parislemon: Six
My love story is locked in Twitter’s archives. And John Mayer’s tweet that started it all.
Six years ago, my life was very different. I still recall signing up for Twitter — but it wasn’t until January 2007, and I thought I was early.
Pretty awesome that this Tweet is not only still accessible, but works with the newer Twitter functionality, like embedding, and retweeting.
just…
23 years. We finished it, financed it myself, and I figured, you know, I could get prints and ads paid for by the studios, and that they would release it. I showed it to all of them and they said ‘No. we don’t know how to market a movie like this.’ …It’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first all-black action pictures ever made.
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Red Tails executive producer GEORGE LUCAS, on why it took more than two decades for his latest film to hit movie theatres, on The Daily Show.
For shame, Hollywood.
(via inothernews) Not surprised…go see it ppl!
(via gintel)
I encourage everyone to go see this movie for this reason alone. If you’re complaining about Tyler Perry movies, and you’re complaining about stereotypical roles for actors of color…… this is something you can put your money behind and feel good.
How much money this film makes in theaters is something that matters, because if it bombs the studios are going to say, “I told you so…”, and that will be their justification for continuing the same pattern of behavior they’ve displayed for the last 30 years.
(via kingjaffejoffer)
I’ve literally seen no promotion besides this, when does it come out? I’d like to buy several tickets.
(via mrsdavegahan)occasionally pensive: Black sisters hating on black sisters
It is funny (but mostly depressing) how black people accept negative stereotypes as truth but then somehow think they’re beyond them.
I think of all of the black men and women who say they don’t date their own race and then list off a whole bunch of the white-made stereotypes for that gender as…
Macstories Goes Nuclear On Comments
Wow. When I read this post by Cody Fink talking about comments and the future of Macstories I was not expecting this:
In consideration of the reader, how we want the site to look, and due to the amount of time we can spend keeping an eye of this stuff, we will be removing comments from the next iteration of MacStories. And yes, it’s the nuclear option for keeping the site clean. Removing comments also means that we’re doing an incredible disservice for the readers who’ve already left great comments, and we hate having to remove those from the discussion. Decisions like this are tough because we have to do what’s best for us while minding our reader’s thoughts.
Good for them. I love Macstories and the bottom line is that the removal of comments will do nothing to change that whatsoever. I’m sure I’m not alone there.
Still, this is an impressive stand. It’s one thing for a single person site (like this one) to make a call to remove comments. It’s another for a larger team blog to do so. In fact, I can’t think of any without comments.
Right or wrong, the mentality is that to build a next generation media publication on the web, you need comments. That’s why we never got rid of them on TechCrunch (believe me, plenty of us wanted to — Facebook comments were a compromise).
Even more interesting is the psychology behind “needing” comments on big sites. Let’s be honest: most of these sites defend comments because if they don’t, it will seem like they’re taking a shit on their readers. It’s along the lines of “the reader is always right” — even when only half a percent are commenting and the vast majority of those are trolls.
So good for Macstories taking a stand and doing what they think is right for their site. This is ballsy and I hope it works for them. If it does, it could be the first real step towards the reinvention of online feedback and discussion that the space desperately needs.
Disqus or Facebook should begin offering comment moderation services. It’s obviously not worth the cost for each site to do it, but if one of these companies (or a new one) focused on the problem, it would be solved and their system would reign.
Part Two: And Baby Makes …
This is a cute mug, I know right! The story behind this mug is…
Erik’s mommy (Cheryl) put a plant inside of it and gave it to her Mother to announce that she and Tim (Erik’s father) were expecting him. Then on Erik’s 25th birthday his Grandmother gave the mug back to him.
Well today Erik and I put a plant in the the same mug and wrapped it up all pretty and nice to announce
that he and I are
Expecting! I am due August 4th and we are both very excited!! Merry Christmas!
“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television. I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.
AND THE FIRST ON-SCREEN INTERRACIAL KISS!
She’s killing it!
Don’t do it!
Occupation:
It sucks that our culture isn’t as easily segmented as it was in the 70s. Then we would know the true Occupiers by our hair and beards- making infiltration a little more difficult. Someone needs to stand up for the movement and finally be the voice. Get people to understand instead of just seeing dirty people.
It’s sad that we see homelessness as their fault. How is someone without a residence to get a job and keep it? We’ve set a standard of cleanliness and “lack of b.o.” in this country that wasn’t even possible centuries ago, but now these people are the outcasts of society. It’s like we’re disowning our ancestors, and it’s sickening.
I used to be a Republican and now I don’t know what I am. I know one thing, the government is wasteful and slow to move. I’m happy that there has been a mixing of people in this movement. I think given more time some great things may come from people having a firsthand experience of what the poorest Americans have to do to survive, and the shame that is cast on them for it. I’m done expecting voting or protests to change the government. The only chance we have to change the world is to do it ourselves- as a group- by starting something that competes with the government in serving the people.
The hippies ended the Vietnam war and that was about it, right? I’m so disappointed in the pretentiousness of their generation and ours. For all their ideals, they’ve managed to hand off quite a mess. Are we about to do the same? It’s only a few years before we’re faced with the sin that the next generation points out in our past. Instead of pointing fingers back at the way they oppressed the planet and their fellow man, let’s look at the log that is in our own eye right now- theirs has already been dealt with.
Anastasia Belle: A Message About Being Grateful
This is the most selfish, ungrateful, entitled generation of people. Have you even stopped to think about how LUCKY we are to live in The United States of America?! Oh of course not; that’d be down right unamerican!
People in Mexico risk life and limb to get into a country that, by your…
Amen! Thanksgiving is going to be intense this year.
(Source: anastasiabelle)
Your dad wore flannel before you did and he still has the Pendleton to prove it. In his woven expression of manliness, he could emasculate Paul Bunyan with his axe swings while effortlessly making the Brawny Man look like a bitch. Each of his lumberjack tops were broken in by adventure, bear boxing matches, shotgun recoils and occasionally baby vomit. He didn’t donate his plaids when it was time to retire them from his wardrobe. Instead, he gave them viking funerals to honor the tours of duty they served his upper body and set them ablaze at sea to ensure that no lesser man would ever disgrace his shirts by wearing them.
So hipsters, next time you slide your frail body into the most masculine of woven wools with hopes that it, in combination with your shitty beard, will make you seem more rugged, remember this…
Your dad didn’t wear flannel to look tough, he wore flannel because it was tough enough to withstand him.
Thanks to Jesse for today’s photo.
Keep the submissions coming.
Some people misuse the winking smileys.
They don’t realize that when I see the winking eye of that punctuation, I immediately begin searching for playfulness or suggestiveness.
When I can’t find it I have to dig. Your innocent comment did not deserve the raunch I was forced to add to it, lazy person. It’s called the shift key. It eliminates the semi in your colon.
