February 2012
23 posts
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mongsters-inc:
“Tame” | Pixies
If you’re going...
helloscarecrow:
In light of recent events in Virginia I’d like to turn our attention to the Contagious Diseases Acts.
The CD Acts were passed by the British government in the 1860s as an effort to stop the spread of venereal disease in the Navy. Under the Act, prostitutes in port cities were compelled to submit to vaginal medical examinations. It was extended later in the decade to all women...
WatchTaylor Swifts’s performance was somehow the most emotionally-interesting of the Grammys (Chris Brown was the most interesting performer to talk about but not because of his performance), especially once you hit the three-minute mark.
When I first heard “Mean,” I wrongly assumed it was just another generic You-Are-Special song, universally applicable to all teenagers who feel...
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Valentine's Day
If my job was to successfully identify the caramels in the heartshaped box of See’s chocolates that appeared in the office kitchen this morning, I’d be killing it today.
Buffy is getting an abortion, Joss Whedon is a... →
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SKIRT, MY PRETTY NAME
strangemagnetism:
From: VillainElle. in Queen rat: new and selected poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.
and the space between my name and myself grows larger until… —David Demchuk, Rosalie Sings Alone After several Valium and a cup of coffee, I feel sweet and contented. The city is dangerous, prurient, and I am a woman of mystery. I ask the waitress for some napkins and...
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“I think one value of Jezebel and the way its influence lives on was to define...”
– Nika Knight in conversation with Kelly Schmader for Full Stop, capturing a lot of the complicated responses I also had to Molly Fischer’s n+1 Essay about ladyblogs
WatchZambri - ICBYS
January 2012
21 posts
I’m moving! I’ve lived in my current apartment for almost 3 years, almost exactly 3 years, I moved in February 2009. That’s a long time to hate your carpet. I hate my carpet so much that I made one of my characters in my novel hate her carpet just so I could vent all of my carpet hate. I’m upgrading to hardwood floors. I’ve sacrificed a dishwasher for hardwood...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
goodbutter:
Thank you MLKJ for helping with the civil rights fight. Now that this has happened upon our country for 50 odd some years, I can hang out with my white boyfriend all day, go to the movies and sit in the same section, and kiss in public with minimal stares.
BIG UPS
“Staying in on a weekend night is prime time for exploratory masturbation with...”
– Girls and Staying In (via helloscarecrow)
Juice
I have had a really hard time writing lately but let’s not call it “writer’s block” because I “don’t believe in” “writer’s block” - so suffice it to say, I missed a writing deadline on Monday and all week I’ve tried to catch up. I spent all of Wednesday night trying. I wrote one paragraph on five or six different topics, none of...
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strangemagnetism:
CARRYING CLOSER
if I could...
Jeff and Nikki: The Future
Jeff: You ever think that we are like dinosaurs and a comet will kill us all and a tiny race will evolve and find our bones and put us in their tiny museums?
Nikki: Every moment of every day.
Nikki: The bones will be from western, first world nations with flourided drinking water and sufficient access to calcium
Jeff: I would be like a long neck species so I'm gonna have my bones preserved to look like I'm foraging for tree leaves when I die.
Jeff: And their priests would say that the bones are fake and God put us there to test them.
Nikki: My bones will probably be confused with that of an angel.
Jeff: Because you will die testing my new wing suit which will one day allow all humans to fly to work.
Jeff: P.S.- wanna test my wing suit this weekend?
Nikki: Yes.
Nikki: They will use my calcified hair as jewelery.
Nikki: They will grind and snort my bones as a miracle drug.
Jeff: False. Over millions of years our bones will turn to fuel to power their spacecrafts, thus enabling human-martian mating.
Jeff: Also they will have 4 legs cuz everybody knows it goes 4-2-4
Nikki: THEY. WILL. SNORT. ME.
Feet
Have you ever lived in winter? You know how sometimes, in winter, your hands and feet get so cold that when you put them under warm water they burn? That happened to me yesterday in my apartment in Los Angeles.
December 2011
26 posts
GONE FISHING
I hope it comes out that Drake and Abel Tesfaye...
