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November
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patrickmoberg: Internet Vices

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November
16
“ New Moon in the 1st House on November 16, 2009
A new moon in the 1st house bestows a renewal within the self. Reinvent yourself. Try new things. Be bolder, more confident. Start new projects. Begin walking, talking, thinking, acting, and being the version of yourself you envision. Go on, try it out; see how it feels. ”
— Astrogrrl
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November
15

I miss Paris. Need to go to a museum, stat!


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November
10
“ Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. ”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (via juliaallison)
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September
01
» Now more than ever, Vermont is for Lovers!

I’m proud to be part of the team that works on the Ben & Jerry’s brand!

In partnership with Freedom to Marry Ben & Jerry’s has ceremoniously dubbed their iconic flavor, Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby in support, and to raise awareness of the importance of marriage equality.

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July
23
» listening to "Superwoman - Karyn White"

I’m not your super woman

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July
12

Brüno I’m on Sacha Baron Cohen’s side, I really am. Well, I want to be. He seems to be a smart, brilliant comic, if not a good actor. But when I saw Borat, Culture Learnings of America… I was horrified. As a minority who spent 8 years in the United States, I am all for exposing the cultural naiiveness of Americans. Exposing them to other cultures and ways of life, I believe would help Americans set better local and foreign policies. Borat, however funny and insightful at times it was, seemed to be nothing more than a European teenager’s crude recording of his idea of a good time: punking Americans. That particular European teenager had ambitions to eradicate racism in American (Europe too?) but I just thought it was done in such an uncouth way that the message did not get through. Did it? Are Americans better off now for having seen Borat? After reading this review by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker about Brüno, it seems that Brüno is going the same way. “Could that be Baron Cohen’s cunning plan? Might he actually be in the business of revealing our cauterized senses, and the wound where our finer judgments are meant to be? A nice idea, but I’m afraid that “Brüno” feels hopelessly complicit in the prejudices that it presumes to deride”, said Lane. “wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it. Call it, at best, a gaudy celebration of free speech”. Will you be going down to watch Brüno? Maybe I’m taking it too seriously, you say. It’s all in jest, isn’t it? Ah, I guess I’m a little old fashioned that way - for I think Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliance and his mighty good intentions are lost in his crude execution.

Brüno

I’m on Sacha Baron Cohen’s side, I really am. Well, I want to be. He seems to be a smart, brilliant comic, if not a good actor. But when I saw Borat, Culture Learnings of America… I was horrified.

As a minority who spent 8 years in the United States, I am all for exposing the cultural naiiveness of Americans. Exposing them to other cultures and ways of life, I believe would help Americans set better local and foreign policies.

Borat, however funny and insightful at times it was, seemed to be nothing more than a European teenager’s crude recording of his idea of a good time: punking Americans. That particular European teenager had ambitions to eradicate racism in American (Europe too?) but I just thought it was done in such an uncouth way that the message did not get through. Did it? Are Americans better off now for having seen Borat?

After reading this review by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker about Brüno, it seems that Brüno is going the same way.

“Could that be Baron Cohen’s cunning plan? Might he actually be in the business of revealing our cauterized senses, and the wound where our finer judgments are meant to be? A nice idea, but I’m afraid that “Brüno” feels hopelessly complicit in the prejudices that it presumes to deride”, said Lane.

“wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it. Call it, at best, a gaudy celebration of free speech”.

Will you be going down to watch Brüno?

Maybe I’m taking it too seriously, you say. It’s all in jest, isn’t it? Ah, I guess I’m a little old fashioned that way - for I think Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliance and his mighty good intentions are lost in his crude execution.


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July
09
“ If we keep ourselves connected, together we can really make a difference so stay informed, tell a friend and help Free the VJs and Aung San Suu Kyi. ”
— Richard Gere urging everyone to do their part in helping those unjustly jailed in Burma.
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July
05
“ The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come and go, but humanity remains. ”
— U Thant- 1st Asian to be the United Nations’ Secretary General
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We exist but we’re taking it slow.

Maybe it was the swim today, or the peacefulness of the world outside at this current moment, but I just wanted to write that I’ve been having a good time lately. Things aren’t that much different. It’s same ole sh*t, different day. BUT, I think I’m definitely coping better with it.

No, my cousin did not sprinkle my Raspberry Poptart with prozac - it’s just me. things somehow feel clearer - or less urgent - less “life or death” like.

That’s all. I leave you with a song called Who’d Have Known by Lilly Allen. All I do is listen to her album.


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