Luke Walker

Kevin and his swan (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:37:33 -0400

Kevin and his swan (Taken with instagram)

textsfromhillary: Source: Joey deVilla/Global Nerdy Original image by Diana Walker for Time.

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:18:07 -0400

textsfromhillary: Source: Joey deVilla/Global Nerdy Original image by Diana Walker for Time.

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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:02:45 -0400

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Avocado baked eggs (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:32:29 -0400

Avocado baked eggs (Taken with instagram)

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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:40:56 -0400

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of..."

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:48:22 -0500

“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse...

irredenta: thepoliticalnotebook: Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:45 -0500

irredenta:

thepoliticalnotebook:

Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, has died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. Shadid was an incredible journalistic talent.

The Times executive editor Jill Abramson has said in a statement:

Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces.

Photo: Shadid in Cairo last February. Ed Ou/NYT.

EDIT: Here is a collection of all of Shadid’s work for the New York Times, which was always exemplary and a model for everyone in the business.

terrible, unbelievable, shockingly sad news.

"Its 2 bad there’s so much negativity in the world. I feel bad4ppl that spend their lives..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:52:00 -0500

“Its 2 bad there’s so much negativity in the world. I feel bad4ppl that spend their...

What I made for dinner: Braised lima beans

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:16:44 -0500

What I made for dinner: Braised lima beans: And they were delicious.

benkling: Whoops LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL DRUG OF ALL. More...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:52:01 -0500

benkling:

Whoops

LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL DRUG OF ALL. More valentines here.

"Do that thing they do on CSI and it should be fine."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:47:13 -0500

“Do that thing they do on CSI and it should be fine.” - A client adamant that an image...

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:56:44 -0500

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:55:04 -0500

SCHED* NEWS: Why QR Codes Are Just Plain Dumb

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:25:53 -0400

SCHED* NEWS: Why QR Codes Are Just Plain Dumb: sched: QR codes seem to be all the rage among event...

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Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:04:10 -0400

tylercoates: Welp. Here’s this thing: In Tina Fey’s 30 Rock,...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:15:37 -0400

tylercoates:

Welp. Here’s this thing:

In Tina Fey’s 30 Rock, which is, in part, a satire about feminism and the American woman (acolytes are called Liz Lemonists), there’s an episode where the show’s assistant questions Fey’s character about whether or not, as a feminist who has everything she ever wanted, she’s actually deeply unhappy? I wonder if the post-mo will suffer a similar fate. Some say all the gays ever wanted were two things: freedom and choice. I have freedom, and I have choices. I’ve never known a life without them. I don’t want to get married, I never have. I don’t want to raise children, I never have. I suffer from online dating fatigue already and haven’t held a guy’s hand in almost three years. I have all the sex I want, in my own apartment or his, but none of it means anything. I have regular HIV tests, because I’m aware of the importance of sexual health, but I’ve still managed to forget the condom once or twice without freaking out. My parents have never actually heard me say the words “I am gay” because I don’t need to and it really doesn’t matter because they love me all the same. I am a writer who happens to be gay, not the other way around. I’m not fighting the good fight. It was never mine to fight. So what about us? Call us what you want—post-mos, faux gays, straight-acting, bitter queens—we’re the lucky ones.

Take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, as I am a 27-year-old living in New York City, but fuck everything that this 24-year-old man in Toronto has to say about the movement of “post-mos,” who are essentially gay millennials with enough privilege to foolishly poo-poo any sort of quest for acceptance and equality. I guess in their minds (if there is much in them at all), these young men are convinced that they are without an agenda, but it is in my experience that anyone who proclaims to be without an agenda has himself a pretty strong agenda. One of these men claims that he doesn’t say he’s gay; he just fucks dudes. Yeah, well, he also wears chambray dress shirts and bow-ties, so consider those two elements for a moment when proclaiming not to have an agenda, my friend.

I don’t want to complain about these guys as “white people” (I’ve always thought it to be a bit tacky to do such a thing, because it’s weirdly racist and totally classist), but what a bunch of selfish white kids who seem to have absolutely no idea what it means to be gay outside of their silly, frivolous little collective in fucking Toronto, for Christ’s sake. I don’t know much about the make-up of their city, but I can tell you from my experience living in Chicago and New York that these men and their notion of being gay (or “being a guy who fucks guys,” whatever) are so infuriatingly stupid and offensive. Tell that to the kids living on the street. Tell that to the adults living on the street. I realize that none of them look like you - they don’t wear designer glasses or manicured beards that purport a single-layered and ridiculous sense of masculinity - so it’s difficult to deign yourself to identify with another “minority within your minority” when your head is shoved up your own selfish ass that appears to be blessedly exempt from the struggles that the rest of us (all of us) have had to face.

A few weeks ago I posted a link to an interview with author and activist Larry Kramer, who said,

I am a gay person before I’m anything else. I’m a gay person before I’m a white person, before I’m a Jew, before I’m a writer, before I’m American, anything. That is my most identifying characteristic and I don’t find many people who would say that. The polls say the same thing: People do not identify themselves as gay. And that’s too bad. In fact, it’s tragic. It will prevent us from ever having what we deserve, I believe.

A friend of mine told me that she found that so disheartening, that one (me) should not have to live life that way. I replied that I agreed with Kramer; what matters most is how one self-identifies, but there will never be a way to avoid being a gay man. That is what society is calling me, and, frankly, that is what I am, because if it shows to someone that I’m just as normal as everyone else, then so be it. But I am just as normal as a man who wears women’s clothes, or a man who dances in his underwear on a parade float in June. There are different ways in which we express our homosexuality, and different ways in which we say to the rest of the world, “This is who we are, deal with it.” It’s pointless to marginalize others from a group that is already so marginalized, and it’s dangerous to claim, as a homosexual, that you don’t want to call yourself “gay.”

I can’t help but think of this speech in Angels in America:

Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words. On labels. “Gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian”; you think they tell you what a person is, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology of sexual taste, but something much simpler — clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. A homosexual is someone who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me? No. I have clout. Lots. I have sex with men; but, unlike nearly every other man of which this is true, I bring the guy I’m screwing to Washington, and President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand.

We are, indeed, hung up on words, and I am baffled at how trite the men featured in this article closely mimic the ideas said by the fictional version of Roy Cohn. Being a homosexual should not be a status symbol. It will always be a defining characteristic, no matter what, because it sets us apart from the straight world. I don’t mean to suggest that there aren’t a lot of different kinds of gay guys, but if we all want the same thing - acceptance, support, the right to get married (even if marriage is not a life goal for all of us) - we must at least unite together in this basic way; otherwise, we’re going to keep setting ourselves back.

[Link via ArchNoble (NSFW)]

I don’t do much tumbling lately, but maybe this is the...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:43:16 -0500

I don’t do much tumbling lately, but maybe this is the start of something new for me…

whitepeoplerappingpoorly:

This is just outrageously bad. Some of these sentences should never be uttered for as long as people can talk. The lyrics are just inane. And he looks like a biker gang reject. But”swag” is without a doubt the best part of the entire video.

So, the City is fixing something underneath the sidewalk on the...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:21:38 -0400

So, the City is fixing something underneath the sidewalk on the north side of Bloor at Christie Pits. Instead of sticking up a sign asking pedestrians to use the other side, they’ve paved a new path through the park, around the construction. I was pretty annoyed by this—especially since they haven’t bothered to fix/repave an actual permanent path through the park that’s been busted up all spring/summer. But this morning, they had a big truck parked on top of the temporary path AND a sign telling pedestrians to use the other sidewalk (ridiculous for those not in wheelchairs, who can easily just walk through the park. Why oh why are they screwing with a beautiful park?

"Ford has positioned himself smartly as the candidate versus the other four people. Rossi, Thomson,..."

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:20:59 -0400

“Ford has positioned himself smartly as the candidate versus the other four people. Rossi,...