Just sent a postcard

Damn… this is too true.

(via zodiacchic)

How I miss my home south of the equator and the people whom I leave a little piece of my heart with each departure.

I’m happy to report that a year later, this post is still blissfully accurate. Despite 2011 being a real relentless year, it is also brought a lot of joy, laughter and play-dates. 2012 is already proving to be a powerful force. 

Grateful

No 47: California Love

Ms. Texan  and iCandy have some beautiful and cheap wall art ideas. These are my next projects. 

verboss:

“Not completely sure how it works, but evidently if you link Santorum with the web site http://spreadingsantorum.com/ then that tends to keep Santorum name properly associated with the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.”

Here. 

thedailywhat:

This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia puts the epic toy fails on hold for a moment to shed some necessary light on one of the most mind-blowing open secrets about the Stop Online Piracy Act: The entertainment industry giants spending millions to get it passed previously spent years actively encouraging the same “piracy” they now claim to oppose.

The video is a little long, but well worth watching all the way through, if only to appreciate the sheer WTF*ckery that is SOPA.

After you’ve watched the whole thing, use this site to find your elected officials and make sure they watch the whole thing too.

As Mozart says: We only get once chance to stop this bill before it stops us.

Also, while we’re at it, GoDaddy — the controversial domain registrar — has come out in support of SOPA.

For many online, that’s a deal breaker — including for Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, who has announced his intention to move all Cheezburger Network domains away from GoDaddy unless they come to their senses.

If you feel the same way, this boycott thread on Reddit should provide you will all you need to know about moving to another domain hosting service.  

[thanks brittany!]

I’m proud of Los Angeles today. Good on you.

adailyriot:

The Vote Heard Round the World — The Video (by georgemerkert)

On December 6th, 2011, Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to call for an amendment reserving Constitutional rights solely for

Sepia, Golden Gate & Old Timey = <3

nevver:

The Bridge

Bless this mess.

San Fernando Valley politics read like a novela.

latimes:

San Fernando government more like a reality show? Scandals involving San Fernando officials have residents of the town irate because attention is being diverted from serious problems, including a large budget deficit and deep cuts to services.

Man, this story…

• At a City Council meeting, the mayor confesses bankruptcy and an affair with a colleague while his wife was in the audience.
• Several months before that meeting, a teenage police cadet claimed that she had been fired after an affair with the current police chief, including one, ahem, “tryst” in his city car.
• The mayor is placing some of the blame on a local newspaper owner… whose wife is the sister of the mayor’s estranged wife.

Obviously, this is the best:

“I don’t care about your affairs,” John Espinoza, of the San Fernando National Little League, told the council. “I am here to complain about you wanting to charge children to play in your parks.”

Photo: San Fernando Mayor Mario Hernandez. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

Rich and beautiful article about the #OWS movement. “One of the complicating factors in the Occupy movement is that so many of the thrown-away people of our society — the homeless, the marginal, the mentally ill, the addicted — have come to Occupy encampments for safe sleeping space, food, and medical care.  And these economic refugees were generously taken in by the new civil society, having been thrown out by the old uncivil one. “

Step by Step Instructions on how to “Keep Wall Street Occupied” at home. Post it on your wall, blog, tumblr, wordpress, hallway or any other place that others will see it.

Inspiration: A beautiful reminder of how wonderful it is to have friends and loved ones.

If you can’t #OccupyWallStreet, then you can at least keep #WallStreetOccupied. 

thedailywhat:

Postage Paid Protest of the Day: YouTuber ransackedroom — a San Francisco-based “poet, editor, and marketer” — has come up with a rather ingenious way ordinary people can support the Occupy Wall Street movement without ever leaving their homes.

It involves taking the business reply mail envelope that comes with most unsolicited credit card offers, and sending it back to the banks with a message inside that ransacked hopes will help open “a dialogue.” 

He says: 

This isn’t really about running up the postage bill on the big banks, although that’s a nice side effect. The real effect of this is to force banks to react to us.

If they start getting hundreds and thousands of weird responses to their credit card applications, well they’re going to have to have meetings. They going to have to develop new procedures and every hour banks spend reacting to us is an hour banks don’t spend lobbying Congress on how to screw us.  It’s an hour banks don’t spend foreclosing on our houses.

So I think that that’s progress.

YouTube Comment of Note: “This supports the United States Postal Service also, maybe keeping several thousand postal workers out of the unemployment line. Good idea.”

[thanks mike!]

Best quote:

‘I got this baby catalogue I’ll stick in there. I mean, even bankers have babies. Being immoral doesn’t mean you’re infertile.’

(via laughinacorner)