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“A time card from the week ending Sept. 27, 2009 , a month after the overtime restitution, show Pinto worked 72 hours. That week, however, he received only one check for $455, without a breakdown of hours worked. He made the same amount for the week ending December 6, 2009, according to records supplied by his lawyers, even though he worked longer — 80.50 hours.” — Suit alleges Upper Crust took back workers’ pay - Daily Business Update - The Boston Globe
Cosmopolitan magazine
Illustrated by Thornton Utz
Two seconds after this picture was taken, the cameraman died due to being decapitated by a water ski.
“If you see or hear someone reject a word by saying it’s “not a word”, you can reasonably assume that they mean it’s not a word they like, not a word they would use, not a word in standard usage, not a word in a certain dictionary, not a suitable word for the context, and so on. There’s a difference, and it matters.” — ‘Not a word’ is not an argument « Sentence first
Inio Asano (by fourel)
This book isn’t just cute girls saying/doing weird things, but there’s just enough to make it pretty funny.
I guess when girls fart, they fart flowers. Who knew? Now so many things make sense…
Akadot Retail
I’m about to buy a 30 dollar Japanese art book by Inio Asano that has this picture in it, among others.
Hey Jenny :)
News: Full English Trailer For Takeshi Koike’s REDLINE
movie’s gonna be straight fire
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Oda: From where do you get your ambition and inquisitiveness for your art?
Inoue: Well, it’s simple. When you look at your previous art, it’s embarrassing, right?
Oda: yeah, a little.
Inoue: I think it comes from the feeling that you can do better.
” — Takehiko Inoue & Eiichiro Oda - Part 2 of 6My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) -
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“Times change, but the radioactive fear of black people, black men in particular, has proven to have a longer half-life than any science could have discerned. This is not a fear white people possess of black people—it is a fear all Americans possess. It makes white cops kill black cops, it makes black cops kill black men, and it whispers in the ears of white and nonwhite jurors alike that fear of an unarmed black man lying face down in the ground is not “unreasonable.” All of which is to say, while it infects all of us, a few of us bear the brunt of the suffering it causes.”
— Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect
This is a good read and a nice summary of the situation surrounded yet another unsurprisingly disappointing jury verdict in Cop Kills Unarmed Black Guy Part 23.
“After going gold in 1979 as an utterly uncrossedover falsetto love man, he takes care of the songwriting, transmutes the persona, revs up the guitar, muscles into the vocals, leans down hard on a rock-steady, funk-tinged four-four, and conceptualizes—about sex, mostly. Thus he becomes the first commercially viable artist in a decade to claim the visionary high ground of Lennon and Dylan and Hendrix (and Jim Morrison), whose rebel turf has been ceded to such marginal heroes-by-fiat as Patti Smith and John Rotten-Lydon. Brashly lubricious where the typical love man plays the lead in “He’s So Shy,” he specializes here in full-fledged fuckbook fantasies—the kid sleeps with his sister and digs it, sleeps with his girlfriend’s boyfriend and doesn’t, stops a wedding by gamahuching the bride on her way to church. Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home.” — Robert Christgau, reviewing Prince’s Dirty Mind for his famous Consumer Guide. He has an amazing searchable archive that can be accessed here. Christgau is the master of the concisely written, brilliantly incisive review. h/t Slate’s Culture Gabfest. (via conservativeradical)
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“And so, while it may cause a big stir to seize on the bitter rantings of ex-employees and ignore what current staff say about working at The Daily Show, it’s not fair. It’s not fair to us, it’s not fair to Jon, it’s not fair to our wonderful male colleagues, and it’s especially not fair to the young women who want to have a career in comedy but are scared they may get swallowed up in what people label as a “boy’s club.” — Special Message