Hi there, stardust moonbeams! I’m currently staring out a window on a mountain and it’s GLORIOUS. The cabin across the street has like 47 wind chimes hanging along the front porch area and it’s pretty out of hand. I’m a person who loves a good wind chime — heck I even like a bad wind chime. This, though? This is out of hand. How many wind chimes do you have? What’s your wind chime limit, would you say? Like three, right? Three seems like a solid number. You get your wooden chimes, some tiny tinkling copper things, and then maybe a larger metal chime situation. Done. Anything over three it’s just, what are you trying to prove? What’s the deal?
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+ This is horrific and disgusting and so terribly sad and on one hand I want to apologize for sharing it, but on the other hand I don’t have the right to do that, really. It’s the graphic story of Jackie Fuchs of The Runaways: The Lost Girls.
She told me she never thought she’d go public with her rape, but last fall, she started seeing similar stories everywhere. More than a dozen women had come forward against Bill Cosby. Kesha filed a lawsuit alleging that she had been drugged and assaulted by her producer, Dr. Luke. And there were so many undergraduate women who were finally speaking up about sexual assault. “I realized, ‘Oh my God, this is what’s happening on college campuses,’” she said.
Jackie saw herself in those young women and knew all the hurt and shame that awaited them. “They have to be making the same value judgments about themselves as I made about me,” she explained. “I know from personal experience how all those things can eat away at you. They can take vibrant young people and turn them into something else.”
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+ This is legitimately goddamned terrifying. I am terrified.
+ Judge Orders Cancellation of Redskins’ Trademark Registration. The team is appealing.
+ Compostable coffee pods motherfuckers!
+ Remember When We Were Pirates? That is such a good headline. I almost want to make it my life’s mission to write multiple stories and essays and poems titled Remember When We Were Pirates? just to say I did it. Such whimsy.
+ Obama Administration to Unveil Major New Rules Targeting Segregation Across the US.
+ Maps and graphs and facts and figures! Snapshot: Transgender in America.
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+ Sorry, new squirrel virus suspected in three human deaths. I don’t know this just seemed like information you needed to have.
+ I think it’s fine that this made me cry. People in Toronto Created a Memorial to a Dead Raccoon. I mean, different things make different people cry. It’s fine.
+ Earbuds that change the incoming sounds you hear. Did we already talk about this? I remember talking to someone about this and maybe it was you but maybe it wasn’t.
+ Dorothy Arzner: Hidden Star Maker of Hollywood’s Golden Age. This was written by an A-Camper! THAT IS RAD YOU GUYS.
+ American Muslims Raise $30,000 To Help Repair Black Churches Destroyed by Fire.
+ You Can Read the First Chapter of Harper Lee’s New Book Right Now. But will you? Have you already? Tell me.
