"...Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before. Is there a better job description than that to aspire to? Here’s another trigger warning: Go out in the world and f— it up beautifully.

• Design clothes so hideous that they can’t be worn ironically.
• Horrify us with new ideas.
• Outrage outdated critics. 
• Use technology for transgression, not lazy social living.
• Make me nervous!
• And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn’t commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let’s remember the ones who did. It’s time to get busy. It’s your turn to cause trouble – but this time in the real world, and this time from the inside.

Thank you very much."

From John Waters' commencement speech at RISD, June 2015 

~ Valuable Receipts, or the Mystery of Wealth; Containing the Lady’s Cook-Book, Together with Several Hundred Very Rare Receipts and Patents to be Found in No Other Work, by J.H. Prescott, M.D., 1845

"This test is actually where the measurement “alcohol proof” comes from.
The term originated in the 16th century, when payments to British sailors included rations of rum. To ensure that the rum had not been watered down, it was “proved” by dousing gunpowder with it and then testing to see if the gunpowder would ignite. If it did not, then the rum contained too much water and was considered to be “under proof”. Gunpowder would not burn in rum that contained less than 57.15% ABV. Therefore, rum that contained this percentage of alcohol was defined to have “100° (one hundred degrees) proof”. The gunpowder test was officially replaced by a specific gravity test in 1816."

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Aw, get the romance shit out of the way and get straight to reality. Time's wastin'

 DaveInVA wrote: 
What could possibly be sexy regarding people that post on dating sites?

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Ladies: When posting your pics on dating sites like POF etc using a pic you took of yourself with your cellphone of your bathroom mirror with your open sh!tter in the background doesn't exactly make you look sexy...
Seems like every third ad has that pic.... 

 Proclivities wrote: 
#11 even before the drought.

It must be true - it's written in Comic Sans!

 haresfur wrote: 
That's an awesome jacket!

 katzendogs wrote: 
you with the keen eye for detail...

 kurtster wrote: 
They're not under the desk's!

 Proclivities wrote: 
pretty much all they told us kids in Berkeley back then ...

 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I think it is supposed to be a mushroom cloud, You know, "Proud of the Cloud"

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Or a mushroom cloud?

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Ah yes. This is that graphic arts stuff! 

 Antigone wrote: 
That's a good thought. 

 katzendogs wrote: 

• these
• things
• are
• bullets
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 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
What bullets?