February 2012
31 posts
emrgency:
betty wright i’m gonna hate myself in...
WatchZooey Deschanel does a great MK impression.
Whiskey and Goats Milk: THIS JUST HAPPENED AND... →
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
I’m walking up Columbus ave on my way to meet up with my hairstylist minding my own and looking damn good while enjoying the beautiful weather. I was just thinking how wonderful it is to be in a city like new York during the spring time when ALL OF A SUDDEN I feel a firm open palmed grip on my…
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
“Any large-scale picturing of women belongs to the ongoing story of how women are...”
– Susan Sontag, “A Photograph is not an Opinion, or is it?”
I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE... →
We – the grown-up influencers in this country, the people with platforms and with educations and with power — are allowing a clear message to be sent to women: We will easily forgive a person who victimizes you. We are able to look beyond the fact that you were treated as less than human, that a bigger, stronger person decided to resolve a conflict with you through violence. We know it happened,...
Songs Anne Curtis Should Stay Away From if She...
I’m not late to the party, am I? The video of Anne Curtis singing Adele’s “Someone Like You” on Showtime turned up on my feed a few months back, and back then it was FUNNY! It was, “Hahaha, she is kidding, right?” It was refreshing to see that Anne Curtis had a great sense of humor on top of all her other assets, and could make shit tons of money on that. We...
“What was
funny stayed funny, because nothing was funny
anymore. I was your...”
– Matt Hart, “I was Dumb with Pearls, I was Dumb”
“Like emulsion, I want to remember
what I have touched, the universe
that...”
– from Brett Fletcher Lauer’s “Majestic Interlude”
“I was the one covered in skin seconded by the Constitution and you know my body....”
– Ships that Pass: “You’re my kind of country” / m4w / Washington DC (Running on the Mall, July 6)
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January 2012
46 posts
31 Songs about love that are neither cynical nor...
31 Songs:
3. The National - “Fake...
“I went to your exhibit and was like HAHAHAHAAHAHA (That’s a lie, all I did...”
– I…I just get really tired of doing actual research for reviews so my brain ends up pooping copious amounts of this.
“We talk about our friends behind their backs. We do. Ask any social scientist...”
– Dear Sugar,
I haven’t been reading ANYTHING that isn’t on The Rumpus. I have a lot of feelings, okay?!
“I’ve got a thread of crazy that unspools from time to time. That also...”
– Stephen Elliott, today’s Daily Rumpus
“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow...”
– ― Paul Auster, via Slaughterhouse 90210
“I do this sort of stuff because it’s fun, and because “happiness is...”
– Momus, “The case against—and for—twitter,” Click Opera, 10 Apr 2009
I’m late to the Momus party, but whatever. Click Opera is wonderful.
31 Songs that are, uh, words of love:
8. Buddy...
31 Songs to make love to your man by:
10. The...
“The Identification of beauty as the ideal condition of a woman is, if anything,...”
– Susan Sontag, “A Photograph is Not an Opinion. Or Is It?” (1999)
Dwelling on things that don’t belong in the 700 words of drivel you’re being paid to write (with the deadline fast approaching) is probably the worst way to stave off the block. Also, here’s...
31 Songs:
12. Mates of State - “Like U...
31 Songs, and if you don’t dance to this...