Too funny Mattel and WB just pulled the greatest PR stunt of all time. Its like the Ocean 11 of Ad campaigns
I bet you a million dollars if I went back in time to like, idk, 2018, and I went around asking random ass people if Barbie was a feminist icon, a brand of feminist thought, a model of feminist thinking and the enlightened female, I bet you five billion dollars nobody would say shit about Barbie being fucking great, I guaran-fucking-tee you they would laugh at me for asking such a dumb fucking Neanderthal type question, I bet every educated female in a ten block radius would say you’ve gotta be one of the dimmest fucking men I have ever encountered, you goddamn troglodyte, Barbie is a sexy doll for young girls which radically destroys all chance of a normal body image, and her attempts at broadening her appeal to those who don’t fit the thin, pretty mold only throw into stark relief the damage the Barbie doll has done to every young girl since puberty, you absolute moron, there will never be a day when Barbie will be thought of as a free-thinking and actualized woman, and any attempt to make her into one will be seen as the soulless vapid re-brand that it truly, truly is.
The future has disappeared. In some ways we are trapped within the twentieth century still.” To be in the 21st century, he explains, is to have 20th century culture brought to us by 21st century technology. You might stream music from the cloud and into your ears through the latest Apple earbuds, but you’re still listening to a genre of music that was pioneered decades ago. - Fisher Ghosts of My Life
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble. -Ginsberg
here’s all
these Millbrae and San Carlos neat-necktied producers and
commuters of America and Steel civilization rushing by with San
Francisco Chronicles and green Call-Bulletins not even enough
time to be disdainful, they’ve got to catch 130, 132, 134, 136 all
the way up to 146 till the time of evening supper in homes of the
railroad earth when high in the sky the magic stars ride above
the following hotshot freight trains--it’s all in California, it’s all a
sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my
jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not
working) on book, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and
feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me - Ole jack
TWO KINGS
the hawthorn-white rose of understood melancholic faith,
primitively exuding the lactational scarlet liquid of death:
markings etched upon rhinestones as symbolic offering,
misaligned & mismanaged, the depth of human psyche,
shortcomings of tortuously soulful repetitions of envy,
copper rewiring embedded within crystalline calamity,
marble woven fabric draped over the faces of angels;
for healing is found within the harsh reality of nature.
Climbing stuff! From Ga to Minneapolis we be climbing 🧗♀️
Old Books look so cool
de Flers, Robert. Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli. Illus. Alphonse Mucha, limited ed. Paris: Léon Gruel, 1897. source: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (not on view)
I’m making collages, sharing pictures of mushrooms and nature I take. Beers/comics❤️.https://substack.com/@ryanplaffertyI’ll add some Gonzo style google reviews
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