BabydollBlondie

As artsy and futuristic as my upbringing was, I still need the confidence to live life. I believe writing about it may help myself and others face the world.


Gluten and Lactose Intolerance. Figure Model. Depression. Anxiety. Dreams. 1984. Love.
jamesnord: stand alone.  How do you really KNOW for sure that making a wish with a dandelion will work… Well, we don’t. So it never hurts to try.

jamesnord:

stand alone. 

How do you really KNOW for sure that making a wish with a dandelion will work… Well, we don’t. So it never hurts to try.

Like most things it’s not the good idea, philosophy, or moral purpose that is tainted. It’s the people. 

Like most things it’s not the good idea, philosophy, or moral purpose that is tainted. It’s the people. 

trackingpyongyang: Determined to quell the notion that its citizens live in anything less than a worker’s paradise, one of North Korea’s more infamous contributions to the de-militarized zone (DMZ) includes a propaganda “village” of around 200 people that almost all outside observers agree is entirely fake with no actual inhabitants. While North Korea officially insists that Kijongdong (기정동) is a collective farm of 200 families with schools and healthcare centers, this does not appear to stand up to scrutiny. Any quick telescopic viewing reveals empty buildings without glass windows or even interior rooms. The sidewalks are empty, and all of the village’s lights turn off and on at set times. Occasionally a crew comes to maintain the area. While the North Koreans sometimes refer to it as “Peace Village” (평화촌), the South Korean media have dubbed it the “Propaganda Village” (선전마을). A modern incarnation of the Potemkin village  phenomenon, the village was built in the 1950s to encourage defection from South Koreans, and after the Korean War it was one of only two settlements allowed to remain in the heavily fortified DMZ that now divides the Korean peninsula. When it was built, the brand new buildings, freshly painted and apparently wired for electricity, would have been a luxury for any Korean. It’s the only North Korean “settlement” visible from the DMZ itself, but no tourist in North Korea has ever been allowed to visit. It’s also called Propaganda Village because of the virulent anti-Western propaganda blared over loudspeakers 20 hours a day near the village, though this is done in different parts of the DMZ. The broadcasts stopped in 2004 after a thaw in inter-Korean relations, but resumed in 2010 after North Korea torpedoed and sank a South Korean submarine, killing 46 soldiers. It’s also home to what was once the world’s second tallest flagpole, raised in response to a South Korean flag nearby. This eventually started a “flagpole war” during the 1980s in which the North eventually proved it cares a lot more by building one so tall that at 525 feet, it needs its own outside structure just to support it from falling.

trackingpyongyang:

Determined to quell the notion that its citizens live in anything less than a worker’s paradise, one of North Korea’s more infamous contributions to the de-militarized zone (DMZ) includes a propaganda “village” of around 200 people that almost all outside observers agree is entirely fake with no actual inhabitants. While North Korea officially insists that Kijongdong (기정동) is a collective farm of 200 families with schools and healthcare centers, this does not appear to stand up to scrutiny. Any quick telescopic viewing reveals empty buildings without glass windows or even interior rooms. The sidewalks are empty, and all of the village’s lights turn off and on at set times. Occasionally a crew comes to maintain the area. While the North Koreans sometimes refer to it as “Peace Village” (평화촌), the South Korean media have dubbed it the “Propaganda Village” (선전마을). A modern incarnation of the Potemkin village  phenomenon, the village was built in the 1950s to encourage defection from South Koreans, and after the Korean War it was one of only two settlements allowed to remain in the heavily fortified DMZ that now divides the Korean peninsula. When it was built, the brand new buildings, freshly painted and apparently wired for electricity, would have been a luxury for any Korean. It’s the only North Korean “settlement” visible from the DMZ itself, but no tourist in North Korea has ever been allowed to visit. It’s also called Propaganda Village because of the virulent anti-Western propaganda blared over loudspeakers 20 hours a day near the village, though this is done in different parts of the DMZ. The broadcasts stopped in 2004 after a thaw in inter-Korean relations, but resumed in 2010 after North Korea torpedoed and sank a South Korean submarine, killing 46 soldiers.

It’s also home to what was once the world’s second tallest flagpole, raised in response to a South Korean flag nearby. This eventually started a “flagpole war” during the 1980s in which the North eventually proved it cares a lot more by building one so tall that at 525 feet, it needs its own outside structure just to support it from falling.

What did it mean for a person to be free? Even if you managed to escape from one cage weren’t you just in another, larger one?

—1Q84

My 11 yr old cat, E.T. …. Funny, I decided to keep this name for her that the mama cat’s owners gave her. My little Extraterrestrial.

My 11 yr old cat, E.T. …. Funny, I decided to keep this name for her that the mama cat’s owners gave her. My little Extraterrestrial.

What he had always had in his mind was the potential of a revolution- revolution as a metaphor or hypothesis. He believed that exercising that kind of antiestablishment, subversive will was indispensable for a healthy society.

—1Q84