Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Winning.
I love that this math is correct. And Neil did it off the top of his head. Go go physics~!
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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| — | Isaac Asimov (via alnator) |
I know LICENSE TO ILL isn’t going to get a lot of love today, it’ll be overshadowed by masterworks like PAUL’S BOUTIQUE and HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE. And that cool; that’s great. That’s as it should be. Probably the thing about the Beastie Boys that have most enjoyed has been watching them age, as artists and as men, with real grace. And I guess that’s the loss that I’m feeling right now—the end of the opportunity to continue to be witness to that evolution. That feels like a vacuum. That feels like theft.
So, while we are sifting through our collections trying to fill that void, I’m going to hit LICENSE TO ILL. Yes, it’s a record made by a bunch of asshole kids. At a certain point in my life—when *I* was an asshole teenager, not coincidentally—I could not get enough of it. It’s smells that we most often talk about being tied to memory, but the opening beats of She’s Crafty take me back so specifically to a time and place… the house we rented on Tejas. My job at Video Update. The Robs, the Jeffs. The Andys. All the stupid, stupid shit Amity and I got into that I am, quite frankly, surprised we lived through.
It was a long way from the best time in my life—it was dizzyingly uncomfortable at best—but I still hold those memories dear. Dearer for the distance, but still. I can recall without reliving and find moments, sensations to love.
I listen to LICENSE TO ILL and I remember just what it felt like to get f**ked up and scream like a madwoman at the stars in the Texas big sky. It felt glorious.
For that, and for all the rest, I am grateful. Thank you, MCA.
Melisandre: For the night is dark and full of terrors.
The North Remembers - 2x01
submission from Adam LaMotte
“Struggling for words to describe @LushLtd’s “stunt”. Other people’s triggers aren’t buttons to be pressed in exchange for political capital.”
PETA protests have NOTHING on what LUSH Ltd. did. What we did is clearly making an impact and is being talked about throughout the world. The bottom line is that we are a company that believes in fighting animal testing, in buying ingredients from companies who do not commission tests on animals and in testing our products on humans. Part of our companies mission was threatened when REACH came into effect in Europe. We’re fighting for the core of our mission as well as to eliminate a useless, ineffective and inhumane practice.
A media stunt is a media stunt regardless, and frankly, this stunt has come off more as advertising than “raising awareness”.
Lush : Zero Kill Shelters, and to the best of my knowledge, zero funding for ELF / ALF Arsonists.
Peta : ahaha. whoops.
Its a stunt. So what? the masses are riddled with ADD. if you dont do something big and retarded every five seconds they lose focus.
You know as well as I do that stunts and such don’t change anyone’s mind on anything.
The only thing this stunt did was reinforce their already present customer base, and draw in a few more like-minded customers.
No one’s mind was changed. Nothing happened other than someone’s pockets are going to get lined a little bit better.
“This way to the great egress~!”
