THE NEIGHBOR BOY

Tales from the boy next door. I'm the reason your dad spent so much time in the garage. Pipe, cigar and GPOY all tagged appropriately Scruffy Alaskan cheffy food scientist inColumbus, OH. Kinda smutty, hella nerdy. Aka CubbyChef.Tumblr.com.

[ars-hermetica]

Finally found a good barber, only took 5 years lol

[greenhairedlink]

I really really need people who believe he actually wrote that "manifesto" and journal to consider why the cops have not given that over to the defense.

Really think about why the case that has been doing really crazy things like a perp walk out of nowhere, multiple documentaries BEFORE a trial, making it political by having the mayor show up, speak about it, and then be interviewed on HBO, in a documentary that brings up "evidence" the defense has never received, with the Chief of Detectives also being there, cops being rewarded for catching someone who still hasn't been found guilty, nor even indicted, the DOJ being pressured by health insurance leaders to throw federal charges against Luigi, also the DOJ being the ones who barred him from attending the court hearing in PA, the fact they haven't gotten an indictment yet

There is just so much reasonable doubt around his guilt.

Jury nullification isn't the only outcome here.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[bauliya]

arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she's lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.

[doomhope]

[ID: Tweet by M. @nuhhhnsense posted May 12, 2021. It reads: "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." -Arundhati Roy. This quote knocked like 16 years of liberal pacifism out of me in one go. /End ID]

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[idlnmclean]

*taps the Kwame Ture quote*

[2spirit-0spoons-deactivated2024]

[melonmemes]

[magneticpup]

(via TumbleOn)

[ars-hermetica]

Felt fuckin cute

[ars-hermetica]

It's been a while

[therealklt]

I'm tired of culture being dictated by a loud minority who aren't mature enough to watch a sex scene, think that exploring a theme is the same as promoting it, and who want stories to be sterile and unchallenging. No one should be taking their cues on art or morality from a bunch of intolerable shut-ins who spend their days wringing their hands over theory and participating in zero practice. Fuck these losers.

[kibumkim]

Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession

Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to

Kid reported his father missing

Police torture him into making him confess to killing his father

Father is alive and well

[grimeclown]

This whole thing is unspeakably cruel but here's some highlights

And then he had to GPS locate his fucking dog.

[wafflenati0n]

[undescribed1mage]

I think that we should take both states down with one hit

[radicalgraff]

Posters seen at Riis Beach, NYC

[ars-hermetica]

Making my way downtown

[adhdxxsdiary]

[axolotlandalite]

[charlesoberonn]

That's not how demographics work.

[steakplissken]

It could be if we’re all brave enough

[wizlor4]

Reblog to turn everybody gay by 2047

[theradicalace]

as always, xkcd has a comic for this

[lesbiantahani]

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

[ryebreadgf]

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

[homemade-ghosts]

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

[eugeniedanglars]

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

[seravph]

letters from Medea, salma deera

[mclennonyaoi]

if you sing an american idiot cover and you refuse to say faggot you’re horrible and boring and lame and i hate you i hate you i hate you.

[mclennonyaoi]

ok. well maybe i’m the faggot america. you ever thought of that.

[mclennonyaoi]

[prismatic-bell]

Just to be clear, Billie Joe Armstrong is…okay I forget at the moment if he’s bi or pan and my app has been resetting itself if I dip into another app so I don’t want to go look it up because I’ll lose this post, but he’s one of those.

NOW. It is important that you know Green Day was primarily a 90s band. This is important because it means they came of age in a time period where we were trying to reclaim “faggot,” and among the counterculture—which, again, was Green Day, they were a pop/punk fusion—it WAS within-the-community reclaimed. If you read a lot of queer zines from this period you’ll see it used routinely. Dan Savage’s advice column originally ran under the name “Hey, Faggot,” which he himself had chosen. There’s a section in the musical RENT where the characters refer to themselves as “faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too,” and while Jon Larson himself was straight he was writing as someone who was in daily contact with these cultures. Pride parades from the time often have it on at least one sign. This was not unusual language.

This is part of the background from which American Idiot was born. It came out in 2004, and while the queer movement was losing a little steam in the counterculture direction at that point (although not as badly as it has today, good lord), this was still an ongoing thing. I was hearing it as late as 2009.

This was, indeed, Billie Joe challenging the mainstream that had come to love Green Day: maybe I’M the faggot, did you think of that? We haven’t just supported queer artists, I AM a queer artist. Fuck you.

This whole album is political commentary. It’s practically a time capsule of Everything Wrong With The Bush Years, including Bush’s attempt to put “marriage is one man and one woman” in the Constitution. (This is why, as a Jew, I don’t object to the lyric “seig heil to President Gas Man.” It’s a pretty succinct takedown of the Islamophobia he stoked as a way to justify war with Iraq.)

So SING that “faggot,” and do it with your whole chest. It’s a word of anger and protest and taking back autonomy with your own two bloody hands.

Billie Joe wasn’t and isn’t ashamed to be a faggot, America. Don’t you be either.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

For some more historical context, 2004 was one year out from the historic Lawrence versus Texas decision that struck down the anti sodomy laws still in existence in multiple States at that time. Those laws essentially criminalize same-sex relationships. So it had only been legal to be gay in a good chunk of the United States for a year when this song came out. It was released amidst a flurry of defense of marriage acts across the country, where Americans voted state by state on whether or not marriage would be defined as one man and one woman, a reaction to Lawrence. A popular band singing this amidst all the hatred against us thanks to the legalization of queer sex, was a very bold move and absolutely a fuck you to this cultural context.

I grew up in the late 80s and the 90s and I can absolutely remember gay men calling themselves fags and faggots, as well as fairy faggots and other combinations. It was not uncommon, though I'm still uncomfortable with it myself due to how it was weaponized against a friend.

But that's OK. We should still support reclaiming it! And yes, I've been working on singing it in this song, because defiance is important, even if we have reasons to struggle with it's language.

[prismatic-bell]

ALL OF THIS.

This is a large part of why, as I’ve gotten older and the movement has weirdly gotten more conservative instead of progressive, I’ve started referring to myself as an old fag. I refuse to let that revolutionary spirit die.

[ars-hermetica]

Keep suckin, son, I’m almost there

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

I Love Lucy 4.19 ‘Lucy Gets Into Pictures’

[ars-hermetica]

Fuckin mood