13YO Runaway Spent 11 Days in the Subways

stevencloud:

Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one. (Via NY Times)

If there’s a modern day Dos Passos he’s writing this boy’s story.

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posted : Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

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“ All these conservatives keep talking like they’re smelling blood because of the unemployment rate, but Obama is 10 months into his term and unemployment is 10.2% … you always hear that figure followed by “highest in 27 years” … Well, 27 years ago unemployment peaked at 10.8%, at the end of Reagan’s second year in office.

- friend Brendan (aka Raw Dawg)

It’s been one of those days of unbelievably bad Republican math.

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posted : Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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“ The stupendous productive power developing under the capitalist mode of production relatively to population, and the increase, though not in the same proportion, of capital values (not their material substance), which grow much more rapidly than the population, contradict the basis, which, compared to the expanding wealth, is ever narrowing and for which this immense productive power works, and the conditions, under which capital augments its value. This is the cause of crises.

Karl Marx, Capital, volume III, chapter XV.

I hope that someday all these polls asking “who is to blame for the current recession?” will offer multiple choice options that extend beyond simply “Democrats? Republicans? Or both?”.

(via langer) (via jhnbrssndn)

Agreed! but uhh… Don’t count on it.

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posted : Saturday, November 21st, 2009

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fightwithknives:

Dark Meat - “Well Fuck You Then”

This Wednesday Morning Dance Party is brought to you from 2:30 Wednesday morning because I’m up drinking tea, listening to Dark Meat, and writing fiction and don’t expect to be dancing at the same time as y’all.

So, uhh, all of you with 9s to 5s: well, fuck you then.

(To those of you who accidentally saw this in the middle of the night: you are the real winners.)

The number one reason I want to see Dark Meat live is for the chance to possibly chant “Well Fuck You, Then!” with a room full of strangers.

Also, fuck me then, indeed.

posted : Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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sagittarian: slaughterhouse90210:

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

relevant.

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posted : Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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unburyingthelead:

And now, love, tip the screen just so.
Now we see us, now we don’t,
digital daguerreotype spooks,
chromed noses, iridium eyes,
who fade, just so, to slate or silver.
There we lie in wait for ourselves.

- from “The Invention of Photography” by W.S. Di Piero

“digital daguerreotype spooks” might be the best phrase I hear all day which is saying something considering today also contained “make-believe swamp thing prom”

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posted : Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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Amusing Social Tags for Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" on Amazon.com

Curated by me so you don’t have to. Listed from most to least popular.

  • keeping America stupid
  • truth to power
  • narcissistic personality disorder
  • sea of pee
  • sarahcuda
  • i can see her career dying from my house
  • president material
  • revisionist history
  • clown car
  • caribou barbie
  • sarah palin rules
  • age discrimination
  • 1st woman president
  • arf arf
  • bible spice
  • book to nowhere
  • crime and punishment
  • former half-term governor of alaska
  • guano faucet
  • hot
  • honesty
  • plain and tall
  • true american
  • whats with the price bezos
  • common sense conservative
  • conservative blowup doll
  • christmas gifts for her
  • moose kampf
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posted : Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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Parents, they just kinda understand

  • me: Moonlighting is great, you'll love it
  • Deborah: I was either not allowed to watch it
  • or Thirty something
  • I am not sure which one
  • me: warning - you might find Bruce Willis incredibly attractive
  • after watching Moonlighting
  • Deborah: oh, ok
  • me: that's probably what your parents were trying to save you from
  • Deborah: hahaha
  • I dunno, Labyrinth had already made me a huge David Bowie fan
  • me: yeah, but that one snuck under the radar as a "kid's movie" and your folks could never have guessed at the power of glam
  • however
  • the power of a well dressed man in a loosened tie with speedy lines full of whit and no small measure of goofy charm?
  • that's a bit more their speed
  • Deborah: yeah, parents get that
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posted : Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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