December 2008
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“She Drives Me Crazy” by Dolly Parton
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Fuck You, Penguin →
One of the few things I love more than cute animals is making fun of stuff, which is why this blog is amazing.
(via Lizzy’s gchat status)
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'Theater of War': Mother Courage gets her own camp... →
In still more capitalism-related news, I want to encourage everyone in New York to see this movie, which opened today at Film Forum. I saw it last spring when it screened at Tribeca and can’t recommend it highly enough.
Manohla does a pretty good job of noting its merits in the above review, but I paricularly enjoyed the film’s use of archival footage of Brecht (especially the HUAC...
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Marx 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan... →
In other capitalism-related news, I can’t wait for the English translation of this Manga to be released so I can finally jump on the comic bandwagon with some fervor!
Marx + cheese = hard to beat.
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Rick Warren, Capitalist
Per My Girfriend Rachel Maddow’s advice, I just watched all 22 minutes of Pastor Rick Warren’s most recent “News and Views” video on the Saddleback Church website, in which he addresses, among other things, the scandal surrounding his appointment by the President-elect to deliver the inagural invocation next month. Yes, I watched the whole thing. I don’t have a lot...
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Get Your Virginity On
This one goes out to my mom, because she’s been having a hard time figuring out what to get me for Happy Winter Present Week. Problem solved, Mommie!
I want the artificial virginity hymen!
That’s right, ladies, you can fool your partner into thinking you’re as pure as the terrifying amount of climate-change-induced snow falling outside! Who needs honesty in a relationship...
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I made this look different (better?)!
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Ellen Page to gay it up on screen. Finally.
Aw man, I was pretty stoked about the teenage lesbian werewolf movie. This will do.
She may be out of the long-anticipated “lesbian werewolf” flick, Jack and Diane, but apparently Ellen Page is slated to play a lesbian in a the film adaption of the Laurel Hester story, where she’ll play Laurel’s partner, Stacie, which of course is much sadder than teenaged lesbian werewolves.
But on the...
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Cute Things Falling Asleep →
In honor of my getting to spend the holiday season with five puppies in two time zones, I present to you a new addition to the “Blogs Filled with Adorable Animals That I Check Regularly to Make Life Better” file.
(via thisiswhy)
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Question: Alice, you’ve just finished your first quarter of graduate school. What are you gonna do now?
Answer: Well, I could:
Clean my apartment
Fix my bike
Fix my car
Get a haircut
Write cover letter for Monday’s interview
Study for Monday’s interview
Look for funding for next year
Work on practicum for the summer
Make a budget
Return things to Ikea
Buy a new...
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Preparing for Your Vegan Arrival // Postcards From... →
This mom is almost as cool as my mom, who never goes to Wal-Mart and almost certainly still has the box of egg replacer I bought last time I was home.
PS - I am not vegan, I am just a douchebag.
It's not even funny anymore, but I can't stop...
Evelynne: i smell so badly of garlic
me: I hate that
on your hands for days.
Evelynne: i've heard a few tricks
one is to rub your hands on stainless steel
the other involves salt and lemon
but my hands are raw from winter
so i'm going to avoid the latter
me: that's what she said
Evelynne: hahahhaha
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Portrait of The Sontag as a Young Woman →
Susan Sontag’s personal journals have arrived.
WANT.
I live blog while Celine Dion sings about Christ.
sades:
I love Christmas AND I love Celine Dion. When she sings about Christ’s birth it’s almost too much to bear.
You’d probably like to watch the video, too, and follow along with my commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jr-2eyRtV4
To start things off right, check out the eyes closing/lip tremble at 00:08.
She makes it an entire 1 minutes, 20 seconds before raising her arm....
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Oh, Westwood!
So, this is what I ran into on my walk home from campus yesterday (after turning in my first final paper - woohoo!):
Cate’s dress might have been the shiniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Oh, and these guys were there too:
Here’s my phone version of the above photo (the one day I didn’t have my camera with me!):
Turns out it’s not so horrible to have to...
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Five Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just... →
Hooray for people decontructing advertising outside of my junior year Mass Media and Society class!
“I would like to start a ‘things that are not interesting’ campaign, which would include men insecure enough about themselves that they can’t talk to women who aren’t physically degraded. I would also include cognac.”
Me too, Alex Leo. Me. Too.
(via...
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In Defense of Teasing // NYT →
Finally, validation!
(via sades)
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WatchGuess who I saw in a bar last night! Sarah Haskins! We even awkwardly crossed paths in the bathroom! No one else was as excited as me (okay, at all), but it was hands down my favorite LA ‘celebrity’ sighting thus far.
Haskins’s Target Women is definitely the highlight of Current’s altogether great show, InfoMania. And I pretty much wanna be her BFF. Like, to the point...
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Tracy Chapman - Talkin’ Bout a Revolution.
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Coffee // Abstract City // NYT →
An ode to my favorite socially acceptable drug.
(Thanks Sadie for the link)
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9-Year-Old Dating Expert Not Exactly a Ladies Man... →
I recently started reading Jezebel again from time to time. While I used to be completely obsessed with the site, it seemed to me that there was executive decision made around January 1st of this year for it to totally suck, so I cut it out of my daily routine. Now that procrastinaion is, once again, a major player in my world, I’ve brought it back into circulation. But get this. I was...
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The Female Gaze // Bitch →
So, Bitch has been revamping their website for a while now, adding some content from the magazine, blogs, and even a podcast! They’ve had a few guest bloggers, and Tammy Oler (who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting once or twice, she’s lovely) has recently jumped on board to write The Female Gaze. It’s about movies.
As though a blog about movies on a feminist site...
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Couple's First Kiss Happened at the Altar //... →
Okay, okay, I know this is a thing that some people do. Whatever, they’re crazy.
But can we talk for a minute about how this couple teaches abstinence courses to Chicago public school teens?! Curiously, both Jezebel and the Chicago Tribune imply that they’re fine with this by glossing over it. Um, hello, even Fox News knows that shit is wack.
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