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50 Is the New Crappy
I just got back from the mammogram I don't believe in.
In the spring, my doctor handed me an envelope decorated with a cluster of bright balloons and the words "Happy Birthday!"
Alas, this deceptively cheerful package concealed the usual tips on diet and exercise, plus requisition forms for all the annual medical tests I'd be getting from now on.
The mammogram is bad enough. I got my first one before having my doubts about the procedure confirmed, and now I'm stuck in the "Ontario Breast Screening Program" because "free" "health" "care."
But now I also have to get blood work for cholesterol (how 1970s!), glucose and a bunch of other things, plus an ECG.
The worst part: I need to send little swabs of poo* through the mail. (Although it could be worse: it could be my job to open those envelopes. And a special shout-out to my Facebook friend for sharing her "float a Chinet dessert plate in the toilet" trick.)
It's all part of the splendor and pageantry of turning 50.
(* As you can see from the video below, which my tax dollars helped pay for, "poo" is the actual scientific term!)
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10 Easy Ways to Make Your Apartment Look Grown-Up
Millennials are growing up fast, but are their apartments? There's a certain point in your life when you wake up and realize you don't want your home to look like a college dorm anymore. But sometimes it's hard to put your finger on exactly how to make a place look grown-up, while still retaining your unique sense of style. Having a grown-up looking place doesn't mean you have to lose all of your own flair; there are a few general ideas that you can put your own twist on, whatever your taste. It all boils down to having an apartment where you can make people comfortable. Here are ten steps to get started.
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10 Ways '90s Pop Culture Destroyed the American Male
10. If guys didn't look like heroin-addicted street dwellers…
Before committing suicide, musician Kurt Cobain copyrighted the grunge look that came to define Gen-X/millennial crossovers in the '90s. A reaction to the preppie style made famous by '80s yuppies, grunge involved a level of disheveled that transcended even the dirtiest of '60s hippie looks. Grunge trademarks included wrinkled, untucked clothing complemented by greasy, knotted hair and an expression best defined as heroin chic. The style depicted an "I don't care" attitude that took punk's anti-authoritarian attitude to a darker, more disengaged level. Grunge became the look of resigned defeat among American males.
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The Top 10 Influences that Made the Baby Boomers Who They Are
10. Howdy Doody
I can hear you… "What? Are you nuts? How can you put a puppet on a list of the greatest influences on our nation's largest, and presently most influential, generation?"
Well, ignoring the fact that Howdy Doody was not a" puppet" (he was a marionette), having Howdy Doody on the list makes perfect sense. The baby boomers are what sociologists call "a cohort group" — i.e., a group of people who share, and are bound together by, a common set of experiences during a defined period.
What was the first shared experience that the boomers – the cohort group born between 1946 and 1964 – uniquely had in common? Watching TV. And what was their earliest shared favorite television program? Howdy Doody. I rest my case.
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The 10 Most Underrated TV Comedies of All Time
10. Sullivan and Son
This working class comedy executive-produced by Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley is fraught with all the non-PC ethnic and sexual humor you'd hear in a working class, Irish-Korean, middle-American bar like the one in the show. Created by Korean American actor/comedian Steve Byrne and Cheers writer Rob Long, the TBS sitcom reminds you that some jokes are still OK to crack. The stellar cast features Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) and comic genius Brian Doyle-Murray, along with Christine Ebersole and Owen Benjamin, who portray the drop-dead hysterical mother-son dependent duo Carol and Owen Walsh.
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Who Is the Gen-X Woody Allen? Linklater Vs. Smith Vs. Baumbach
In partnership with the new fiction publishing platform Liberty Island, PJ Lifestyle is going to begin promoting and co-hosting a series of debates and discussions about popular culture. The goal is to figure out what works and what doesn't so that in the future we can promote and create better fiction and culture of our own. These are public brainstorming sessions for writers and culture advocates interested in developing a more vibrant popular culture. You're invited to submit your answers to any of these questions — or a related one of your own! — that interests you:
A) in the comments
B) Via email to PJ Lifestyle editor Dave Swindle.
C) at your blog, then let us know in the comments or via email.
The most interesting answers may be linked, cross-posted, or published at PJ Lifestyle. For this week's debates we're going to focus on individual filmmakers with inflated reputations. Monday's question: What Is Oliver Stone's Worst Movie?, Tuesday's question: Who Is Today's Most Overrated Filmmaker?, Wednesday: What Are Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Films?.
Also check out the previous weeks' writing prompts and email in your thoughts on any questions that strike your fancy: Geeks In Love: 8 Questions To Spark Passionate Debates About Video Games and Chick Flicks, 5 Questions To Figure Out What Makes Some Adaptations Succeed and Others Fail, 5 Questions So We Can Figure Out the Cream of the Crop In Popular Music Genres, 5 Geek Questions To Provoke Debates About the Future of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, 5 Controversial Questions To Inspire Spirited Debates About Music.
Who are the most gifted filmmakers who capture the experience of the generation now starting to enter their 50s?
Is Kevin Smith overrated? Is he more his generation's junior George Lucas – a gifted marketer – rather than a serious filmmaker? Or is there merit to his best work?
Which Richard Linklater movie is his greatest triumph? Is the third one in his Sun series worth watching?
What about Noah Baumbach? Do his recent films live up to the promise of The Squid and the Whale?
Do any of them have the potential to have a cultural impact comparable to Woody Allen, who had several of his films included in Kyle Smith's best of the 1980s list today?
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Looking Back, What Are We To Make of Sgt. Pepper's?
Few record albums have quite the same grasp on the soul of an aging "Baby Boomer" as does the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Ask "where were you when you first heard the album?" and their answer will be as detailed as would be the answer of a WW II veteran when asked where and how he first learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor, or a younger person, "where were you when you first heard about the Twin Trade Towers?"
It thus comes as some shock to most "boomers" when they learn that among younger generations Sgt. Pepper's is not held in universally high esteem.
This aging rocker recently confronted that fact on a forum popular with guitarists of all ages. The negative comments about the album certainly called for a response. But what response? Can an older person who came of age during the sixties make one that is fair and unbiased? I had to try. But first I had to think.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was, and is, to my generation, more than a record album or (later) CD. It was, and is, for many, the punctuation point that marked a major change in our society: the period at the end of the sentence that was the fifties.
To a younger audience this would have to be explained.
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The 10 Most Essential Women's Shoes in the 1970s
Are you a true child of the 1970s? See how many of these essential shoes you owned to find out!
10. Earth Shoes
Going from worst to first, I'm almost reluctant to name Earth Shoes to a list of "essential" anything because they were so completely unfortunate looking. The "negative heel technology" shoes represented one of those terrible moments when fashion tried to merge with health benefits. Anne Kalsø, a native of Denmark, invented the shoes in the 1950s. According to the Earth Shoes website:
Kalsø 's passion for yoga led her to study in Switzerland and eventually in Santos, Brazil. It was there, in 1957, that she observed the excellent posture of indigenous Brazilians, and the impressions left by their bare footprints as they walked through beach sand. She observed that the footprints laid were deeper in the heels than in the toes. This natural body position resonated with the thoughtful Kalsø. It echoed a formative yoga pose she knew well – Tadasana (the 'Mountain' pose). posture improved, and how her breathing passages opened. She was inspired.As she herself emulated the pose of the native Brazilians, she noticed how her own posture improved, and how her breathing passages opened. She was inspired.
Ten years later, Earth Shoes were born in Copenhagen. The company claimed that many people reported that the shoes eased chronic foot and body problems. It wasn't until April 1st, 1970 — coinciding with the first Earth Day — that the first "Kalsø Earth Shoes" store opened in the United States. The shoes became wildly popular, even appearing on the Tonight Show and in TIME magazine. They're still available, by the way, in case you're feeling nostalgic or feel the need to have your breathing passages opened.
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The 10 Most Cringe-Worthy TV Flops
We've all heard of the horrors of Cop Rock and Manimal, but after receiving a reader tip on one of their worst TV shows of all time, I did some digging and uncovered these utterly classic samples of bad television that would make great material for Joel McHale or the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
10. Bucky and Pepito (1959)
Produced by Sam Singer, "The Ed Wood of Animation," Bucky and Pepito was a typical story of an "ambitious" white cowboy and his "lazy" (literally, they sing about it in the theme song) Mexican buddy trolling the old west on a zero budget. According to Toonopedia, "Cartoon historian Harry McCracken once said the pair 'set a standard for awfulness that no contemporary TV cartoon has managed to surpass. They were great at what they did, which was being bad.'" Thanks to Bucky and Pepito, cartoonists have debated creating a Sam Singer Award for truly bad animation.
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The 10 Most Iconic American Muscle Cars
1. Ford Mustang
Where does one even start when talking about the Ford Mustang? This car has become the embodiment of America's love affair with speed and muscle. This iconic Ford instigated the creation of the "pony car" classification of automobiles and prompted competing car manufacturers to crank out America's other favorite muscle cars. For Ford, the Mustang was (and continues to be) a smash hit.
The first Mustang debuted at the New York World's Fair in April of 1964. It was originally equipped with a 260-cubic-inch (4.3L) V8 but was quickly upgraded to a 289-cubic-inch (4.7L) V8 in its first year. By 1968, the Mustang was outfitted with a 302-cubic-inch (4.9L) V8. The following year, Ford released several performance packages for the Mustang including the Boss 302, Mach 1, and Boss 429. The speed and power had arrived.
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Jane the Virgin: The CW's Take on 'Immaculate' Conception
The CW is planning to add Jane the Virgin to its fall lineup. Based on a Venezuelan telenovela of the same name, Jane the Virgin is about an intentionally virginal girl who is "accidentally artificially inseminated" by her OB-GYN:
Jane stars Gina Rodriguez (Filly Brown) as a hard-working, devout Latina who is kind of hoping her boyfriend proposes — though she's a little worried he'll get down on one knee so she'll finally agree to do the deed. When a mix-up at the OB-GYN leads to that artificial insemination plot line, Jane must choose whether to keep the baby — and whether to let the handsome father into her life.
Aside from containing a number of Spanish stereotypes, including the paranoid grandmother putting the fear of God into her pre-teen daughter ("Once you lose your virginity, you can never go back!") to a cast of overtly sexualized Latinas, the show appears to be a platform for some long overdue, serious conversation regarding abortion. However, the show sounds eerily like one of the most famously influential and revered plot lines in the West's repertoire, leaving one to wonder how a primarily Protestant audience might handle a story that's been a hit in a Catholic country.
When it comes to the primarily pathetic representation of Latinas on television (does Sofia Vergara have to do it all?) at least Jane the Virgin appears to lack the typical trashiness of Devious Maids.
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Untold War Stories: My Family's Secret Agent
John Phillip Sousa on 33 1/3 blasts from the Hi-Fi — yes, you heard right, "Hi-Fi" — conducted by my flag-waving Grandfather, proudly standing at attention at 8 o'clock in the morning in the doorway of his open garage, wondering why it took us so long to get there. We may have been at the shore, but Memorial Day was not about a barbecue on the beach.
My grandparents lived down the street from my Great Uncle and Aunt. My Grandfather idolized my Great Uncle (his brother), naming his only son after his brother who had spent World War II as a gunner on a Navy ship in the Pacific. Having broken his back before the war, my Grandfather wasn't able to get into the military during the conflict. Instead, he busied himself crafting knives to send to his buddies overseas (yes, they censored letters, but allowed knives to be carried through V-Mail) with the instructions "leave them in the enemy's guts and I'll make you a new one when you get home."
My grandfather also played a key role in the war effort, one that goes overlooked when we take the time to honor the troops on Memorial Day. Recruited by the FBI in 1940, my grandfather and his father played a key role in the creation of the Iowa Ordinance Plant, the largest shell and bomb loading facility in operation during the war.
In the autumn of 1940, when a fairly isolationist population still dismissed the idea of entering into Europe's conflict, my grandfather was pulled out of his job as a tool and die maker by two fairly typical FBI mugs. They strapped secret plans for a military facility, designed by Day & Zimmermann, Co., to his body and handed him a train ticket and a gun with the instructions, "Don't be afraid to use it." At the age of 23, my grandfather was the perfect cover: "If anyone asks, you're on your way out west to go to college." His job was simple: Escort his father, recruited by the government for his skills as a tool and die maker, to San Francisco to convene with a number of highly skilled Americans engaged to prepare America for war.
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5 Memories That Will Make You Nostalgic for the 1970s
As it turns out, the decade wasn't all bad!
Here are a few things we remember fondly from the 1970s:
1. Department Store Gift-Wrapping
As a child I was completely enchanted by the dazzling array of bows and shiny gift wrap displayed on the wall in the gift-wrapping department at the May Company department store near my home in suburban Cleveland. The ladies were expert wrappers, with perfectly creased corners and stripes that lined up at every seam. The bows and gift cards were like icing on the tops of beautiful cakes. It was like watching magic happen before my eyes to see an ordinary salad bowl transformed into a sparkly work of art piled high with ribbon and lace. These days, most stores no longer offer gift-wrapping service (though a handful still do). More often than not you'll be directed to the wrapping paper aisle and told to fend for you ham-handed self — explaining the exponential growth of the gift bag industry.
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Paul McCartney's New Video Aims at #GenerationHashtag
You don't normally think "cultural commentary" when you watch a Paul McCartney video. But, with his latest video release for the song Appreciate, the septuagenarian King of Rock continues to pull new tricks from up his sleeve. This time, a catchy song and dance number transcends the usual McCartney fantasyland, providing some smart commentary on human culture in an increasingly technological environment. In McCartney's museum, the humans doing everyday things are the displays to be studied by a robot known as "Newman". An artistic interpretation of left and right brain segments is displayed as McCartney walks this New Man (get it?) through the exhibit, counselling him on human behavior and how to groove. By the end of the video, even the humans are getting into the act, dropping their technological fancies in favor of dancing to the beat.
The robot itself shouldn't come as a surprise to hardcore McCartney fans. Back in October, when he graced the cover of Rolling Stone McCartney commented on visions of a robot, possibly influenced by one of his favorite stories shared with his 10 year old daughter, Beatrice, is The Iron Giant. In press for the video's release, McCartney commented:
"I woke up one morning with an image in my head of me standing with a large robot. I thought it might be something that could be used for the cover of my album 'NEW,' but instead the idea turned out to be for my music video for 'Appreciate'. Together with the people who had done the puppetry for the worldwide hit 'War Horse,' we developed the robot who became Newman."
Having developed a keen interest in filmmaking when he was still one of the Beatles, McCartney has come a long way with his films from his first directorial foray, 1967′s Magical Mystery Tour. Far from the acid-induced country bus tour, Appreciate provides an up-tempo perspective on the 21st century from the guy who, not long ago, was singing about his Ever Present Past.
Yet it isn't Microsoft that's keeping Macca relevant among Generation Hashtag; cultural commentary aside, McCartney still knows how to rock a beat. Dubbed a "remarkable album" by POPMatters, NEW was ranked the 4th best album of 2013 by Rolling Stone. Transcending the pop fluff that perpetuated so many of his hits in the 70′s and 80′s, McCartney has entered a new era as much motivated by experimentation as reflection.
McCartney is set to tour with Newman in Japan. Perhaps a Godzilla mashup is already in the works.
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The #1 Worst New Sitcom for Fall
Or, as Anthony Ha says, "There's An Upcoming TV Show Called Selfie And I Hate Everything About It":
Executive: God, I hate millennials.
Showrunner: Yeah, but they'd totally watch a show called Selfie.
Executive: A show … about taking photos?
Showrunner: No no no, that's just hook, see? It's really a way to talk about our modern condition as a technological society.
Executive: Forget millennials, I hate you.
Showrunner: (quickly) Not as a serious drama. As a comedy.
Executive: Really? How many jokes can you tell about … whatever the hell they're called?
Showrunner: That's the beauty of it. You don't need jokes, because technology is inherently funny. We'll just throw in lots of smartphone screenshots and random buzzwords like "Insta-famous" and "oh-em-gee" and the kids will laugh and laugh. You won't have to hire any actual writers!
One of the funniest (fictional) prospective pitch dialogues I've read in a while, Ha's attack on ABC's horrible (and horribly over-promoted) new sitcom for the fall is only one of the many signs that Selfie promises to be about as big of a hit as Viva Laughlin, the CBS non-starter based on a BBC series titled Blackpool. But hey, two episodes is better than nothing, right? And in the words of The Soup's Joel McHale, "Why would you cancel that? We need that." After all, a millennial non-starter pilot that rips off one of the most popular classic movies of all time does make great material for those of us who prefer to MST our TV shows.
The real loser in this is Karen Gillan, formerly of Doctor Who, now the "Eliza Doolittle" of Selfie, who will be yet another reminder to British actors (alongside Downton's Dan Stevens and Call the Midwife's Jessica Raine) that Hollywood plays a totally different game than does the BBC. I doubt that even the Doctor could save this network bomb.
Joel Hodgson, on the other hand….(watch video on next page)
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Debunking the Jewish Mother Stereotype
What is wrong with my children? Why won't they let me completely immerse myself in their lives?!
Beverly Goldberg, The Goldbergs
Last week, my husband and I fell over laughing at the best line in the entire first season of ABC's The Goldbergs. Just renewed for a second season, the autobiographical series created by Adam F. Goldberg (no relation) features, in his own words, "the orginial sMother" Beverly Goldberg, archetype of Jewish moms the world over. In his comic genius (complemented by Wendi McLendon-Covey's masterful performance) Goldberg has managed to take a figure much-maligned over the past few decades and craft her into a clan leader who is as lovable as she is obnoxious. With her ballsy, brash bravado, Beverly is the living, breathing Jewishness in a show otherwise lacking in Jewish culture. For The Goldbergs, Jewish is not about kashrut, holidays or simchas; it is about a mother who smothers her children with equal parts love, confidence, and overprotection.
Thanks to Freud and Friedan, Jewish moms have taken a beating over the past few decades. Friedan used her own mother's discontent with being a housewife as the impetus for her brutal criticisms of motherhood and housewifery, going so far as to describe the latter using Holocaust imagery. What Friedan failed to note early on was the antisemitic influence on her mother's behavior. Not only was her educated mother forced to become a housewife the minute she married, she was also the victim of lifelong antisemitic prejudice. This attitude, something internalized by both mother and daughter, would later come out in brute force through Friedan's feminist critiques of the Jewish mother. It was a position that Friedan would eventually come to regret. According to historian Joyce Antler:
…in later life [Friedan] has joined the modern aspirations of feminism with the popular emblems of her Jewish heritage, understanding that the myth of a controlling, aggressive Jewish mother has been as dangerous to the self-esteem of Jewish women (including her own) as the earlier "feminine mystique" was to all women.
The real-life Beverly Goldberg views her son's television show as a "validation of everything she's ever done." I'd take her observation a step further; I believe Adam F. Goldberg's seemingly simple, humorous portrayal of "the original sMother" is a much-needed cultural validation of the Jewish mother figure at large. Beverly Goldberg may not have the zaftig figure of her televisual predecessor Molly, but she has a zaftig heart, one that infuses the kind of family love into a sitcom setting that hasn't existed since the Huxtables went off the air. In the midst of intense cultural debates on the value and future of motherhood, Beverly Goldberg's intense devotion, undivided attention, and proclivity for jaws-of-life hugs are refreshing.
Happy sMother's Day to Jewish moms around the globe. Just please remember to let your kids come up for air once in a while.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge, Part 5: The Drug of Disinformation
The Introduction to Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge: Starting Down the Yellow Brick Road…
Part 1: The Mask of Marxism
Part 2: Getting to the Heart of Social Justice
Part 3: Who Needs a Brain?
Part 4: Are Conservatives Cowards?
"The August 1991 coup in Moscow collapsed three days after it had started, providing the ultimate, ironic proof that nothing, not even a coup, could succeed any more in a society whose vital arteries had been calcified by 70 years of disinformation and dismal feudalism. The main loser was the Communist Party."
– Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
Both the Democrat and Republican parties have been disinformed by Marxism. The Liberal wing of the Democrat Party has been duped into putting their faith in Marxism's many forms (socialism, economic determinism, progressivism), while the Republican Party has legitimized Marxism as a form of party politics instead of a murderous, atheistic religion that empowers despots. The Conservative movement, by and large, is slow to recognize Marxism's true nature, because we are a nation that has been drugged by Disinformation. Pacepa continues:
At the end of the 2001 summit meeting held in Slovenia, President George W. Bush said: "I looked the man [Putin] in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy." Unfortunately, even President Bush was deceived by disinformation. Putin consolidated Russia into an intelligence dictatorship, not a democracy. During the Cold War, the KGB was a state within a state. Under Putin, the KGB, rechristened the FSB, is the state. Three years after Putin enthroned himself in the Kremlin, some 6,000 former officers of the KGB—that organization responsible for having slaughtered at least 20 million people in the Soviet Union alone—were running Russia's federal and local governments.
…Is it too far-fetched to suggest that this new Russia calls up the hypothetical image of a postwar Germany being run by former Gestapo officers, who reinstate Hitler's "Deutschland Über Alles" as national anthem, call the demise of Nazi Germany a "national tragedy on an enormous scale," and invade a neighboring country, perhaps Poland, the way Hitler set off World War II?
That is the secret power of disinformation.
Pacepa share these thoughts with me mere weeks before the Ukranian revolution and secession of the Crimea to Putin's Russia. Disinformation is wielding its power on the American homefront as well. In his critique of Thomas Piketty's new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, David Brooks embraces Piketty's idea of a tax on the wealthy's investment capital in order to create intellectual equality among the classes:
Think of how much more affordable fine art would be. Think of how much more equal the upper class would be.
His musings aren't that far off from those of Russian intellectuals, who are "making do" with their government's clampdown on free media and the right to protest. In exchange for their rights, these Russians whose intellectual arteries have been "calcified by disinformation" are being doted upon by their increasingly despotic government:
All sorts of entertainment is being lavished on Russia's hipsters. Their favorite public parks have splashy, beautifully designed restaurants and clubs, comfortable biking areas and luxurious places to chill. Sanctions or not, Fedoseyev's friends can still dine out at restaurants full of expats, take shopping trips to Milan, or buy their electronic gadgets online. Fashion Week this weekend was another party blooming with charming models and celebrities; the usual hipsters clubs, Solianka, Simachev, Oldich Dress and Drink or Strelka, felt as cuddly and crowded as ever.
To paraphrase Brooks, it would seem that the fine art is quite affordable in Russia these days. Like junkies seeking a quick fix, Russian intellectuals pursue disinformation at the expense of their freedom. Is Brooks suggesting we do the same, or have we already succumbed to the addiction? In either case, what we need to know now is: What is the antidote to disinformation?
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HBO Green Lights Men & Capitalism
Warning: Not Safe for Work (profanity)
In his new HBO series Silicon Valley, Mike Judge turns his cutting sarcasm on the wunderkind of Silicon Valley, issuing awesome commentary on 21st century masculinity.
Thomas Middleditch portrays Richard Hendricks, a developer who creates a miracle algorithm with revolutionary file compression capabilities. He is the anti-Don Draper: a skinny, nervous twenty-something dressed in cargo pants and a hoodie; Hendricks is the lost member of the Big Bang Theory click. He lives with two other computer geeks in "the incubator," a house owned by the overtly obnoxious yet humorous Erlich Bachmann (hysterically portrayed by T.J. Miller), whose app, Aviato, has turned him into one of the many tech venture capitalists in Palo Alto.
Hendricks turns down a 10 million dollar offer from his tech guru boss Gavin Belson, owner of the fictional Google-ripoff "Hooli," who is anxious to purchase the miracle algorithm. Instead, Hendricks elects to accept eccentric investor Peter Gregory's offer of $200,000 for 5% of his start-up company, Pied Piper. It's the best argument for capitalism and small business being made on television today. In electing to start his own business instead of running with the cash, Hendricks inspires his fellow nerds and is forced into maturity. Within the first three episodes he transitions from panic attacks to developing a business plan and entering his first series of negotiations.
With his 1999 hit Office Space, Judge issued a powerful statement about the death of masculinity in the corporate world. With Silicon Valley, his declaration is refined into a statement about how the free market can be used to empower men — primarily nerdy white guys and the Asians who hang with them. In the first episode, Hendricks declares:
Look guys, for thousands of years, guys like us have gotten the sh*t kicked out of us. But now, for the first time, we are living in an era where we can be in charge and build empires. We could be the Vikings of our day.
Judge also takes sharp jabs at the men who propagate corporate culture. Hooli's Gavin Belson is a "global"-minded laughable yuppie with a Messiah complex who is "committed to social justice" and keeps a "guru" around to remind him how wonderful and unique he is. "If we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller," he proclaims as he races to compete with Pied Piper's formidable nerds.
It will be interesting to see how women are treated within the show. In episode 3, Bachmann (who wears a shirt that reads "I know H.T.M.L.: How To Meet Ladies") orders up an exotic dancer as a "gift" to reward the Pied Piper crew. The guys retreat to the kitchen, anxious to avoid an awkward scene. The one guy who she manages to trap declares his love for her, and is later found hanging out at the dancer's home… playing video games with her children.
The series is peppered with Judge's raunchy humor, but unlike Family Guy it is relatively sparse and works to advance instead of interrupt the story. The Big Bang Theory may have ushered in the era of the nerd, but Silicon Valley is taking America's love affair with geeky guys and masculinity to a newer, deeper, and much-needed level of respect.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge, Part 3: Who Needs a Brain?
Hiding the ugly face of Marxism has become a real science.
– Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
We get it: Intellectuals who fall to the Left of the political spectrum dig Marx. Cultural critics like Ben Shapiro and Ben Stein have already made the excellent argument that academia is ideologically corrupted by said intellectuals, arguments that can be backed up by practically every conservative college graduate in the country. Now the focus has turned to public education, specifically the battle over Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCCS). You know what I'm talking about: Those crazy grammar assignments or math problems-cum-memes that pepper your Facebook and Twitter feed, usually accompanied by sarcastic comments like "Common Core is making me stupider."
From a governmental point of view, Obama's CCCS look like Bush's No Child Left Behind on steroids: high-impact grant funding legislation that increases federal influence at the local level. Public school districts must report boatloads of data showing quantifiable achievements if they are to be rewarded with government funds. Many Americans doubt that a quality education can be quantified, but as Stalin was fond of saying: "Bureaucracy is the price we pay for impartiality."
Which brings to mind Pacepa's remark:
After the Kremlin expelled Romania's King and declared the country a Popular Republic, the new government nationalized the school system, and decided to create its own type of intellectual — the "new man".
Romania had its intellectuals before the Revolution. Most fled to Western Europe with death sentences hanging over their heads, still more wound up in gulags, and yet others elected to support the communist regime. A new generation of intellectuals would grow up behind the Iron Curtain, cultivating a subculture all their own filled with bootleg records and western media. They'd take menial bureaucratic jobs that would give them enough time to think and write – secretly of course – and maintain the culture their government denied them. Today's Russian intellectuals have inherited the complacency of their parents' generation, willing to "make do" as the government clamps down on free speech. It would seem, as Pacepa puts it, that their "vital arteries [have] been calcified by 70 years of disinformation and dismal feudalism."
The harsh reality is that most citizens of the former Soviet Union do not know how to defend freedom because they've been educated to live without it. As the Wizard so kindly explained, the Scarecrow didn't need a brain; he needed his intelligence to be quantified through a degree conferred by an authoritative source. This doesn't mean that public education is a sham; on the contrary, this should illustrate how powerful an education can be in the hands of the educators as well as the minds of the educated.
We've discussed Marxist influences in our contemporary culture, but do we have the courage to confront Marxism in our daily discourse? Stay tuned for the next installment of Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge, Part 2: Getting to the Heart of Social Justice
Editor's Note: See the introduction here and Part I here to this ongoing series explaining the insights of Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector from the Soviet bloc
Most East European governments concealed their road to Communism by posting innocuous nameplates at the door, such as People's Republic or Popular Republic.
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
"People's Republic" is such a chummy term. In fact, Marxism in general, with all it's "redistribution of wealth" sounds so compassionate, at least to a Western, Judeo-Christianized mind. A Chinese mind familiar with Mao's Great Leap Forward, for instance, may have a different take on the benevolent-sounding idea of a "People's Republic" given the facts:
"State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death."
Mao couldn't lie his way past a free press in the West. Nor could Khruschev, as Pacepa explains,
The 1963 missile crisis generated by socialist Cuba gave the socialist mask of Marxism a dirty name in the West, and few Marxists wanted to be openly associated with socialism anymore.
But, socialism is still hot. China is still The People's Republic and "we're all socialists now," right? The last installment ended with the question: How have intellectual Wizards manipulated Marxism to acculturate the American mind leftward? Pacepa answers:
[Marxists] therefore began hiding their Marxism under a new cover called "economic determinism," …a theory of survival rooted in Marx's Manifesto (another theory of survival), but it pretends that the economic organization of a society, not the socialist class war and the socialist redistribution of wealth, determines the nature of all other aspects of its life.
When economic determinism lost credibility because of the devastating economic crisis in Greece, our Democratic Party began replacing it with "progressivism," which has become the latest cover name for Marxism. …Today's Progressive Movement was born in New York's Zuccotti Park. It was first known as the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, which advocated the abolition of "capitalist America."
Marxists in the West successfully propagate progressivism under the guise of "social justice" that demands the redistribution of wealth to the less fortunate. Ironically, most people of the Judeo-Christian West accept this Marxist notion out of the goodness of their hearts. However, putting faith in the Marxist lie that human beings don't have a heart (and therefore are incapable of compassionate decision making) requires handing over all financial power to the Marxist Wizards who proceed to dole out your funds as they see fit.
This speaks to the heart of the question, but how have the Marxist Wizards rendered us so seemingly brainless?
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The Bronies' First Great Accomplishment
The Fox Business story about Hasbro's turn of fortunes uses gender-normative terminology that, after a tween stared down McDonald's over its scandalous Happy Meals toys, is no longer politically correct.
Toymaker Hasbro Inc. on Monday said it swung to a profit from a year-ago loss, boosted by strong sales in its girls toys category. Hasbro reported a first-quarter profit of $32.1 billion, or 24 cents a share, versus a loss of $6.7 billion, or 5 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. (emphasis added, offense unintended)
We can't call them "girls toys" anymore, for two reasons. In the case of My Little Pony toys, even though they're intended for girls age 8 and under, adult men are actually buying them and watching the TV show. I wish I was kidding, but I am not. Bronies are a thing, as Ronan Farrow helpfully reported in-depth for MSNBC not long ago.
The second reason that we cannot call girls toys girls toys is because of the courage and forward thinking of Antonia Ayres-Brown. The teen slatepitched McDonald's out of using gender-normative terminology to describe the toys it puts in its Happy Meals.
In the fall of 2008, when I was 11 years old, I wrote to the CEO of McDonald's and asked him to change the way his stores sold Happy Meals. I expressed my frustration that McDonald's always asked if my family preferred a "girl toy" or a "boy toy" when we ordered a Happy Meal at the drive-through. My letter asked if it would be legal for McDonald's "to ask at a job interview whether someone wanted a man's job or a woman's job?"
A few weeks later, I received a short response from a McDonald's customer satisfaction representative claiming that McDonald's doesn't train their employees to ask whether Happy Meal customers want boys' or girls' toys, and my experiences were not the norm.
This response was unsatisfying, so I began visiting more than a dozen local McDonald's locations with my father to collect data. Ultimately, we brought a complaint to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities against McDonald's for discriminating on the basis of sex. Despite our evidence showing that, in our test, McDonald's employees described the toys in gendered terms more than 79 percent of the time, the commission dismissed our allegations as "absurd" and solely for the purposes of "titilation [sic] and sociological experimentation." All in all, this was a pretty humiliating defeat.
She goes on, and on, and on, from there. Seriously. She and her parents whittled off years of their lives pushing McDonald's into a position where it is not allowed to speak clearly about an obvious and harmless thing.
The ending of it all is that McDonald's will now confuse the life out of anyone who asks for the boys toy or the girls toy, until they go away angry that they ever bothered to order the Happy Meal.
Next, one supposes that Ayres-Brown will demand that McDonald's create Happy Meal toys for each of Facebook's 50 gender options.
That could take a while.
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David, in your last response in our ongoing dialogue about Lisa De Pasquale's new book Finding Mr. Righteous, you cited another disturbing passage from the book (shown above) and paired it with some of your own relationship experiences:
Some of the women I dated would shift the foreplay into one disturbing realm or another, either incorporating pain and degradation into how they treated me or requesting I act that way toward them. Never was it just "for fun" or "to be kinky" or to "spice things up"– always behind these outward expressions some inner emotional wounds ached, unhealed by a spiritual practice.
Or rather, as it turns out, the sex and the pain was their substitute for a religion. …The main takeaway that I've gotten from Paglia, supplemented by additional reading from books like A History of Sexual Customs and James C. Bennett and Michael Lotus's America 3.0, is that throughout human history the Judeo-Christian conception of monogamous marriage is actually the "deviant," unnatural way to live. History shows that the more "normal" way for both men and women to treat each other is the same way animals do in the wild — as disposable meat. Humans' default setting is not to love just one person forever. When we do we are rising above our nature; do I go too far that Love itself is not natural?
David, I must congratulate you on your epiphany. You have discovered a truth that many in the mainstream Bible-believing sphere have tried to avoid for years: Those who put their faith in the Bible are the cultural deviants. How hilarious is it that a self-proclaimed atheist can state this so clearly? Then again, one of the reasons Paglia has been blacklisted by liberals is that she is so willing to discuss the difference between pagan and Godly behaviors. Liberals, especially the Marxists in the bunch, long ago learned that it's much easier to behave badly when you do it under the guise of being Godly. In this case, Paglia's too honest for her own good.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge, Part 1: The Mask of Marxism
Editor's Note: See the introduction to this series here: Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge: Starting Down the Yellow Brick Road…
"Seen through the perspective of history, Marxism was actually such a raw, ill-defined and malleable philosophy that one could make of it whatever one wished."
- Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
For Lenin, Marxism was a tool to enact his own version of the Russian autocracy his Communist Party claimed to destroy. Lenin exercised his autocratic power in much the same way as the Czars: through his own secret police, the Cheka. "Lenin's new political police was the fastest expanding Soviet organization after the Revolution: it had started out with only 23 men, but within a couple of years it had numbered over 200,000 employees."
Stalin, who had grown up under the watchful eye of the Czar's secret police, was so acculturated to the concept that he embraced it with full fervor, crafting Lenin's brigade into the GPU, a secret police force answerable only to Stalin himself. The GPU deported Trotsky. Re-christened the OGPU, it weeded out Lenin's Bolshevik party. Then, re-named the NKVD, the secret police force liquidated the Red Army and Supreme Military Council. 3 name changes and 7 million lives later, the NKVD (later to be re-named "KGB") secured a firm stranglehold on Soviet Russia. Yet Stalin, adored by his people, remained above the fray, the "Little Father" to his people, thanks to the disinformation campaign mounted and executed by the intelligence wing of the NKVD.
The malleability of Marxism explains why, despite mounds of physical evidence, Marxist ideology is still ardently defended by those who claim to be Marxists, but who haven't had the "privilege" of living under Marxist rule. An architectural plan can look great on paper to an unskilled eye. The most ardent voices who speak out against Marxist regimes are the ones who've had the unfortunate experience of living under them. They're the skilled eyes who can easily tell that the blueprints will generate a crumbling structure.
If acculturation is the key to an individual's interpretation of Marx, it is easy to understand why Marxism is so popular among the young upper-classes who have never struggled, nor suffered economically. It's easy to be a Marxist when you've got the latest smartphone and can Tweet out your wants, needs, and location of the nearest FedEx where you can pick them up. It becomes harder to defend the philosophy when you're living under the autocratic ruler who you empowered, whose government and economy have rendered technology unaffordable and/or unaccessible, and who has stripped your town of its grain and redistributed it to more productive, and therefore more worthy, citizens.
So, what of this side of the globe where Marxism walked down the yellow brick road of liberalism? How have intellectual Wizards manipulated Marxism to acculturate the American mind leftward? Stay tuned for the next seed of knowledge from Pacepa.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge: Starting Down the Yellow Brick Road…
Pilot Episode, Scarecrow & Mrs. King (1983)
I dig spy movies. TV shows, too. Most kids growing up in the last decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall have fond memories of their first TV heroine being Jem or She-Ra. Mine was Amanda King. At 8 years old I wanted to partner up with an ultra-cool spy like Scarecrow (code named as a member of the Oz Network - as in Wizard of) and take down the Evil Empire in our midst. So, of course, when my editor Dave Swindle approached me with the opportunity to partner up with KGB defector Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa for a little intelligence gathering, how could I refuse?
Pacepa's latest book, Disinformation reads like a Russian epic. The chronicle of facts detailing the Soviet disinformation campaign that disarmed American intellectual, political and academic circles over the course of the 20th century should be a must-read in any conservative's common core. Having relied on it heavily for my PJ Lifestyle series on the Intellectual Love Affair with Marxism, I finished the book wanting to understand exactly where America is at on the road to socialism, and if the facts fit, why so many conservative outlets hesitated to give Pacepa's book the time of day. So, I began my interview with 15 questions; a few weeks later Pacepa sent me a 12 page reply to the first question on the list. Tolstoy would've been proud. "I'm out of touch with this generation… you speak their language," he commented rather poetically. He also gave me an assignment: to decode his knowledge into what the Dude would call "the parlance of our times."
Like Jay Carney, I have an affinity for the Soviet spectrum. Unlike Jay Carney, the goal of my interest is to avoid becoming a citizen of the next socialist empire to tear apart the globe. So, in the interest of achieving that goal, I seek out primary sources who can give me real information on the warning signs that appear within a culture whose political and popular leadership are driving them dangerously close to the brink of socialism with the goal of autocracy in mind.
The prophet said, "Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls." God has designed a path; we choose to walk down it and eventually realize what we've been preparing for all along. My path began in front of a TV and wound up here, in front of a screen that connects millions today with seemingly ancient truths. I invite you now to walk this yellow brick road with me as we study Pacepa's seeds of truth and, perhaps, get a chance to plant a few of our own so that we can all find the rest we so desperately need.
Editor's Note: "Part 1: The Mask of Marxism" is scheduled for Monday at 8:00 PST.
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Over two years ago now I started the Ealing Tweetup in London. It's a regular social media get-together in west London that has always been marked out from the usual social media fan-boy events by involving people who are not involved in the IT industry. It is true, real people do use Twitter.

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A bit later, how long exactly he can't recall, he came across Mitzi flipping through a newspaper. She scanned for a moment, then noticed something.
"Dock," she said. "You're supposed to pitch today."
Ellis focused his mind. No. Friday. He wasn't pitching until Friday. He was sure.
"Baby," she replied. "It is Friday. You slept through Thursday."
Ellis remained calm. The game would start late. Ample time for the acid to wear off. Then it struck him: doubleheader. The Pirates had a doubleheader. And he was pitching the first game. He had four hours to get to San Diego, warm up and pitch. If something didn't happen in the interim, Dock Philip Ellis, age 25, was about to enter a 50,000-seat stadium and throw a very small ball, very hard, for a very long time, without the benefit of being able to, you know, feel the thing.
Which, it turns out, was one of the least crazy things that happened to him on that particular day.
On a recent Friday afternoon, Ellis, now 60, stands outside his house, waiting for movers to arrive. Ellis lives in an upscale subdivision of identical homes laid out on identical streets; this weekend he's moving to a larger house several blocks away.
Ellis is not a small man--when he drove up in his wife's tiny sports coupe, his knees looked like earrings--and here, now, watching him pace around his front yard, a few flecks of gray are the only suggestion that Ellis' "heavyball" couldn't still kill a small animal. (Well, plus the fact that he can't lift his arm over his head, having torn his rotator cuff lifting weights in 1993. There's that.) In conversation, he's intelligent, funny and what former Rangers owner Brad Corbett calls "dangerously honest."
Throughout his 12-year career as a player, he was often labeled a different kind of dangerous. Brash, gifted and impetuous, he would do almost anything to make a point he believed in. When baseball brass complained about his haircut, he wore hair curlers on the field. When a heckler called him nigger during a minor league game in Alabama, he entered the stands, sat among the hecklers and said, "What happened to all those niggers up here? All those niggers calling me nigger?" (In Ellis' version of the story, he also has a gun in his pocket.) When the Cincinnati Reds taunted the Pirates after beating them in the 1972 National League Championship Series, Ellis decided to motivate his team by hitting every single batter in the Reds' lineup. He hit the first three and walked two before he was pulled. He had, in short, that certain combination of raw talent and insanity that very rarely creates Hall of Famers but almost always creates legends.
"Dock Ellis was without question the most intimidating pitcher of his era," says former MVP and batting champ Dave Parker, who came into the majors on Ellis' 1973 Pittsburgh Pirates. "Bob Gibson is up there, too, obviously, but with Dock it wasn't just his stuff. It was his flamboyance, his perceived militancy and his fearlessness. When he came and said he was gonna hit all those Reds, I thought, 'You ain't gonna do nothing, man.' Then he did it. I gained a lot of respect for him right there. Dock was and is one of my best friends--I call him my baseball father--but after I left the Pirates, he said he was gonna hit me in the face. And every time I faced him, I was scared."
Ellis grew up 97 miles southwest of Victorville, in a section of Los Angeles known colloquially as "the Neighborhood"--a middle-class black suburb nestled between Gardena, Long Beach and Watts. His childhood was, by all accounts, remarkable mostly in its normalcy: His parents loved him, he got into trouble here and there, he excelled at sports and practical jokes.
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine preoperatively administered a questionnaire to women scheduled for a pre-planned, non-emergent cesarean delivery to help identify those at risk for severe pain after surgery.
Fifty-three participants who were expected to have severe pain after cesarean delivery, based on a simple questionnaire, were randomly selected to either receive a standard dose of long acting spinal morphine plus oral placebo tablets or a higher dose of long acting spinal morphine plus oral acetaminophen tablets. In addition, all patients received oral ibuprofen and intravenous morphine through a patient controlled pump.
Participants were assessed 24 hours after surgery for pain and at two months for chronic pain and postpartum depression. Findings showed that patients who received the larger dose of spinal morphine plus oral acetaminophen had significantly lower pain scores in the first 24 hours after a cesarean delivery than patients in the other treatment group without an increase in side effects. However, postpartum depression and pain two months later was not different between the two groups.
"Through the use of a very brief questionnaire, we were able to identify which women were at high risk for severe pain after a cesarean delivery," said lead study author Jessica L. Booth, M.D. "We were then able to tailor a postoperative pain treatment plan for these women using simple methods to improve the amount of pain in the days following this major abdominal operation."
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he is actually a fan
She's having fun with friends, its not that serious!
No, thank you Thors 944 for displaying your ignorance to the World! People like you choose to forget that Obama is in fact HALF BLACK AND HALF WHITE, making him the perfect man to bridge the racial divide you speak of. Because ANY black in a President is too much black to you guys!! And you obviously missed a lot of school as you don't realise that America has always been one of the most racist countries in the history of the world. So Obama sure has his work cut out, but most people are confident in his abilities to bring the nation together... let's face it, Barrack has a whole-heap-a-mess to clear up from his predecessor!!
You people are saying that whites are racist, which SOME white people are. Not every single white person is. Yet, there are black people who are racist too. So, stop arguing about pointless issues. If she wants to hangout with a black guy, who cares? For all we know they are just friends. It's no ones place to judge anyone!
nice to see you people CANT read it says she with her friends
I think they both look good together...I dont think he is ugly!and neither is she
ok i actually know Kendall. We go to the same school- Sierra Canyon and she is in a few of my classes. Really sweet and to answer your question: NO! Thats not her boyfriend. She isn't dating anyone but she has dated a few guys at school in the past
you guys dont*
Hella shady..you guyseven know him and your calling him ugly.. how are you going judge him from taking one look at him in the picture.. leave him alone and let her do what she wants. grown up
You guys are so judgemental over a picture???? You don't even know them!
& once everyone realizes Obama is Biracial & not just black we will be able so see past racism! He was raised by his white mother and her parents; however, his skin is tan so therefore he has to be just black!
is that Kendall byfriend if yes they are cute together :)
The bag is the blue GOYARD St. Louis GM.
who ever this thors944 dude is, shut the fxck up. black people didnt start to be racist, your just fxck mad that for once, we got a black president. dude go fxck your self, get a life, black, white, yellow we are all the same, you racist motherfucker.
what bag is that?
You dnt have to ask the black community nothing worry about your damn self! We dnt give a rats ass about racism.
Thank Obama, the most divisive, most racist president ever. He has had a polarizing effect on the races of this country. He is a thug, ghetto and a jihadist.... You ask why there is so much racism in this country?? Ask the Black community.
the was WTF!!
what difference does it make if the guy is black.. WFT.. is there still so much racisim in 2011.. get a clue
really you can do way better than this!!! this dude is beat!!!
the dude is uglyy, come on u can do wayy better then this!!
Nice to see she is continuing in the Kardashian girl tradition and hanging out with a black guy. Way to go!
I know she isn't wasting her time with a Doushe bag.


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Sundy plans a private placement of 312.5 million new yuan-denominated shares to fund two housing projects in the eastern Chinese cities of Nanjing and Hangzhou, it said in a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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Keep it real in Black Ink.
Grab the RVCA Women's Black Ink Short-Sleeve T-Shirt when you're in the need for something casual and comfy to wear while shopping for a new pair of wheels.
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the top looks like it was worn before receiving it. Probably going to return it!... :(
Christina Jackson
Hello BOOBIES!
I like this shirt, very comfy it's just veeeery low cut!