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Check out this sun room.

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Aziz Ansari @ The Comedy Central Roast of James Franco

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Sufjan Short Stories Catalogue

I have been meaning to do this myself FOREVER, thanks to emblapolaris I don’t have to! This is a partial catalogue of Sufjan’s short stories over the past 2 decades or so. A lot of the links are from this blog’s “Writing” sidebar, so if you have other stories I haven’t included please pass them along and we’ll add them to this post. Thanks again emblapolaris!

Christmas Mysteries of the Chicken McNuggets as Explained by Macrobiotic Star People and Aunt Harriet’s Magic Ouija Board (printed story image link)

Christmas Tube Socks (printed story image link)

Santa Magic Hands

How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time

An Oboist With So-So Vibrato

All The Nonsense of Suffering

Michigan Essay

(The mysterious) Michigan stories

Topic Magazine Essay

What’s in a Name?

The Horror In All Of Us

(Plus a few other sidebar posts)

Toilet Paper Dolls (There are of course tons of these stories he tells onstage, but I included this one since he had written it down beforehand and read aloud)

We Are Shielded By the Holy Ghost

My Mother, King Tut

The Anchor (Writing he did for his college newspaper)

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Me: IDK Mad Max isnt my thing, I don't really get it.

MRA Activists: THE NEW MAD MAX MOVIE IS FEMINIST PROPAGANDA I WAS TRICKED INTO WATCHING!!!

Me: *immediately looks up Mad Max session times*

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Frank Ocean announces third album (read more)

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Mount Shasta, California in three hours

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“With this record, I needed to extract myself out of this environment of make-believe,” he says, pulling at his sneaker’s red tongue. “It’s something that was necessary for me to do in the wake of my mother’s death—to pursue a sense of peace and serenity in spite of suffering. It’s not really trying to say anything new, or prove anything, or innovate. It feels artless, which is a good thing. This is not my art project; this is my life.”

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Australia’s immigration laws are exceptional No country in the world, especially not comparable countries such as the UK, Canada, New Zealand and the US, mandates the indefinite detention of children as the first policy option and then denies them effective access to the courts to challenge the necessity of their detention over months and even years… 34 percent of children detained in Australia and Christmas Island have a mental health disorder of such severity that they require psychiatric support. Fewer than 2 percent of children in the general community have mental health disorders of this severity. We believe the rate to be even higher in Nauru. Children are self-harming in detention at very high rates – over a 15 month period from 2013-2014, there were 128 incidents of self-harm amongst children. During this same period there were 27 incidents of voluntary starvation involving children. Children have been exposed to unacceptable levels of assault, including sexual assault and violence in detention. They often live with adults who are mentally unwell. Children live in very cramped conditions where disease and fear spread quickly. On Christmas Island up to 4 people shared a tiny room of 2.5 x 3 metres Leading this Inquiry has been a life changing experience for me… as I talked to a very young girl - as bright and eager as any Australian… she broke down in tears, not because her family had been killed by Al Shabaab in Somalia or because she is alone and scared, but because she has been denied an education for a year on Christmas Island.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, releasing their Forgotten Children report on children in immigration detention (via tangararepublic)

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Lee Lin Chin 4 PM

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Earlier this morning, the nation’s breakfast hosts assembled on the lawns of Parliament House, expecting an uninterrupted broadcast of the day’s top story.The fate of Tony Abbott, not only the Prime Minister, but also the self-appointed ‘Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs’ attracted the likes of Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson, David Koch, Samantha Armytage and ‘that guy from Channel Ten’ (Hugh Rimington), all broadcasting alongside each other in makeshift studios open to the elements.

Unfortunately whilst mainstream media concentrated on the political future of a man who has done nothing for this nation’s most vulnerable, the other, more urgent story came to them. And they were too blind to see it.