July 2011
22 posts
Dinner for the recession
So while idiots play with our economic well being like the most amateur chess player I will impart a few recession friendly food tricks for the climate change inspired summer we are having in NYC.
Summer Pasta Salad
It is this simple, and cheap.
Vegetables (any that you would like)
Whole Wheat Pasta (its better for you and just as cheap as the regular stuff)
cherry tomatoes (blanch these for two minutes and they taste like candy)
One bottle of your favorite salad dressing (I tend to like any in the Annies family)
Meat of any flavor it that is your thing, I tend to like chicken, fish, or shrimp.
Refridgerate and you have an instant meal for at least 4 to 5 days…
¡Voila!
And lest we forget, cheap cheap cheap…. I think the next trick will be gazpacho… stay tuned.
A fun game
Insert Republican for every blank: _______ is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology. ______s advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy. _______s seek to purge forces, ideas, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration and produce their nation’s rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity where individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood. _______s believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong. ______ governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state.
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Sunday Night At the Movies →
rottentomatoes.com
Such an amazing film….
2:57am
it’s 2:57am and
history is singing through the shadows,
waiting for answers, for some kind of relief on the horizon
memories fall like bombs
every drop feels like an explosion
popping apart the vertebrae that keep
you alive
mirrors ask too many questions
it’s hard to look inside anymore
you hide
you wait
you wonder what is
coming next
but you know that somehow, somewhere
you will be made whole
drop drop drop down into that place
that place where you look up
searching
sinking
safe
drop inside me
then there was this night
couldn’t sleep
walking aimlessly on the cracked sidewalk
drop outside me
step onna crack break yr mother’s back
wandering and pacing… nothing I wanted was out there
drop inside me
it was four-thirty in the morning, normally I would have been
asleep, asleep
the bombs drop silently
I went home…but I still couldn’t sleep, i couldn’t smoke, I couldn’t
grab any vice…
nothing, just pacing the floor
drop up and down
drop down and up
I turned on the radio
drop right
drop left
the am station sang in crackled beauty a song, sweet and sad…billie
sang… her voice filled the static, erupting into
my smoke infested room filled with lost dreams, filled with history,
all broken into thousands of shadows….
drop into the cracks
break your own back.
thousands of shadows, none of them the same, none repeated.
Light passing through smoke and dust
all part of a whole, every part history a place where the light had
been, and where it returned.
the history of a girl arrives in shadows
you own a lot of history
but it is history that makes a womyn
a womyn that defies every definition.
“Tradition is a trap that allows people to stick their head in the sand. Everything in the past was so quaint, so charming. Time’s were simpler, kids didn’t have sex, neighbors knew each other. It’s a friggin’ fairy tale. Things sucked then too, they just sucked without indoor plumbing.”
—Luke Danes, Gilmore Girls (1.08 Love and War and Snow)
WUGAZI
I am totally and completely in love with this particular mashup concept. WuTang vs Fugazi works so much better than any other punk/hiphop arranged marriage. I used to be of the opinion that the Grey Album was one of the greatest arrangements in this genre, but seriously, for realz, this kills in ways the Grey Album could not.
I think the secret sauce in this instance is the fact that philosophically the two bands are pretty bad ass, and their respective geniuses blend so well.
Summer Album of 2011.
First-ever hearing to repeal DOMA scheduled in the Senate →
freedomtomarry.org
Today, Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced a hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill that would overturn DOMA, scheduled for Wednesday July 20th. The hearing will be the first time Congress has heard testimony on legislation that would end federal marriage discrimination against gay and lesbian couples.
“With thousands of loving and committed couples in New York set to marry this month, now is the perfect time for the Senate to begin the process of repealing the discriminatory so-called Defense of Marriage Act,” said Freedom to Marry National Campaign Director Marc Solomon. “Until DOMA’s enactment, the federal government had always honored marriages celebrated in the states. It’s time for Congress to end this gay exception and allow legally married same-sex couples access to the tools and security available to all other couples to build a life together and protect their families.”
DOMA prevents married same-sex couples from caring for and taking responsibility for each other by excluding them from the 1,138 federal laws in which marital status is a factor. As a result, these couples are denied the essential federal safety-net couples pay for with their tax dollars, including: sharing Social Security benefits with a spouse, sponsoring a spouse for a green card or citizenship, filing joint federal tax returns, receiving the protections spouses are entitled to under the federal estate tax, and access to family medical leave. The Respect for Marriage Act repeals DOMA in its entirety, returning the federal government to a neutral position that respects all couples married according to state law.“Freedom to Marry is proud to be working closely with Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, lead sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Richard Blumenthal and others to advance the Respect for Marriage Act,” said Solomon.
Since opening a Washington presence earlier this year, Freedom to Marry has played a key leadership role in advancing the Respect for Marriage Act and fighting for the repeal of DOMA. Federal Director Jo Deutsch has worked closely with House and Senate Judiciary Committee staff and our bipartisan team of lobbyists has met with Democratic and Republican members of Congress and their staff on the Respect for Marriage Act. Additionally, Freedom to Marry’s field team is working closely with state partners to set up constituent meetings with members of Congress to share real stories about the harms of DOMA. This year, Freedom to Marry members have sent more than 25,000 email messages to Congressmembers lobbying for passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, in nearly every legislative district in the country. Help keep up the pressure on your Senator to co-sponsor the Respect for Marriage Act. Click here to take action now.
She pondered the next sentence in her poem to him,
“you are the madonna to my whore…”
too much? She thinks, then decides to just blog about it on tumblr.
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2004 Finals
I am waiting in the Brooklyn Planned Parenthood for an exam.
Gulf War Part Dos rages on CNN
Reminding me of why I am here.
The last time Wolf had this Blitz to his step, I was in a Planned
Parenthood, like this one.
They always seem the same, whether in backwater Tennessee,
the sandpaper desert of southern Texas,
the milky humidity of Atlanta…
It’s always the same.
Young girls knocked up,
women knocked up and needing more time,
women and girls trying not to get knocked up…
a few here for the diseases they think they may have…
And there is always the one random woman with health insurance
thinking…
that she is doing the right thing going to the Planned Parenthood,
giving her money to them rather than some private practice ob/gyn.
Because they help women when no one else will.
My daughter always smiles when I give her a bath.
At ten months I promise her daily protection from the evils of the world.
One day my spell will expire and I can only hope that I have
buttressed her fortress to withstand the battles.
Parts one two three, repeat;
parts one, two, three,
that will invade her territory.
Not as bad as the west bank, but the existence of woman is to be on
constant guard.
Attacks aren’t as obvious as coffee shop car bombs…
It’s 35 degrees, farenheit, outside.
Today that woman is me, I have the golden ticket of a health care plan
earned from employment I somehow lucked into….
and
Planned Parenthood will always see you on the same day you call, new
patient or not.
And sometimes it is hard to believe that you arrived unscathed
from the battles in your life and you need a professional to assure
you that yes,
you are indeed,
completely clean.
The subway sounds have deafened my ears and
above ground I am a twenty nine year old mother of one,
waiting for an exam at the Brooklyn Planned Parenthood.
