This journal is now Friends-Only.

Adult art and Works-In-Progress will be f-locked. The rest will be public, then f-locked after a few weeks or so--it will also of course be posted at my website, DieCommieBastard.com

I'm approaching my flist limit and I have no desire to create a separate community for my art, thus I will not be friending lurkers, watcher journals or inactive journals.
If none of those categories apply to you, then by all means comment and introduce yourself!

Poor kids get dumb over the summer, trufax.

Srsly we know this cuz this English-speaking white guy says so.

Also:

Troll or true believer?

circa 1822:

They are formed to maternal mildness and affection; all of their organs are tender, yielding, easily wounded, sensible and receptible...

The female thinks not profoundly; profound thought is the power of man. Women feel more...They rule with tender looks, tears, and sighs, but not with passion and threats; for if, or when they so rule, they are no longer women but abortions.

Man has most convex lines, woman most concave. Man has most straight lines; woman most curved...Man is most angular, woman most round.

circa 196-?:

Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things.

circa 197-?:

Blow in her face and she'll follow you anywhere.

circa 2009:

It'll BLOW your mind away.

Yes, that last one really was released this month.

An Iranian student protester in Tehran made a passionate plea for help from the world community this morning in a phone call to CNN’s “American Morning.”

For safety reasons, CNN can only identify the student by his first name, Mohammad. He’s been a part of the protests and a target of the violence there. Below is an edited transcript of the interview.

Mohammad: ...For about three decades our nation has been humiliated and insulted by this regime. Now Iranians are united again one more time after 1979 Revolution. We are a peaceful nation. We don’t hate anybody. We want to be an active member of the international community. We don’t want to be isolated… We don’t deny the Holocaust. We do accept Israel’s rights. And actually, we want — we want severe reform on this structure. This structure is not going to be tolerated by the majority of Iranians. We need severe reform, as much as possible.

Roberts: Interesting perspective this morning from Mohammad, a student demonstrator there in Tehran.

Mohammad: Excuse me, sir. I have a message for the international community. Would you please let me tell it?

Roberts: Yes, go ahead.

Mohammad: Americans, European Union, international community, this government is not definitely — is definitely not elected by the majority of Iranians. So it’s illegal. Do not recognize it. Stop trading with them. Impose much more sanctions against them. My message…to the international community, especially I’m addressing President Obama directly – how can a government that doesn’t recognize its people’s rights and represses them brutally and mercilessly have nuclear activities? This government is a huge threat to global peace. Will a wise man give a sharp dagger to an insane person? We need your help international community. Don’t leave us alone.

WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP



Aaand because we bastards always require a bit of whistling in the dark...

Hooters Welcomes Foreign Dignitaries.

No, really.

O.O

Uploaded the painting notes of John Singer Sargent -- you can download them freely from this post.

♥

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WANTED:
Underage Boys Willing to Risk Death Daily (Orphans Preferred)


Man. These next couple of weeks are going to be a doozy.

An LJ friend (and I'll give credit if it is so desired, but the entry was f-locked so for now yeh...) was looking for shows wherein the central characters are women of color, and I promised I'd dig up some stuff for hir that I figured I'd post in the interest of some other muckraking comrades on my flist, hai?

So I was waffling on to this friend about this interview wherein the incomparable Margaret Cho tells of starring in the first American TV series wherein an Asian family comprises the central cast (All-American Girl back in the 90s, who here remembers?! :D), and how almost two decades later with her new show, she lays claim to the second series to break this ground, and what an ultimately sad indicator that is of contemporary mass media:

"Our entertainment industry is very close-minded... the way that we are racist now is not through outright racism or ethnic slurs or something like that -- it really is about non-inclusion and invisibility."

Anyway, you can find the interview here. FourFour is one of the few non-LJ blogs I read; Rich is a stellar writer that makes me LOL IRL with every post, and I think his stuff would appeal to many here, so lemme know what you think?

Margaret Cho was indeed the first Asian-American star I ever saw on TV. Star, as opposed to extra/supporting role.

I could be wrong, but is she not the only Asian-American actress to star in her own TV series here in the US?

(A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila doesn't really count in my mind, but this is up for argument, sure.)

I'd mistakenly thought that there was some other Disney Channel teenager to hold this lonely honor, but no, further investigation yields that it was a movie, not a syndicated show. Anyhoo, I haven't seen either. Plz to be edumacatin' me, comrades!

No disrespect to the lovely Joss Whedon fans on my beloved flist, and don't get me wrong -- I ADORE Buffy the Vampire Slayer-- but Whedon's claims how Homecoming Warrior is a ripoff of BtVS strike me as a bit rich, considering I could name about a dozen Japanese anime titles about nubile, demon-slaying girls that predate Buffy. Make no mistake, Whedon is NOT a plagiarist in my mind -- it's just that the whole "Chosen One" act doesn't particularly strike me as something that one should covet as one's own.
Don't get me started on the race!fail of Cowboy Bebop Firefly either. *cough*



From the YouTube comment section, font of all that is good and pure and infallibly wise on these Intarwebz:

margaret Cho is the WORST example of asian americans. She is the WORST role model for asian americans to follow. This woman is a far -left wing political activist who occasionally does "comedy"(i use the term lightly). Lesbian. Promiscuous. Multiple abortions. Drugs. High school drop out. Fat. Ugly. Not very funny. Margaret Cho's got it all!!

Aww. LOVE. ✌

Whoa...should've posted this clip on Mother's Day :(

Never-Before-Seen Documents prepared by the Pentagon and hand-delivered to the White House by Donald Rumsfeld

O.o

(warning: clicking above link may instill bleeding of the eyeballs along with requisite religious terror. oh dear god is that a yellow dropshadow)

This is so very close to my heart -- thanks to glockgal for the heads-up:

From deadbrowalking, it's the wild unicorn herd check in!

"Let's make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who have still managed to read genre fiction.

"I'm tired of people trying to render us invisible unless they have been given a memo about our existences.

"...You dont have to be a member of [info]deadbrowalking to comment on this post, you just have to want to represent..."

Hither and represent, fellow chimerical dinocorn sockpuppets! ♥