February 2012
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The Sanguine Sex →
tetw:
by Caitlin Flanagan
Women will always have emotional needs that they can fill through sex, and men will always use those needs to their advantage. But men will never bear the brunt of sexuality.
There’s something incredibly tragic about the way we’re built to relate to one another as men and women when sex gets involved.
I think, as this piece seems to suggest, that...
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“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
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“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a...”
– This is pretty real, pretty often.
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“Dear Diary:
Noticed:
Zabar’s on the Upper West Side.
Weekday afternoon,...”
– An Ode to the G Train and Other Reader Tales (nytimes)
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How did I manage to completely miss the passing of my favorite poet? Oh yes, because the past few days have been a shitstorm of everything.
The Szymborska Poem Above My Desk - Dana Stevens for Slate
For the record, if you are shopping by translation, the best are hands-down those by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. I too have a Wislawa Szymborska poem they translated that I ripped from...
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Really? Do you really want those pants back?...
This emphasis on performing the role of “someone who’s into music” as opposed to actually listening to music (or watching a music video) is at the core of not only Pants and MTV’s 21st-century programming strategy, but of “music appreciation culture” (blogs, social media, party photographers’ galleries from secret shows like the aforementioned Wavves...
“I feel that so much of the kind of murderous rhetoric of American politics and...”
– In November, Terry interview The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore about the politicization of abortion and birth control, and about the history and future of Planned Parenthood. (via nprfreshair)
January 2012
24 posts
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Kind of just waiting until my cockiness in the... →
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I have been making the BEST egg sandwiches for myself lately. Really it’s all about cooking the egg just right, so the yolk is soft enough to burst and ooze just right when you bite into it but not runny enough to get all over EVERYTHING. The trick, I have found, is cooking one side up mostly, then when everything’s looking solid flip it over and cook the sunny side for about 13...
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“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… I...”
– Newt Gingrich, leading off the South Carolina debate with a rebuke to moderator John King, who asked Gingrich about his ex-wife Marianne’s claims he asked for an “open marriage” while leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton. He was met with thunderous applause.
More debate...
Andrew Ti Talks About '2 Broke Girls' for... →
So the Emasculated Asian Immigrant Han Lee is taken care of - I can’t even get started on the Cackling Old Black Guy, Earl (who manages to embody the, oh look at that, emasculation of all black men ever in about seven words).
Do I remember correctly that the creators of this show were all smug and proud of themselves for making a feminist show, because it was penned and produced by a woman...
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“Smoking a joint a week for up to seven years doesn’t hurt lung function,...”
– Study: A Joint May Be Easier On Lungs Than A Cigarette : Shots - Health Blog (via npr)
Yo, this is not even me dicking around at work, this is apt as fuck. This makes me really excited for all the medical marijuana CLE programs I’ve just had recorded for my company and put up on the...
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My life is becoming an endless parade of days spent waiting for used records I ordered off eBay to arrive.
This week it’s Music From Big Pink, though, so everything’s awesome. Irregardlessly.
Plus, I made quail for Christmas dinner last week. Like a boss.
And lo, she saw that it was good.
Quail with an Orange-Tarragon Glaze
Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Sweet Potatoes...
December 2011
15 posts
Yo, I am not doing any fucking thing for New...
New Year’s has been turned into the stupidest fucking holiday ever. New Year’s in New York especially sucks dirty donkey nuts. This place gets turned into a stupid zoo filled with stupid assholes who couldn’t think of anyplace more original to go. It’s like America turned around and vomited all of its idiots onto Manhattan to steal our cabs and shove through our trains and...
“My fellow queers and assorted allies: we have got to stop using arguments like...”
– Social Justice League - Fauxgress Watch: Born This Way (via subconciousevolution)
Perfect.
(via agradschoolbreakup)
This is the TRUTH. “Born This Way” is not powerful. It’s something to hide behind.
(via queerlyfemmetastic)
I was born this way, in fact. Then I had to make a choice to...
November 2011
15 posts
on writing and permission
You can’t, you can’t, you can’t be trying to control what someone writes, what someone is or is not allowed to write, you just can’t. So furious right now. And it’s not even my story to get upset about.
With no specifics addressed, consider this: as writers we write about life. As writers we are also people living life. We have to write from our lives. We might...