—Toronto chief city planner Jennifer Keesmat hits the nub of so many of TO’s problems in the tail-end of Corey Mintz’s Fed column.
—Ohio state pharmacy professor Jay Mirtallo in Dylan Matthews’ Washington Post article about one schmo making his own medical food — and the greater medical food industry.
Hey. What’s up. How you doing everyone. Let’s be friends again.
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For many different reasons (Ayn Rand is one of them), it will be a long slog towards actually dealing with income inequality. But in our highly socially stratified culture, maybe it’s time to actually deal with these issues?
For Economists Saez and Piketty, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start - NYTimes.com (via wonklife)
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I’ve been missing in action for a couple of weeks! Hectic times! Lots of drawings and other new exciting but busy developments.
I did finally get a chance to finish up my contribution to the Pokémon Battle Royale show at the Light Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis MN! I was asked to draw Team Rocket, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the selection. Prepare for trouble etc.
Information on the show here: http://pokemonbattleroyale.blogspot.com/
Participating artists here: http://pokemonbattleroyale.blogspot.com/p/participants.html
Lots of cool folks have done lots of cool stuff! Check out the opening on April 20th if you’re in the area!
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So I wasn’t quite expecting a wistful electro-dub track from Major Lazer. Nor was I expecting Dirty Projector vocalist Amber Coffman’s plaintive vocals.
“Get Free” is a plesant surprise from Diplo and Switch. The last album, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, was full of exhausting maximalist bangers full of sound and fury while “Get Free” is a contemplative track for staring off into the starry sky. Which the video ably illustrates.
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I really have to read Journey Into Mystery.
“What I wish…is to be Loki”
And that’s it for a while, lest I do absolutely no work for Uni this holiday~Er… I tried to resist Reblogging this one, but couldn’t. Fucking hell.
It’s better to learn these lessons now, gentlemen. Enthusiastic yeses each step of the way — isn’t that far more sexy than grinding your way to middling sex with your a deeply uninterested partner?
I thought it might be pertinent to refresh everyone on what consent is, and teach a little about making sure you get enthusiastic consent before engaging in sexual relations. To me, enthusiastic consent means “YES HOLY GOD YES I WANT THIS SO BAD” and not “ugh fine I’ll just get it over with then…
No matter where I’ve lived, the one constant has been exhausted-looking Filipino domestic childcare workers carting around their young white charges.
From Fort McMurray’s Franklin Ave to the tony streets of Yorkville, these domestic workers are one of the most obvious symbols of two very different cities where your only worth is your wealth. Despite the social class differences (NOT economic classes) between the two cities, these women are the glue that helps keep each city humming along.
I never expected I’d live in Toronto. Hell, I never even really thought of it much. The only time I ever really paid attention to Toronto was when Mayor Mel called the army in to help clear the streets of snow and ice. As a proudly progressive Albertan, I assumed I’d be working my tail off to make my home a better place. The plan was to live and work in Calgary, volunteer and help move the province slowly, inch-by-inch, forward.
Yet, here I am in the deepest, darkest, downtown elite-iest part of Toronto, Ontario — Jane Jacobs’ Annex.
There are similarities between the bitumensands (or oil/tarsands, take yr pick) capital of the world and the Centre of the Goddamn Universe. Though similar in many ways, the major cultural differences between Toronto and Fort Mac provide reflect each city’s very different class compositions. Toronto has a very white-collar sensibility, where Fort McMurray has a very blu-collar mindset.
Each city is an important economic engine for Canada. Where Toronto is built upon the Bay St. financial and creative economy, Fort McMurray is built on the hard-toil work of mining the oily muck from the ground.
In Toronto you need an education and/or the right connections to access those high-paying jobs in skyscraping towers. Higher education and family networks are going to be hugely helpful. But in Fort McMurray, as long as you’re willing to work long hours and can pass a piss test, you can make your money out in the open-pits driving truck or working as a labourer. Skilled tradespeople are in ever-short supply in Fort McMurray and can make even more for their labour.
Those Filipina nannies are in many ways a symbol of each city. In each city, parents are busy with the reality of their time-consuming jobs. They’re unable to spend the time necessary to raise their kids because they’re out in the workforce earning cash money. In Toronto that may mean long hours spent at the law firm. In Fort Mac, that could mean long hours out at site.
I’ve listened to this two-minute slice of darkly melodic post-punk way too many times to count.
Wax Idols are one of the most exciting bands out there right now. No Future was an incredible pop record that managed to straddle all sorts of different genres. WI Frontwoman Hether Fortune is one of the most under-appreciated songwriters with a verve for making hooky rock.
“Schadenfreude” is the A-side off Suicide Squeeze’s 7-inch single series. I’ve already pre-ordered my copy, you can do the same here.
Classic Rap Album Covers Remixed with Comic Book Characters - artist Kenny Keil reworks iconic rap album covers from artists such as NWA, Nas, Tribe, Biggie, Ma$e, ODB, Big Daddy Kane and others. Check out his Flickr Page for MORE
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Seriously, Beyonce is rocking this high-waisted Spider-Man costume. It looks great, her eye makeup is gorgeous and it’s not some goony “sexy” costume for women.
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Some real talk from Tom Hiddleston on the motivations of his character, Loki, in the upcoming Avengers movie.
What’s more, I’m just taken aback at the deep truth Hiddleston just sort of tosses out in the middle of his interview.
(Source: slashfilm.com)
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Okay so I’m late to this track (the original Stereogum post was dated March 30th) but Cities Aviv’s “Normal Immortal” is rad as all hell.
The production on this track is something else. The simple, pounding instrumentation propels the track forward. Aviv breathes fire, swimming inside the song’s relentless fuzzed-out depths.
This banger is best enjoyed — LOUD — in some skeezy-ass underground club with concrete floors and a permanent piss-stink. And I’m very excited to see what he puts out.
