this is my cheese mouse, melville!!
he is the cousin of my childhood cheese mouse, popogiggio, which i thought was the name of the mouse on the Ed Sullivan show but i just learned that the mouse’s name on Ed Sullivan is Topo Gigio, and this fact is extremely distressing to me. i’m viewing the world in a whole new way and all my values and everything i thought i knew was true has changed.
what is your cheese mouse’s name?
We never named our cheese mouse but I definitely thought Parmesan cheese was called mouse cheese for most of my childhood. My favorite part of eating Italian food was breaking out the mouse cheese.
Just asked three people in my office (all University of Michigan students) and none of them knew. So that 28% seems sadly about right.
(via mittenstategirl)
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Tom Philip Wrote This: Bully -
If you’ll allow me to be real for a moment, I’d like to express my disappointment with the recent news that the MPAA denied The Weinstein Company’s appeal for “Bully“‘s rating to be lowered from an R to a PG-13, meaning the film will be released unrated. They did this solely because the language…
“The cutting edge is investment in fundraising. Yet everyone tries to suppress it, invoking a flawed theory of social change that says the less you spend on fundraising, the more you have for programs. That’s true if it’s a zero sum game. But it’s not. Imagine a $10 million pie with $8 million going to programs and with the 20% fundraising slice taking $2 million away from programs. The last thing we want to do is make that a $3 million slice, leaving only $7 million for programs. But that’s not how it works. If done correctly, the extra million enlarges the pie — substantially. A $10 million pie becomes a $15 million pie, and the $7 million available for programs grows to $12 million.” —
Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review “Multiplication Philanthropy”
I’ve seen a lot of commentary about the relatively small percentage of Invisible Children’s funding that goes into the direct services. Don’t forget that this was basically an invisible problem before IC got involved. More people have probably watched the Kony2012 video in the last 72 hours than had heard about the Lord’s Resistance Army three years ago. Giving large percentages of their funding works for larger groups like the Red Cross or Amnesty International because people are already aware of them and the good they do. To expect a small non-profit like Invisible Children to match that percentage while simultaneously growing their ability to impact change is preposterous. They need to be able to invest in themselves to make their change, as does any non-profit group.
There are several reasons to find paths other than Invisible Children to support change in this situation (which you can read about here here or here), and I encourage everyone to investigate their donations further. Think critically about what you want to invest your charity in. Just don’t be afraid of an investment based on a few statistics.
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The Puppy Bowl is by far the most corrupt of all the professional sports leagues. How can we believe that these are the best puppy squads when we’ve seen exactly ZERO regular season or playoff games leading up to this? It’s time to end the backroom dealings that bring us this ‘championship contest’ and bring the entire league into the 21st century with at least a few dozen games each year. Let us see the action Animal Planet!
(Source: lauraannjustema, via fuckyeahumich)
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