Aw yeahhhhh #tbt AND #fbf as this recently came back into my life through the virtue of the scene godfather, lord commander of Th’ Rockin’ Rex! Here’s a bit of EncephaloSmack #3, the zine I published while in high school. Dated March 1994, so this issue is 24 years old —and every bit angsty circa the 90’s. Thanks @david_cartenuto_3 @katinasf @noellebalbanese @ joining me on the journey, what teenage rebels we were! (at Yonkers, New York)

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Kara Thrace: "Momma, something's about to happen, you know that thing you were trying to prepare me for, I don't know if I can do it."

Socrata Thrace: "Oh yes you can, you can."

Kara Thrace: "How can you be sure?"

Socrata Thrace: "You're my daughter."

Leoben: "See, there's nothing terrible about death; when you finally face it, it's beautiful. You're free now, to become who you really are."

Kara Thrace: "You're not Leoben."

Leoben: "I never said I was. I'm here to prepare you to pass through the next door, to discover what lies in the space between life and death."

Thank you so, so much to the #LateShowLineCrew and @colbertlateshow for making my husband’s 40th birthday an awesome one last night! 🎉 We won the super sick front row seats because I Instagrammed the previous photo my stream. 😄This was taken by @yoednir, in @reginaspektor’s band. You can see us kanoodling in our seats there, haha. We were super psyched, @cbake76 is a HUGE @stephencolbert fan and these are the best seats I’ve ever had at any event I’d ever gone to in my life, ever. Make aging great again! 😉🇺🇸 (at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)

Your mistakes pave the way for your success by revealing when you’re on the wrong path. The biggest breakthroughs typically come when you’re feeling the most frustrated and the most stuck. It’s this frustration that forces you to think differently, to look outside the box and see the solution you’ve been missing.

If you do NOT see a solution, later in the article it essentially says that you give no fucks when you are successful. This is very true. 

You no longer care what other people think. You only worry about what other people think when you still feel like you have something to prove. Conversely, you know you’ve “made it” when you don’t worry about that anymore – when you’re true to yourself and your principles, and satisfied with your life. You know you’ve made it when you understand that other people’s opinions are just that – opinions. They have no effect on reality. They don’t change who or what you are.

Lastly, giving a shit about something/someone that does not give a shit about you is a waste of time. Successful people know the difference between what they can and can’t change.

There’s a difference between pessimism and practicality. If there’s a hurricane headed your way, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. But once you accept that the hurricane is coming, you can start working to mitigate its effects… Taking responsibility for changing the things you don’t like about your life is one of the biggest indicators of success.

(Source: entrepreneur.com)

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My Gen X Hillary problem: I know why we don’t “like” Clinton - Salon.com

Then a few weeks ago I heard a clip on the radio of a young man questioning Clinton at a town hall meeting in Iowa. “I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that they think you’re dishonest,” he said. “But I’d like to hear from you on why you think the enthusiasm isn’t there.”

It was subtle, but there was something in his tone I recognized. It was not a tone you would use to speak to someone who was a former secretary of state and senator. It was the tone you reserve for that dumb chick in your meeting who probably doesn’t know what she’s talking about. It was a tone I’d heard countless times over the course of my career, and in that moment I suddenly saw Hillary Clinton in an entirely different light.

I played his comment back in my head, trying to pinpoint exactly what I found so irksome, and realized it was the phrasing “I’d like to hear from you.” The phrase has tiny flecks of condescension in it. It’s not the way you’d phrase a question to someone you believe deserves a place at the table. And then I thought back over the course of my career, and made a mental list of all the times someone had phrased something in a way that had just a soupçon of implied incompetence to it. 

There was an initial phone call with a prospective client who, after I ran through a description of my company’s offerings asked me, “And you run the company all by yourself?” When I responded that I did, he cheered, “Good for you!” I didn’t get the business. At the time I’d shaken it off as a strange call, but then it happened again. Was it me, I wondered? Was there something about the way that I was presenting myself that made me seem insecure? When I was younger I might have chalked it up to age. I was young – I would grow into a mature way of conducting sales calls and pitch meetings. But at 43 I understand that what people mean when they ask if I run the business all by myself is “I’ve noticed you’re a woman and I’m confused by that because you don’t look or sound the way a technology business owner is supposed to, so I will discreetly take my business elsewhere.”

(via My Gen X Hillary problem: I know why we don’t “like” Clinton - Salon.com)

(Source: salon.com)

“We’ve kinda suspected it before, but President Obama genuinely gives no fucks at this point. He is fuck devoid. Fuck deficient. Fuck deprived. Fuck destitute. His cupboard of fucks is barren; his tank of fucks has been depleted. You know how, on cloudy nights, you might look up into the vast and endless sky and not find any stars? The same thing would happen if you looked at Obama and searched for fucks. And this, this total absence of fucks, is where pop off came from.”

(via President Obama’s “Folks Wanna Pop Off” Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week » VSB)

(Source: verysmartbrothas.com)