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– (via the-party-scientist)I’ll miss Harmon’s “Community.” And I think NBC and Sony executives have no idea of the shitstorm they just created. So I’ll leave an angry Internet comment of my own: Whoever thought it would be a good idea to ditch Harmon is a business-casual potted plant. You’re VH1, “Robocop 2,” “Back to the Future 3.”
You’re Jim Belushi.
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(via communitythings)
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(via communitythings)
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None of us have to go to anyone. And the idea that we do is a mental illness we contracted from breath mint commercials and Sandra Bullock. We can’t keep going to each other until we learn to go to ourselves. Stop making our hatred of ourselves someone else’s job and just stop hating ourselves.
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This may be one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen on ‘Community’.
Man tears bro, man tears.
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Truth.
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Chaos already dominates enough of our lives. The universe is an endless raging sea of randomness. Our job isn’t to fight it, but to weather it together, on the raft of life, a raft held together by those few, rare, beautiful things that we know to be predictable: US. It won’t matter what happens to us as long as we stay honest and accepting of each others’ flaws and virtues.
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Love is a gamble, always, but waiting won’t change the dice. You either roll ‘em or lose your turn.
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Every minute of our lives is a world premiere.
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Where are you hoodlums? Bring my spaceship back!
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Occupy Greendale.
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You know how many fake people are talking about how fake the world is right now?
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I swear NBC
if Community is cancelled
and Whitney stays on air
we will have a PROBLEM
how can you bench Community, and KEEP Whitney on air?!
THIS.
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Help a brother out. I’m getting my test ASAP.
South Asians, let’s help Amit beat leukemia. Basically, if you’re South Asian, its much harder to find a bone marrow match. Let’s pretend its a spelling bee and start running shit. Get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy. That’s so easy. DO IT. This gentlemen and many others lives kind of depends on South Asian people not being lazy on this. Let’s not let him down.
Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why.
He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.”
I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks.
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I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.
A few ways to help:
- If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
- If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
- If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above.
*NEW* Organize a donor drive near you (the most helpful thing you could possibly do!) email 100kcheeks@gmail.com. They’ll send you kits, flyers, tell you what to say, and make the whole process easy cheesy.
My friend Amit Gupta founded my favorite photography site Photojojo. A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Amit is one of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet. Prior to founding the awesome Photojojo, he also co-founded Jelly in 2006 in NYC, a coworking community, that’s now spread to 60 cities across the world and helped spark the coworking revolution. It looks like Amit will need a bone marrow transplant quite soon. We can help him with that.
Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000.
This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds.
How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can.
Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life.
We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match.
You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support.
We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special.
Please spread the word and please do everything you can to help Amit beat leukemia. He’s a superstar.
Much thanks to Tony and pals for organizing this event, and EVERYONE who’s been tweeting and reblogging.
Please help get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.
