January 2012
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Twenty Paris Review Interviews for Kindle →
phyllis-stein:
In the course of futzing around with my Kindle, Instapaper, and the Paris Review site tonight, I made—or rather Instapaper made me—a Kindle e-book with a simply wonderful collection of their famous interviews. The selection criteria were fairly idiosyncratic—which is to say that I just pulled authors whom I personally think are interesting, and left out many others, so don’t bray...
December 2011
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I'm dreaming of a patient Christmas
All I needed to do today was get to work. But that meant passing a mall and several Starbucks stores. Safe and warm in my car, I didn’t care about the slow pace of traffic. But, Holy God, people were so grouchy. It sounded like National Test Your Car Horn Day. And Lord have mercy on the folks who weren’t going on green because they would be blocking the intersection. Then it looked like...
Sexy Retro Trend: Nerd Glasses
derigueurs:
Glasses, super nerdy ones, are going to be a hot accessory this Fall. Here we see celebrity women rocking the nerd chic. Check out designer Carrie Mundane in some vintage specs, Cate Blanchett is rocking them not to mention Chloe Sevigny, Kristen Dunst, and Zoe de Chanel.
Thanks a lot, celebrities. As if my frames weren’t hard enough to find as it is.
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“This is what it comes to. For some reason working class white people handed the...”
– Stephen Elliott, who will be reading at Tongue & Groove this Sunday. Can’t wait!
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“…the thing about patriarchy is that individual men, gay and straight, are often...”
– Womens thread: the thread for women - wddp.org - Page 47 (via love-christine)
Fellas, we love you. See us.
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“If I was a woman these days, I’d be killing motherfuckers. My handgun would...”
– Henry Rollins
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“As Janet Maslin explained in the New York Times in 1991, the real objection to...”
– ‘Thelma & Louise’: The Last Great Film About Women - Raina Lipsitz, for The Atlantic
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August 2011
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Enough
I received some sad, angry-making news today from a good friend of mine who is a high-profile woman blogger. I won’t get into it here—you can follow the links in this post on my own blog if you want to read more—but I did want to say this:
If you think the world is fair and equal, it’s not.
If you think girls get a level playing field, they don’t.
If you think that growing...
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in the fade: Who even has a car alarm anymore? →
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halfbakedidea:
Who the hell thinks that’s actually still a good idea?
One time I was standing outside of a video store and this guy pulled up in a brand new Dodge Viper. He parked diagonally across the two handicapped spaces in the front of the store as if he had every right to do that…
I love this story.
Also, going to a Blockbuster in 2011 is pretty much a QED of...
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“I am very fond of being conservative with the IRS,” she said. “Why...”
– Me, in an L.A. Times piece on tax deductions for small businesses. (Hey, if only one of your bon mots is gonna make it in, nice to have it on the bonnie side.)
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"...a fun loving girl that enjoys the smell of...
Back at our hotel room after an early dinner, Mia, my 13 year-old niece, asked if she could interview me. She had her notebook, and a pen, and sat over in the leather desk chair. She had spent the past 30 minutes quietly preparing the interview questions. “Favorite song to wear pants to?” “Do you require a hearing aid?” “Do you have feathered hair, and if so, is it on purpose? “Do...
