December 2011
110 posts
Of Course My 2011 Would End With a Pervy Man
Tonight I will ring in the new year in Patagonia, a place I’ve been dreaming of going for over a decade.
Can you think of a better way to end one of the best years of your life than to walk home from a bar in Argentina and encounter a man jerking off? I think not! (This is a happy story. I swear!).
The best part about my interaction with this perve was that this time (oh, there have been...
Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been the case since 1989 with...
“You know you’re a grown woman when a guy on the dance floor tries to make...”
– me to myself on the cab ride home at 5am this morning after a night at the club in Argentina
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via katehess)
All of These Counties Think Women, Despite Their...
I know we like to think that we are the “leaders of the free world” here in the United States, but we’re not. We’re actually waaaaaaay behind the rest of the western world, as well as countries we refer to as sexist and “machimso,” like South American countries. Argentina, for instance, has had TWO female presidents thus far.
Actually, most of these ...
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just...
Obama Singed It. Bye-bye Bill of Rights. Hello... →
A Few Really Cool Things About Argentina That The...
I learned today that in Argentina they have national Census day where in one day they take the census of the entire country because everyone has to have one family member stay home and do it. As a census worker myself who saw the biggest waste of money and ONE YEAR of time, I can confidently say Argentina is smarter about a lot of things than us. They also make it a law to vote, meaning apathy...
Hey Y'all. The Prez Is Gonna Sign This Bill as... →
Btw, Congress is also voting on SOPA this week, which is the first piece of legislature on the way to censoring the internet.
If you don’t know US history well, you might want to be aware that during Christmas time, the gov’t has had a record of passing crazy-ass legislature, all while we’re wrapped up with shopping and holiday stuff. Soooo, this week could be the most...
