March112012

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Rita Hayworth

There is nothing worse than being a woman who is both beautiful and intelligent. Rita is living proof of that.

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March102012

Aches

I always have a headache now.

Songs and movies and novels tell us that this can’t eat can’t think can’t function thing is love, but I know that it isn’t.
I want nothing more than to get drunk, but I’m already so dizzy and in the past three days I have eaten half of a falafel sandwich, one cinnamon roll, one package of skittles, and one muffin. I have to choke down the things I do manage to eat.
I can sleep, that’s one thing I can do forever because when I’m asleep I don’t think about what could have been what I could have done better, how I could have tried harder, what I could have done to ignore the limitless vacuum that was our downfall.

Two weeks ago I thought I had finally come to accept this inevitability, but that was just my mind playing tricks on me I guess. I had tricked myself into not only accepting it, but believing that I wanted it because it was for the best. Now though, there is just pain and to some extent guilt, guilt for who I am, who I became, whatever.

Probably hatred would be better than this forced friendliness, I think that now at least, but I don’t know if I could stand that either. I know one day I’ll pull myself together and I’ll eat and drink and really, truly laugh again, but I don’t really know when that will be. 

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August312011
“But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.” Oscar Wilde

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ctrlaltpersona: melimachiavelli: youmightfindyourself: Child in a rebel camp in the north-eastern Central African Republic. Photo by Pierre Holtz. Children shouldn’t have to see such things.We’ve the capabilities as an entire unit of nations to fix, and end this. Instead the land owners and ceos collect checks.  I’ve seen it warp what a child should be. Met a little girl once, in the first few days of my deployment to Iraq who had lost siblings and was scarred by an IED. She was so small, maybe six or seven, and very shy. But when she got the courage to walk up to me, I saw the little craters in her skin where they had dug out the shrapnel. You know what she asked me? “Will you kill them all?” And, ha, professional tough guy that I was supposed to be, I couldn’t speak at first. I swallowed hard and said “I’ll try.” Think about what that means. Consider that this little girl knew war and killing probably before she knew her letters. If folks did that, war might not happen so easily and so often.

ctrlaltpersona:

melimachiavelli:

youmightfindyourself:

Child in a rebel camp in the north-eastern Central African Republic. Photo by Pierre Holtz.

Children shouldn’t have to see such things.
We’ve the capabilities as an entire unit of nations to fix, and end this.

Instead the land owners and ceos collect checks. 

I’ve seen it warp what a child should be. Met a little girl once, in the first few days of my deployment to Iraq who had lost siblings and was scarred by an IED. She was so small, maybe six or seven, and very shy. But when she got the courage to walk up to me, I saw the little craters in her skin where they had dug out the shrapnel. You know what she asked me? “Will you kill them all?” And, ha, professional tough guy that I was supposed to be, I couldn’t speak at first. I swallowed hard and said “I’ll try.” Think about what that means. Consider that this little girl knew war and killing probably before she knew her letters. If folks did that, war might not happen so easily and so often.

War Children Sad 

August292011

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August262011
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.” Charles Bukowski. (via haileygladden)

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August252011

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July232011

Requiescat in pace.

This is how she should be remembered, beautiful and healthy before she became a ticking time bomb of self destruction.
The fact that in her last days she was little better than the crack whores on the corner three blocks from my house does not negate her talent. The fact that she was an addict does not make her death any less sad, if anything it makes it sadder.

There have already been too many great artists who killed themselves slowly with bottles and needles and crack pipes, new additions to that list will always be tragic. 

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May52011
Everyone is all up in arms about this article, and to an extent I think they are correct to be so. The entire tone is absolutely disgusting and offensive, and it is clear that the people at FHM need to open their minds more than a bit, and stop freaking out because they may have just found a very pretty man attractive and they are now questioning their sexuality.I can agree with them on one point, though. While I do think that it is great that the fashion industry is so accepting of Andrej’s gender blurring, it’s very disturbing to me that he is considered to be the next big thing in women’s fashion. Don’t get me wrong, he is nothing if not beautiful. I hardly think that he should be banned from the fashion industry completely, quite the opposite in fact. I don’t even think that he should model only men’s clothes. He is a more than competent model, and should be allowed to model whatever he and his agency want him to. What bothers me is the fact that it seems more likely that the industry’s acceptance and embracing of him has more to do with moving the industry from ‘girls who look dangerously boyish to just boys who look like girls’ than some great, magnanimous open-mindedness and acceptance. Granted I imagine that my complaint with these ‘dangerously boyish’ girls is a bit different from FHM’s, but it is still a concern of mine.The fashion industry has never been one to accept a large range of body types, and as a woman with an extremely feminine body, the current fashion climate bothers me. I would have no problem with Andrej’s popularity if it didn’t seem symptomatic of a larger disregard for women who are shaped the way most women are, but it does. Androgyny is great, and it should be embraced and celebrated but if it is all you have, that’s a problem.It is annoying at best, and distressing at worst that the few contemporary garments I do own have had to be taken in at the waist or let out at the hips before they fit properly, and that it is often difficult for me to find shirts that actually fit my (not especially large) breasts. One of the many reasons I wear vintage is because in the first half of the 20th century clothing was not made for women without a single curve to their name. Clothing that is older than my mother is made for women who are shaped the way I am. Even in the 1920s, the so-called boyish figure was positively curvaceous compared to your average model of today.I in no way mean to denigrate the women in the world who are built like boys, I understand that it is a perfectly natural and often beautiful body type. People come in all sorts of shapes, and so long as they fit within the bounds of personal health, they should all be accepted. However it is not the norm, and while everyone deserves to be able to find, without too much ado, clothing that fits them properly, the majority of ladies are closer to being hourglass shaped than they are rectangle shaped and the clothing that is manufactured for us should reflect that.I would like to live in a world where the popularity of Andrej, or someone as androgynous as he is, was not a cause for concern but the fact is that we don’t. A mole can be an attractive and wonderful thing, but if it is caused by cancer it becomes another matter entirely. Of course the fashion industry, and the beauty standard it reflects will always have a narrower view of what is attractive and desirable than what occurs in people, but would it really be so very hard for it to reflect something that was more often healthy and attainable?

Everyone is all up in arms about this article, and to an extent I think they are correct to be so. The entire tone is absolutely disgusting and offensive, and it is clear that the people at FHM need to open their minds more than a bit, and stop freaking out because they may have just found a very pretty man attractive and they are now questioning their sexuality.
I can agree with them on one point, though. While I do think that it is great that the fashion industry is so accepting of Andrej’s gender blurring, it’s very disturbing to me that he is considered to be the next big thing in women’s fashion. Don’t get me wrong, he is nothing if not beautiful. I hardly think that he should be banned from the fashion industry completely, quite the opposite in fact. I don’t even think that he should model only men’s clothes. He is a more than competent model, and should be allowed to model whatever he and his agency want him to. What bothers me is the fact that it seems more likely that the industry’s acceptance and embracing of him has more to do with moving the industry from ‘girls who look dangerously boyish to just boys who look like girls’ than some great, magnanimous open-mindedness and acceptance. Granted I imagine that my complaint with these ‘dangerously boyish’ girls is a bit different from FHM’s, but it is still a concern of mine.
The fashion industry has never been one to accept a large range of body types, and as a woman with an extremely feminine body, the current fashion climate bothers me. I would have no problem with Andrej’s popularity if it didn’t seem symptomatic of a larger disregard for women who are shaped the way most women are, but it does. Androgyny is great, and it should be embraced and celebrated but if it is all you have, that’s a problem.
It is annoying at best, and distressing at worst that the few contemporary garments I do own have had to be taken in at the waist or let out at the hips before they fit properly, and that it is often difficult for me to find shirts that actually fit my (not especially large) breasts. One of the many reasons I wear vintage is because in the first half of the 20th century clothing was not made for women without a single curve to their name. Clothing that is older than my mother is made for women who are shaped the way I am. Even in the 1920s, the so-called boyish figure was positively curvaceous compared to your average model of today.
I in no way mean to denigrate the women in the world who are built like boys, I understand that it is a perfectly natural and often beautiful body type. People come in all sorts of shapes, and so long as they fit within the bounds of personal health, they should all be accepted. However it is not the norm, and while everyone deserves to be able to find, without too much ado, clothing that fits them properly, the majority of ladies are closer to being hourglass shaped than they are rectangle shaped and the clothing that is manufactured for us should reflect that.
I would like to live in a world where the popularity of Andrej, or someone as androgynous as he is, was not a cause for concern but the fact is that we don’t. A mole can be an attractive and wonderful thing, but if it is caused by cancer it becomes another matter entirely. Of course the fashion industry, and the beauty standard it reflects will always have a narrower view of what is attractive and desirable than what occurs in people, but would it really be so very hard for it to reflect something that was more often healthy and attainable?

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