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the beautiful women project

May 14, 2007

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  cross-posted from raincoaster What causes art? In this case, it’s simple: a child’s desire for mutilation. Do 13-year-olds really need to be saving their babysitting and paper route money for breast implants? Cheryl-Ann Webster wondered that herself, when her daughter told her that a friend was already socking away money for the boobflation job she […]

quiz: how introspective are you?

May 9, 2007

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Your Intrapersonal Intelligence Score: 87% Your Intrapersonal Intelligence is Very High. You’ve spent a lot of time introspecting, and it’s really paid off. You are comfortable with who you are, and you have a life philosophy that you are happy to live by. And you’re always re-evaluating what you believe. Because you learn something new […]

you are NOT invisible

May 8, 2007

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More momo, y’all. This 24-minute sit-down may be his most powerful video yet. In it, he talks with Joanne, the woman in crisis who wrote to him (we read that letter in the last video), and helps her understand how she’s been essentially oppressing herself. Because she’s a caring, helping person, she makes herself transparent rather than […]

everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)

May 4, 2007

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This is possibly the best address to a graduating class in history, and maybe one of the best speeches, period. It originally appeared as a Mary Schmich column in the Chicago Tribune called Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young. This dazzling video is what adding a little Baz Luhrman to that text […]

Everyone has soul

April 27, 2007

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Just a different KIND of soul. Watch Davy Jones of the Monkees and Charlie Smalls and learn. White, black, Brazilian, splitting the difference, we all have soul. Video over the jump: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

le grand content

April 26, 2007

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I’m not sure if this means anything, or if it does, what it does. But it sure is cool. Behold Le Grand Content, a video comment on the pathetic reduction of human thought to bullet points that will fit in Powerpoint. Is this what we’ve become? Or is this, in fact, everything? :: :: :: :: […]

mirror, mirror…

April 25, 2007

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Another uplifting tune from the great (and highly if not actually OVERLY self-actualized) Bette Midler. This one is “I’m Beautiful, dammit!” from the album bathhouse bette. Lyrics over the jump… :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

identity and intentionality

April 23, 2007

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“I always wanted to be somebody when I grew up, but I see now I should have been more specific.” Lily Tomlin