“We really looked at Seattle as what not to do,” says Anna DiBenedetto, a staff assistant to city commissioner Randy Leonard, the spiritual godfather of the Portland Loo. “We think it was the design that was the fatal flaw. Trying to be comfortable and private makes people feel more empowered to do the illegal activities that people do in public toilets.”
I know some people who have online persona’s that are dead boring.
The thing is that I love spending time with them in person.
When they’re online they worry about being themselves. Some hypothetical person that they don’t know will judge them unfairly. They’re someone else. A minute sliver of who they are. Life removed. Like the clip-art version of a personality.
Me… I know I’ll never work for a company that won’t hire me.
The reality is that neither will anyone else.
(letter via: thisisnthappiness)
(Source: 8tracks.com/pinwheel)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Henry Miller;
The Plight of the Creative Artist
(3 plays)
(via: UbuWeb)
‘This Space Available’ - Brian Lehrer Live
It’s inappropriate to be treated as a consumer everywhere you go.
(via: nevver)
lane:
I am grateful for the good people I’ve been spending time with lately.
(This is a handful of them.)
Me too.
Dave Zirin…
The difference is that at Berkeley, the Occupiers—a diverse assemblage of students, linking arms—pushed back and displayed true courage in the face of state violence. They would not be moved. These students are a credit to their school and represent the absolute best of a young generation who are refusing to accept the world as it is.
At Penn State, we saw the worst of this generation: the flotsam and the fools; the dregs and the Droogs; young men of entitlement who rage for the machine.
(Source: alexainslie)
