Love with Any and Everything

“Cultural Preservation”

Artistry by Shani Crowe

Whats happening: Lower Middle class and up (20k+)Millennials have decided that McDonalds isn’t healthy and have stopped treating it as a place to genuinely get sustenance and have started treating it as a place to go as a last resort when you have like zero money, or for fun.

Also, our inability to afford most luxury goods has left us with a glut of cash in this weird range which is: not enough for saving it to have any real impact, not enough to finance goods (like a monthly payment of something), not enough to invest, not in reliable amounts (some months you have $300 extra, some months you have $20 extra, some months $5). 

Which has actually created a culture of millennials using that glut of cash for Fine Dining in a two punch of entertainment + sustenance. Instead of going on fancy trips, or spending on amusement parks, or most other entertainment things that cost more than $50 we go out to dinners that cost about $20 per person. 

So basically in conclusion: Middle class Millennials view food as entertainment–combining both their food+entertainment budgets, and therefore have more cash to spend on food.  Which makes our choices not between McDonalds and Burger King, but McDonalds and that nice italian place that just opened up the street. But. When we do go to mcdonalds, its because we feel we have no choice or because its 1am and we really want a McFlurry. 

Thats not enough to sustain a company that has gotten used to people eating McDonalds once a week and buying a full meal with trimmings for every member of their family like they did back in the early 2000′s. 

Receipts:

We now think mcdonalds is unhealthy: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865628840/McDonalds-unhealthy-image-and-why-it-cant-shake-it.html

Poor people and the liquidity of their cash explained simply: http://kiriamaya.tumblr.com/post/121353527324/sovietcop-basically-anyone-who-really-shames

Millenials and fine dining: https://www.eater.com/2015/6/5/8737197/millennials-spend-more-money-dining-out-than-non-millennials ; http://www.startribune.com/millennials-are-becoming-the-foodie-generation/198510941/ 

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Jay Smooth in his TED speech “how I learned to stop worrying and love discussing race” (via tropicanastasia)

now i cant do anything. i just have to block his number, keep doing survival sex work and pray i dont get hurt anymore.

Prince Rogers Nelson 

June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016

Black Lesbians from the 1930s.

This ain’t nothing new!