March 2010
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Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Tear shit up with...
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Women Invented Beer. →
Queen Elizabeth drank beer for breakfast.
(I would make a “drops the mic” joke, but I’m not that type of girl. Instead, I will read Jane Peyton’s book once it’s published.)
via Jezebel
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Joanna Newsom - “Easy”
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“[A contemporary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire wrote that “the home is...”
– From a piece on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, documenting early white feminist responses to the fire. “To the Woman it Is a Real Tragedy” (via wingsandfins)
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Elastica - “Car Song”
In your Ford...
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Terry Richardson Continues to Be a Sleazebag,... →
And Jezebel’s follow-up on this story proves Why Feminist Blogs Are Necessary. Good work.
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"D.J. Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith spent a lot of... →
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When I was six, I dialed the Care Bears 900 number and hung up immediately without listening to the happy, rainbow-filled message, but my parents still saw it on their phone bill, and I wasn’t allowed to eat McDonald’s for a month.
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Nick Drake - “Blues Run the Game”
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“Because we were musicians, our talk inevitably turned toward women, and Al, ever...”
– Paul Westerberg on Alex Chilton. There are so many good things to read, always.
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In Memoriam: Frank Mankiewicz had amazing taste in...
Back in November, some friends may recall, I was listening to a lot of Alex Chilton while writing my NaNoWriMo novel. Here is an excerpt, which is my tribute to a great musician, along with this whiskey. George McGovern and the main character, Bernadette, are drinking martinis at Minneapolis’s Monte Carlo in June of 2008.
“I’m sorry for her, but that seems to be the way things are going. The...
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On cooks, servers, and restaurant pay →
This City Pages story brings up a great point: for as much praise as we give them, especially in the Twin Cities, the people who make your food in restaurants are underpaid, often severely. Once you get up to the level of executive chef, of course, that’s not the case, but for the amount of work that goes into cooking a dish, and the amount that you’re paying for it and cred...
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Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Björk - “5...
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“The most difficult one was writing the e-mails to my children and grandchildren...”
– Dr. Dana Yoerger on the death of the underwater robot ABE, which was destroyed while exploring the ocean floor, NYTimes.
I remember reading about ABE in middle school or high school, when undersea exploration was all the rage because that was the way you could see the Titanic. It’s sad for...
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Top Five Movies that Encourage Me to Make Things
The Muppet Movie
Breakfast on Pluto
Cradle Will Rock
Waitress
Volver
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Reigning Sound - “Stormy Weather”
As...
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“After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday...”
– IT’S A FUCK YOU FRIDAY. I don’t normally post long quotations, but this whole thing makes me sad and sick. Those are the most appalling bits. Read the whole thing.
Here’s hoping these revisions teach the children of Texas to question, continually, the greater system in which they...
Do you know how excited I am about the Dead Sea... →
My first office job was at a small historical image agency in New York, and I had to organize an entire lightbox screen filled with slides of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like any of those antiquities I know only from teeny tiny lightbox encounters, I am curious to see something that old, and full-sized. I am not a religious person, but I am certainly fascinated by the construction and preservation of...
Rie Rasmussen tells Terry Richardson off →
Craig: though she forget to mention that his work is also boring and (other than the american apparel-esque misogyny) unremarkable Deb: maybe it wasn’t newsworthy that she said that. it’s probably in there, too. Craig: true Deb: I mean WHO ELSE KNOWS ABOUT BEING TRUNCATED BY THE MEDIA BETTER THAN YOU
Generally I will respect your opinions about art and artists and culture and such,...
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They are making a movie of Norwegian Wood, and it... →
Murakami co-wrote the screenplay.
After my fiery passion for Murakami burned out after college, Norwegian Wood remains one of my favorite books ever. What the movie won’t capture is the summer I read it, on the train every day to and from the publishing company, turning on New York and getting my heart broken, seething Naoko’s sadness and Midori’s joy in my first real apartment,...
Is there anyone talented out there? →
Can you please make an audio + gif (or something) of this guy saying “It’s total garbage” over and over again? I’ll register itstotalgarbage.com and we can make a website together and then it can be like Craig is hanging with you, in your house, or in your workplace, or on your laptop.
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The New Pornographers “Your Hands...
WatchSometimes I miss not being able to watch SNL live anymore. I really like Seth Meyers and Bill Hader and Will Forte! And women!
Good job, women!
via Feministing
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“He watched his own vaporized breath float off into the gray air. The temperature...”
– Ian McEwan, Amsterdam.
I’ve never edited fiction, nor have I ever converted a British work to make it more American. But Ian McEwan is an English novelist (some would say of the highest order, and definitely as British as they come), and this story takes place in London.
So why was the...
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Antony & the Johnsons - “Cripple and the...
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