Sordid Guilty Pleasure

unimpressed2chainz: pats-labyrinth: unimpressed2chainz: male privilege is those long ass...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:09:21 -0400

pats-labyrinth:

unimpressed2chainz:

male privilege is those long ass eyelashes you don’t even need

All things aside, our eyelashes are probably so long because we don’t put eye makeup on thus ruining our eye lashes. Women would have longer eye lashes if they didn’t ruin them with eyeliner and shit. You all have beautiful eyes anyways. Why ruin them because you were taught from a young age you need makeup to be pretty? Your eyes rock, and your lashes should be longer on their own. Mini-rant done.

congragulation: “Ah, yes, my psychiatrist, Hax Murderer. He has been helping me profile this ax...

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:09:32 -0400

congragulation:

“Ah, yes, my psychiatrist, Hax Murderer. He has been helping me profile this ax murderer.”

mosoli: im still laughing at this

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:59:56 -0400

mosoli:

im still laughing at this

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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:15:59 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 03:03:37 -0400

All black at the white shows,White shoes at the black...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:09 -0400

All black at the white shows,
White shoes at the black shows.
Green card for the Cuban links;
Y’all sit back and enjoy the light show.

edwardspoonhands: this is such an important collection of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:10 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

this is such an important collection of images

kidsinthehallpics: Ted’s Church of the Very Bright Lights

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:08:16 -0400

kidsinthehallpics:

Ted’s Church of the Very Bright Lights

sing2mesweetly: A young Natalie Woods playing in 1945

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:30:09 -0400

sing2mesweetly:

A young Natalie Woods playing in 1945

"Things that might seem outdated for popular feminism may actually be points of pride for women who..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:24:18 -0400

“Things that might seem outdated for popular feminism may actually be points of pride for women who have historically been denied access to a certain mode of femininity. If you are a member of a group of women that has been constantly caricatured as mammies and welfare queens, sexually pathologized, and whose inequity has been attributed to broken, abnormal, and matriarchal family structures, then bearing the title of Mrs. and taking your husband’s last name can actually be displays of resistance. If you have grown up seeing constant media reports on the fatherlessness of Black children and the unmarriageability of Black women, then having your father walk you down the aisle and flashing your ring can both be points of pride.”

- Jalondra A. Davis in an absolutely fantastic post on A Practical Wedding (via rachelwilkerson)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 02:49:52 -0400

dynamicafrica: Earlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff’s...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:16:48 -0400

dynamicafrica:

Earlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff’s portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1m ($1.5m) at auction in London - a reflection of its status as one of the most popular prints ever made. The model, Monika Pon-su-san, recalls what it was like to be thrust into the limelight.

One day in 1950, a curly-haired stranger walked into my uncle’s laundry in Cape Town, where I worked.

He stood there as I served a customer, his eyes fixed on me the whole time. He only spoke when we were alone together in the shop.

“Hello!” he said. “I’m Tretchikoff. I’d love to paint you.”

At that time Vladimir Tretchikoff wasn’t very famous but by chance I had read about him in a newspaper just the Saturday before.

So I was a bit nervous, but I said yes. He picked me up after work and took me back home.

I was given his wife’s gown to put on. It was silk chiffon - beautiful, beautiful stuff. It wasn’t yellow like in the painting - that was his own invention.

A lot of people ask me: “What is that stern look you had on your face? What were you thinking about?” And I always say: “Well you know, one gets tired sitting and just looking.”

All the time I was thinking about Tretchikoff’s life. Because he had had a miserable life - during the war he’d been on a boat for three weeks without food, after his ship was bombed. Then he was imprisoned by the Japanese.

He had lost contact with his wife and daughter. Thinking they were dead he took a lover, but they weren’t dead, and as fate would have it they went to Cape Town, which is where he ended up too. So they got back together again.

I liked him very much. He was a funny man - we always laughed a lot. In all, I was paid six pounds and five shillings for the work.

He had a class of about 20 pupils. All the time I was sitting for him they could see me but I was never allowed to see the painting - it always had its back to me.

I would nag him: “What are you going to call it?” He said that a name would come to him later on. It was only at the end of the six or 10 weeks - I can’t remember exactly how long it took - on the night his exhibition opened that he said it was called Chinese Girl. I thought that was very ordinary.

And when I saw the painting I was so shocked. I thought I looked like a monster from a horror film. I pulled an ugly face and said: “Ugh - green face!”

Right away people started to recognise me. I remember going to a supermarket and a woman shouted: “Look at this girl! She looks just like the painting!”

I decided I had to buy a print. By the time I went to him Tretchikoff had run out, so he gave me one he had used in London when he was on tour. I’ve got it in my lounge.

There was a block of flats in Cape Town, filled with artists. The man on the ground floor was a sculptor and one day he asked Tretchikoff: “Can I borrow your model?” He wanted to cast a bronze of my face. But Tretchikoff said: “Certainly not!”

I had so many modelling offers but - stupid me - I went and got married and had children, so that was that. I didn’t socialise much, with five children to look after, so I was hidden away from Cape Town’s artists. The offers stopped coming.

I was so disappointed to miss the auction recently. My daughters said to me: “The painting’s sold! The painting’s sold!” And when I found out it had gone for £1m, I jumped up and down, up and down!

Everybody’s fascinated by that painting. I don’t know what it is about it really.

One of my daughters - the second youngest, who is supposed to look like me - said: “I wish I had a lot of money and then I would buy that painting and keep it forever in my own house.”

When I was asked by a journalist if I would let another artist paint me at this moment in time, I said: “No… but if Tretchikoff were alive, I would let him paint me again.”

(source)

irresistible-revolution: cakespeare: FISTBUMPS TO EVERYONE WHO INITIALLY SPITE-STANNED ELEMENTARY....

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:41:17 -0400

irresistible-revolution:

cakespeare:

FISTBUMPS TO EVERYONE WHO INITIALLY SPITE-STANNED ELEMENTARY. A+ return on investment y’all, crack open a cold one with me.

Spite has never steered me wrong before.

tea-and-swashbuckling: “I always wanted to be pretty. I wanted...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:38:40 -0400

tea-and-swashbuckling:

“I always wanted to be pretty. I wanted to look like the girl they called the town tramp. She wore tight clothes, too much make-up and had big yellow hair. I thought she was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen. People would say “Oh, she’s just trash’, and I’d reply, “Well, that’s what I’m going to be when I grow up. Trash.’”

- Dolly Parton

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Fri, 17 May 2013 05:37:31 -0400

thingsonhazelshead: Apple blossoms— celebrate Spring!

Tue, 14 May 2013 03:04:31 -0400

thingsonhazelshead:

Apple blossoms— celebrate Spring!

theswinginsixties: A teenage girl with her guitar, 1967.

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:52:09 -0400

theswinginsixties:

A teenage girl with her guitar, 1967.

Interviewer: One of the criticisms of Breaking Bad that keeps coming up is over the female characters. Skyler White is seen by some as this henpecking woman who stands in the way of all of Walt’s fun.

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:47:03 -0400

Interviewer: One of the criticisms of Breaking Bad that keeps coming up is over the female characters. Skyler White is seen by some as this henpecking woman who stands in the way of all of Walt’s fun.
Vince Gilligan: Man, I don’t see it that way at all. We’ve been at events and had all our actors up onstage, and people ask Anna Gunn, “Why is your character such a bitch?” And with the risk of painting with too broad a brush, I think the people who have these issues with the wives being too bitchy on Breaking Bad are misogynists, plain and simple. I like Skyler a little less now that she’s succumbed to Walt’s machinations, but in the early days she was the voice of morality on the show. She was the one telling him, “You can’t cook crystal meth.” She’s got a tough job being married to this asshole. And this, by the way, is why I should avoid the Internet at all costs. People are griping about Skyler White being too much of a killjoy to her meth-cooking, murdering husband? She’s telling him not to be a murderer and a guy who cooks drugs for kids. How could you have a problem with that?