• If you’re so concerned about other people’s food habits to the point that you’d exclude their candidacy simply because they’re not vegan, you need to realize you’re automatically disqualifying the vast majority of people. Which is fine if you’re an unrelenting stickler, but say “vegans only” in the first paragraph, not 5 deep, so we can close the window and move on.
• Same goes with smoking.  If you have the authority to declare no outdoor smoking at the apartment because it’s written in the lease, do so early in the listing. If it’s not in the lease and simply because you think it’s “Stinky”, then I don’t want to live with you anyway.
• On Craigslist, there’s a section for “rooms/shared” and a section for “sublets/temporary”. If you post a sublet in the “Rooms/shared” I and others will flag it as “miscategorized”, because it is and you’re doing it wrong.
• If you’re paying any more than 800 for a room, you’re being ripped off and participating in the inflation scam that makes it difficult for many working people to live here. If you’re paying 800 for a room, it should be REALLY nice.
• In SC, there are a lot of shady landlords and a lot of awful people looking to rent. Ask questions, this is YOUR living situation. Reflect on your situation and make a general list of features and concerns important to you and run it by every landlord or renter. My go-to questionnaire when interviewing new renters included such gems as “Do you do meth or heroin?” and “Are you an insufferable piece of shit?”
• If The Ad Capitalizes The First Letter Of Every Word OR IS IN ALL CAPS “HEY CHECK THIS PEACEFUL ROOM” don’t bother, no matter how appealing.
• Also, note this one: “Fair housing laws state that it is unlawful to “…make, print, publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on one of the protected classes.”  Ads that say “no children,” “adults only,” “male preferred or female preferred” are examples of illegal ads. “

conscious chillers

(Source: thisissantacruz.org)

metafilter:

via bp

The Santa Cruz Sentinel, everybody.

shakasandsinglefins:

Livin the Dream, 2012

abekislevitz:

Sunsets and trains 2 // #sunset #train #railroad #santacruz #traintracks #california #forest (Taken with instagram)

Not bummed.

(Source: fuckyeahsantacruz)

mermaid-vision:

I know of a super awesome therapist who specializes in trans* related issues. Let me know if you or someone you know could use their information!

Please reblog!

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If you don’t know about these folks … you should…

Weds May 9, 7-10 pm, Merrill Cultural Center @UCSC
Falling in Love with Chris and Greg: Dinner, Screening and Q & A

Join directors Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans of Falling in Love with Chris and Greg for a yummy dinner, in watching the video series, and then in having a lively discussion and Q & A.

The film project mines their actual gay-male relationship, in which one partner is transgender and the other is not, to foster conversations about the diversity of identities and political beliefs within the LGBT community. The series is hilarious, too real, earnest, heartwarming and, again, hilarious.

Chris E. Vargas is a film & video maker whose areas of interest include queer/transgender history, tabloid biography, and radical politics. In 2011, he earned his MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches digital video production. His solo video work includes Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before? (2010) and Libéraceon (2011). With Eric Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia (2006), as well as its forthcoming feature-length sequel, Criminal Queers (2012).

Thank you to our sponsors: Cantú Queer Center,

plus: Kresge College, Merrill College, Film and Digital Media Department, The Arts Deparment, History of Art and Visual Culture, and The Literature Department, Stevenson College, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at CHES.

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/363457597035530/
INFO/ACCESS: Simone Monet or Cantu Queer Center, 458-2468

(Submitted by tmwelch7)

Police call Monday’s stabbing of downtown Santa Cruz business owner ‘unprovoked and random’

The lady stabbed to death yesterday was co-owner of Camouflage, Shannon Collins. This is really awful.

maxcapacity:

(via Stab Santa Cruz - Tracking Santa Cruz County Stabbings Since 2009)

chrisriesner:

I couldn’t have asked for a better first few days of summer. There was camping, bbqing, dirt jumping, hiking, river swimming and music making. Good ol’ Santa Cruz fun. 

photos by:

chris riesner

jackson allen

mike hernandez 

maxcapacity:

i miss it

Word on the street is some asshole stabbed a woman in the neck.  She died, the cops chased him down and caught him.  The Broadway area is closed pending investigation.

dammmmmit

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