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Joe & Bing - Summer Sound (1971)

Joe and Bing were a soft pop/folk duo who recorded an LP in New York.  It was handed over to Brazilian arranger Deodato who added lush bossa nova strings.  It’s a really enchanting and irresistible sound. 

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Realtors are fucking nuts

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where’s ann been? she pours herself a don’t-ask gin, no ice and light on the bitters. i’m done with quitters.

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I mean l looked at a basement apartment with dirty carpeted bedrooms for 1375/mo that smelled like fucking shit because the current tenant has 8 FERRETS and I was like “ok...guess I’ll take it”

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Looking for an apartment in the Hudson valley got me feeling like

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It’s so beautiful out but even though Chicago is hideous I can still appreciate it because we’re DJing at a bar, just me and Bri, and we’re moving to upstate New York and told our boss today and so now it’s official

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I’ve officially stopping trawling the Chicago craigslist apartment listings and moved exclusively to Ulster/Sullivan county houses and rentals on Zillow so I guess you could say I’m committed

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i think it’s very brave and sexy of me to still play pokemon games in the exact same way i did when i was 5 years old - ignoring all stat changing moves. this is an offensive move only household. if you effectively stratagise using stat changes in battle Fuck You

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Wow how was this so true

March 22 2019 is gonna be CRAZY

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Being Jewish in Public on the South Side:

+your co-worker who happens to be an amazing gospel singer and very Christian gives you a necklace from when she went to Israel because she thought of you

+said gift makes you cry!!

-“you gangbangin’ Whitney?”

-everyone asks if your husbands noodle kugel at the potluck is supposed to be a meal or a dessert (neither, really)

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Indoor selling area detail, from Swap-O-Rama in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. 

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I could cry

Springsteen On Broadway (2018)

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Hmmmmmm

In capitalist patriarchy, “non-violent sex” exists in exactly the same sense as “fulfilling work” does: not in any meaningful way for the large majority of the world’s people.

Survivors of sexual assault often have an “inability” to separate sex and violence. But rather than pathologizing them and treating their experience as essentially delusional, revolutionary feminism recognizes this as real and revealing of something systemic.

Sex is how we practice it; is how it affects the people involved. And right now that practice is saturated with violence and economic and political power disparities. This does not preclude the possibility that sex could be equitable in a different kind of society. But that’s not the society we live in right now, and that’s the point. That’s why we need to change it.

If recognition of this fact inherently leads to moralizing at or shaming individuals for sometimes enjoying sex, then we would also expect Marxism in general to inevitably devolve into shaming of individual workers for sometimes enjoying their jobs.

Likewise, if the only solution ostensibly forwarded by revolutionary feminism is to tell individuals not to have sex, then we would also expect Marxism in general to be incapable of telling workers to do anything more than “just don’t show up to work.”

In truth, in both the cases of revolutionary feminism and Marxism more broadly, recognizing that we live in a system in which there are no “good options” is a call to collective action. Producing things without being exploited, and having sex without being pressured by economic, political, or gendered factors, without being turned into someone else’s thing, etc.—these are all possible! But they require structural, material changes in society for us to achieve them. In contrast, “sex positivity” and similar approaches effectively insist that we’re already there, and thus “eliminating oppression” is reduced to correcting “wrong attitudes” and individual lifestyles.

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“I find that a strength, or a skill, that I don't have is to accept the way things are generally done as the best way to do things,” Oldham admits, and lets the understatement hang in the air for a second. “It can get frustrating sometimes, because you feel like everybody's crazy, and everybody thinks you're crazy.”

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worst week of my life. even worse than that other week, and that other one i’m thinking of too. the older you get the worse it is. i was always aware of being young, that things would soften over time. nothing seemed permanent. the thought of my life veering slightly off-course is just total wreckage in my mind.