Well, that's the most racist anti-Yoko "joke" I've seen in a long time.
Who wants to cheer me up?
Never seen this in such good quality. I really really hope I get a VHS of this for Christmas.
If you don’t, hit me up. I asked for the DVD for Xmas, and if I get it will have no use for my old VHS copy …
This scene + I Am the Walrus = the best things about this movie.
By the way
The several times in the 8 years since that I have woken up to a Beatles song on my alarm clock, my heart has started racing and I’ve gone into a panic, thinking “oh god, oh god, please don’t tell me that anyone’s dead.”
Thankfully, no one has been, yet. But it’s a really awful feeling.
George Harrison - All things must pass
Tv performance 1997
I woke up the morning after George Harrison died, turned on VH1 to watch while I got dressed, and it was in the middle of this performance. This must have been a repeat showing, as I don’t remember the tribute logo, or the scrolling message. In fact, I remember anxiously watching this and thinking “why are they showing this? why would they be showing this?” but instinctively knowing without anyone having to say.
I guess that George singing All Things Must Pass was a fitting way to find out. But it still makes me teary-eyed to see this again.
Paul, what.
I’m pretty convinced that they all kind of passed girlfriends/wives around.
Or maybe I’m just weird and wanted Jane/Geo to happen.
Do you see? DO YOU SEE????
I feel the need to yet again reiterate: this was George and Pattie’s wedding.
Depressed Lady Loses Benefits Because Of Her Facebook Photos
A depressed woman has lost her benefits because her insurance agent found Facebook photos where she appears to be having fun.
CBC reports:
A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer’s insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook…She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on the popular social networking site, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sun holiday - evidence that she is no longer depressed, Manulife said.
I can’t even describe how angry this makes me. And in the comments, some people are actually defending the insurance company. RAGE.
smIThs
Haha! I just read about Pattie doing this ad in her book (which I just finished). There was a commercial, too, where she had a speaking part, but then they ended up dubbing it over with someone else’s voice. Anyway, it’s awesome to actually see it.
“Why is sex work necessarily more degrading than working at McDonalds, or a Dunkin Donuts for that matter? Both involve the sale of ones body, and labour power to a certain degree. Both involve not being adequately compensated vis a vis profits versus wage, yet pornography is deemed horribly degrading. I submit that this because womens sexuality is only culturally acceptable when it is virginal in nature. Good girls, or authentic women don’t actually enjoy performing sex acts, or participating in any form of voyeurism. Certainly there are women working in the porn industry that are not happy about that choice but not all women feel that way. If you ask Walmart workers, I some will tell you that they are not happy working there either.
For us to accept this as completely degrading to women, we must ignore those in the sex trade industry who unequivocally state that they perform this labour because they enjoy it, and therefore if we truly feel that it is necessary to respect women, we should validate their experiences and accept their explanations about their labour. Is it still demeaning if the one performing does not feel demeaned? By telling sex trade workers that they are uniquely oppressed are we not guilty of seeking to discipline their bodies in the same manner that we accuse others of doing? Are we not creating them as other?
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via Womanist Musings (via ihatethismess) (via igather)
I think there is also an element of classism: if mid-to-upper-class women were to admit that Mickey D’s and maid service are just as degrading, they have to admit that it’s something they’re a part of. If McD’s is just as degrading, it’s degrading because the pay is such shit and the working conditions are so bad. If it’s degrading in that way, it’s because higher-class people don’t care enough to make it any better (because they are the ones with the power to do so). Therefore, if McD’s is just as degrading as sex work, it’s because of them.
So, of course, sex work is just a super special kind of degrading low-pay use-of-body work. Because class privileged women don’t typically hire female prostitutes. But they do hire maid service or buy something at Starbucks or stay in a hotel or use a public bathroom or use their electricity and indoor plumbing systems or stay in a man-built structure period … and so on …
(via amandaw)
“I’m a transgendered sex worker, and I want to not get killed for who I am or what I do. As our death count rises, I beg that you consider your prejudices around gender, and let us live in peace. I’m literally begging for my life.”
—Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance | RHRealityCheck.org (via kimberleecline) (via amberlrhea) (via champagnecandy) (via reachingtheshore)
(via scatterhearted)
I love this movie. Or, at least, I love Boo, as she’s the only thing I remember from it. I wanted her to be real so that I could take her home with me.
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