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By ~LS~ On May 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Pets, Voxygen

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By ~LS~ On May 8, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Capitalism and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Capitalism, Consumption, Goals, Money, Politics

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Self-storage

By ~LS~ On May 2, 2012 · Add Comment · In Politics, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Politics

Usually when I pass the self-storage places in the strip malls as I drive to work, I ignore them. They are part of the mundane aspects of my daily life that blend in with the roadside trivia like payday loan shops, Payless shoes, the Mall, and Office Depot, McDonalds, the homeless panhandler, the gas station, and people waiting for the bus. None of these things stand out until I need them or they disrupt me. Selective perception, and all.

Lately I’ve observed the large amount of self-storage places all around me. I started tracking them during my trip to New York City, where they seemed out of place because the city has no strip malls. Given that space is a premium in the city, they make more sense there than in suburbia.

With occupy Wall Street dominating the discursive and political field, the need for somewhere to store our [...]

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Cut and paste for your troops

By ~LS~ On November 11, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Obama, Politics, Slacktivism, War

On this Veteran’s Day, stop fake support of your troops.

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day that spawns a number of cut and paste micro-memes on Facebook. After last month’s screed on pinkwashing, I feel compelled to repeat my rant pre-emptively as the first posts start to trickle in.

People see the “Support our Troops Cut and Paste” and they dutifully follow directions without taking a moment to honor the sentiment, and without admitting that they’ve accomplished absolutely nothing meaningful in any way.

I find flag waving “support your veteran” statuses on Facebook amusing. They’re pointless. I might as well cut and paste a status from a status generator app (they do exist) – that’s about how interesting and meaningful those memes are.

Last year when this sort of thing went around, a lot of posts falsely claimed that Obama was cutting Veterans’ benefits, giving more money to welfare, [...]

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I like it without pinkwashing

By ~LS~ On October 6, 2010 · 17 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Fashion/beauty, Gender, Pop Culture, Science, Sexism, Slacktivism, YWCA

This week I received many Facebook messages urging me to tell my friends “where I like it” in my Facebook status. I’ve seen my friends post such mysterious statuses as “I like it on the chandelier” and “I like it on my car seat.” This morning I posted, “I like mine without pinkwashing.” Many people didn’t understand my status or why the meme makes me so angry. I have two simple answers:

1. I hate pinkwashing.

2. This is nothing but Facebook slactivism.

Put differently, I do not believe that if I post an “I like it…” status on Facebook, I have done something significant to advance women’s health.

Instead of pinkwashing, send a $5.00 check to the YWCA who will spend it helping poor women, primarily women of color, get free mammograms.

What is pinkwashing?

pinkwashing is the commodification breast cancer. I’ll let Wikipedia explain (quoting the [...]

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Ways to cheat on Foursquare

By ~LS~ On July 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Consumption, Droid, Pop Culture, Silliness, Travel

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