note the placement of the star.
Category Archives: found image
ancient enemy pottery
would you rather: princess edition
prom
[via a beloved housemate]
get psyched!!
For ordinary Americans, though, it has been a different story. Real wages have been growing slowly; at just 1.6% a year on average over the latest upswing, well down on the experience of earlier decades. Business, of course, needs consumers to carry on spending in order to make money, so a way had to be found to persuade households to do their patriotic duty. The method chosen was simple. Whip up a colossal housing bubble, convince consumers that it makes sense to borrow money against the rising value of their homes to supplement their meagre real wage growth and watch the profits roll in.
As they did – for a while. Now it’s payback time and the mood could get very ugly. Americans, to put it bluntly, have been conned. They have been duped by a bunch of serpent-tongued hucksters who packed up the wagon and made it across the county line before a lynch mob could be formed.
The debate now is not about whether the US is in recession but how deep and long that recession will be. Super-bears have started to say that this is perhaps “The Big One”, by which they mean the onset of a new Great Depression. The need to rescue Bear Stearns has done little to still those voices.
America was conned – who will pay? – The Guardian
new years resolution
always carry a sharpie in my backpack and learn how to spray paint. make a mural.
[via dustin]
oh, middle school
My little sister, showing me her friends on myspace:
This boy, he has a crush on me. But Becca, its so bad. His favorite band is Linkin Park.
She pauses, then scrolls down…
and Abba.
why didn’t i think of that: halloween costume
photo by Ambrel
just like kicking jesus
Someone called DodenSpiegel published music videos for most of the songs on BJM‘s new album, My Bloody Underground (full album dl). Pretty bizarre stuff, enjoy.
The rest.
[via Anton’s myspace]
perkins & parkins
Altominarian Cutalfien by Greg Perkins, a bicoastal buddy. His Flickr is getting pretty awesome these days… good things happen when people leave Cambridge for Cali.
Silent Strokes by Superhumanoids. Catchy, groovy, pscyh-pop – definitely a track for your makeout playlist. The human behind all this is Cameron Parkins, who interned at CC with me this summer, so I should add that its licensed CC-BY-NC for your listening & remixing pleasure.