What We Have All Been Waiting For...

On 25th March 2014, Future Islands will release Singles

their debut album for 4AD via: pitchfork

2PzNBsBpod?

thats right, I said it!

In non-Beyonce news: Obie the Dachsund puppeh lost all his weight.

For the article click here!
For a video of the workouts click here!

but if you really want a thoughtful critical analysis of beyonce's beyonce...

...then just please listen to this 2-hour-long breakdown by what might be my new favorite podcast, the read. emilube recommended it but she doesn't even read this blog so don't give her any credit.

it fills me with joy that we're still talking about beyonce's beyonce. let's talk about it forever ok?

speaking of chimamanda ngozi adichie

after the release of beyonce's beyonce, i listened to chimamanda on fresh air. i just wanted to know more about who she was and where she came from, and it was very informative in regards to those things. i meant to recommend it to you personally, but i forgot. click here if you are interested!

Best Thing On The Beyonce Album is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So as everyone has already stated Beyonce's "feminism" on her latest album is extremely contradictory and problematic - Mia McKenzie outlines a lot of the issues and the critiques of the album, the critiques of the critiques and also acknowledges that we can all still love Beyonce and critique the message in the work.
Anyway, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Ted Talk on feminism, which was sampled on the album, is pretty great and worth a full listen. The interesting part to me is that she talks about this notion of "bottom power." Adichie says:"Some people will say, 'Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.' And for non-Nigerians, “bottom power” is an expression in which I suppose means something like a woman who uses her sexuality to get favors from men. But “bottom power” is not power at all. Bottom power means that a woman simply has a good root to tap into, from time to time, somebody else’s power." What I find interesting is that, to me, this is the issue with the feminism in Beyonce's work. Beyonce is sort of just wielding “bottom power” and not really subverting or negating male power, if you think about it all the more sexual songs are written from that point of view. I wonder if Beyonce got to that point of the lecture and what she thinks about it? Yonce e-mail us plz!

"that pile of garbage saved her life"

a lady in new york fell three stories from her fire escape while she was trying to escape a fire survived relatively uninjured because she landed in a pile of uncollected trash bags. hahahahahah.

What is a Polar Vortex?

It's cold as hell, that's what. How are all our readers? This polar Vortex was cold enough for Robert Vick, an escaped convict, to turn himself back into authorities. #CTM. Bet he wasn't expecting minus 20 wind chill when he escaped in Lexington, KY the other day.
If you are seriously interested in what a polar vortex is you can read here, but in a nutshell it belongs at the North Pole with Santa and needs to go back home.

Speaking of Santa! What were your favorite gifts of 2013?

speaking of xtra ceeyute

this kid brought a sign to a jay-z show that said "can i rap for you?" and jay-z let him!

wowoooooowowoooooowowoooooowowooooooooooo

this golden retriever, genetically engineered by japan for extra cuteness, does an impression of a siren.

and it is xTrA cEeYuTe!!!!1111

tim tebow guessed correctly to within one point (jesus)

via

dont turn away LOOK AT ME

The Baroness is the Future, a new piece by the ANIMALS performance group. The designers.

Bao Bao, America's Greatest New Panda

In which Bao Bao trolls the world. http://t.co/CXkdUh9FsD

— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) January 6, 2014

what the polar vortex looks like.

watch this guy throw a pot of boiling water into -21 degree air.

he's a fun meteorologist to follow on twitter btw. @EricHolthaus

more love from BEYONCE. the 5 part mini documentary

part 1: the visual album part 2: imperfection part 3: run n gun part 4: liberation part 5: honesty

smells like chips

yahoo did a poll of light beers (thanks macbreath!) and trader joe's josé (racist) took top prize:

Ranking number one, Trader José Light, a private-label beer from the Trader Joe's chain, was surprisingly "pretty OK," according to our tasters. They liked that it "smelled like chips," was "lager-like," and had a "caramel-y" color.

who needs a lager? it's lager-like! 
i prefer it not be a caramel color, just caramel-y. 

this goes to show that it is never too hot for chips.