Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, re-creating their roles in Billy Wilder’s 1959 classic, Some Like it Hot, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, April 1995
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A lengthy but worthwhile dissection of a real life conversation I had with a real life dood. Enjoy.
marla’s philosophy on life was that she might die at any moment.
the tragedy, she said,
was that she didn’t.
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wow
Yes…you were very good…
PRICELESS
Welcome to your life, america.
Okay, let’s be REALLY fucking real, y’all. I absolutely hate this picture. Sorry Heather, I like you, but I’m kind of pissed at you for posting this.
People become poor as fuck sometimes, and sometimes it happens quite suddenly.
Happened to me. Last year.
REAL TALK: I have a college education, double-digit years of experience in my field of work, a pair of 60 dollar jelly sandals, a notebook laptop and a 300 dollar pink purse. I went to fucking japan for two weeks last summer.
But you know what?
Once I lost my job and my savings ran out I had to stand in line for free food this fall because I had no job and no money.
I’m not ashamed about it. Programs like that exist for situations like that. I ate well. If Michelle Obama was handing out bags of potatoes and we engaged in a conversation about Kate Spade, maybe I would have shown her my purse, wallet and maybe my 60 dollar jelly shoes.
I am a fucking person, goddamnit and so is this guy. Situations are individual, and this picture pissed me off back when I was gainfully employed and wanted for nothing.
Being a professional musician is NOT all glamour, fyi. (Who wants to be my manager/agent? I clearly wanna work hard!! lulz.)
Anyway, this is fucking racist, classist, and insensitive as all hell. We are in a different kind of economy. The unemployment rate in my state is in DOUBLE FUCKING DIGITS. That’s only the people who, unlike myself, qualify for unemployment.
That says NOTHING about the people who are underemployed making minimum wage to like 12 dollars an hour with a mortgage, car payment and a life.
Really????
Reblogging for Pam’s kick-ass commentary.
Also, who spends their time making shit like this on the internet? Maybe not a fair question coming from a girl who has made a Captchart.
But you only use Captchart for good!
Same. Reblogging for commentary.
All of awesome-everyday’s commentary. Cost of judging people you don’t fucking know while hiding behind a false sense of superiority on the internet: $0. And I don’t know why homeless is in quotes here, that phone looks way too small for that man to live in it.
Plus, even if this guy was spending $100 a month on his phone plan, UM THAT ISN’T ENOUGH TO PAY RENT. Or to buy a month’s worth of groceries for most people.
I hate this attitude that in order to qualify for basic respect from the non-homeless, people like this man should have to hawk everything they own and live without a single luxury.
Although, really, are phones a luxury at this point? If you apply for a job, how are you going to hear back if you don’t give them a phone number? How can you call your case worker if you don’t have a phone? How can you contact your family? Phones are pretty necessary.
And how much do you think the federal government spent on his free meal? A couple dollars? Maybe $5? Yeah. Not exactly a “handout.”
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