Civics

mollyyoung:

I wonder if there’s data around the efficacy of volunteers who stand on sidewalks with a clipboard asking for donations. I agree with pretty much any cause I encounter in that fashion (Planned Parenthood, marriage equality, whales) but I am also, like many people, categorically repelled by heckling.

Obviously the pro-clipboarding moral argument is that the ends justify the means but I wonder if, you know, the numbers bear that out.

My current favorite song.

durgapolashi:

Actor who grew into his face: Jake Gyllenhaal

Actor who grew out of his face: Leonardo DiCaprio

Books I Read In 2014

Sex Criminals #1 & 2 by Matt Fraction

Bitchcraft- The Book Of Lilith by Mystic Medusa

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidies

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

Love and the Erotic in Art by Stefano Zutti

The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides*

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman

Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley

My Education by Susan Choi

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe, Bernard Comment, Stanley Buchthal

* Denotes a book I’ve read before

dailyholzer:

SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.