The Other NWA

That is all.

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:10:32 -0400

That is all.

sandwiches + jordan.

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:40:03 -0400

sandwiches + jordan.

Realtalk status. good: If you’re graduating from college this...

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:58 -0400

Realtalk status.

good:

If you’re graduating from college this year, we apologize: Before being pushed off into the shaky job market, you’ll likely be forced to sit through a commencement speech filled with platitudes and vague advice, usually delivered by someone too old and famous to remember what it’s like to be young and broke. So we asked comedian Baratunde Thurston, porn actor James Deen, tech reporter Jenna Wortham, novelist Emma Straub, and Das Racist’s Victor Vazquez to tell us what 2012 graduates really need to know.

Read their real-talk advice for new graduates here.

From Sweet to Swaggy: Moments When Teen Pop Stars Became Sex Symbols

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:02:30 -0400

From Sweet to Swaggy: Moments When Teen Pop Stars Became Sex Symbols:

The Biebs is a swaggy adult now but he’ll never be the biggest slut in America.

The results of typing "genius" into my gmail

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:57:38 -0400

-why are all these journo boy geniuses married with children? why are they in such a rush?

-check out this genius bachelorette cake. yes that is a man’s head buried in her crotch. AND in case you can’t tell, that says “here cums the bride”

-ANGELA CHASE + BRIAN KRAKOW = GRACE TRAN, GENIUS

-OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. are you pranking me? if you are, then you are a comic GENIUS and I am speechless. If you didnt write this, then you are still comic genius status (for jokes of yesteryear).

-daniel

plus jake

equals chris.

uh, you’re a genius.

amandahess: he saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:28:28 -0400

amandahess:

he saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Photo

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:58:03 -0400

Photo

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:47:25 -0400

"And that’s what was so remarkable and emotional about the Beastie Boys’ feminist turnaround. Maybe..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:49:00 -0400

“And that’s what was so remarkable and emotional about the Beastie Boys’ feminist turnaround. Maybe your father says sexism doesn’t exist and your boyfriend disrespects you. Maybe you have to deal with assholes on the subway who rub up against you every day and laugh when you yell at them. But listening to this band that you love so much say that your pain is real, that the world is fucked up and that they are not going to participate in actions that hurt you anymore because they care about you—it was the overwhelming feeling of being made visible. They were sending a clear message to their female fans: this isn’t okay, we have your back, we’re sorry.”

- Jessica Valenti on MCA’s feminist legacy.

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:32:21 -0400

Wasn’t ready for this. Really wasn’t.

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:12:50 -0400

Wasn’t ready for this. Really wasn’t.

WHEN I REALIZE I'M ON MY FOURTH DRINK AT HAPPY HOUR AND I STILL HAVE THREE PIECES TO EDIT FOR THE SITE TOMORROW

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:17:13 -0400

editorrealtalk:

Feelin this Tumblr so hard but also feelin guilty for being this girl.

One-fourth of Millennials straight-up aren’t making enough money to cover basic needs.

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:51:22 -0400

One-fourth of Millennials straight-up aren’t making enough money to cover basic needs.

This is tomorrow! Would love to see fellow minimum ragers...

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:43:05 -0400

This is tomorrow! Would love to see fellow minimum ragers there.

minimumragers:

The New America Foundation is hosting me, Slate’s Matt Yglesias, Retail Action Project’s Talisa Erazo, and UCB’s Sue Smith on May 3 in NYC for a Minimum Rage panel. Deets below; RSVP here.

Thursday, May 3, 2012 -6:30pm - 8:15pm
New America NYC
199 Lafayette Street Suite 3B
New York, NY 10012

Millennials are the first downwardly mobile generation in decades, staring down a host of economic challenges—student debt, the rise of low-wage jobs, and the ballooning costs of tuition, food, and rent. Media regularly serve up sobering statistics about twentysomethings, while Occupy Wall Street struggles to stay on message. How will the Great Recession affect Millennials longterm? And do they have what it takes to fight back?

Join Slate’s Moneybox columnist Matt Yglesias, GOOD’s associate editor and writer Nona Willis Aronowitz, comedian and service worker Sue Smith, and Talisa Erazo of Retail Action Project for a forward-thinking look at how the next generation will shape their financial future.

I'm with Muriel.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:06:35 -0400

Oh god bless Logo for airing “Muriel’s Wedding” just now.

"Greenpoint — though perhaps unparalleled as a source for kielbasa and doughnuts — is a Superfund..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:20:00 -0400

“Greenpoint — though perhaps unparalleled as a source for kielbasa and doughnuts — is a Superfund site with the dubious distinction of having some of the fastest-rising rents in all of New York City; last quarter, the average asking price for a Greenpoint apartment hit $3,424. (Which is insane, considering everyone I know who lives in Greenpoint has to walk 15 blocks to get to the nearest train, and once they get there, it is the G train. That is not a funny joke! Poor Greenpointers. But then I am just another nose-in-the-air resident of central Harlem with my four express trains to keep me warm at night.)”

- wondering how in the eff Jezebel’s Jenna Sauers quite literally quoted my Greenpoint/Harlem tirade WORD FOR FUCKING WORD.

No More Nice Girls Playlist

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:21:44 -0400

No More Nice Girls Playlist:

In the throes of putting together the “Essential Ellen Willis” anthology, listening to Ruth’s No More Nice Girls playlist.

ruthcurry:

I have had too much fun creating this No More Nice Girls-inspired playlist. Ellen Willis for sure had her own opinions about music, so this is in no way trying to speculate as to what she would have or would not have liked (except for the Janis Joplin; she’s on the record as loving her). Instead, when I was playlist-curating, I thought of ODB’s dedication at the beginning of “Baby I Got Your Money” and changed it a little. So:

this goes out to all the not-nice girls, the train wrecks, and the revolutionaries in the world, the tampon-throwers, the shit-kickers, and all the girls who got the swag pumping out their ovaries too.

"Why is this recovery different from all other recoveries? Because American workers have lost all..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:58:26 -0400

“

Why is this recovery different from all other recoveries?

Because American workers have lost all their bargaining power. That’s a function of ongoing high unemployment levels, but not only that. The 1981-82 recession had even higher rates of joblessness, but wages didn’t continue to decline during the ensuing recovery. There have been two fundamental alterations in the U.S. economy since Ronald Reagan was president, however. First, American multinational corporations now locate much of their production abroad. Second, with the rate of private-sector unionization down to a microscopic 6.9 percent, workers have no power to bargain for higher pay. Employers can serenely blow them off — and judging by the data, that’s exactly what employers are doing.

”

- Washington Post reports that 70 percent of all job gains in the past six months were concentrated in restaurants and hotels, health care and home health care, retail trade, and temporary employment agencies.

I wrote about Girls and why we shouldn’t be putting all...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:14:51 -0400

I wrote about Girls and why we shouldn’t be putting all our eggs in Lena Dunham’s basket.

I support Texts from Hillary’s weeklong run. Better to go...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:21:40 -0400

I support Texts from Hillary’s weeklong run. Better to go out on top.