February 2012
12 posts
The Political Notebook: Fact-checking the debate... →
I never even thought to question this claim (why I dimwittedly didn’t is a subject for another day, I think). Though this doesn’t actually refute the notion that male combatants might be inclined to be particularly or even recklessly protective of their female colleagues, it does refute the notion that we know for sure one way or the other.
thepoliticalnotebook:
I’ve been told on...
Things I Post to Tumblr in Ascending Order of How...
Pictures that make me smile.
Reblogged memes whose popularity peaked no less than two weeks ago.
Mildly humorous videos everyone has already seen.
Links to the New Yorker that allow me to feel less guilty about never ever reading an entire issue but more guilty about the fact that I feel even the slightest need to try to lay claim to the normative trappings of a mostly shallow kind of public...
Two Maps I've Been Looking at Today
From whorevidal (via fuckyeahcartography):
From nationalatlas.gov:
From Yo, Is This Racist? "Anonymous asked: It...
Ah, “proper English,” one of the last strongholds of the modern racist. YO, DICKFACE, LISTEN TO ANY TEENAGER OF ANY RACE TALK, IF YOU THINK IT’S ONLY PEOPLE OF ONE RACE OR ANOTHER, YOU ARE A RACIST B-HOLE
The concept of “improper English” makes my blood boil, and not just because it is a type of speech most commonly attributed in the United States to African Americans.*
[Let me...
January 2012
28 posts
Trend Watch: Lumberjack Romance →
FINALLY.
The Drew Peterson: Untouchable .gif you’ve all been waiting for.
(via tv.com)
Using Pinterest as a visionboard for writing your... →
This is a much better trick than the one I’ve been using—which involves tossing a bunch of image files into a desktop folder and hoping they’ll transmogrify into thirty thousand or so words without any further effort on my part.
paperbackgirl:
I love this.
“‘Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens,’ she sang. ‘Wipe my nose,...”
– Wrestling legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life - Slate Magazine (Thanks for reminding the world of this, Stereogum.) (p.s. I love “Winter” a whole lot, too.)
“i’m sick and tired of whiny dudes eating salad while wearing girl jeans...”
– bitches gotta eat: you need to stop fucking dudes who don’t read.
December 2011
27 posts
“For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as...”
– Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine - The Atlantic
WatchThe best of Parks and Recreation’s Donna, who has lately outpaced April and Andy to become my second-favorite character on this show. (There is no debate as to who is the first-favorite.)
How Not to Write a Book
Pick an incredibly complex subject.
That requires talking to people you don’t know.
Despite the fact that you are incredibly afraid of talking to people you don’t know.
Have a baby.
Even though you can’t really afford childcare.
And go off your medication.
Even though doctors are pretty sure you need that medication.
(But what’s wrong with a few nervous...
“There are certain things about women that men will never understand, in part...”
– For me, reading Caitlin Flanagan’s honeyed words is not so different from the bronchitis I’m currently recovering from. I really want to keep coughing because I think that this time, surely, the cough will be productive and afterwards I will feel better. Instead I just get a knot of...
Personality Quiz: Which Regency Hero Should You... →
This, perhaps inevitably, was my result:
The Genius Gentleman spends a great deal of time inventing clever things in his private laboratory in the Cotswalds. He often forgets to eat. On the run from your murderous uncle, your perfect handwriting leads to employment as his amanuensis. You quickly make a friend of the book, straighten out the household accounts and bring him a cup of chocolate ...
News Desk: Hitch : The New Yorker →
On assignment in Palm Beach, Hitchens scored an invitation to dine at the town’s most exclusive, and allegedly anti-Semitic, country club. Though he admired Trotsky, truth be told Hitch revelled in the high life. But having discovered his own Jewish heritage late in life, he was hell-bent on making the most of it. After generous libations at the bar, Hitchens and a small party of friends,...
