One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"
JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
WOULD
This fundamentally misunderstands what professors *do* in the classroom. Yes, I am imparting info, but students get most of that from readings - what we’re doing in the classroom is helping them build a framework they can use to evaluate the info they are reading—
I needed so much more of this show and it's whole thing
Political violence like stripping half the country of bodily autonomy and full citizenship and letting us bleed out to secure white patriarchal power or like something else
i think it’s cool when someone who wants me dead dies 👍 sorry bitch
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
I go back and forth on this! On one hand it is so dated and specific to a period of time you had to be there for (do the youths understand 90s coffee shop culture?), but it's also a Cameron Crowe joint so it is very quotable and a lot of the relationship stuff still resonates with me.
All I really want in life is peanut butter and jam sandwiches, to have my friends live safe and healthy lives in happiness, to not get heat stroke, and to listen to the Mario Paint music ad infinitum
and to be beloved an adored for who I am without ever twisting myself into someone I am not
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Mozart in the Jungle was so, so charming and me and the other three people who watched will always cherish our memories.
youtu.be/wxB4ABt5VLg?...
Stephen Colbert has always been the very best of us
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
Please do yourself a favor and read this whole thread including the alt text
Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
HELL YES SHEA WHIGHAM
Just read a thing about how there wouldn’t be an American pope until the country was in true political decline. I can’t stop crying, we did it kids.
I’ve never seen this clip before. I’ve also never pondered what she poses. Getting a group of Black women to burn a bus full of white children?
You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.
The average American has three friends.
please we are so tired we cannot do all the things ourselves
I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
Exactly. They are three situations that people will jokingly mention as examples of delusional idiocy (money hungry/clumsy old lady, entitled prima donna rock stars, crazy religious people) without knowing the truth about what happened.
The McDonalds coffee lawsuit, the bowl of M&M's, and "drinking the Kool-Aid" are my holy trinity of scoldy correction topics.
Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR
Fascists abound,
White supremacists humming,
But you were obtuse
And did Nazi it coming.
Happy Authoritarianism Day!
