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Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:00 -0400

rudermensch:

timseriladashmimeni:

rudermensch:

munichairdisaster:

flagdemoness:

disneyismyescape:

Disney makes me laugh whenever they make something about Gaston

GIVE SOME OF THOSE EGGS TO THAT POOR WOMAN GEEZ

Four dozen eggs is 48 eggs though. 60 eggs would be five dozen.

Unless I’m missing something?

i’m having a mild shutdown over this post

eggs only have ~74 calories also (which makes his caloric intake roughly ~3500 which is fine for someone of that size) so idk what the heck is going on with this post. i guess it proves that if you post it on tumblr people will think it’s true.

four dozen eggs is 48 eggs

assuming that these are all cooked—and i’ll assume they’re fried since Gaston just seems like a fried egg sort of guy—each has ~90 calories. that makes his caloric intake closer to 4320. let’s assume that while he was a ‘lad’ he weighed maybe 110 pounds. to maintain that weight, he’d need about ~2800-2900 calories per day. he was eating for weight, though, so i’ll give him a suspicious pass on that one.

as far as protein goes, 200-pound adults should eat 80 grams of protein per day. for Gaston, a child who presumably weighed a lot less, he was eating at least 280 grams of protein per day; i’m assuming that is what they meant by feeding 6 active Gastons, not his actual caloric intake.

I’m assuming they aren’t cooked because of how he eats them in the cartoon, and the lyrics to the song do state that he changes to 5 dozen now that he’s grown (I had to check). Given his build I’m also assuming he’s eating for professional body-building as he’s drawn as a kind of mockery of professional body-builders and their protein intake hovers in the 250-400 grams per day range. But, even if they are cooked and they’re around ~90 calories and we’re using the 5 dozen figure he’s up to about ~5400 calories at this point which is actually a little more reasonable but still slightly low given what we know of his activity levels and body-building.

also, it’s only low if we assume it’s all gaston eats, which would be kind of hilarious in its own way

a brief pause in the serious content because gina was posting “I need six eggs” related content and should see this

thematerialworld: [Photo by Adam Feldman] Last night, Adam...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:22 -0400

thematerialworld:

[Photo by Adam Feldman]

Last night, Adam Feldman (theater critic for Time Out New York) organized a midnight vigil for Mark Carson, the Black gay man who was killed in the West Village Friday night. We gathered on 6th Avenue and West 8th Street, on the corner where he was shot in the face. It was an intense, emotional event. I’m bad at estimating these things, but I think there were around ~~100~~ [edit: 300] people there. While a few speakers betrayed an upsetting short-sightedness about how violence operates in our society, most were eloquent and inspiring. In no particular order:

Performer and playwright Justin Sayre started things off with a volcanic, passionate sermon about the perceived danger of queer love — how the straight world fears us for the very thing that makes us most powerful, and so the only response is to love harder, love louder, and love more than ever. His tone set the stage for the event, and allowed people to fully feel the emotions we’d all been locking up tight.

Photographer and ACT UP vet Jon Nalley revealed, shockingly and emotionally, that Mark Carson is also the name of a fallen ACT UP comrade. Jon schooled the crowd about the true cause of AIDS death (not the HIV virus, but government neglect and institutional heterosexism), highlighting the connections between one Mark’s death and the other’s.

Long-time activist and Stonewall vet Jim Fouratt pointed out something that SHOULD be obvious, but which hadn’t occurred to me — that there used to be a hospital TWO BLOCKS from that corner, but in the wake of St. Vincent’s closing, Mark had to be rushed to Beth Israel all the way across town. Perhaps, in the distance between these hospitals, Mark’s life could have been saved. In that sense, the politicians that allowed St. Vincents to be converted to a luxury condo high rise — politicians like lesbian mayoral candidate Christine Quinn — may have gay blood on their hands. Jim helped us understand how depriving a gay neighborhood of a hospital is inherently homophobic and violent.

A trans woman who was once homeless in that same neighborhood spoke intensely about how vigils shouldn’t be the only time we come together, and how we must take our struggle to the U.N. to fight for queer safety internationally, and hold the U.S. to the highest possible global standard.

Eugene Lovendusky, a member of Queer Rising read a first-person account of the Stonewall Riots, in which a gay rioter’s head was injured on that very corner, his blood pouring into the street. Another rioter screamed into the city, “THIS IS THE BLOOD OF YOUR BROTHERS!” It was chilling, to consider the bloody history of that location.

Another Queer Rising member, Ben Strothman, pointed out that this murder was allowed to happen because the killer had access to a gun, and that the supporters of gun rights, deep down inside, are primarily afraid of the specter of the Black gunman, who will infiltrate their towns and homes. These gun rights advocates feel they need weapons to protect themselves from their racist fantasy. It underscored how racism fuels violence against ALL peoples.

Khaela Maricich from The Blow was like: we’re all going to die anyway, and it’s better to die being yourself and expressing your love and your identity than hiding it and living longer. Her comment was somewhat insensitive to queers in greater danger than her, like trans people and people of color, but I understood what she was trying to say.

An older trans man shared that he was attacked in Manhattan only a few days ago, and reminded the crowd, with tremendous grief in his voice, that trans people are killed CONSTANTLY in this country.

A straight mother spoke because her adult son in another city asked her to, so she could share her love and support with us.

Interestingly, a straight young woman who lives on that block confessed that her initial impulse was to text her gay friends, warning them to “dial it down” so that no one on the street would know they’re gay, but that, after hearing the speakers, she realized that this was the wrong lesson - that we should “dial it up,” to demand our right to exist. ”DIAL IT UP” became a chant, briefly.

A Black gay man spoke with great anguish, commenting on how not many other men of color were in attendance, and laying out so clearly how different queer people have unique challenges and specific circumstances — that Mark Carson’s life as a Black gay man was significantly different from the lives of the white gay men who made up the majority of the crowd.

A few speakers mentioned the importance of hate crimes legislation, and thanked the police for their cooperation with the vigil, and one speaker even said, “THANK YOU TO THE NYPD OF TODAY FOR NOT BEING THE NYPD OF 1969!” and though I had been resisting the urge to speak, that was my last straw

I got up on the box and said something like this:

I hope this doesn’t sound callous, but I was not surprised by this death. Queer people are killed in this country all the time. I have always thought of myself as someone who is vulnerable to murder. Four trans women were killed in the month of April alone — four in one month! So when things like this happen in our neighborhoods, we need to ask ourselves what this violence means. And we have to be skeptical about solutions like hate crimes legislation, which just feeds the prison industrial complex — an industry that profits from the imprisonment of queers and people of color. One third of all adult Black men in the U.S. are in prisons, and trans people are disproportionately arrested and locked up. We cannot continue to support this! And while I’m sure individual NYPD officers were polite in the lead-up to this vigil, we cannot forget that the NYPD ritually harasses trans people and people of color in this city! Trans women are arrested simply for walking down the street! So when we talk about how queer people need to be “safe,” we have to ask ourselves what “safety” really means — because the NYPD does not makes us safe! It harasses and imprisons us! We must reckon with these connections — that Mark Carson’s death is an extension of the violence that oppresses so many others, from the institutional violence of governments to the random violence of a crazy guy with a gun.

I make a living speaking in front of people, but talking at this vigil was terrifying. As I spoke, I felt myself hyperventilating, and I worried I would vomit. After I stepped down, I sat on the curb a few yards away from the crowd, catching my breath.

I wish I had specifically named the Stop & Frisk policy that makes queers and people of color vulnerable to police harassment. I wish I had called out Christine Quinn for supporting this policy.

I wish I had acknowledged a previous speakers’ disappointment about the lack of people of color in attendance. I wish I had pointed out the sad truth: that our queer “community” is still so segregated, such that when a white person organizes a vigil and spreads the word through his social networks, that message will not automatically filter into Black queer circles. When I mentioned this afterwards to Ted Kerr from Visual AIDS, he added that many queers of color are ~~not willing to make~~ [edit: cautious about making] themselves vulnerable to the kind of police surveillance that surrounded the event. This hadn’t occurred to me, and reminded me that so many aspects of our queer condition are so complicated, and we all have so much to learn and understand about each other.

When the event was over, I was surrounded by friends and colleagues. People whom I respect, and who inspire me on a regular basis — the people I came to NYC hoping to meet, and the people who keep me here. I was proud of Adam for making this happen, and proud of my community for showing up.

But I was sad too — not just about the senseless death of this man — but that there didn’t seem to be anyone at this vigil who knew him. It seemed indicative of the intense divide amongst queer people in this city.

Tomorrow night, there will be another rally — this one sponsored by the (often idiotic) LGBT Center and featuring Christine Quinn herself — the lesbian mayoral candidate whose policies hurt queer people and may have allowed Mark Carson to die. I will not be in town for this event, but I am fixated on it. Will there be resistance to the party line? Will Quinn be heckled? How can we best honor Mark Carson’s death? What comes next?

[CORRECTION: The earlier riot on that corner was not Stonewall, as I write in this post. Here’s the clarification from John Knoebel:

“This was not an incident from the 1969 Stonewall Riot […] but happened at the somewhat larger riot of the next summer in August 1970. This was when hundreds of activists pulled off a large demonstration in Times Square against police harassment of gays and lesbians there and then ended up marching all the way to the village where a violent confrontation with police involved many more hundreds from Sheridan Square to 8th Street.]

how can any gay men who live in new york city want more cops in the village? aren’t you glad...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:58:00 -0400

how can any gay men who live in new york city want more cops in the village? aren’t you glad that when you exchange glances with someone you think is cute that they don’t pull out their badge and haul you in for conspiracy to commit sodomy?

if a civilian hadn’t killed mark carson I’m sure a cop would’ve been happy to

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:34:48 -0400

by the way, I don’t feel I have adequately elucidated my...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:24:56 -0400

by the way, I don’t feel I have adequately elucidated my relationship with Carol Channing to you

I have made most of the people who are close to me watch this video

watch this video right now or unfollow me

I’m serious; this will be strictly enforced

also the villain sidekick owl voiced by Ed Asner terrified small me

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:22:34 -0400

i forgot the owl completely

is this thing on youtube

my god

OH MY GOD I remember that movie? I was super bitter as a kid that I didn't have any of the advertised toys of the characters at the end; I think I tried to make a little paper mascot of the Dwarfelle Tracey Ullman voiced to carry in my pocket but if I remember correctly she ended up washed in the laundry and that was the end of that.

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:22:07 -0400

THANK YOU. You’re like the only one and I’m so glad.

I need a rewatch. I need a rewatch because this movie might explain my relationship to Carol Channing. It needs explaining.

just rediscovered Happily Ever After, the animated off brand Snow White sequel from 1993! it was...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:46:00 -0400

just rediscovered Happily Ever After, the animated off brand Snow White sequel from 1993!

it was one of those Blockbuster movies, you know? that was like only ever at Blockbuster? kind of like Sandlot, but like, not good?

it’s about how Snow White has to rescue her prince because MALCOLM MCDOWELL (as the villain of the piece) has stolen him away

she hooks up with a group of Dwarfelles (the capitalization of this term is standard usage according to the wiki article) which includes CAROL CHANNING and ZSA ZSA GABOR

Carol Channing portrays:

Muddy: a Dwarfelle who has power over the earth it self, and as such performs such tricks as causing minor tremors and such. She feels most comfortable playing in the mud.

PHYLLIS DILLER PORTRAYS MOTHER NATURE

the most powerful force of good in this movie, having complete control over nature, as well as the ability to create creatures from potions she makes in her sanctuary. Upon Lord Maliss’ [EDITOR’S NOTE: MALCOLM MCDOWELL] attack on Snow White who is with the Seven Dwarfelles in Mother Nature’s garden, Mother Nature surrounds her corporeal self with massive amounts of electrical energy, and blasts Lord Maliss out of the air. She then creates a divide in the land with a flick of her hand so he can not get to them. She is then seen in the end magically transporting herself to Lord Maliss’ castle.

there’s nothing I can say, is there

formative

psst for bandcamp music, i really like maya kern's! it's kind of comfy and cute and about having a lot of feelings, and sometimes they are sad feelings but it's okay, and also loving your friends! mayakern[.]com/pages/music[.]html good luck on your music listening adventures, friend!

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:37:11 -0400

THANK :D

do you all have artists who have bandcamps to recommend? I just got a streaming app & I want...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:13:41 -0400

do you all have artists who have bandcamps to recommend? I just got a streaming app & I want good walking music!

you are so terribly handsome and dear I just want to sweep you up and twirl you my darling my darling I am so Fond <3

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:08:58 -0400

oh pip oh pip

pippinnnn

did you know that anytime someone mentions your general geographic area I’m always like I KNOW THE COOLEST CATS OVER THERE

such a cool cat :3

"she was reading becoming a visible man and was incredibly frustrated by it, which like, of course she was?!?!?" Why was she incredibly frustrated by it? I've read a few trans autobiographies but I haven't read that one. Thanks :)

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:05:00 -0400

well, becoming a visible man has a pretty straightforward linear narrative of transness as I recollect (I read it years ago, though) and james green in general has a certain way of going about his transness that’s very much of his time and his generation, you know? neither my friend nor I feel that his way of going about transness is very applicable to the way we live our lives as a trans person and a cis person with a lot of important trans people in her life, respectively. I don’t mean to speak unkindly of green’s book, which has undoubtedly helped out a lot of people, but it’s not a book that I think is very illuminating about what it means to be a young trans guy in 2013. does that make sense?

well if you're straight and you wanna talk shit about Bosie for how he managed living as a gay man in a homophobic society, that's obnoxious, but he was also a fairly awful person whose major literary contribution aside from the famous poem was translating and publishing Protocols of the Elders of Zion and publishing excitable rants about blood sacrifice, so like (little known fact!) (not at all mad, just, little know fact!)

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:03:16 -0400

he was a pretty skeevy dude! he was a nazi sympathizer! there are so many reasons to hate on bosie, you know? I’m mostly talking about the people who hate on him for his behavior w/r/t oscar

most of the world wants to punish him not for being a nazi sympathizer or a total creep or a bad writer, but for having managed a relationship disastrously in his early twenties!

that is so weird to me

if I see one more entirely circular and entirely anti-pragmatic online conversation that repeats...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:16:00 -0400

if I see one more entirely circular and entirely anti-pragmatic online conversation that repeats over and over “we need intersectionality” with literally no definition of intersectionality or discussion of what that might mean other than a reference to some four line dictionary-style definition or to Crenshaw’s original conception (which couldn’t possibly be flawed, right?!?!)

I’m going to

freak

out

whererabbitsgowild: delicatedemons:Nancy Sinatra

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:15 -0400

whererabbitsgowild:

delicatedemons:Nancy Sinatra

well this blog is now about me exorcising my frustrations about how people talk about Oscar Wilde...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:55:32 -0400

well this blog is now about me exorcising my frustrations about how people talk about Oscar Wilde and Bosie! so that’s very eighth grade of me

another small confession I get that it’s an established activity to talk shit about Bosie and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:54:25 -0400

another small confession

I get that it’s an established activity to talk shit about Bosie and how poorly he behaved, and to an extent I can understand this, but if you’re straight and you spend time talking shit on Bosie, I think you are a homophobic dilettante :)

small confession because I’m trying to deal with myself I judge people who are really really...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:48:00 -0400

small confession because I’m trying to deal with myself

I judge people who are really really into Wilde, talk about Wilde in public space a lot, and do not deal with the consequences of being visibly queer in the world. I judge them more if they refer to Wilde’s gayness as an important part of why he matters to them.

I’m the worst.

now is a good time to remind yourself of how rad willow smith...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:05:25 -0400

now is a good time to remind yourself of how rad willow smith is, no photoshop needed <3

hey

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:58:00 -0400

so you may have noticed that a while back I reblogged a pic that was supposedly of Willow Smith wearing a shirt with Gloria Anzaldua’s name, Angela Davis’s name, bell hooks’s name, and Audre Lorde’s name! I didn’t have any context for it—who’d made the shirt, how Willow had one, etc etc—and I found out later that Willow never actually wore that shirt at all, and the larger context of this shirt is a problem mired in non-Black appropriation of Black bodies and Black work.

so, I deleted the reblog, but I wanted to let you know about the photo’s context for accountability/informative purposes! I hope you are having a good day.

PS. I’d like to say that I’ll be more careful in the future about factchecking whether or not people are actually wearing what they seem to be wearing in pictures I post/reblog, but like—how hard is it to realize that photoshopping someone’s clothes w/o explaining that you’re photoshopping them is kind of a violating thing to do, whatever the larger political context? geez