I really wish I could afford a trip to Minneapolis to fabric shop. I have ideas but no good fabric. :(
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Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
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Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today
via Newsweek’s Tumblr (via hunterpryor):
In his new book, Dr. Joe Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social relationships, and adult consequences, we have only delayed their development. We have made it harder for them to grow up. Maybe even made it impossible to grow up on time.
Basically, we long ago decided that teens ought to be in school, not in the labor force. Education was their future. But the structure of schools is endlessly repetitive. “From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade,” said Allen. “There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.” Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes incredibly montonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter.
“It’s always a bit discombobulating when people raise their voices in anger because they’ve gotten wind that designers are making and selling $25,000 dresses. After all, it’s not as if the existence of a dress that costs as much as a car negates the availability of cute $25 frocks at Target. And it isn’t as though edicts have been issued that all women must now dress like one of the superheroes on Balenciaga’s runway.
For personal and sometimes tortured reasons — I can’t have it so no one else can! — observers declare that they just don’t understand the attraction of these strange and expensive clothes. That would be a fair argument if those same complainers lashed out at people who spend thousands of dollars on Redskins season tickets, vintage wines, first-edition books or midlife-crisis cars. But those industries don’t stir nearly as much ire from people who are uninterested in them.”
Robin Givhan The Washington Post
“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”
Betty Friedan (via appleonastick) (via arseniccupcakes)
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have.”
~ Henry Rollins (via gatekeeper)
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I make stuff.
I read.
I sew.
I live in the midwest.
I blog about life here.
I blog about fashion over there.
I am friendly (and you should be too). carly [at] shopcutecankill.com
I get my hair cut at a comic book store.
I love:
-robots and ray guns
-polka dots and stripes
-lingerie and high heels
-thigh high stockings with garter belts
-photography and architecture
-comic books and illustration
-fashion and style.
I guess we will see what becomes of this blog.
Other places to find me:
MySpace
LiveJournal
Flickr
The Kris & Carly Blog
Instructables
