shepherds not sheep

"It just got warm out, this this shit I’ve been warned about. I hope that it storm in the..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:13:00 -0400

“

It just got warm out, this this shit I’ve been warned about.
I hope that it storm in the morning, I hope that it’s pouring out.
I hate crowded beaches, I hate the sound of fireworks.
And I ponder what’s worse between knowing it’s over and dying first.
Cause everybody dies in the summer.
Wanna say ya goodbyes, tell them while it’s spring.
I heard everybody’s dying in the summer, so pray to God for a little more spring.

I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared, too.
If you was there, then we just knew you’d care, too.

”

- Chance The Rapper - Pusha Man

It’s nearly summer time Chicago. Stay safe.

"They merking kids, they murder kids here Why you think they don’t talk about it? They deserted..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:36 -0400

“They merking kids, they murder kids here
Why you think they don’t talk about it? They deserted us here
Where the fuck is Matt Lauer at? Somebody get Katie Couric in here
Probably scared of all the refugees, look like we had a fucking hurricane here
They be shooting whether it’s dark or not, I mean the days is pretty dark a lot
Down here it’s easier to find a gun than it is to find a fucking parking spot
No love for the opposition, specifically a cop position,
Cause they’ve never been in our position
Getting violations for the nation, correlating, you dry snitching”

- Chance The Rapper- “Pusha Man”

"The lone puppy, the intact horse, these are reported as though they are news but they are less..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:21:01 -0400

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The lone puppy, the intact horse, these are reported as though they are news but they are less significant when weighed against the children who may have drowned after their school collapsed on top of them. That kind of news is almost too much to bear, but it is what in fact happened. A puppy is an easier story to tell than the miles of red tape now-homeless survivors will face if they want to find long-term shelter or rebuild.

The truth is sometimes grim. Stories of survival can be difficult and won’t always have a happy ending.

But are we losing our ability to stomach unbrocaded reality?

”

- Jane McManus, “Silver Linings in Newscasts” (via bostonreview)

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wr3n: Jay Bakker, son of Jim & Tammy Faye, has moved to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:18:54 -0400

wr3n:

Jay Bakker, son of Jim & Tammy Faye, has moved to Minneapolis and started a church that meets at Bryant-Lake Bowl. Last week they served up rainbow sacrament in honor of the state’s legalization of gay marriage.

(via Rainbow Communion Bread: Jay Bakker’s Revolution Church Celebrates Minnesota Marriage Equality)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:16 -0400

wildandpeaceful: Previously posted about the graphic novel...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:24:10 -0400

wildandpeaceful:

Previously posted about the graphic novel series, Aya, beginning made into an animated film. The trailer to Aya of Yop City (Aya de Yopougon) is now on Youtube.

Read previous Aya posts here, here, and here.

donbenjna: #IWNY 2013 VICE, in partnership with iamOTHER, presents "Creators, Innovators, & Radicals"

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:12:50 -0400

donbenjna: #IWNY 2013 VICE, in partnership with iamOTHER, presents "Creators, Innovators, & Radicals":

xojennabond:

(May 21, 2013) Jenna Bond curated the VICE #IWNY panel, in partnership with iamOTHER, “Creators, Innovators, & Radicals,” which featured Jason Mojica, Producer of VICE for HBO; Adam Neuhaus, Senior Director of Development, @radical.media; Vivek Kemp, Senior Video Producer Fast Company; and…

sonofbaldwin: H/T TheGrio! “This is racism right...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:09:11 -0400

sonofbaldwin:

H/T TheGrio!

“This is racism right here”. Kids know more than we give them credit for. This boy just read Rahm Emanuel his rights.

newmodelminority: Peep the titles. I LURVE that aesthetic to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:02:21 -0400

newmodelminority:

Peep the titles. I LURVE that aesthetic to this day. Totally a 90’s thing. Martin. Just Another Girl, In Living Color and Do the Right Thing…(Which was the 80’s….but still)

coolchicksfromhistory: Frances Wilson, 1961. Frances, a 23 year...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:02:00 -0400

coolchicksfromhistory:

Frances Wilson, 1961.

Frances, a 23 year old student at Tennessee State University, was expelled for her participation in the Freedom Rides along with 14 other students. In 2008, the expelled students all received honorary doctorates from Tennessee State University. Sadly, Frances did not live long enough to receive her degree.

livelymorgue: A March 13, 1960, article described the public’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:56:57 -0400

livelymorgue:

A March 13, 1960, article described the public’s indictment of bus drivers, accusing them of “sometimes deliberately slamming on their brakes to shake up riders” or “refusing to pull up at the curb unless there is a puddle there.” Reported by Gay Talese, who “avoids taking sides in the busman-passenger fracas by traveling to work on the subway,” the piece endeavored to tell the story from the driver’s point of view, a “story of how 10,000 drivers each day battle the world’s worst traffic while being abused by old ladies, shortchanged by schoolboys, cut off by cabs and squeezed by trucks.” Photo: Sam Falk/The New York Times

iwakeupblack: made it to the 2nd round of interviews

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:54 -0400

iwakeupblack:

made it to the 2nd round of interviews

my life.

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:21 -0400

my life.

timeshaiku: A haiku from the article: How Tracy Mack-Askew,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:36:50 -0400

timeshaiku:

A haiku from the article: How Tracy Mack-Askew, Chevrolet Vehicle Line Manager, Does It

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:35:35 -0400

All Their Stanzas Look Alike

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:08 -0400

All their fences

All their prisons

All their exercises

All their agendas

All their stanzas look alike

All their metaphors

All their bookstores

All their plantations

All their assassinations

All their stanzas look alike

All their rejection letters

All their letters to the editor

All their arts and letters

All their letters of recommendation

All their stanzas look alike

All their sexy coverage

All their literary journals

All their car commercials

All their bribe-spiked blurbs

All their stanzas look alike

All their favorite writers

All their writing programs

All their visiting writers

All their writers-in-residence

All their stanzas look alike

All their third worlds

All their world series

All their serial killers

All their killing fields

All their stanzas look alike

All their state grants

All their tenure tracks

All their artist colonies

All their core faculties

All their stanzas look alike

All their Selected Collecteds

All their Oxford Nortons

All their Academy Societies

All their Oprah Vendlers

All their stanzas look alike

All their haloed holocausts

All their coy hetero couplets

All their hollow haloed causes

All their tone-deaf tercets

All their stanzas look alike

All their tables of contents

All their Poet Laureates

All their Ku Klux classics

All their Supreme Court justices

Except one, except one

Exceptional one. Exceptional or not,

One is not enough.

All their stanzas look alike.

Even this, after publication,

Might look alike. Disproves

My stereo types.

- THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS

Nearly a decade later and these YCA kids are still some of my...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:56:31 -0400

Nearly a decade later and these YCA kids are still some of my closest friends.

Adam, Deja, Toaster, me, and Dell. We were in bumblefuck Wisconsin for a writing program.

Adam, Malcolm, Nate, Ona and I representing Young Chicago...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:48:42 -0400

Adam, Malcolm, Nate, Ona and I representing Young Chicago Authors (alumni) at Louder Than a Bomb DMV.

Thinking about the fact that I’ve known Adam for ten years. Known Nate since I was 16. Ona since I was 17. I feel old.

blackandkillingit: fashiondailymag: love this, just riding...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:50:48 -0400

blackandkillingit:

fashiondailymag:

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