Dawn On Callisto Like sunrise to the dimwitted.

sharingpoetry:

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode? 

(submitted by potatonutx)

Tonight I learned quite a few things on my date:

1. I will immediately lose sexual attraction to a woman who cannot walk in heels. I don’t know why but I will.
2. From now on a date who choose Applebee’s over The Dope French Place will be introduced to my Emergency Escape Phone Call. “Lil Tink Tink got shot?!”
3. Applebee’s has pretty tasty Mojitos.
4. Applebee’s has pretty gross wings.
5. The bartender in Applebee’s will slip me her number when I go to the bathroom then smile in my dates face for the duration of our time at the bar.
6. Making small talk with the cute group of fresh college grads is a bad idea when spending time with the cute chick I asked out from class, even if she’s seemingly unresponsive when I don’t want to talk about her ex who’s calling her on our outing… like 6 times.
7. Women think I have a nice ass. Not really sure what that means but I won’t argue with it.
8. Steeling my eyes and feigning interest, if done correctly, still has positive results, i.e., laughing when I’m not telling jokes, smiling when I smile, touching my thigh, chest and face, in that order.
9. Never allow another woman to touch my thigh, chest or face while on a date with another woman, especially in that order.
10. When my date secretly text her ex for a ride and storms out of the restaurant maintaining my calm is dopeness.
11. When the hot bartender offers me a ride home I should take it, even if I have a car.
12. Sangria is awesome.
13. And lastly, short chicks named Valerie look even better out of their uniforms than in.
14. Bonus: I should quit dating females I’ve never had conversations with. It never really works out.

basseyworld:

I do not like that the “white saviour” of popular culture has now been shifted to activism. I have huge problems with that. It’s intellectual colonialism. It’s reductive. It simplifies both the damage done to the continent since the brain drain of slavery and the triumphs that Africans have made despite the pillaging of resources. I can’t dismiss it as well-intentioned when it intentionally reinforces privilege while simultaneously playing on guilt for profit. #Phony2012

(via daniellescruggs)