I feel really lucky,“although I hate that word — ‘lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes — I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an “artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky.
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| — | Peter Dinklage (via mollycrabapple) |
This year we saw many hilarious performances by women, and many idiotic articles from men about how women suddenly became funny. Yes, imagine how great ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ would have been had Mary, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, and Valerie Harper actually been funny. If only Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus had been able to get a laugh. I guess what I’m saying is, this isn’t the year that women finally became funny. This is the year that men finally pulled their heads out of their asses.
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| — | Matthew Perry, presenting at the 2012 Comedy Awards (via rebeccahalls) |
A 2007 photo of an altar by Ofelia Esparza (via Crewest).
No matter how large or well-shot, photos of altars for Día de los Muertos, especially those by Esparza, hardly do the lived experience of seeing one justice. There are so many lovingly chosen details in las ofrendas that is very difficult to fully capture. In this photo, you get the hint of the dozens of marigolds and folded paper flowers, the collage of loved ones and religious imagery, brightly decorated sugar skulls, the candles and tea cups. Esparza is well-known for her carefully and specifically crafted, large-scale altars and has been commissioned to create them for museums and galleries across the US. She believes that the ultimate death a person could suffer is the death of being forgotten.
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