I’m a studio art/art history major and I’m curious about the art scene in LA. Do independent artists become successful very frequently there or is a city such as New York or Chicago more suitable to this career tract?
Plenty of independent artists become successful in Los Angeles. We call them movie stars.
If you wanna be an art star, there is only New York.
I’m throwing a bikini wrestling jell-o pool party in my basement after a concert next weekend. Some bra-burning bitch just left the following comment on the wall of the facebook event page: “simone be beauvoir rolling in her grave.” Give me a comeback. I’m a girl, by the way.
Reply with this:
“Oh, please. Simone de Beauvoir practically invented bikini jello wrestling. She and Sartre used to argue constantly over whether orange jello or lemon jello best represented the existential feminist aesthetic. By the way, nobody’s impressed with your summer reading list, you pretentious cunt.”
I have to say I thoroughly enjoy your blog and hold the same views on almost everything you post. But I completely disagree with your last post about all pro-lifers being religious. It was utter shit. People are pro-life for many other reasons that are fuck all to do with religion. I’m an athiest but I’m also pro-life. If you think I’ve misunderstood your last post, I haven’t, I just disagree with it. I thought that you didn’t put forward a very strong argument. Please can you leave the pro-life/pro-choice talk for a while and talk about something a lot more important like how many times does a girl need to have anal sex before she actually enjoys it? or some shit…
Okay, cheap seats, let me break it down for you.
Having an opinion on my argument isn’t making a counter-argument. Either bring some substance to the table, or shut the fuck up.
Also, I don’t give a flying fetus whether you’ve misunderstood my point or just plain disagree with me, you’re still just an asshole who wants to deny women the legal right to abortion.
Oh, and I’ll write about whatever I damn well please. If you couldn’t already tell, I’m in the mood to fight today, and I’m happy to strap one on and show you exactly what it takes to enjoy anal sex, punk ass bitch.
Not all pro-lifers are religious. Why do you buy into so many stereotypes? You seem so smart otherwise.
Actually, all pro-lifers are religious. They just don’t necessarily know it.
Here, I’ll show you. Make a rational argument that does not have it’s origins in religious doctrine denying women the legal right to choose whether to terminate their pregnancy of a nonviable fetus.
You can’t do it.
The pro-life argument is a religious one, plain and simple.
Being religious has nothing to do with whether you believe in god. Hell, the churches have always been full of quiet, desperate atheists.
Being religious has to do with taking up the cause of religion, and if you are pro-life, then that’s exactly what you’re doing.
You can call deny that you’re religious all day long, but if you’re a pro-lifer, the evidence speaks for itself.
My guy pretty much goes down on me like no tomorrow. It’s like his favorite thing to do. Am I supposed to be returning the favor? He hasn’t asked me to yet.
Come on, babe. He shouldn’t have to ask.
This isn’t about sexual quid pro quo. You don’t owe him blowjobs or anything, but still, why hold back? I say go find him wherever he is right now at this very moment, get down on those knobby knees, and give him the filthiest cock-slobbering he’s ever had in his life.
Enjoy!
I was date raped by a close friend a year ago. Because I don’t display the “usual” symptoms of a rape victim, my boyfriend questions whether it actually happened. (His words, not mine.) How can I make him understand that it really did happen to me and I just don’t want to think about it?
Your boyfriend is using denial as a coping mechanism. It’s easier for him to insultingly believe that it never happened than it is for him to process the truth emotionally.
Call your boyfriend out on his denial, and tell him how insulting it is for him not to believe you. Let him know that the truth does not obligate him to act on your behalf. In other words, you’re not asking him to go confront the rapist or defend your honor. All your asking for is understanding and respect.
While we’re at it, you’ve got a little denial going on too. Date rape? You use the term as if it somehow doesn’t have all the calories of the real thing. There is no Diet Rape or Rape Lite. Sweetheart, you were raped. You need to start processing the whole truth of that as well.
I’m pro choice and one of my best friends is pro life. I’m fine with people having their own opinion on things but he takes his too far. He calles me a baby killer and if I ever become pregnant I’ll just abort all my babies.
He thinks he’s being funny and I’ve expressed multiple times that he isn’t but he won’t listen.
How do I get him to stop saying things like that?
Next time he mouths off, pick whichever one of these lines that feels most appropriate:
1. “According to your retarded bible logic, every time you jerk off in the shower you’re guilty of a dead baby holocaust.”
2. “Jesus would slap you like a little bitch for teasing me about abortion.”
3. “God just told me that he made your penis a little bit smaller. I didn’t even ask him to do it. God just thinks that kind of thing is hilarious.”
I have a crazy religious nut on my hands. Every day during class, I can’t sit and go through lecture without this guy asking me if I’m worried at all about not being saved by Jesus yet or if I’m ready to embrace the fires of Hell. Now, I’m a religious person of a different faith, but I believe people should be able to practice their faith without having some douche-bag stuff it down my throat every day in class. I don’t care what the fuck you believe in, just keep it off of me and I’ll keep it off of you. Nothing with this idiot works. I’ve tried switching seats, being polite, or just plain ignoring, but he absolutely INSISTS that I convert to Christianity right then and there.
Please, please oh please, I can’t take it anymore. I’ve never even said a word to him about religion to deserve this, but he insists upon making my life Hell. How the fuck do I get him off my back? Do I just plain tell him off?
My preferred solution would be for you to mind fuck this little twerp until he swallows his own tongue. Then again, if you knew how to do that, you wouldn’t be asking for my help in the first place.
As a next best option, I recommend you consider a restraining order. He is harassing you, plain and simple. You can even make the argument that he is threatening you with bodily harm each time he mentions that you’ll burn in hell.
I’m not joking about this.
Start filling out the paperwork tonight. You don’t necessarily have to file anything with the courts, because it may be enough for you just to show the prepared documents to your professor.
First thing tomorrow, tell your professor that you’re being harassed and that you’re about to file an order of protection against this person whom you consider to be mentally unstable if not potentially dangerous. Tell him that as a religious person of a different faith, you’re being persecuted and that you consider yourself the victim of an ongoing hate crime.
Let your professor know that you expect him to deal with the problem immediately, and make a formal request that he notify the school administration on your behalf that harassment is going on in his classroom.
I promise, unless you’re at some batshit bible college, the school administration will come down on this kid so hard and fast his pointy little head will spin.
On the day they kick the fucker out of class, I highly recommend you do your best Samuel L. Jackson impersonation while quoting Ezekiel 25:17.
Regarding your “ethical consumption” post—I agree with you, nothing will ever balance the scales. People are terrified of having to feel guilty about anything, and they’ll use whatever they can to keep on walking around blind to their negative impact on the world and on others. But are you saying that we shouldn’t try to make conscientous decisions about what we buy when we can? If I can buy the laundry detergent bottle made from recycled plastic instead of new, shouldn’t I? Not to the point where it makes me struggle finanically, or cripples me in some other way. I know it’s just a drop in the oil-tainted ocean, that all corporations see is dollar signs, and that balancing the scales is impossible, but isn’t tipping them a little bit back still worth it?
I just want to keep some hope and some sea turtles alive. Even if it’s foolish and makes you want to call me a hippie.
Balancing the scales is not impossible. All you need to do is go develop the major scientific breakthrough in the field of photovoltaics or inertial confinement fusion that finally revolutionizes our supply chain of clean renewable energy.
Somebody’s gonna do it. Might as well be you.
If all you want to do is tip the scales back just a little bit, then I suppose you could move to Malawi and start an orphanage or something. You know, devote your entire life to easing the suffering of the third world in some personal way. As you put it, it’s just a drop in the oil-tainted ocean, but hey, it’s a start.
Short of that, please stop kidding yourself. You’re not making a difference.
Feel free to buy whatever laundry detergent you like, but do not for one second let yourself believe that your decision was somehow more conscientious because the bottle was made of recycled plastic. Do you have any idea how mind-bogglingly self-centered that sounds?
I wish common sense included a sense of scale. You and your consumer identity have absolutely no moral mass whatsoever. Nothing you can buy at Walmart will ever count as an ethical unit of measure that has weight on a global scale.
Green products are a marketing strategy. All you’re doing is paying a premium for that fleeting moment of self-satisfaction you feel when you buy something labeled as environmentally conscious.
That’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with having a consumer preference, but please know that it doesn’t earn you a single inch of ethical high ground.
I know, you can make arguments for aggregated effects, but those are still just passive market forces tied to a capitalist system built on corporate self-interest. Buying a Prius doesn’t mean you’re “doing your part” to conserve oil. It merely means you get better gas mileage.
I’m not a cynic. I really do believe that you can make that drop in the ocean, but doing your part actually requires that you fucking do something. You can boycott shrimp all your life, and it’s not gonna help a single sea turtle. If you want to keep those little bastards alive, become a marine biologist and go save some fucking turtles.
You’ve been known to take a drug or two on occasion, and I feel like you’re someone whose behaviours are not lightly criticised by sensible persons. So perhaps you can clear this question up for me.
I wouldn’t buy ivory, eat a whale or wear conflict diamonds, so why am I ok with buying cocaine? Ought one apply the same logic of ethical consumption to drugs? Does one have to take the hard road of total abstinence to get the proverbial blood off one’s hands?
There is no washing the blood off your hands, you pretentious hippie fuck.
The simple act of paying taxes in any first world country makes you complicit in an unholy global raping of such magnitude that no amount of dolphin safe tuna or fair trade coffee could ever restore the cosmic balance.
You’re guilty of original sin just for living on the grid, so quit pretending you’re ethically superior because you get your politics off a Starbucks cup.
Besides, ivory is tacky, whale blubber tastes like shit, and diamonds are a sucker’s bet. Do you have any idea how smug you sound by acting like there’s some noble sacrifice in avoiding products that you wouldn’t have consumed in the first place?
Go ahead, boycott cocaine on ethical grounds. That’ll teach the Sinaloa Cartel a lesson. You idiot.
Ethical consumption is a marketing ploy. It should be ironically transparent, but weak-minded consumers are so desperate to assuage their hippie flavored white guilt that they’re willing to believe a holier-than-thou consumer identity actually has a positive net effect on the world’s political and environmental atrocities.
Seriously, don’t let them fool you. When they tell you that “every dollar you spend is a vote for how you want the world to be,” it’s just because they want your fucking dollar.
You’re being programmed to think that your consumer choices are the equivalent of moral acts, but they’re not. You’re just buying shit like the rest of us.