RYAN WHY WOULD YOU STEAL MY IDEA?What if I do a mini-t-Rex mini-giveaway…..??T-Rexes were born in wee little eggs, and they came out all tiny and adorable. I know, I know: paleontologists have been saying this for years, but we never believed them because they couldn’t produce tiny adorable plushies to prove it. UNTIL NOW.
Micro T-Rex is three inches of soft and fuzzy adorable, and comes with that removable plastic keychain clip you see pictured, so he’s ready to hang out wherever you go! He is Down for Hangouts!
I would type more but he’s TOO CUTE, look at his little arms, i’m DYINGGuys these just came out today and I really think you should buy one. Only $8.50! How can you put a PRICE on LOVE
This is a great idea! EVERYONE who reblogs this gets one entry, and tomorrow I will choose one reblog at random and send them one! REBLOG AWAY AND T-REX MIGHT COME LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE / HANG OFF YOUR FINGERS AND KEYS
Whoah we are now have over 400 notes on this giveaway! That’s nutty! And as a 1 in over 400 chance hardly seems THAT fair, I’m going to award ANOTHER Key Rex for every 400 notes this post gets. A reblog is your entry to win, go nuts, according to these rules I could give away HUNDREDS of adorable green dinosaurs if things get really implausibly crazy!!
I am very happy that these little guys will be going to enthusiastic Tumblr homes!
Of all the wires
It was the wires
that were the wires for empathy that
we loved beyond all others.
Such a haunting line.
Colin Stetson, Laurie Anderson, Shara Worden.
Killer - Rudresh Mahanthappa
This is the studio version of one of the songs performed on the impressive NPR Tiny Desk Concert that was going around the other day.
Side Note: Looks like I’ll be floating around during Spring Break so I’ll be strictly mobile from my Nook mostly reblogging for the week. Have a good break, even if you’re not in school take some time for yourself.
This song is just so great. Grooving and then really innovative extended techniques on top
About a week ago, I wrote about all the people who took to the internet to rejoice at the possibility that George Zimmerman might be charged capitally for Trayvon Martin’s murder.
Today, I received the personal confirmation of what I wrote in my original post, namely that “Anyone who opposes the idea that Zimmerman is a monster who needs to be tortured and/or killed is immediately accused of derailing the conversation or of being a racist who supports Zimmerman.”
In other words, I’ve just been notified that I’m a racist.
All of this provides me with an excellent opportunity to write a bit more about this nonsense that supporting some executions makes one a good person while opposing all executions makes one a racist.
The latest census report confirms what has been an unstoppable trend for the past two decades. That America is well on the way to becoming a majority non-white nation. With fewer white babies being born than Latino, black and Asian babies, that may come a lot sooner than the targeted year of 2042, which demographers repeatedly cite. The ethnic remake of America is already having a huge impact on land use, housing, social services, schools, and industries in countless small and medium sized towns, and rural areas that since the country’s birth have been exclusively or predominantly white.
The GOP knows that. And the brutal reality for the party is that more minorities in America’s population will continue to translate into bigger numbers for the Democrats at the polls. That pattern has been locked in place for the past decade. This is a prime reason that President Obama is President Obama. He was the biggest beneficiary of the happy confluence of demographics and politics in 2008 when an off-the-chart number of black, youth and Latino voters marched to the polls to help put him over the top in the handful of battleground states that for the past three decades have either voted solid GOP in the presidential race or tilted toward the GOP.
Former President Bush grasped the significance of the mounting non-white numbers and the potential peril to the GOP in 2000. He briefly flirted with the notion of overhauling the GOP and making it an ethnically diverse big tent party. He schmoozed, pandered to and courted Latino voters and organizations. It worked. He ramped up the number of Latino voters and that helped his election bid in several states. In 2004, he repeated the tact with Latino and black evangelicals. It worked again. He got more than 40 percent of the Latino vote, and a small but significant bump up in the black vote. This was just enough to tip Ohio, Florida and the White House back to him.
But Bush’s diversity pitch was an aberration. The GOP quickly reverted back to form in the 2008 presidential election and especially the 2010 national elections. It ramped up its standard attack on big government, tax and spend Democrats, and screamed for a scrap or gut of entitlement programs, and tough military preparedness. Its theme pitch was the old wink and nod mix of code terms to rile the racial juices of conservative whites who still see government and Democrats as synonymous with pandering to minorities.
My head hurts from everything going on today. I am trying to eat healthy, exercise enough, stay positive about relationships, stay positive about meeting new people, make good and informed decisions about my career, schedule the events in my life, keep a job, do well in my class, make payments, make sure I’m not going broke. I can’t do all of it at once! Goddammit I was just trying to watch some Harry Potter, did I make somebody angry?!




Went sailing with Brandon today :D
Close but you were farther foward and slightly darker. And shirt less, because woo Florida!