luxury tight

another armenian in montréal.

[mrdiv]

design_takes_time

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git out the way! 

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[jimrugg]

LA WEEKLY Armenian Power Illustration (and sketches)

Here is the article…

[treedance]

Catching Up on Syria

Earlier this week, a friend asked me what the best way to get caught up with what’s going on in Syria is. I’m not a fan of most cable channels because they tend to make one feel compelled to have an opinion, jump in on the debate, or pass judgement before being fully informed. So here’s a reading round-up:

The Basics:

Key Questions on the Conflict in Syria

Washington’s Road Map to Syria Strike

A visual timeline of the war since 2011

A video on the global players

And then there's Mother Jones’ guide to the debate, which is always an easy, and comprehensive read, the Washington Post's 9 Questions About Syria You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask, and Children’s BBC, which, yes, is for children, but for those trying to catch up, helpful.

Diving Deeper/Interesting Tangential Thoughts:

Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West (NYT)

Why I Fight for a Free Syria: A Graphic Story (Al Jazeera America)

A Former Syrian Soldier’s Story (The Daily Beast)

Interview with a War Photographer (The Washington Post)

Syria, War & the Democratic Demands of Journalism (J. Stearns)

If you want to spent some time digging into the past, present and future coverage on the issues, go to directly to Syria Deeply, and/or the NY Times Crisis in Syria page, from which some of the above links were selected.

[sewercritter]

[iuliolus]

[luxurytight]

The Summer That Never Was

In middle age, the last days of August bring not just melancholy, but a sense of desolation, as of a possibility lost forever.

This quote really stuck out for me: 

“I suspect that the way I feel now, at summer’s end, is about how I’ll feel at the end of my life, assuming I have time and mind enough to reflect: bewildered by how unexpectedly everything turned out, regretful about all the things I didn’t get around to, clutching the handful of friends and funny stories I’ve amassed, and wondering where it all went. And I’ll probably still be evading the same truth I’m evading now: that the life I ended up with, much as I complain about it, was pretty much the one I chose. And my dissatisfactions with it are really with my own character, with my hesitation and timidity.”

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[oddbeing]

[voxpluma]

Melina’s is one of those places that’s actually as cool as your excited roommate says it is.

It’s not armsleeves, touques in the summer and their buddy’s band drifting over a sea of macbooks. It’s the type of place you walk into and want to stay for an obnoxious amount of time, which is...

[luxurytight]

I love Joanna! 

[socialismartnature]

The inferiority of women is man-made.

American author, activist, and lecturer Helen Keller, June 11, 1916 (via sociolab)

[untrustyou]

Jess Gough

[glassbonespaperskin]

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yes

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Club Med membership card from 1957. 

[maarnayeri-blog]

The constant reference of Zionists as Nazis is such a bizarre and historically incoherent trend.

Sure, I suppose you can liken certain aspects of Israel’s atrocious policies against Palestinians to the ideological premise and political manifestation of Nazism, but from a...