recovering hipster

20:19 30th Apr 2013

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'Loud, Desperate Need For Approval' Leads Tony Nominations

NEW YORK—With the announcement of the 67th Annual Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, new Broadway musical Loud, Desperate Need For Approval is leading the pack with an impressive 13 nominations while chief rivalLook At Me, Look At Me, Please, God, Look At Me follows close behind with 11 nods in many of the same categories. “This has been an incredible year for Broadway; so competitive, in fact, that even a great show like All-Consuming Narcissism might actually get shut out,” said Deadline.com entertainment reporter Mike Fleming Jr., who went on to say that competition for actors is equally fierce as heavyweights Bottomless Need For Validation Stemming From Childhood Neglect and Naked Self-Obsession face off for best leading actor in a play. “The adaptation of Shrill, Needy Histrionics got a surprising amount of love from Tony nominators for a play that closed in March to mixed reviews, but perhaps the biggest surprise is British importShameless And Barely Disguised Cry For Attention’s snub. No one saw that coming.” According to sources, despite the buzz surrounding Flashy, Masturbatory Horseshit for best revival of a musical, sources confirm that it is almost certainly Pippin’s year.

17:51 20th Mar 2013

Notes: 7

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Tags: gun control the onion

The Time For Watered-Down And Effectively Meaningless Gun Laws Is Now | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

thecallus:

KABOOM.

12:19 26th Feb 2013

Notes: 668

Reblogged from speakgirl

Tags: racism context humor quvenzhané wallis the onion

I do believe the person responsible for The Onion tweet in question would have made that tasteless joke about any nine-year old actress. This tweet was ill advised and repulsive, not just because the actress was nine, or because MacFarlane had, earlier in the evening, made a joke about her being too old for George Clooney in sixteen years, but primarily because young black women, black girls, are regularly hypersexualized. There was this additional, fraught context that someone didn’t take into consideration and probably couldn’t take into consideration because they are oblivious. They are oblivious to the context because they’ve never been around people who are familiar with it, because they’ve never been held accountable.

People often fail to understand the importance of diversity. They assume it’s all about quotas and political correction but it is about so much more. Diversity (and we’re talking race, class, gender, sexuality, political affiliation, religion, all of it) is about putting multiple points of view into a conversation. It’s about ensuring that no one is operating in the kind of cultural vacuum where they don’t stop to consider context. It’s why certain people and shows and publications keep running into the same brick wall of public outcry about diversity—because these people consistently demonstrate a callous and willful ignorance of context. They see these lines that shouldn’t be crossed and cross them anyway because they are blissfully unencumbered by context.

I’m not outraged about this one tweet. I’m outraged about the cultural disease that spawned this tweet, the one where certain people are devalued and denigrated for sport and then told to laugh it off because hey, you know, it’s humor.

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Roxane Gay

This is the best thing I have read on this topic.

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This.

(Source: annfriedman)

18:49 26th Jan 2012

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Reblogged from stfuconservatives

Tags: politics the onion newt gingrich

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19:35 3rd Dec 2011

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Reblogged from stfuconservatives

Tags: the onion politics herman cain

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stfuconservatives:

semebay:

stfuconservatives:

American Politics

The hilarious part is that this true story is reported by The Onion, a website famed for the shit it makes up.

Stranger (and funnier) than fiction…

(Source: tehblackbirdincardigans)

21:42 12th Jul 2011

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Reblogged from chriskelly

Tags: the onion nancy grace caylee anthony

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chriskelly:

Nancy Grace Seen In Graveyard Sucking Marrow From Caylee Anthony’s Bones

The best.

12:32 20th Jun 2011

Notes: 47

Reblogged from soupsoup

Tags: the onion tom hanks pulitzer prize

soupsoup:

Tom Hanks, Actor supports an #OnionPulitzer (by AfajpOnline)

23:06 19th May 2011

Notes: 84

Reblogged from harharhar

Tags: the onion adulthood maturity

mattpayton:

Nation Down To Last Hundred Grown-Ups - The Onion

Wow. I think this one belongs in the Onion hall of fame.

I mean stuff like this is pure gold:

Experts confirmed the mass extinction of grown-ups has coincided with the rapid expansion of other demographic groups, including people who seek medication for every problem they encounter, 33-year-olds who participate in organized kickball leagues, personal injury litigants, and parents who try to become friends with their own children.

11:49 22nd Apr 2011

Notes: 81

Reblogged from chriskelly

Tags: mitt romney the onion brilliant

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charlietodd:

Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People

This Onion article is perfect.

I would like to reiterate: perfect.

11:17 11th May 2010

Notes: 1

Tags: noam chomsky the onion

Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once

(from The Onion)