The Dirty Couch Chronicles

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Photos From The Museum Of Moving Image; Horror Movies:


All my horror-loving followers, here are some actual props and prosthetic piece(s) I saw at the Museum Of Moving Image.

1. The original claw Freddy Krueger wore in Nightmare on Elm Street, along with his ripped sweater and prosthetic piece. (I think the 3rd film)

2. The animatronic of Regan from The Exorcist (From the head-spinning scene, as you can tell by the clear separation of her neck and shoulders.

3. The prosthetic legs of a character from Black Swan, which I haven’t seen yet.

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I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
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moniquill: bossymarmalade: I am really repulsed by this judgy, jingoistic new trend in calling food “clean”. Browsing Pinterest I saw a recipe for “Clean banana bread: with honey and applesauce instead of oil and sugar!” Prevention.com has an awards slideshow of the “100 Cleanest Packaged Foods”, which includes products like Stonyfield Greek Yogurt, about which the ad copy bleats, “it has just one ingredient. Now that’s clean”.  Not a word choice I would use for a food that’s produced through bacterial fermentation. Which is my point: it seems like a significant disconnect, the construction of Clean Food with no real concept of the realities of how your food works — and yet another way to make healthier food options into an issue of class, wealth, and morality. Calling foods that aren’t highly processed “clean” immediately renders other foods “dirty”, and the people who eat them dirty by extension. Most of the clean items on the slideshow are pretty damn expensive, and you can only get them in certain stores; I say this as a Canadian with easy access to a car and multiple specialty groceries. Hell, I say this as a Canadian who, like many ordinary people, has already made an effort to simplify and streamline her diet to cut out more processed foods, within the confines of her budget and energy. And all of this, of course, is before you even look at the fact that “clean eating” is touted as part of a fitness regime to help lose weight. Because being fat — like being poor, like eating foods that are part of your culture and include oil and eggs and sugar — is the same as being dirty. And clean eating will cure you of being dirty. I mean, to me, “clean eating” means food security. It means you had access to safe water and food ingredients, somewhere adequate for food preparation, something clean to eat your meal off of. It doesn’t mean stuff that costs you way too much at Whole Foods, but will make you slim, sanitized, and superior to all those fat poor people eating their dirty food. Reblogging for commentary. Rank-ordering foods on a moral/orthdox scale is seriously problematic. Know that constitutes healthy food? Food that provides you with nutrition in the form of accessible calories and doesn’t rip up your digestive system (subjective to individuals! Some foods are perfectly health for some people and unhealthy for others!) or cause you to have cancer (Carcinogenic ingredients should be banned at the processing level so that they’re not IN processed foods). That is healthy food. Butter pound cake with cream cheese frosting is healthy food. A chunk of flank steak smothered in whiskey and honey is healthy food. A giant bowl of chili is healthy food (with or without beans in it!). Duck fat melted into a pile of rosemary-infused mashed potatoes is healthy food. The overwhelming majority of foods that haven’t been utterly fucked with through super-refinement and chemical amendment are, by the grace of four billion years of evolution, HEALTHY FOOD.  Boiling a slice of potato in oil does not render it unhealthy. And even when foods are unarguably unhealthy and cause the people who eat them to be ill? EATING THEM IS NOT A MORAL CONCERN. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON IF YOU EAT UNHEALTHY FOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU DO IT. Healthiness is not a moral choice. You are allowed to make decisions in the full knowledge that they are unhealthy, because your body and your life are your own. It can get dicey if your health choices legitimately cause harm to others (I.E. cause you to neglect or abuse other people for whom you are responsible like children or elders) but if that’s off the table? YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN. And in any case whatosever: YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO BE OR STAY HEALTHY. Sure, health is nice. Many people choose to pursue it. Longevity is nice. Many people choose to pursue that. But they are not the only legitimate choices on earth, nor are they inherently better than making other life choices that counteract or sacrifice the above. If you tell me that eating all-butter pound cake will make me die at 50, whereas not eating that cake will allow me to live to 100, my choice becomes A fifty-year life with cake vs. A hundred year life without And know what? If I decide that fifty years of delicious cake is a worthwhile endeavor and a well-spent life, one I’d prefer to a cakeless life no matter how long? THAT’S MY CHOICE. IT IS PERFECTLY VALID. (Note: Any civilization that is not attempting with all of its effort to ensure that every single person in it can CHOOSE healthy food if they want it is a piss-poor civilization in need of serious overhaul. Being poor should not mean being REQUIRED to eat unhealthy food to survive.) On the same note and specifically concerning the article above, and pointing out how absurd it is? Know what CLEAN food is? FOOD YOU WASHED. My home-grown organic veggies, which are super-nutritious and ‘wholesome’,  grow out of a pile of composted horse shit, dead fish, and vegetation, in a soil that’s chock full of fungal mycelium and microorganisms and insects. They come into my house absolutely swimming with bacteria, fungal spores, etc. Then I spray them down with some nice 1:20 bleach solution and give them a good rinse and they become clean. That’s what clean means.

moniquill:

bossymarmalade:

I am really repulsed by this judgy, jingoistic new trend in calling food “clean”. Browsing Pinterest I saw a recipe for “Clean banana bread: with honey and applesauce instead of oil and sugar!” Prevention.com has an awards slideshow of the “100 Cleanest Packaged Foods”, which includes products like Stonyfield Greek Yogurt, about which the ad copy bleats, “it has just one ingredient. Now that’s clean”.  Not a word choice I would use for a food that’s produced through bacterial fermentation.

Which is my point: it seems like a significant disconnect, the construction of Clean Food with no real concept of the realities of how your food works — and yet another way to make healthier food options into an issue of class, wealth, and morality. Calling foods that aren’t highly processed “clean” immediately renders other foods “dirty”, and the people who eat them dirty by extension.

Most of the clean items on the slideshow are pretty damn expensive, and you can only get them in certain stores; I say this as a Canadian with easy access to a car and multiple specialty groceries. Hell, I say this as a Canadian who, like many ordinary people, has already made an effort to simplify and streamline her diet to cut out more processed foods, within the confines of her budget and energy.

And all of this, of course, is before you even look at the fact that “clean eating” is touted as part of a fitness regime to help lose weight. Because being fat — like being poor, like eating foods that are part of your culture and include oil and eggs and sugar — is the same as being dirty. And clean eating will cure you of being dirty.

I mean, to me, “clean eating” means food security. It means you had access to safe water and food ingredients, somewhere adequate for food preparation, something clean to eat your meal off of. It doesn’t mean stuff that costs you way too much at Whole Foods, but will make you slim, sanitized, and superior to all those fat poor people eating their dirty food.

Reblogging for commentary.

Rank-ordering foods on a moral/orthdox scale is seriously problematic.

Know that constitutes healthy food? Food that provides you with nutrition in the form of accessible calories and doesn’t rip up your digestive system (subjective to individuals! Some foods are perfectly health for some people and unhealthy for others!) or cause you to have cancer (Carcinogenic ingredients should be banned at the processing level so that they’re not IN processed foods). That is healthy food. Butter pound cake with cream cheese frosting is healthy food. A chunk of flank steak smothered in whiskey and honey is healthy food. A giant bowl of chili is healthy food (with or without beans in it!). Duck fat melted into a pile of rosemary-infused mashed potatoes is healthy food. The overwhelming majority of foods that haven’t been utterly fucked with through super-refinement and chemical amendment are, by the grace of four billion years of evolution, HEALTHY FOOD. 

Boiling a slice of potato in oil does not render it unhealthy.

And even when foods are unarguably unhealthy and cause the people who eat them to be ill?

EATING THEM IS NOT A MORAL CONCERN. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON IF YOU EAT UNHEALTHY FOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU DO IT.

Healthiness is not a moral choice. You are allowed to make decisions in the full knowledge that they are unhealthy, because your body and your life are your own. It can get dicey if your health choices legitimately cause harm to others (I.E. cause you to neglect or abuse other people for whom you are responsible like children or elders) but if that’s off the table? YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN. And in any case whatosever:

YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO BE OR STAY HEALTHY.

Sure, health is nice. Many people choose to pursue it. Longevity is nice. Many people choose to pursue that. But they are not the only legitimate choices on earth, nor are they inherently better than making other life choices that counteract or sacrifice the above.

If you tell me that eating all-butter pound cake will make me die at 50, whereas not eating that cake will allow me to live to 100, my choice becomes

A fifty-year life with cake

vs.

A hundred year life without

And know what? If I decide that fifty years of delicious cake is a worthwhile endeavor and a well-spent life, one I’d prefer to a cakeless life no matter how long? THAT’S MY CHOICE. IT IS PERFECTLY VALID.

(Note: Any civilization that is not attempting with all of its effort to ensure that every single person in it can CHOOSE healthy food if they want it is a piss-poor civilization in need of serious overhaul. Being poor should not mean being REQUIRED to eat unhealthy food to survive.)

On the same note and specifically concerning the article above, and pointing out how absurd it is?

Know what CLEAN food is?

FOOD YOU WASHED.

My home-grown organic veggies, which are super-nutritious and ‘wholesome’,  grow out of a pile of composted horse shit, dead fish, and vegetation, in a soil that’s chock full of fungal mycelium and microorganisms and insects. They come into my house absolutely swimming with bacteria, fungal spores, etc. Then I spray them down with some nice 1:20 bleach solution and give them a good rinse and they become clean. That’s what clean means.

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fuckyeahnaturalstate: Mary Brown “Brownie” Williams Ledbetter (28 April 1932 - 21 March 2010) Mary Brown “Brownie” Williams Ledbetter was a lifelong political activist who worked in many controversial and crucial campaigns in Arkansas, as well as nationally and internationally. A catalyst in many local grassroots organizations, she exhibited a dedication to fair education and equality across racial, religious, and cultural lines. Born in Little Rock, Mary Brown Williams was the first of four children born to William H. Williams, a businessman and dairy farmer, and Helon Brown Williams. Born with brown eyes, she was nicknamed “Brownie” by her family. After her mother’s death in 1947 and her father’s death in 1950, Williams and her siblings were raised by relatives Grainger and Francis Williams, who moved into the Tall Timber Jersey Farm (the Williams family farm) with their own two children. Williams graduated from Little Rock High School (later named Central High School). She went on to attend Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, from 1950 to 1953 but felt she did not fit the image of Southern womanhood the school projected and did not finish her degree. On July 26, 1953, she married Calvin Reville Ledbetter, an attorney who later became a political science professor. The pair relocated to Germany, where Ledbetter was stationed with the U.S. Army, for two years before returning to the United States and residing first in Illinois and later in Arkansas. The couple had three children. While in Germany, Ledbetter learned about the growing crisis surrounding the desegregation of Central High School and was concerned about the ramifications for race relations and education in Arkansas. Her aunt signed Ledbetter, along with her sisters, up for the Women’s Emergency Committee to Save Our Schools support of the reopening of public schools in Little Rock. When Ledbetter returned to Little Rock, she immediately began volunteering with the group. . Brownie was a fierce advocate of women’s and civil rights, dedicating her life to a myriad of organizations: Arkansas State Central Democratic Committee (1968–1974) Arkansas Women’s Political Caucus (founding member) National Women’s Political Caucus (Political Action Chair, 1973) Arkansas State Democratic Party (Affirmative Action Committee Coordinator, 1973–1974) ERA/Arkansas Coalition (organizing member, 1973–1978), Southern Coalition for Educational Equity (state director, 1982–1985) Arkansas Fairness Council (founder & president, 1983–1998) Arkansas Career Resources, Inc. (founder and executive director, 1985–1990) Arkansas State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights American Civil Liberities Union of Arkansas (board member) State Federation of Business and Professional Women (legislative director) Women’s Environment and Development Organization (co-founder with Bella Azbug) National Congress of Neighborhood Women National Commission on Women Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood Women’s Environmental Development Organization (executive board member) US Women Connect. Women USA Fund Arkansas Citizen’s First Congress (founder) Community Advocates for Public Education Upon her death in 2010, Hillary Rodham Clinton described Brownie as “one of those tireless citizen activists who set out to improve their community and end up helping change the world.” With the recent attacks on women in the state, one can’t help but think this brilliant woman is surely rolling in her grave.

fuckyeahnaturalstate:

Mary Brown “Brownie” Williams Ledbetter (28 April 1932 - 21 March 2010)

Mary Brown “Brownie” Williams Ledbetter was a lifelong political activist who worked in many controversial and crucial campaigns in Arkansas, as well as nationally and internationally. A catalyst in many local grassroots organizations, she exhibited a dedication to fair education and equality across racial, religious, and cultural lines.

Born in Little Rock, Mary Brown Williams was the first of four children born to William H. Williams, a businessman and dairy farmer, and Helon Brown Williams. Born with brown eyes, she was nicknamed “Brownie” by her family. After her mother’s death in 1947 and her father’s death in 1950, Williams and her siblings were raised by relatives Grainger and Francis Williams, who moved into the Tall Timber Jersey Farm (the Williams family farm) with their own two children.

Williams graduated from Little Rock High School (later named Central High School). She went on to attend Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, from 1950 to 1953 but felt she did not fit the image of Southern womanhood the school projected and did not finish her degree. On July 26, 1953, she married Calvin Reville Ledbetter, an attorney who later became a political science professor. The pair relocated to Germany, where Ledbetter was stationed with the U.S. Army, for two years before returning to the United States and residing first in Illinois and later in Arkansas. The couple had three children.

While in Germany, Ledbetter learned about the growing crisis surrounding the desegregation of Central High School and was concerned about the ramifications for race relations and education in Arkansas. Her aunt signed Ledbetter, along with her sisters, up for the Women’s Emergency Committee to Save Our Schools support of the reopening of public schools in Little Rock. When Ledbetter returned to Little Rock, she immediately began volunteering with the group. .

Brownie was a fierce advocate of women’s and civil rights, dedicating her life to a myriad of organizations:

  • Arkansas State Central Democratic Committee (1968–1974)
  • Arkansas Women’s Political Caucus (founding member)
  • National Women’s Political Caucus (Political Action Chair, 1973)
  • Arkansas State Democratic Party (Affirmative Action Committee Coordinator, 1973–1974)
  • ERA/Arkansas Coalition (organizing member, 1973–1978),
  • Southern Coalition for Educational Equity (state director, 1982–1985)
  • Arkansas Fairness Council (founder & president, 1983–1998)
  • Arkansas Career Resources, Inc. (founder and executive director, 1985–1990)
  • Arkansas State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
  • American Civil Liberities Union of Arkansas (board member)
  • State Federation of Business and Professional Women (legislative director)
  • Women’s Environment and Development Organization (co-founder with Bella Azbug)
  • National Congress of Neighborhood Women
  • National Commission on Women
  • Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood
  • Women’s Environmental Development Organization (executive board member)
  • US Women Connect.
  • Women USA Fund
  • Arkansas Citizen’s First Congress (founder)
  • Community Advocates for Public Education

Upon her death in 2010, Hillary Rodham Clinton described Brownie as “one of those tireless citizen activists who set out to improve their community and end up helping change the world.” With the recent attacks on women in the state, one can’t help but think this brilliant woman is surely rolling in her grave.

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