January 2012
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Hey internet!
Today anti-protest ordinances were passed here. So if you wanted to gather on the sidewalk with a group of people with signs without getting a permit from the city, you should probably do it in the next ten days before they go into effect (unless you want to be arrested and issued exorbitant fines.)
Today was also my first day of classes. I love the beginning because my classes seem interesting...
December 2011
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I just totally went off on my roommate
And kind of started crying.
Today while I was on my bike a cop yelled at me from inside his car as he was going by that ‘I couldn’t honestly think that was a proper way to operate a bike.’ And the thing is, I was not doing anything law-breaking or unsafe that would in any way put citizens [or their property, hey capitalism] at risk. The motherfucker was mad that I had the nerve...
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Feminist moment of the day
Today, for the first time in my life, a boy I had not previously met gave me his number and told me we should have coffee sometime. (Yes, I’m pathetic, let’s move on.)
I wanted to highlight that this event has happened at a point in my life after:
I stopped wearing make-up
I stopped shaving
I gained back most of the weight I had recently lost
I cut my hair short and tie it back...
November 2011
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On being busy (AKA wasting my time ranting about...
I feel like I have so much to do this week I literally don’t have time for it all. I know it’s hard to believe (in fact I myself find it hard to believe) but I have all my final projects/papers on top of regular schoolwork, volunteer work which is usually 10-15 hours a week, work work which is also 10-15 hours, and like 4 activism-related meeting to attend (3 of which I have to prepare...
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October 2011
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"175 Chicago protesters arrested after being told... →
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Click me, dudes! →
Some of my bad pictures of Occupy Chicago thus far.
We Are the 99 Percent →
Has everyone seen this?
Warning: day/night/week/month ruiner
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September 2011
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Davis Is Executed in Georgia →
“His conviction came after testimony by some witnesses who later recanted and on the scantest of physical evidence…”
My roommate went to a vigil earlier, and apparently 7 of the 9 original witnesses recanted. One of the two who didn’t recant is the most likely suspect after Davis.
EDIT: here’s the better BBC article
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“Your honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made...”
– Eugene Debs
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I SO want to preorder the new Transit record
But I really can’t spend money on non-necessities right now.
WHY DID I PICK THE MOST EXPENSIVE COLLEGE MAJOR EVER ARGH.
A life update of sorts
I start school tomorrow, which I’m not really excited about but it’s better than work. On that note since it’s no longer summer we close two hours earlier, so I am REALLY happy about that. I started this photo project when I moved into this apartment where I take a picture of the same place everyday, and so far except when I have been away (in Greece and whatnot) I haven’t...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Three hours left on my ebay stuff →
All but one of these books are signed, and some are sold out from the publisher. PLEASE BUY THEM
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I'm selling a bunch of books on ebay
Nothing Broken, Nothing Lost-Declan James Greene Notes From the Deep End-Christopher Gutierrez A Life Deliberate-Christopher Gutierrez (Foreword by Tim from Rise Against) On the Upswing-Christopher Gutierrez Selected Works 2004-2008-Christopher Gutierrez (foreword by Pete from Fall Out Boy) Remnants-Various Demonstrative Monsters-Christopher Gutierrez
Spread the word, because I’m...
On 3D movies
Rebecca: They're just trying to sell you something you don't need.
Me: Welcome to America.
Rebecca: Oh girl, you don't have to tell me.
June 2011
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This is really exciting, internet...
I just found the extended editions of all 3 Lord of the Rings movies in my apartment. WIN.
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“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires...”
– A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Today is my last day in Greece
It probably would have been smart of me to have written things while I was here, but oh well. I came on a birth-right-ish program for Greek American college students, so that we are able to carry on “Greek heritage.” If that means coming home with intent to make Dakos all the time, a desire to add to the little Greek I learned, and the ability to do the easiest type of Greek dance,...
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May 2011
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I'm going to a house party tonight
I’ve never been to a house party. I can’t lie, I’m a little scared. They are usually less crazy when it’s all legal adults, right?…
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What I have learned from working on my Darkroom...
isolatedexpression:
strawrox:
I am awful at shooting, processing, printing, and spotting. However, I am halfway decent at measuring and cutting mats.
Moral of the story: If you ever need some mats cut, hit me up.
Fitzy I beast at spotting and processing but suck ass at measuring and cutting mats. Wanna switch?
Great idea! Next year we need to somehow pool our abilities…
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What I have learned from working on my Darkroom...
I am awful at shooting, processing, printing, and spotting. However, I am halfway decent at measuring and cutting mats.
Moral of the story: If you ever need some mats cut, hit me up.
Not that any of you probably care,
But a robbery/homicide occured today in a convenience store right next to the Camera store I go to. It’s in the middle of Downtown Chicago by the way, and it happened in the morning-not morning like 1 AM, like 8 AM people going to work and school morning. Needless to say it’s going to be pretty strange to walk by a place someone recently died to buy film now.
Spirit? Well, why didn't I think of that?: 116... →
hydrogenandhelium:
find your lack of pants disturbing. You are unwise to lower your pants. Your father wanted you to have pants when you were old enough We have no choice, our pants can’t repel firepower of that magnitude. “Great pants kid! Don’t get cocky!” Only now…in my pants…do you understand. “I happen to…
Happy Star Wars day!
April 2011
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I went to San Francisco with my mom for Spring...
I haven’t had a great night and need to take a break from schoolwork, so here’s a mini-spam of some of the boring touristy pictures I took.
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“We managed to land the plane just fine… unfortunately it was in the...”
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Guess where I'm working this summer?
Hints: Henry Rollins, Ian Mackaye, ice cream….
Yup, Haagen Dazs.
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I wish I wasn't so sensitive.
Reading, hearing, or seeing prejudiced things bums me out so hard. It LITERALLY ruins my day. I read an incredibly sexist article several hours ago and feel even worse after mulling it over. I feel like everyone I know is able to just let things like this go, but I never forget stuff that bothers me. Sometimes I feel like the only person who notices/acknowledges what a fucked-up place this world...
March 2011
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“The global apparel industry is a global sweatshop, and that has to do with...”
– Robert J.S. Ross, a professor of sociology at Clark University and author of “Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops,” says poor conditions still exist for garment workers around the globe. From an interview by @GlobeMuther, The Boston Globe. (via boston)
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