PLESIDENTIAL ERECTION 2K8
― dayo, Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ilooklikebarackobama.com/
― Ⓣⓗⓐⓝⓚ。:.゚ヽ(。☉౪ ⊙♡)ノ゚.:。+゚ Ⓨⓞⓤ☆ (cozen), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ilooklikebarackobama.com/images/facegraph.jpg
― Ⓣⓗⓐⓝⓚ。:.゚ヽ(。☉౪ ⊙♡)ノ゚.:。+゚ Ⓨⓞⓤ☆ (cozen), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=related
i don't know what to do with this
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
file it w/your latepass?
― Ⓣⓗⓐⓝⓚ。:.゚ヽ(。☉౪ ⊙♡)ノ゚.:。+゚ Ⓨⓞⓤ☆ (cozen), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
sick burn, dude
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Quick, shallow take on that vid (w/ lots of room for error):
Budding british drama student. Immature. Working class. Most of what he's saying is based in how he talks on the phone with his buddies (hence the frequent profanity), but it's all mashed up with bad tv drama and crappy stereotypes.
― Aimless, Friday, 23 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
idk how much of that is extemporized but assuming most of it is semirehearsed spiel based on knowledge of bad films its p impressive, scottish one is probably the worst
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
thank you, cozen
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
I really like his regular accent. It reminds me of how Robert Smith talks.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
best part of that "about us" text is this admission nonchalantly slipped into the middle of it: "Nowadays, Abercrombie and Fitch piracy in China has spread to unimaginable proportions."
― 1staethyr, Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
this headline is o_O
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/granderson-florida-shootings/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't display properly. But the CNN header is "Opinion: Black People Distrust Police"
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
honestly that is one of LZ Granderson's more lucid pieces
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
header when i load it is "Why black people don't trust the police"
― brokering (pimping) (stevie), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings
mentioned in that piece
this fucking country
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that situation was fucking enraging
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
wow. i'm gonna assume that was covered in Treme
― Nhex, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIvSeIdxX8s
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
There was a Frontline story on Danzingerhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/law-disorder/case-six-danziger-bridge/
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made
kind of lol but mostly sad
― dayo, Monday, 26 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
not even really lol
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
kind of sad but mostly infuriating
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
not even a shred of lol tbh
xposts DJP otm
― Hungry4Games (crüt), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
"LOL, all these kids are growing up to be racist monsters"
― Hungry4Games (crüt), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
both times collins describes rue physically, she says the same thing -- brown skin, resembles prim in size and demeanor. same words both time. bad writing, but it's explicit and she makes sure to point out that she ONLY resembles prim in size and demeanor.
cinna's only described by his clothes and makeup, so these people are literally getting mad that the film didn't reach inside their head and extract the assumption they made about his skin color. the ridiculous thing is that lenny kravitz was probably the best casting decision they made. i've never said this about him, but he was perfect. he totally embodies the tranquility and sincerity of the character. people suck.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
revoke their entertainment privileges imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Rue and Thresh's skin is described not even simply as "brown", but "dark brown." And Cinna is described as brown, too, IIRC.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just imagining the children of the corn fantasy world which these readers must be imagining when they read the books, also giving the gasface towards the people who are saying the movie should have "stuck to the book"
― dayo, Monday, 26 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
xp I don't think his skin is described -- only that he has green eyes, brown hair, and gold eyeliner.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
p sure 90% of the readers just imagined tim gunn
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Or that Tom guy from Queer Eye
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPao2yjRk4
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
^^ vid not racist
― Aimless, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
God fucking dammit that hunger games thing is so depressing to me
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
you guys, that has been going on for months since the casting was first announced
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
can't speak for anybody else but I'm p. sure I've never clicked through to any article whose title was any variant of "______ cast to play role of ________" - like, even if I give a shit, all my questions will have been answered by the time I'm done reading the article's title
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah in any case this is fucking depressing stuff
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes, but its kind of infuriating that jezebel and other places are stirring the shit up AGAIN. like, it was maybe noteworthy the first time, but STOP giving voice to these morons.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
eh, I sort of get that, but in the wake of the Treyvon Martin shooting I don't think it's actually a bad idea to point out exactly how baseline racist US society is
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
fair point, i suppose
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
I agree, in theory, but i'm not sure how well posting the tweets of thirteen-year-old morons does that. Millions of people will have read the books or seen the film, some of them are going to be racist jackasses. It's difficult to ascertain how large a percentage they form.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
how are jezebel and other places the ones stirring up shit, rather than the people actually saying the shit
"let's just ignore it and it'll go away" has proven to be a p ineffective strategy
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Why do you have to keep telling me that people think racist things? If we just talked less about it, it'd go away!
― mh, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
most fucked up part are the ppl who think that Rue not being white ruins the idea of the character, aka a shy, quiet, innocent naif type. bc what? black ppl can't be those things?????
― Mordy, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I agree w/ DJP and zachlyon - "it's 2012 and racism is fixed!" is a p common argument that needs to be shot down
― dayo, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
american teens betrayed, deceived, tricked into caring about fictional black people
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I blame liberal hollyweird
― mh, Monday, 26 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lenny kravitz is in this fucking thing? lol.it is weird that anyone would care what color the characters would be in a fiction adaptation in any case. like, what's the goddamn point? they don't match the images in your head?book is sitting by my bed, it is pretty dire 20 pages in.
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
I am perfectly happy with Lenny Kravitz being in movies and not inflicting his music on us anymore.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link