How to Manage Your Existential Dread in Light of, Oh, Everything

The world probably doesn’t categorically suck any more right now than it did in medieval times when you only lived for three decades and were more likely to die by dysentery (if you were lucky). But lately it’s sure as hell seemed like we’ve been dealt existential angst in spades. Not that it matters either way, because these are the times we live in, and, like everyone else before us, we have to figure out how to deal with this shit in our own way, knowing what we now know. But how?

Yes, yes, yes.

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Gorgeous.

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My friend Robi wrote me an awesome obit

My friend Robi wrote me an awesome obit and I love it even if that is a weird thing to love.

So earlier I tweeted this:

Robi promised to write me said awesome obit even if he had to make the whole thing up. And just in case he dies first, he penned this:

“Kim R- W- was once classy dame. But not one of those uppity kinds. No, sir. She was a real boot kicking, fun loving, lady-when-she-needed-to-be type of broad. She was usually described as ‘sweet when she wanted to be, but watch out when she didn’t.’

Known as the “Snarky Bibliophile on Drury Lane,” but modest to a fault at times, most people don’t realize that the Disney princess Belle was actually based upon Kim. At least the awesome, smart, snarky, pretty part. That hapless victim part? “Eff that. I would have taken the library and burned the place down if he pulled that,” Kim said after seeing her movie portrayal.

Kim was a main proponent of the “Read or Punch” campaign, whereas, in a role-reversing twist of days of nerds past, she instituted the once controversial, but now highly touted practice of punching people in the face for not reading. Due to her commitment to this doctrine, libraries are now full of money, books, and ice packs, and are thriving in a modern day Renaissance of literacy.

Kim left this earth on ___, because she had reached such a level of awesomeness that the world had realized it could no longer contain her. It was reported she spontaneously combusted into a flash of bright light, and a tome detailing her life was left in her place.

She is survived by her husband, Chuck, who honestly does not know what to do now that she’s gone. Seriously. She also left a plethora of friends and family who feel like the glue of their life has left them, as well as a shit ton of people all across the world who are left to wallow in their sadness and think, “I never even got to meet her. What will my life become?” She was preceded in glorious earth exits by her Wonder Twin, and they are no doubt ‘tearing it up’ in whatever badass plane of existence they are in now. Until they get kicked out of that one too.

There will be no visitation. Why? Because if you haven’t already seen and met Kim, then you don’t deserve to now. Suck for you. Deal with it. In lieu of flowers, go buy a damn book and read it, then give it to a kid. Both the kid and mankind will thank you for it.”

New goal: Make this happen.

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we were doing math and I kind of

out of all the witty and sarcastic posts I have made this is not the one that I wanted to get notes.

Oh no!  That’s awesome.

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Exploring the Dream Worlds of Os Gêmeos

Brazilian artists Octavio & Gustavo Pandolfo, identical twin brothers who create painted works together, are known under the moniker Os Gêmeos (@osgemeos), Portuguese for “The Twins.” Their distinct style features yellow-skinned, skinny caricatures that come from dreams they say they have both experienced. The twins’ stunning dream-world-to-real-world collaborative style was influenced by artistic family members in addition to traditional hip-hop culture and the Brazilian pixação movement in the late eighties.

Os Gêmeos have hosted exhibitions at the Los Angeles MoCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Dépayz’arts in France and Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon, just to name a few. In addition, their street art can be found in Berlin, New York, Portugal, Florida, London and across Brazil. Follow the progress of many pieces and murals through their Instagram account at http://instagram.com/osgemeos.

How cool is this?

Margaret Cho: Babies scare me more than anything

I still don’t know if I want children. Frankly, I’m not sure I ever want to love anything that much

“It might not be a fear of kids themselves, as in truth I usually get along with them pretty well. They like my tattoos and my uncomplicated child/adult face. They identify with my orange shoes. I look like I would let them get away with stuff, and I do. My fear of having children is that, frankly, I just don’t want to love anyone that much. I have my own problems with love, and I have processed and played the same games for a lifetime, but what if I had to do that with someone I actually MADE?! (Or went all the way to China and adopted. This is not a joke — I have long thought I would adopt one of those baby girls from China, because really, who’s going to know the difference?)

I don’t know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or, if I am really honest, I don’t think I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else. My child would have my heart completely — having never truly given that over, in all my relationships in my life, starting with myself, I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”

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Nice.

Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry

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So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts… 

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Yup, yup, yup.

“Do what you love” is privileged advice that ignores the fact that the majority of the world’s population works to get food and housing, not for emotional or spiritual fulfillment. And even among the most socioeconomically privileged piece of the population—the segment that this advice is usually targeted to—it causes an awful lot of angst and even shame over not loving your career when people are telling you that you should.”
Why You Shouldn’t Follow Your Passion By Alison Green
mentalflossr: In times of tragedy, we look to teachers for guidance and hope. We can think of no better teacher than Mister Rogers. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.” Continue Reading: 20 Gentle Quotations from Mister Rogers This quote is so relevant far too often these days.

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In times of tragedy, we look to teachers for guidance and hope. We can think of no better teacher than Mister Rogers.


“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.”

Continue Reading: 20 Gentle Quotations from Mister Rogers

This quote is so relevant far too often these days.

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