nprmusic:

RIP Dick Clark. He was 82.

We’re currently working a full obituary, but it’s hard not to think about his massive contribution to American popular culture, especially American Bandstand. He hosted the music-performance TV show for over 50 years (!), featuring everyone from Link Wray to a very young Michael Jackson to ABBA (oh, that hair!) to Run-D.M.C. But we’re especially taken with Clark’s introduction to “Rock Around the Clock,” a song that captures the energy of not only American Bandstand but Dick Clark himself.

think-progress:

How the House Republican budget hurts kids. 

vintageanchor:

Careful or you’ll end up in my novel.

think-progress:

nilesarthur:

humanscalecities:

Garbology

Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash

This dude was great on Fresh Air.

Checked it out on Fresh Air last night and learned this crazy fact about how much we waste: The amount of plastic in the ocean (in pieces small enough to enter the food chain) is equivalent to the weight of 40 aircraft carriers. 

gq:

In other Clinton news… this photo.

nicolefaires:

May 6th is International Permaculture Day, and I want to celebrate. Most people who want to learn Permaculture do so by earning a Permaculture Design Certificate. This piece of paper is really great, but also really expensive ($1500 to $3000). Guess what? You don’t need a PDC…

kimjongillookingatthings:

looking at a operation console

kimjongillookingatthings:

looking at female workers

padbury:

“And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”

This photo shows the collapse of Torrero Alvaro Munera, as he realized in the middle of the his last fight… the injustice to the animal. From that day forward he became an opponent of bullfights.

Update: I’m not the original author of this. I saw it reposted on Facebook and posted it over here (which is why the entirety of it is in quotes). It turns out this story isn’t entirely true. According to Wikipedia he became paraplegic after a bull threw him into the air, and he broke his vertebrae upon landing.

Even though it doesn’t seem to be a picture of Munera, the image is quite striking.

Wikipedia - Alvaro Múnera (Google Translate)

huhwhatwhen:

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