Watching Braveheart. Mel Gibson is absolutely obsessed with the twin themes of freedom and the destruction of the human body.

When exactly did the stereotypical Cadillac driver go from being an old/rich white guy to being an old/rich black guy?

In Mall 205 to hit up Bed Bath & Beyond for sheets. Man, we’re not in Portland anymore. Well, technically, you are. That’s why all of institutional PDX turned against Jefferson Smith at the end of that last election - that ginned-up “scandal” was just a pretext; neither the downtown money or the inner SE lifestylers were about to allow a mayor with his power base in East Portland.

Anyway I went to the bathroom by the abandoned food court and I’m pretty sure the spotty Filipino(?) emo kid at the sink was trying to cruise me.

Hey remember when the paparazzi got some shots of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton’s cooters as they stepped out of cars and TMZ and all them were like “is flashing your clam the new LA fashion trend”?

And you were like “no, obviously it isn’t, you scumbags”.

Haha, joke’s on you, flashing your clam was totally the new LA fashion trend. This was the Les Deux era, and the dawn of the Cahuenga corridor (NYC translation: “meatpacking district”) for the plebs, and for six months or so that was totally a thing, girls going out without panties and dancing up on tables where everyone could see, lifting up their skirts and going “woooo!” for the photogs camped out on the street.

Whether the celebrity stuff was following or starting that trend, who knows. But “showing strangers your labia” was an honest-to-god Thing for a bit.

Your impressions of anywhere you’ve never personally been come from creatives based in LA. And every cultural product about LA is centered on the message “LA is fucking terrible”, have you noticed that?

But you’re like “nah, it can’t be that bad, it’s just an exaggeration in a telling direction”.

No dude, it’s not, LA is fucking terrible.

jakke:

genericlatino:

Fusion’s Fidel Martinez checks out a taco truck that accepts Bitcoin as SXSW.

Paraphrasing Henry V, this is akin to another fall of man.

Where do we go from here?

Hey so I’ve heard a few macro-type economists talk about the notion that rich people and poor people in big North American cities increasingly live in fundamentally different economies where the rich people consume higher-quality goods and services largely produced and sold by other rich people and poor people have a separate economy of lower-quality goods and services largely produced and sold by other poor people. When you think of the market for, say, cocktails or haircuts or investment advice or rental housing or burritos, this seems super plausible. And it’s also really important in terms of understanding the “trickle-down” aspects of economic policy, because if rich people are only interacting economically with other rich people, then there’s no trickle whatsoever.

Anyway, the one area where rich and poor people are still indisputably linked is through their use of the same currency. A dollar might go further in a poor neighbourhood than in a rich one, but because of government taxes and transfers and bank accounts and international trade, the currencies that rich and poor people are using basically have to move in lockstep. 

So if the wealthy urban types all start using bitcoin, that further decouples the rich and the poor in terms of economic trajectories. Like, it’s two economies which are totally separate in terms of transactions but totally coincident spatially. So basically the cyberpunk dystopia future my generation was promised is almost here and the first place it exists is SXSW. Which honestly isn’t that surprising when you think about it.

As goofy as the “yeah Science!” shit can get, at base it’s an assertion that materialism can enchant the universe just as well as mysticism and I like that.

garbidge:

usbdongle:

Yes, Secretary Birds and Lammergeiers are absolutely fantastic birds, gorgeous, majestic creatures… but did you know that there’s yaoi of them

the fact that bird yaoi exists specifically of my two favorite birds means that there is probably life elsewhere in this universe and it is far wiser and more powerful than we

Neal Stephenson’s Reamde used this as a plot point in 2011; then again Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor used kamikaze jetliners as a plot point in 1994, so hey.

cameos:

some thing, some place, that gives hope of a radiant and exciting future while being entrenched in nostalgia and memories

local heroes

Townshend’s, Alberta St., Portland, OR

I get the vibe that squart guy would be a pretty cool pal

sirdef:

sirdef:

sirdef:

i did that adult thing you can do where you buy an entire cake and just eat it

i am eating an entire cake

update: there is more cake than i imagined. 

i see now why my parents didn’t let me do this

loveyourchaos:

fatrat66:

The Avenue of Giants. The scenic 101 route in California, home of the Redwoods. 

I took this by motorcycle, it’s beautiful, recommend it to anyone. If you’re in a car at least open all the windows and breathe through your nose.

noxfae:

Noxfae ©

- please keep source

glaciersofice:

glaciersofice:

a pic of me that is more than suitable for reblogging

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Reblog this photo of your male friend right now

pichinspi:

Mucha style Eva-2 by masudamasaru