so translating conflict and violence really got me thinking today. we watched this clip from "aliens in america" to illustrate how we turn people who are different that us into an "other" which it the worst cases, turns into an enemy. the discussion went to why we make others, and concluded it was a mix of things, but mostly the desire to get the ( Read more... )

this would be amazing on a shirt.
a hat in a cat :)


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so yeah. there has been a dramatic resurgance of my mama-bearness, complete with swatting and growling. i thought i had gotten over most of that, and started to relax, but for some reason, it's as bad as ever. i just worry, okay? and maybe i don't emote that worry in the most healthy of ways. i had thought maybe distance and new people would change ( Read more... )

my little sister is the bestest.
a commercial we saw in europe.

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if glitter is the herpes of craft supplies, then charcoal surely is the herpes of art supplies/mediums.
i will never be clean again.

so i really want to write a monologue like for an audition piece where there's someone arguing/fighting with their reflection in a mirror, a la JFK. someone wanna give me time to write it?

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Ramon has pink clouds that orbit him, like on a mountain.
he wears them constantly. he can't get rid of them.
after all, you can't have one without the other.
there may be other, multi-colored clouds, but the clouds that surround Mt. Ramoon are predominatnely PINK.

that's all!

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