February 2011
106 posts
just booked some hot programs for February, March...
Schubert 9
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Tchaik 4
Beethoven Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Mozart Piano Concerto 25
Verdi Requiem
2011 ain’t lookin so bad.
“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed...”
– The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anais Nin (via thechocolatebrigade)
“In that difference lies the racism implicit in the abortion/slavery analogy...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via morninggloria)
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
January 2011
99 posts
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The Lame Shall Enter First - Flannery O'Connor,...
Read it last night in the tub, nearly drowned myself.
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via superstitionis)
“Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every...”
– Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Fuck Yeah Women's History: Who Said It Was Simple →
afrosoul:
There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them…
figure skating: a text chat
Me: Go Mirai!
Mother: Yea she is cute.
Me: Rachel Flatt is hokey but I like her new hair.
Mother: Poor girl named Agnes
Me: ?
Mother: And the other girl is cute too. What is that music?
Me: It started out with Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso and then NOT SEAMLESSLY merged into Danse Macabre
Mother: Only you would make that observation.
Me: You asked...also, every fall still makes me gasp.
Mother: You and the whole audience. What is this music?
Me: Ravel Tzigane for SOLO VIOLIN. don't know where they got this remix.
Mother: I knew it was familiar. She did good and her name probably sounds pretty when spoken by a European.
Me: LOL!! What?!!!
Mother. AGNES ZAWADSKI? Really??
Me...
Mother: Remember how the 3 of us would sit all hugged up on the couch watching and then daddy would skate in backward with his butt out?
Me: the horror
(end transmission)
playin Schubert 9 next month. excited. what a...
Two churches located across the street from each...
unruled:
cooperstar:
mshafrir:
wizasaur:
-prettyprettyplease:
ultraball:
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
ALL ROCKS GO TO HEAVEN
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM DOES NOT MAGICALLY GRANT YOUR DOG A SOUL.
WOW. EPIC CATHOLIC WIN.
Mehehehehe
I had a Catholic tell me once that my dog didn’t have a soul. I wanted to punch that soulless bitch out so...
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Images of what is going on in Egypt. →
caraobrien:
mendmyheart:
*Warning, some images are horrific.
May Allah grant them the strength and will power to overcome such a difficult time.
These are really disturbing.
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via fywomenshistory)
schubertiads:
breakflows:
Ravel, Pavane pour...
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight...”
– Plato (via fuckyeahflute)
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape →
holy fuck are you serious.
Rabble: A Completely Anecdotal Opinion About... →
squee-gee:
I think most Black/African American women believe that all women should have the choice to have an abortion or not. And while abortion may not be a choice many of us would personally make, we understand why Black women need safe, legal, and affordable access to that choice. And I…
“Lesbians and gays across the country are literally putting themselves in the...”
– Stephanie Bell, in her letter to Iowa State Representative Kim Pearson (via speakgirl)
amen
blissandzen asked: I rescued a batch of books at a garage giveaway last weekend, and don't have shelf space for all of it-
http://blissandzen.tumblr.com/post/2789332888/it-was-mostly-a-pop-fiction-collection-but-there
click through the picture. Would you be interested in the two on the right? It's a 1969 edition. I'd be happy to pass it along.
http://blissandzen.tumblr.com/post/2789332888/it-was-mostly-a-pop-fiction-collection-but-there
click through the picture. Would you be interested in the two on the right? It's a 1969 edition. I'd be happy to pass it along.
Rabble: In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued... →
todayinwomenshistory:
Roe v. Wade is the historic Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States. The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy…
“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– President Obama’s statement on Roe v. Wade (via rabbleprochoice)
It Did?
MOM: I have a huge lasagna if you guys want to pick up bread
MOM: That sounded dirty
MOM: Sorry
“Whatever makes you happy, whatever you want. You’re so fucking special. I wish I...”
– “Creep” by Radiohead (via quote-book)
“The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young...”
– The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of Anne Frank | HTMLGIANT (via caitlinate)
Wow. That’s some serious censorship right there.
(via genderbitch)
I had no idea this passage was ever in that book! (via dr-grumbles)
whoa. the things you learn.
Top Ten Terrible Things Done to Us by Sen. Joe... →
nwbtcw:
jonathan-cunningham:
10. Undermined Jeffersonian ideals by joining with George W. Bush to throw government money to religious organizations.
9. Revived, with Lynn Cheney, McCarthyite techniques in order to harass and intimidate university professors who dared attempt to explain the historical and political context for the rise of al-Qaeda and its attacks on the United States. He even...
blissandzen:
Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
got an audition for the Spoleto Festival Orchestra...
let the excerpt slavery begin :)
“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...