avcnyc: reuters: Actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy to elude breast cancer, a disease which kills half a million around the world every year.“We often speak of ‘Mommy’s mommy’, and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me,” wrote Jolie, 37.“I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene.”The Oscar-winning actress said her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.“Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said.  Continue reading: http://reut.rs/128fT6G REUTERS/Toby Melville “Because at the end of the day I’m Angelina Jolie and not having boobs is seriously not even something that really registers as a problem in my reality. I have like 9 kids and 4 houses and am literally married to Brad Pitt and could buy like four pairs of better boobs if I wanted.” SOMEONE GUTS IT
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Actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy to elude breast cancer, a disease which kills half a million around the world every year.

“We often speak of ‘Mommy’s mommy’, and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me,” wrote Jolie, 37.

“I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene.”

The Oscar-winning actress said her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

“Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said. 

Continue reading: http://reut.rs/128fT6G 

REUTERS/Toby Melville


“Because at the end of the day I’m Angelina Jolie and not having boobs is seriously not even something that really registers as a problem in my reality. I have like 9 kids and 4 houses and am literally married to Brad Pitt and could buy like four pairs of better boobs if I wanted.”

SOMEONE GUTS IT

Source: reuters

Announcement

For those who about me enough to know that I am a human being currently practicing the comedy arts in New York City, a note: I will be leaving New York City for good June 4, setting up shop in Los Angeles by June 9. I will be back in NYC for Thanksgiving and my 10 year high school reunion in June 2014, but otherwise, I have no plans to be back, and I am excited to finally commit to leaving my home town once and for all.

There will be several times to hang out in the week before I leave, more to come on those. In the meantime, if you want to get in touch about plans to hang out, or in general just want to get in touch before I leave, don’t hesitate. I’ll miss most of the people I know in NYC, but while I’m not in town, I’m not going anywhere. Really

Sometimes you get the sense that these magazines’ cultural writers have very little experience with the entire American culture, and prefer to make their grand analyses based on what people they know in the gentrified parts of cities like New York and Los Angeles were talking about at brunch last weekend. The type of young person that magazine writers come across most frequently are magazine interns. Because the media industry is high-status, but, at least early on, very low pay in a very expensive city, it attracts a lot of rich kids. Entitled, arrogant, spoiled, preening — those are the alleged signature traits of Millennials, as diagnosed by countless magazine writers. Those traits curiously align perfectly with the signature traits of a rich kid. Have you seen your intern on Rich Kids of Instagram? If so, he or she is probably not the best guide to crafting the composite personality of a generation that fought three wars for you.

Elspeth Reeve, “Every Every Every Generation Has Been The Me Me Me Generation,” The Atlantic (via andrewtsks)

As a millennial, I’m busy appreciating the fallout from Joel Stein’s article (whose unfairness I’d explain, but why bother when Elspeth Reeve just did). I’d also direct your attention to this post by Matt Bors, in which he said, among other things:

Maligned as a bunch of shiftless, tech-addled children raised to think they’d all get trophies, Millennials are trying to build careers out of the ruins of a job market. Amid a group that’s supposed to be a bunch of entitled kids, all I see around me are young people juggling multiple jobs and unpaid internships while trying to blot their (trigger warning!) student debt from their minds.

Essentially, you can either repeatedly report the accurate and nauseating facts about national student loan debt, ridiculous internships and unpaid work, low minimum wage and un/underemployment in the 18-25 set, OR you can label us a generation of useless, self-obsessed hipsters. And I’m going to stop there, because actually arguing against this article is at this point completely unnecessary (see the entire rest of the Internet for the last three days. I imagine if you just search “uggghhhh” or “shut up joel stein,” they’ll get you to the right places). 

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And we’re done here

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