Days of Chad

Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection.

[s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[daysofchad]

Of course Sufjan has been collecting copies of The Watchtower from JWs in subway stations for years.

[brainstatic]

Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.

[iwillseethegoodness]

This is the first I’ve heard this and, while I shouldn’t be surprised since Hefner was a dirtbag, I still somehow am. I am disgusted. 

[daysofchad]

The three episodes that You Must Remember This did about Marilyn Monroe were some of the best and most informative things I’ve ever encountered about her life. Definitely worth a listen.

http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2017/3/13/marilyn-monroe-the-persona-dead-blondes-episode-7?rq=marilyn%20monroe

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

The mooch is so far the best late season 2 cast addition i’ve ever seen

[daysofchad]

Wait this is season 2 already?? Aren't we only 6 months in?

[daysofchad]

Emile Zola and György Lukács throwing shade at the New Journalists from the grave. Also I think that dark figure below them is Ed Ruscha throwing a typewriter out his car window.

[daysofchad]

My friend and writing partner drew a picture/map of my dissertation chapter that features Joan Didion driving to Berkeley in her Corvette Stingray and I love everything about it.

[daysofchad]

As bad as tumblr ads are generally, I’ve never seen one so explicitly rapey. And is it just me, or are the mobile ads 20x worse than the non-mobile ones? Also, "wedding gifts"?????

[iwillseethegoodness]

Missing Therapist Update

So the whole reason I made an appointment with Ghost Therapist was because a therapist I saw years ago recommended him. So I just sent the original guy an email that was like um so you referred me to this guy and he stood me up and never contacted me, FYI. And then I got an auto reply that said that he’s on vacation and if it’s an emergency, contact….. Ghost Therapist. 

[daysofchad]

[rhubabby]

-_- and :/ are irreplaceable emoticons that emojis will never be able to touch

[daysofchad]

Also ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the best thing about -_- is that you can make the mouth really wide like a whale who's totally over it, e.g. -__________-

[longform]

In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.

Mike Dash | Smithsonian | Jan 2013

[daysofchad]

This is one of my all-time favorite articles, and, for some reason, this paragraph  stuck with me particularly. I think about it all the time:

Famine was an ever-present danger in these circumstances, and in 1961 it snowed in June. The hard frost killed everything growing in their garden, and by spring the family had been reduced to eating shoes and bark. Akulina chose to see her children fed, and that year she died of starvation. The rest of the family were saved by what they regarded as a miracle: a single grain of rye sprouted in their pea patch. The Lykovs put up a fence around the shoot and guarded it zealously night and day to keep off mice and squirrels. At harvest time, the solitary spike yielded 18 grains, and from this they painstakingly rebuilt their rye crop

[theonion]

Total Dipshit Fans Think Pop-Up Fly Ball Going To Be Home Run

[shitmystudentswrite]

Octopi

Think about octopi. There are no ‘rich octopi’ or ‘poor octopi’ there are only octopi trying to survive.

[daysofchad]

Peak Wuthering Heights

[mypubliclands]

Happy First Day of Spring: Stop and Smell the Flowers this Spring!

Photos by Bob Wick, BLM.

Enjoy longer days and more sunlight on your public lands, starting with BLM-managed Desert Lily Preserve, which is thriving during this year’s #superbloom! The Desert Lilies are blooming by the tens of thousands here at their namesake reserve. 

Located about 8 miles north of I 10 at Desert Center, the Desert Lilly preserve was first protected in 1968 and is now part of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan Conservation Lands. The hike to the most dense bloom is ½ mile from the BLM parking area, so make sure to be prepared for a walk. Take the time this spring to take a hike and stop and smell the flowers on #yourpubliclands!

All across the southwest, we’re tracking the bloom and hope you’ll join us this spring on your public lands. Be sure to use the hashtag #TracktheBloom and click here for more information. 

[daysofchad]

Is there anything more disgusting than these contractors clamoring to build Trump's border wall to enrich themselves?

[daysofchad]

This biography of Joan Didion is GRIM. And occasionally ridiculous.

[serpentandstang-deactivated2021]

when in doubt, the citation of choice

[daysofchad]

I’m teaching Pride and Prejudice next week for my British literature survey, and the author of the introduction in this edition literally spends a paragraph speculating about how hot Mr. and Mrs. Bennet were for each other early on in their marriage.