Realtalk status.
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If you’re graduating from college this year, we apologize: Before being pushed off into the shaky job market, you’ll likely be forced to sit through a commencement speech filled with platitudes and vague advice, usually delivered by someone too old and famous to remember what it’s like to be young and broke. So we asked comedian Baratunde Thurston, porn actor James Deen, tech reporter Jenna Wortham, novelist Emma Straub, and Das Racist’s Victor Vazquez to tell us what 2012 graduates really need to know.
This is so ill: “By her account, the passion was as much about ideas and words as about their romance—what she later called “that dance of closeness through language.”
“Obama was obsessed with the concept of choice, she said. Did he have real choices in his life? Did he have free will? How much were his choices circumscribed by his background, his childhood, his socio-economic situation, the color of his skin, the expectations that others had of him? How did choice influence his present and future? Later, referring back to that discussion, he told Alex in a letter that he had used the word “choice” “as a convenient shorthand for the way my past resolves itself. Not just my past, but the past of my ancestors, the planet, the universe.” His obsession with the concept of choice, he said in a later interview at the White House, “was a deliberate effort on my part to press the pause button, essentially, and try to orient myself and say, ‘Okay, which way, where am I going?’”
Obama said during an interview. “The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life. So that is at the core of who I am.”
‘Carpentry’
Dreaming is
That un/conscious act of resistance
That emboldens our reality.
When I was still
My father’s baby
I never had
The privilege to dream,
Because so much of our imaginative spirit
Was spent
Trying
To fix our family.
It isn’t by chance that a carpentry metaphor is the well-worn cliche by which we understand good families and good homes.
Love is the foundation
And respect is the glue.
(We drip flourishes all around us
Where honesty would do.)
And as men
We tried to mould the contours,
To smooth edges
And bend beams to our will, but:
The dream-maker is free from physics
In a way the carpenter isn’t.
With cracks in your foundation,
It’s only a matter of time.
This is true of dreaming too,
And in many ways
The carpenter is our most honest dreamer;
He measures before he cuts—twice—
Rather than cutting first and measuring only after you’ve awoken.
But though he dreams as he builds, even he…
Runs up against that curious tendency of reality’s tools—
They too have dreams,
They too have desires,
And not every home is right for every taijitu.
[Absence is worse than loss because you never develop a frame of reference for understanding the beauty of that which eludes you.]
Love is a necessary thing,
And I am still my father’s son;
Searching.
—DM, 4/10/12
check out this jay-z diss track
its called blue magic
Cults - You Know What I Mean
I know I’m not the only one who hears a little something of Where Did Our Love Go in this song. Yes?
(via venicebarbie)
GANDHI: question 1 - lakutis…….. that is a kool rap name…. it means u r gay?
LAKUTIS: yeah, i love dick. i lova lova love it
BIG BABY: question 2 - i hear ur mixtape is dropping soon…. are u a top or bottom?
LAKUTIS: im whats known in the old tongue as a…
Easily the funniest ting I’ve seen in a while. 17-year-old white rapper Bradley “Blizzard” Green from Manchester, England, loses a rap battle to his English teacher, Mark Grist. Must’a been the scotch-fueled swag.
