T-Rextasy released their first video to the timeless “I Wanna Be a Punk Rocker” and it’s great! fun! smart! punk! Just like their album Jurassic Punk. The “dashing dino dames" show the spirit of riot grrrl is alive and kicking. I dig this.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Woody Guthrie Despised His Landlord Fred Trump – Donald’s Father
No real surprise there – it’s safe to assume that the hard-travellin’ leftist folk radical had little sympathy for a New York real estate capitalist. It’s still interesting to read the piece over at Gawker, as the story sheds some light on the racism at the core of the Trump empire:“What Guthrie discovered all too …
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Mayor Bloomberg Responds to Kendrick Lamar’s Control Verse (by jasirix) I’m a big fan of the political podcast This Week in Blackness, and appreciate friend of the show Jasiri X, a really, really, realyy good conscious rapper. I’ve linked to their collaboration 10 Frisk Commandments Remix before. He also did a great track in tribute …
stoptellingwomentosmile: NYC photo via mymflife
The idea that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society, is reinforcing to anyone who might, from time to time, find their tongue sprinting ahead of their discretion. We can forgive Whitaker’s assailant. Much harder to forgive is all that makes Whitaker stand out …
The kind of window seat/nook I’ve always wanted. Plus, it’s in NYC. (I feel kinda odd sharing some stranger’s instagram photo. But since it’s been shared more than 2,200 times…. I also awkwardly liked it on instagram – and my like is now actually worth a few cents, thanks to flattr and superfav.)
The People’s Promo
So the “Elitist Vandam club ‘Work in Progress’” used OWS’ The People’s Library name and logo for promotion, but didn’t really include actual People’s Library people. Sucks, but I’m not surprised. Did the librarians actually think a nightclub like that would actually care about the People’s Library?
“A "hole in the wall” art gallery at Kenmare & Cleveland.“ This looks so cool. A literal hole in the wall door. From the "New York Twilight Series” by Street Fashion Style.
richnacin: Concrete ideas…
mollycrabapple: Chalk on sidewalk- financial district