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What Does Your Favorite Wes Anderson Movie Say About You?
With the advent of Wes Anderson’s latest entry into his compendium of eight—the movie Moonrise Kingdom, out in New York and Las Angeles Friday—there’s enough of a catalog to ensure that there’s one for each of us. So, what’s your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
You like bands that other people like, but you only like their really obscure stuff. When you describe a piece of art or something as “difficult,” you mean it as a compliment. You probably have a graduate degree in something specific or you just work at a used book store. You want to move to Portland but you just haven’t done it yet. Sometimes people call you an asshole and you respond, “All I’m saying is that it’s important to understand what the term ‘craft beer’actually means.” If you’re a straight guy (and you probably are) you have a girlfriend named Cara who is a research assistant and wants to move to France, but not Paris. When you have a kid (not with Cara), it will have, for a first name, the last name of a writer you like. (Maybe Wallace, because you love Infinite Jest.) One summer when you were a kid you spent a month with your cousins at their island house in Maine and something big happened that you never told anyone else.
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“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”
- Henry Rollins
oh henry
(Source: springhasforgottenthisgarden, via strangeryouknow)
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Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral
The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know that these rules are flouted more routinely than speed limits. But rather than hold up these rules as quixotic laws begging to be violated and laughed at, ask yourself three questions:
Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company?
Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory?
Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s financial position?
I cannot imagine an honest person with passing knowledge of unpaid internships in America answering any of those three questions “yes.”
Work is work, no matter who does it. It ought to be paid.
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theatlantic:
Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral
The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know that these rules are flouted more routinely than speed limits. But rather than hold up these rules as quixotic laws begging to be violated and laughed at, ask yourself three questions:
- Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company?
- Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory?
- Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s financial position?
I cannot imagine an honest person with passing knowledge of unpaid internships in America answering any of those three questions “yes.”
Work is work, no matter who does it. It ought to be paid.
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