the search for mario continues
My wife and I were at a dinner in Washington DC earlier this year - it was a cancer event - and this woman sat down and said ‘Nice to meet you I’m so and so, and I’m a 30 year cancer survivor’. That wasn’t all that she was, but that was simply part of what she had gone through and that’s why she was there. Our vision is that is that someday someone will be able to sit down at a table and say ‘I’m a survivor of sexual abuse; I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse; I’m a survivor of rape’, and not have the needle skip off the record and have the person sitting across from them not know what to say. Because it’s not what defines them, it’s simply something that happened to them and it’s not their fault and they don’t need to carry the shame. It’s an unjust stigma in the sense that the shame belongs to the perpetrator and not the victim.
We have been spinning coins together since… I don’t know when. And in all that time, if it is all that time, one hundred and fifty-seven coins, spun consecutively, have come down heads one hundred and fifty-seven consecutive times, and all you can do is play with your food!
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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire in the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum in London, 1930 (via Facebook)
BREAKING: The Fluffington Post Snubbed By Pulitzer Board
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and media watchers were stunned by one notable absence. Among the news organizations not winning one of the prestigious awards is The Fluffington Post.
“I thought for sure their landmark coverage of Duck Duck Goosegate would get them recognition,” said Dr. Abel Jepson, a professor of communications at Columbia University. ”This is one of the worst snubs from the Pulitzer Board in the past decade.”
According to sources, Olly the Cat, a junior reporter who works at The Fluffington Post on the duck equality beat, was so distraught that he has locked himself in a conference room at FluffPo headquarters and is building a fort out of newspaper.
More on this story as it develops…
Via Salihan.
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—September 1962: For the first time in 31 years, the Empire State Building received “a top-to-toe going over.” The job took five months and spanned all 102 stories. The crew members, 42 workers and 3 superintendents, were “the sort of men who do not bobble at heights.” This picture appeared in a photo spread with the caption: “Work on the base of the tower begins at dawn — and halts for the day before the first sightseers arrive at the observation deck on the 86th floor, just below here.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times
You know, it’s that feeling you get when you find that one perfect font that you’ve been searching for forever and a day.
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GEAN SHANKSRecent NAU grad
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