And people say Obama hasn’t done anything.
5/26
(a) DONE.
(b) The guy holding the sign is cool. I know him. NBD.
are you fucking kidding me
This was created by the brilliant Judith Ann Braunn. Those of you lucky enough to live in or near Indianapolis can see an original (and definitionally temporary*) fingerprint graphite work created by Braunn at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as part of GRAPHITE, a show curated by none other than my wife.
It’s really encouraging to see good contemporary art getting >100,000 notes on tumblr, particularly because everyone is always telling me that no one is interested in contemporary art.
I just want to take a second to talk about this.
Yes, we hit two million.
We did it in less than eleven hours.
But you know what else we did?
We started conversation.
This show hasn’t been on air in years and we are starting conversation. People are talking about it. People who have never seen the show before, never heard about it. They are hearing about the group of fans that raised two million dollars to get a movie based off a show that was canceled after three seasons. They are talking about the people who broke records on a fundraising website and who quite possibly have changed the idea of how movies can be made.
So yeah, this is incredible; we’re getting our movie after all this time, but we didn’t just stop there. People are taking notice of this show that has changed all of us in different ways, and hopefully more people will begin watching it, even if it does “only” have three seasons. Because everyone should get a chance to learn the lessons that this show taught us - about fairness, justice, wit, responsibility, strength, dignity, honor, courage, bravery and that life’s a bitch until you die, but you still have a chance to make it as good as you possibly can, no matter what bullshit is thrown at you.
I say this from the bottom of my heart: thank you, Marshmallows. Whether you donated or not, you are a part of something spectacular. We are the Veronica Mars fans and we are getting our movie.
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Reblogging this, for example, is more important important than tweeting it.
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You know how it goes: the pervasive media mythology tells us that the fight over the schoolhouse is supposedly a battle between greedy self-interested teachers who don’t care about children and benevolent billionaire “reformers” whose political activism is solely focused on the welfare of kids. Epitomizing the media narrative, the Wall Street Journal casts the latter in sanitized terms, re-imagining the billionaires as philanthropic altruists “pushing for big changes they say will improve public schools.”
The first reason to scoff at this mythology should be obvious: it simply strains credulity to insist that pedagogues who get paid middling wages but nonetheless devote their lives to educating kids care less about those kids than do the Wall Street hedge funders and billionaire CEOs who finance the so-called “reform” movement.
"— Getting rich off of schoolchildren - Salon.com (via rachelfershleiser)
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So TMBG posted this picture of Clarissa on their facebook page last week, I noticed I had the same poster. So…then this happened.
It occurs to me only upon looking at this photo that a great deal of who I am was informed by Clarissa Explains it All.
The best use of 90s Pizza John.
A+++ Would Reblog Again
Let it go people.
Let. it. go.
It’s time, Internet. It’s time to find a new hill to fight and die on.
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