WRATH OF SWEET SOURDOUGH

Roo Franks

[welcometoyouredoom]

[wrathofsweetsourdough]

Good to see Chris Pratt in more films. This franchise is a childhood favorite of mine. Incidentally, my brother wanted to name our baby sister "Jurassic Park."

[medievalpoc]

You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all.

Junot Díaz on race and representation in media (via medievalpoc)

Yes.

I've not been able to express before what I wanted for my children.

I want books, toys, films, etc., that have reflections of all cultures and peoples so that when they go out into the world, they will see and recognize all the different components of this place. I do not want them to be blind to anyone or anything.

They must know that the world does not belong to them. There's too much of it. But, rather than owning the earth, being neighbors, knowing the other people who live here, is the point.

[wrathofsweetsourdough]

My children will play these one day.

[crossconnectmag]

Andreas Nitschke is a german based collage artist, originally from Hannover and lives and works currently in Bielefeld. He focuses on unorthodox and controversial-looking portraits, creatures and topics. His work deals with the question of Ugly in all of us. His asking is unpleasant and drastic… like: What will appear in human physiognomy if we are overwhelmed by hatred or violence? All his disturbing Collages transcend and clarify the found photographs from magazines and newspapers in a higher, in a touching and cryptic and poetic level. So… fasten your seat belts, the art of Andreas Nitschke can hit us with full force and right between the eyes!

Andreas: Tumblr, Facebook

[wrathofsweetsourdough]

Art that asks of us.

[therumpus]

The opposite of creativity is control. And so, to make something new, when you look at that blank piece of paper, you have to not know what’s gonna be there in order to create something. If you’re gonna be like, “I’ve got this thing I’m gonna do and I’ve got this plan,” that’s not the same thing as not knowing. And starting anyway. So the album—it’s not a children’s record—but it’s all the stuff that I want her to know. And it’s not all positive, because another real important part of this is being optimistic and realistic at the same time. You have to have your eyes open. Although the fool on the tarot card has his eyes closed as he steps over the edge.

The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Guy Forsyth speaks with May Cobb about his new record, The Freedom to Fail (via therumpus)

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ASUKA: "I'm just not suited to be a nurse." KURAHASHI: "Is that bad? Not being suited? There's this ice fish. By continuing to live in the hostile environment of the Antartic, its body has evolved so it won't freeze. A place that might seem completely unsuitable may actually be a good place for you to evolve." (町医者ジャンボ, 2013, translation by Crunchyroll)

[therumpus]

Back when I was in Miller’s classes as an MFA student at the University of Arkansas, he would repeat, approximately 6.023 * 1023 times per semester, that “a poem lies its way to the truth.” In “Let me tell you,” he says something similar. After telling the reader that your first job is to “First notice everything” and “memorize it,” he completes the thought with “You cannot twist the fact you do not know.” In other words, facts are only useful as tools to get to your larger truth, and if you have to mangle them a little to get there, that’s fine. The important thing is that you have them to twist.

The Last Poem I Loved: “Let Me Tell You” by Miller Williams by Brian Spears. (via therumpus)

From my hands to yours, dear reader, truth mangled.

[wrathofsweetsourdough]

日本語で書きましょう!

[therumpus]

Among the initiatives I would spearhead include getting myself into the payroll system, getting signed up for Direct Deposit, and demonstrating my organization and computer skills, which I have in abundance. These bounteous cover letters I have dynamically generated have taken superhuman levels of comprehension to even tell the difference between or among. The tiny nuances, the creative phrasemaking, the polite dickering—not many could measure the cognitive, yet dynamic, spearheading that has gone on there, unpaid.

Funny Women #123: Cover Letter Template by Kristy Eldredge (via therumpus)

If I had the guts to submit this with my next job application...

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Logos and Pathos

I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but I’m shamelessly infiltrating my friends’ bands. Not in a priggish way; I’m not trying to become a member or even an honorary member. I’m no musician. No, I want to design merch for them.

My brother and three other mutual friends comprise Hell’s Orphans. For them, I’ve created a few 80’s comics-inspired designs. I’d like to print these logos on some shot glasses and matchbooks…

Then, my friend Derek plays bass for a band titled Jim Jones Jr. My brainchild for them is a multi-hued, geometric logo of their name. Akin to an old 3-D image; I want it to have an intro to hallucinogenics vibe.

I can’t decide whether this desire to contribute is born of my friendship or a creative contagion or if I simply want to dabble in genres I’d never pursue on my own (I’m more of a folk gothic, myself.)

Whatever the case, I’m treading another delicate line. Firstly, I don’t want to be a dick. But also, my gender puts an iffy aspect into play. The first time I suggest any of these ideas or offer finished products, those boys may regard me as though I’m some desperate groupie. Or worse, I may receive the feminist’s bane: the “oh you had a cute idea” look. Maybe not. Maybe it’s more likely I’ll get the “we just want to hang out jam and you made more work for us” look.

Being friends with boys is difficult sometimes. Being friends with musicians is difficult regardless. But, I’m an artist, so I can’t resist.

I’ll design the logos, consequences be damned.

[huffpost]

If Asian Women Hit On White Dudes The Way White Dudes Hit On Asian Women

 you’ve never heard of the social phenomenon “yellow fever,” vlogger and actressJoy Regullano explains it hilariously well in her YouTube series “White Fetish.”

Watch the full video as it  highlights the absurd comments many American Asian women receive from white men,

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All flirting is pathetic and embarrassing (unless you're a sociopath) but toss some racism in there...

[publishersweekly-deactivated202]

"If you’re going to do a thing, do it fully, so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you — so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn’t throw away and had to find a place for."

-Lydia Millet (source)

Nobody respects a regifter.

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The Skeletal Structure of Japanese Horror Fiction

Mankind has been telling scary stories ever since we decided to start telling stories at all. It only makes sense—a lot of scary crap happens in life. The horror genre was born from folklore and oral tradition that explored death, sadness, and the unexplained, and grew into a contemporary form of entertainment with a host […]

Wonderful article explaining the differences between Western story structure and Japanese story structure.

[brutereason]

You don’t necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledged your privilege. You don’t have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about. They might endure situations you can never know anything about. You could, however, use that privilege for the greater good—to try to level the playing field for everyone, to work for social justice, to bring attention to how those without certain privileges are disenfranchised. We’ve seen what the hoarding of privilege has done, and the results are shameful.

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist (via brutereason)

From Roxanne Gay's newly-released Bad Feminist. I haven't read it, so I could not, with integrity, vote for it on Goodreads.com's 2014 best books contest, but it was tempting, let me tell you!

[therumpus]

You know, I’m kind of blind to my own meaning when I’m writing—like, this fortress-for-shelter idea, it’s totally obvious, right, but I didn’t see it that way when I was writing it. I was just starting from the question: if this guy has any money in his pocket, where’d it come from? And I thought about mail-order, about how there was a time where if you had a decent mail-order gig—record distros, zines, presumably all kinds of things that weren’t on my radar—you could even end up having that as your day job. That was the beginning idea. From there, I said: what kind of mail-order might he run? I didn’t want to make him a music dude. And then I just sort of thought about a game, something that would be fun—and then I wrote the ceiling bit, and I thought about tracing patterns in ceilings when you’re lying on your back someplace.

The Rumpus Interview With John Darnielle (via therumpus)

The story emerges when the writer asks himself or herself questions. Lovely mystery, writing.

[wrathofsweetsourdough]

"If I broke all the rules of punctuation, had words mean whatever I wanted them to mean, and strung them together higgledy-piggledy, I would simply not be understood. Readers want our pages to look very much like pages they have seen before. Why? This is because they themselves have a tough job to do, and they need all the help they can get from us.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut Explains “How to Write With Style”

If you feel the need for tips on developing a writing style, you probably don't look right to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' journal Transactions on Professional Communications.

I read Breakfast of Champions a year ago and am now nominating it for my book club. Vonnegut's style is instantly recognizable. Let him teach you his dark art.