When Obama made his announcement about gay (marriage), I flashed back to (Lyndon B.) Johnson four days after President Kennedy is assassinated. He has to give his first speech to Congress and his advisers are sitting around and saying ‘Don’t mention civil rights. Don’t use up your political capital on civil rights. It’s a great cause, but it’s a lost cause.’ You know what Johnson says? ‘What’s a presidency for, then?’ And he says, in his speech, ‘The first thing we have to do is pass the Civil Rights bill.’
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Historian and LBJ biographer ROBERT CARO, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Preachin’ it right. :)
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When Obama Endorsed Marriage Equality
… I was all like
True story.
Things They Don’t Tell You
I will never get over removing the names of the dead. It will always be a strange and surreal experience; a complicated mixture of nostalgia for times past spent together, sorrow at their demise and our loss, and the absurdity that for me, the finality of the intersections of our lives is marked not with their death, nor their funeral, but with a simple click of a button, or eraser marks across a page.
Earthquake and hurricane in the same week? R.E.M. End of World flow chart…. and GO! (seriously this is why I shouldn’t be allowed to play with Visio)
Pod Packing
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pod packing
I haven’t written in a good long while (attributable to finding the love of my life and lots of travel), and plan to start back up again soon. But in the meantime I’ll share this awesome stop-motion video my friend E made today of all of us helping my former housemate pack up her pod to move from DC to Atalanta. The app that made this is called “GIF Shop” and is pretty cool. Enjoy!
Lemon out!
I woke up Saturday morning (well, afternoon) after a night out and decided to use my slightly incapacitated state as an excuse to catch up on 30 Rock. Propping my head up on my bed to better see my computer screen, I realized that something was dried on my forehead and even a little in my hair. I got alarmed thinking it might be blood, then realized what it actually was: hot sauce. I had fallen asleep facedown into a late night taco. Classy. Lemon out!
Liars! (Taken with Instagram at US Dept of State: Passport Agency)
Delicious spices @ Madison Square Park
