if that's possible?

Passenger (1963) A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, ...

Hey Maff. If you would like to see what I consider the ultimate nreliable narrator film, I'd like to direct you to letterboxd.com/film/passeng...

It's available on rarefilmm.com which I'm 90% sure is legal.

Almost stepped on this fella while taking out the recycling. Luckily for my ankles it appears to be dead, so, if anyone wants a free snake come on by the house.

*offer good for a limited time

ANIKI for MVP. This is the way

That man with the undercut is maintaining a load bearing glare. Better make sure he stays right there all night

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hell yeah, love this. I really need to get into oils. I assume this is all palette knife work? Did you use a canvas or is it on some kind of board?

#art #mixed-media #hashtags #paint #collage

Bits of painted scraps of paper, glued down and painted again. Skulls are cool.

I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to laugh nearly as hard as I did during that birthday party scene.

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I don't see the need to say a whole lot because I don't think your listenin

#mushrooms #tjpw

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I'm worried this one might ripple.

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It's weird when you decide to experiment with something new but completely fuck it up and it somehow comes out cooler looking than the dumb thing you were doing as a test.

Now I have to do more experimenting and find out what I did wrong.

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I only found out about the first one years after the fact and it did clarify a few things.

The Woman is actually the second in a trilogy of films. The first, Offspring isn't very flashy or well directed, but the story is distressing enough that overall it works.

The third, Darlin' is a fucking riot and it doesn't intend to be. Which makes it that much funnier. "it had promise"

markers and pens

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#idontknowwhatImdoing

Just tell them you are ripping off the late Kevin Sullivan and you'll be fine.

At least they got name dropped on Friends once.

this song gets a lot less interesting when you don't have that one guy fan dancing in the bathtub or a young Dalton Castle waving a plastic sword around. And the tits.

<inarticulate screaming>

I need adhesives

<screaming resumes>

I can only hit 4 off the top of my head with Paparazzi, Poker face, Born This Way and Bad Romance. That said, her music is not in my typical rotation so those have been learned through sheer social prominence.

As an old I started to go with The Beatles and Rolling Stones, but I think I'm slowly drifting into a time when that is no longer possible from a generational perspective. I can't do it personally but I bet that Lady Gaga is up there