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Photos — Tornado devastates Oklahoma: http://usat.ly/12JoSx7

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Wow. So heartbreaking.

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Matthew Weiner On 'Mad Men' And Meaning : NPR

The creator of the acclaimed AMC series talks about his protagonist Don Draper as an aging existentialist looking for meaning in a chaotic world. He says the show’s sixth season, set in 1968, is situated in that historical moment for a reason: to reflect a traumatic passage in Don’s life.

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bohemianhomes: Bohemian Homes: Bathroom

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Bohemian Homes: Bathroom

newyorker: A cartoon by Shannon Wheeler. For more cartoons from the issue: http://nyr.kr/106KD9I Hahaha this is going to be me and Lucas in 5 years.

newyorker:

A cartoon by Shannon Wheeler. For more cartoons from the issue: http://nyr.kr/106KD9I

Hahaha this is going to be me and Lucas in 5 years.

notesondesign: country white / farm house

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country white / farm house

For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect?

Carrie Rickey

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“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film.”

-Ryan Gosling on the controversy around the rating of his film ‘Blue Valentine’

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An Open Letter From Assata

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint or clay or words. Creativity is a way of life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts.
-Madeleine L'Engle