Hpecker

faithhealthlife:

narwhal-noir:

I took my girlfriend to an improv show the other night and during intermission we were passionately arguing over whether half a 5 Hour Energy shot would give you 2.5 hours of energy or 5 hours of half-assed energy so we turned around to ask the opinions of the three people behind us and one of them said “Are all your arguments like this because we heard you in the lobby earlier fighting over the right way to pronounce ‘egg’?”

Relationship goals

batgirl and prince: long may they purple reign

The common image of a barbershop quartet is of white men singing four-part harmony, but the musical form actually emerged from the barbershops and street corners of African-American neighborhoods. In the latest segment of NPR’s Present at the Creation series, Jim Wildman reports on the roots and styles of barbershop for Morning Edition.

A timeline: African American tenors improvise harmonies on church hymns to create distinctive sound patterns and perform in the places where black people create informal community meeting places (like barbershops and street corners). Later, groups record these distinctive “barbershop seventh chords” in studios, which favor these smaller groups as orchestras and bigger bands could not yet be properly taped. Competing companies promote and disseminate white quartets over the original black groups as they are seen as more “marketable.” Scholars will later incorrectly trace barbershop quartets back to England.

Many, many years later, Jimmy Fallon, a white comedian, creates several sketch comedy routines where songs by famous black artists (like R. Kelley and Marvin Gaye) are “hilariously” sung in a “white” way.

Nerdist writes, “Is there a whiter means of musical expression? One look at Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon’s group The Ragtime Gals, and the answer becomes clear — no, there most certainly is not. With their tutti-frutti suits, shiny shoes, boater hats, and squeaky clean faces, it’s unlikely one will find a less funky means of harmonizing than these a cappella dandies.”

Black people created amazing music —> white people took it —> white people erased black agency and creation —> forgot black inventors —> black people made some more amazing music —> white people sung it back to them using harvested black melodies, now colonized —> white people laugh at the hilarious juxtaposition, and it ends there?

or —>we can add this to the ongoing dialog about cultural appropriation and try to change it.

sairobee:

My Dad died a little over eight months ago. I still don’t think I’m quite ready to talk about him, but I thought it might help to talk about some of my own feelings. As much as I cried drawing these pages, I think it was good for me — I’m not always good at expressing my emotions to other people, so making this became a safe place where I could deal with things.

Anyway, I just want to thank you everyone who has sent kind words of support since April. And thank you if you take the time to read this. It was made with love.

Thank you for this

flyartproductions:

Magritte, the Creator

Not to be Reproduced, Rene Magritte (1937) / Yonkers, Tyler the Creator

the-fury-of-a-time-lord:

memeguy-com:

In case you were wondering how the Big Bird suit works

SHUT THE FUCK UP

nerdsandgamersftw:

stunningpicture:

As a parent of identical twins, this is how we kept sane at bedtime: Crib nets! And this was their response.

free them

james-fergo:

rojerk:

damnthatswhack:

The South Dakota Office of Highway Safety might want to reevaluate their PSA informing people about the dangers of jerking the steering wheel.

lmfao no fuckin way

I was thinking about something completely different

TBT

teganiamyours:

nottonight-imonfire:

youwilldream:

shitshilarious:

strawberryfck:

"I ATE MY DOG. TASTE WAS GOOD"

I HATE MY GOTHIC HAMSTER

I NEED IN MY COFFEE SOME SUGAR

I CAN MAKE ALL THESE HAND MOTIONS

I DEMAND ALL THE DAMN SHOE

Asshole of the Day, December 10, 2014: Mark Wahlberg

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spooky-boob:

spooky-boob:

did i ever tell you guys that one time i made a pun during a job interview?

i did not get the job

no one asked for the full story but here it is: one time i was interviewing at an in-n-out and they asked me what my responsibilities were at my previous job as a camp counselor. i said, “mostly i supervised the kids and helped them with their art projects, but i also did other things like making food, cleaning up the campus, and signing the kids in and out.” then I paused and was like, “haha, in and out. get it? because this is an in-n-out?” the interview ended shortly thereafter and i never got a call back.

digital-femme:

Comic strip by Kris Straub

singingsh0wtunes:

subway sure doesn’t mess around when it comes to puns

youwinagainsanta:

Katniss, you’re named after a potato root get off your high fucking horse

mooses-unicorn-in-the-tardis:

thedoctorssupernaturalblogger:

queenbroslob:

fierceisnotenough:

humorland:

shit i’d watch this so damn hard

Seriously, 12 straight men acting as gay as humanly possible, I would die.

Call it

"No homo"

How many notes does this need before we can make it happen?

slouching-towards-bethlehem:

kaisukes:

hroakie:

Marie Antoinette would much rather spend it all

Queen Marie Antoinette of France (1783), Louise Vigee Le Brun / Crew Love, Drake ft. The Weeknd

And somehow, a lot of people are too scared to tell their grandmothers they’re being bad when they’re racist.