The Intersection of Function & Desire

thedrunkenmoogle: Arrested Development Season 4 Premier Party...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:29:13 -0400

Arrested Development Season 4 Premier Party by The Geeky Hostess

Tara, from The Geeky Hostess, has posted a guide on how to host your own Arrested Development Party for this weekend’s premier! Similar to her Game of Thrones Party, the post will tell you all you need to know, including creative drinks and must have snacks. For more pictures and information, visit the link below.

The Geeky Hostess - Arrested Development Viewing Party

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:30:44 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

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explodingdog: three hundred million minutes

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:07:22 -0400

explodingdog:

three hundred million minutes

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justalouisianagirl: Stegatortoise

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:52 -0400

justalouisianagirl:

Stegatortoise

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches...."

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:49:41 -0400

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth.
Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously…”

- Osho (via lulani)

"The unspoken truth behind Yahoo’s much-touted bid to court Tumblr’s younger demographic..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:44 -0400

“The unspoken truth behind Yahoo’s much-touted bid to court Tumblr’s younger demographic is that for all intents and purposes, Tumblr culture is fandom culture. There are still plenty of other spaces where fandom exists, but we have never had such a megalithic and central social platform so visibly united under one umbrella.”

- Why Yahoo can buy Tumblr, but it can’t buy Fandom

The unspoken truth behind Yahoo’s much-touted bid to court Tumblr’s younger demographic is that for all intents and purposes, Tumblr culture is fandom culture. There are still plenty of other spaces where fandom exists, but we have never had such a megalithic and central social platform so visibly united under one umbrella. …

Even as Yahoo insists nothing will change, business analysts and media experts are speculating that the company intends to plumb Tumblr for its advertising potential. But if that’s the case, Yahoo should know that when you market to fandom, you have to adopt a whole new way of thinking about marketing, brand advertising, and consumer loyalty. [READ MORE]

(please read this article omg i have never wanted to *drop mic* until this day)

historyyourstory: nycgov: imagineabeautifulmyth: I see you...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:31:58 -0400

historyyourstory:

nycgov:

imagineabeautifulmyth:

I see you Brooklyn…
#brooklynbridge #brooklyn #nyc #bikepath #river #newyorkcity (at Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path)

Did you know? Today the Brooklyn Bridge turns 130 years old. The bridge opened on May 24th, 1883.

Doesn’t look a day over 127.

iamonebeing: Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:55 -0400

iamonebeing:

Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home

By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Associated Press – Sat, May 18, 2013

CINCINNATI (AP) — For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Innin downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home.

But after losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into a boutique hotel — even though it wasn’t for sale — the women of the Anna Louise Inn have to leave the neighborhood.

While most of the 60 women living there are relieved that the fight with Western & Southern Insurance Group appears over, they can’t help but also feel sad and angry.

“I’m upset with them that they would be that greedy to take away what’s been here for so long for women,” said Robin Howard, 55, who has lived at the Anna Louise for more than two years after fleeing an abusive relationship. “We have rights, too. This is home. It’s a safe haven.”

For Wendy Gonzales, 25, the Anna Louise has allowed her to escape an addiction to methamphetamine and an abusive husband who she said forced her into prostitution.

“I thank God for the Anna Louise Inn. Without it, I don’t know where I would be,” said Gonzales, who now works as a housekeeper at a hotel within walking distance. “It’s quiet, it’s peaceful. Looking out here, you don’t see your average thugs walking down the street. … It’s just nice to walk out and know that you’re safe.”

The Anna Louise has been housing women since 1909 in the same charming, dormitory-style building that looks like a plantation home. Although it began by helping young, ambitious types who were pouring into then-booming Cincinnati, it later became geared toward women who needed a fresh start; some have left abusive husbands, others are transitioning from foster care to adulthood while others are recovering prostitutes and drug addicts.

The historic downtown Cincinnati neighborhood where the women live, known as Lytle Park, became an important part of their recovery, since most were coming from dangerous parts of the city where it’d be easier to slip back into their former ways of life.

Western & Southern executives, whose headquarters sit across a park from the Anna Louise, offered to buy the Anna Louise for $1.8 million several years ago, less than half its value. The Anna Louise declined and won $12.6 million in federal and state tax credits to renovate the home, where some rooms are smaller than 100 square feet and all the women have to share bathrooms and one kitchen.

Days before the renovation was to begin, Western & Southern sued over a zoning issue and a judge ordered an immediate construction halt until the legal fight was resolved. The Anna Louise and its supporters didn’t back down, vowing to fight Western & Southern with everything they had — until last week when they inked a deal with the company to sell the home for $4 million.

Leaders at Cincinnati Union Bethel, the nonprofit that runs the Anna Louise, said they sold reluctantly because they couldn’t afford to fight any longer.

Under the deal with Western & Southern, the women living at the Anna Louise will stay there until a new building for them is finished, in about two years. It will be located in a shabby neighborhood on a busy street 2 miles north of where they are now. The nearest park is a 1.5-mile walk away, over a freeway.

“Western & Southern had the money to fight and the Anna Louise Inn didn’t,” said Howard, who is about to receive a degree in social work, which she wants to use to help women flee abusive relationships. “When you have that much money and you want something, eventually you’re going to get it.”

The Anna Louise will now be among a bevy of properties in the neighborhood owned by Western & Southern, which developed Cincinnati’s tallest building in 2011 and has renovated a handful of historic properties in the area, including an upscale hotel.

Company CEO John Barrett has long said it was time for the women at the Anna Louise to leave the neighborhood to make way for economic development. He plans to turn the building into a boutique hotel and envisions transforming the neighborhood into a hub of activity with restaurants and bars.

“This truly is a win for everyone and will make Lytle Park a destination like no other,” Barrett said in a Monday news release announcing the Anna Louise sale.

Barrett, who has repeatedly declined requests for an interview, has become a loathed figure at the Anna Louise, not only for his tireless efforts to acquire the property but also for the way he has talked about the women living there, repeatedly referring to them as recovering prostitutes and saying they just don’t belong in the neighborhood.

“That hurt. To be categorized,” said Sherene Julian, 48, who escaped decades of drug addiction and prostitution when she moved to the Anna Louise. “It made me feel that I was lesser than.”

Julian, who recently moved in with her boyfriend but still gets medical services at the Anna Louise, said a part of the women’s home will always be with her.

“To me it’s sacred ground because that’s where I was able to turn my life around,” Julian said. “I know for a fact if the Anna Louise did not intervene in my life I would probably be dead.”

Tatiana McCormick, 24, who lived at the inn after leaving Ohio’s foster care system six years ago, said she’s angry about the home’s sale.

“A lot of these ladies now have to worry about their living situation,” she said. “This was something that was going well for people and it’s been there for three generations. To have it happen like this, it’s just outrageous.”

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Don’t be fooled by how cute I am. I make the activity of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:34:25 -0400

Don’t be fooled by how cute I am. I make the activity of making the bed a bloodbath. Tiny but fierce.

Top 5 fruits to eat raw

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:02:35 -0400

sexpigeon:

errthng:

dordille:

petervidani:

Black cherries

Clementines

Red grapes

Pineapples

Bananas

Black cherries

Red Grapes

Watermelon

Clementines

Pineapples

grapefruits

grapefruits

grapefruits

grapefruits

grapefruits

Who are these motherfuckers that go cooking their fruits?

I only like cooked fruits in pie or bananas foster. I’m down with lighting bananas on fire.

agentlehobbit: Ladies and gentlemen… I present to you: Olivia...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:28 -0400

agentlehobbit:

Ladies and gentlemen… I present to you: Olivia Wilde

New Girl, Best of Schmidt: Season 2 Episode 22 ‘Bachelorette...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:31 -0400

New Girl, Best of Schmidt: Season 2 Episode 22 ‘Bachelorette Party’.

fuckyeahtattoos: Done by Jason Kelly in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:50:22 -0400

fuckyeahtattoos:

Done by Jason Kelly in Atl.

Me:whitelodge.tumblr.com

“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

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