The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will offer free blood testing on a massive scale for lead poisoning to address worries that a Vernon battery recycler has jeopardized the health of hundreds of thousands of residents in southeast Los Angeles, officials said Thursday.A battery recycling plant in Vernon has possibly poisoned surrounding communities (From Boyle Heights to Huntington Park) with lead and arsenic. The company that allowed this to happen is required to pay for blood tests for anyone that may have been affected. If y’all are from the area, please try to let people know, and try to get tested yourself.
This a largely working class and immigrant area, so it is likely that the government and the Exide company will not do much to distribute this information to those affected.
So please, whether or not you live in the Southeast or East LA area, please REBLOG and SIGNAL BOOST.
Hey everyone. I’m about to tell you all a really personal story, and then, I could use your help.
The blonde in the pictures above is my little sister, Rachel. She’s 14, a freshman in high school. She’s one of the smartest kids you’ll ever meet, to be honest. Smarter than me. She’s got an amazing sense of humor and the most gorgeous smile, the sort of person who just lights up a room with laughter after being in it for five minutes. Even though I’m 19 and I should be the tough one, she’s held me when I cried, and she cooks me dinner when I’m too lazy to do it, and she gives me confidence when I don’t believe in myself. We cosplay together, we fangirl together, and we talk Tumblr-speak at the dinner table. It’s not an exaggeration when I tell you this girl is my entire world. I’d do anything for her, and I love her more than words could fully describe.
On Friday, she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after a year of battling severe depression and anxiety.
She thinks she’s ugly. She thinks her future doesn’t matter. She often hates herself, and can’t see all the amazing things everyone else knows is obvious just from their first glance at her.
The red tie on my wrist you see in the third picture was from her. Behavioral hospitals don’t allow anything with strings on them, so after she pulled out the tie for her sweatshirt, she wrapped it around my wrist for me to wear until she gets back. It might only be for a weekend, or it might be for longer. I don’t know yet.
Here’s where I’m asking for your help. At the earliest, Rachel is coming home on Sunday, but it’ll probably be longer. Still, that means I might only have two days to get the message out. I want to show her when she comes home that there are people out there who believe in her. Who think she’s beautiful and worth fighting for, worth recovery.
So please, reblog this and prove to her that she has more support than she ever realized. I’m hoping it’ll give her some confidence than she can get better.
she’s so beautiful omg
Abandoned Building 25 at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
Located in Queens Village, New York, Building 25 at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center has sat abandoned and rotting since 1974. The psychiatric center is still open and operating but, for almost four decades, Building 25 still stands — ignored and decaying.
Originally, the open land was owned by the Creed family and was purchased by the New York State Legislature in 1870 to house the New York State National Guard. After four decades of complaints about random long range bullets flying into surrounding areas, the National Guard abandoned the buildings in 1912. At that time, Creedmoor State Hospital opened as a farm colony for then Brooklyn State Hospital, with patients working on the farmland for treatment and room and board.
From 1918 to 1974, the population grew from several hundred to over five thousand patients. Through the decades, a large number of violent criminals were sent there and allowed to wander the grounds freely, with some easily escaping. With reports of rape, assault, suicides, fires and burglaries, the institution was out of control. In addition, complaints of patient abuse by staff and unsanitary living conditions added to the already horrid and unsafe living conditions at the hospital.
By 1974, the original Creedmoor State Hospital was moved to a new facility on the property and renamed the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. While all of the other buildings once used were vacated and demolished, Building 25 was left deserted. To this day, the building stands abandoned and ignored by the state. Why buildings like this are allowed to stand rotting for decades can only be answered by their owners.
original article and photographs by Hannah Frishberg
And God said unto Abraham, “Abraham.”
And Abraham replied, “What.”
God said to John, “Come forth and receive eternal life.” But John came fifth and won a toaster.
And Judas approached the rabbis and Pharisees saying, “The one whom I kiss is the one you seek.”
To which they responded, “Gay.”
And thus, god made Eve. And she was bammin’ slammin’ bootylicious.
see you all in hell
Joe Hill's Thrills: Hero Sandwich, I mean, Journey →
misterwil-son asks: Are you familiar with the work of Joseph Campbell? Do you think reading his work is more helpful or harmful to writers (Neil G. Said he’d rather not read his stuff)? Beyond being surrounded by books, what did growing up with a writer for a father give you that you’d like to…
My favourite part:
"I try to write stories that examine hopefully inventive characters by facing them with a series of tests. That’s pretty much all I do: create character and test it, as hard as I can. Moral tests, physical tests, emotional tests, psychological tests. When I read Joseph Campbell in college, I found his ideas inspiring, and am better for having heard about them. Undoubtedly some of what I learned has made its way into my writing. But, no, I am not particularly interested in working from his playbook, or following his schematics and wouldn’t recommend it for anyone else."
I’m glad I read Hero with a Thousand Faces as it’s helped me on my own quest to write about all of the gray areas between the Black and White.
Some happyfuntimes in L.A.
Some happyfuntimes in L.A.
“I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
The X-Files “Pilot” premiered 20 years ago today on September 10, 1993. It was viewed by 7.4 million households and 12.0 million viewers.I’m old enough to remember watching the first episode as it aired and becoming completely enamored with Scully. I’m still not over her.
I also remember watching the pilot when it broadcast (and became enamored with Scully). I was very into the whole UFOs thing (and the obsession with the potential impending end of the world with the millennium) that seemed to be very popular in the 90s. Or maybe it just seemed popular in the 90s to me, because my mom was into that stuff so we watched plenty of the shows and crappy TV documentaries on those topics.
I didn’t start watching until “Ice” and, holy moly, was I hooked.
Master Akira Kurosawa used to hand paint his storyboards. This is from Ran, I believe.