Clare's follies

‘Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down’ by Robert Plant
Robert Plant looks a bit like an Ent these days, but his voice is still great.

‘The Desert Babbler’ by Iron & Wine
groovin’ to this daily right now

rosalindrobertson:

Gawker is crowdsourcing TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to pay off the drug dealers who have a video that allegedly shows the mayor of my city smoking crack.

And I think everyone in this city should ask - How DARE you?

Let me talk to you a second about drugs, criminality, poverty, gangs and guns….

Yes, yes, indeed

fuckyeahtoronto:

momoxa: Ontario, Canada

Niagara Falls. Great shot. Makes me wonder why anyone would think they could win against nature.

‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’ by Natalie Maines (orig. Jeff Buckley)
oh, yeah yeah yeah

‘Mother’ by Natalie Mains and Ben Harper
Glad to see Natalie recording again

thebodyisnotanapology:

Shunning, Shaming, Renaming

by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg- TBINAA Content Intern

For the past 11 years, I have been shunned.

Not socially rejected. Shunned. By what used to be my synagogue community. For falling in love with my partner. For my partner falling in love with me.

He was…

This is powerful and wonderful.

juliafierro:

The New Yorker. 100% male. 

This is the literary and culture magazine that many, especially those far from a center of arts and culture, rely on for their weekly dose of inspiration, of stimulation — the model of what to contemplate, analyze, dream about. When I was alone at home all day raising two children, starved for intellectual entertainment, the New Yorker was my treasure. I devoured it while the children napped.
But the TOTAL LACK OF AWARENESS HERE IS ASTOUNDING.
How could no one - not one editor, writer, designer, anyone - speak up and say, “Hey, maybe this total lack of a woman’s voice is sort of fucked up?”

Women’s voices are calling this nonsense out - VIDA is counting - and the rare male voice sounds out in protest, but… is it just me, or are the majority of male literary voices (especially those that count, those with clout, so to speak - you know who you are, fellows) silent?
I cannot accept that male writers are not aware of this blatant inequality - I want to think too highly of them to accept that. 
Just because this issue doesn’t directly affect male writers (though I find that hard to believe) doesn’t it mean it won’t affect our culture as a whole, doesn’t mean it won’t affect their own daughters some day. All of our mothers fought (some loudly and many silently) and suffered and went without so the world would be different for not only their daughters, but also their sons.

This list of contributors, as well as the 2012 VIDA count statistics, reads like something pulled from the 1965 archives. 
Someone should perform an experiment — compare lists of contributors from the VIDA count’s worst “offenders.” 
Line April 1965 up next to April 2013, and see how women fare.

Thank you to Elissa Schappell for, once again, reminding me that, well, I’m just as worthy as any man. Sadly, it’s things like this that make me question it sometimes. 

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staceythinx:

Book art by Emma Taylor. You can buy photographic prints of her work on Etsy and you can follow her blog on Tumblr.

Love these

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‘Song For Memory’ by The Once
And it’s row upon row of the people you know…