June 2012
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May 2012
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A Text Blog Post on the Tumblr About "Girls"
This is to go on record that I’m extremely grateful for a person like Lena Dunham. I refuse to watch the rest of her HBO show, but thirty years from now in the CTCS courses at the USC Film School, they’ll be like “And then the dynamics shifted in the industry, the zeitgeist enabled the phenomenon of the female story. Much like the Feminine Mystique served to propel the cultural...
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“George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their...”
– Full article here.
Woo-hoo-hero! He switched his McGuffin on them. Suckers!
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“[A] person convicted of a crime today might lose his right to vote as well as...”
– James Forman, Jr., Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow, 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 21, 28–31 (2012).
April 2012
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No more suck! →
1) Lindy West’s work is the reason I stopped hate-reading Jezebel and started re-reading it sincerely, again. She’s hilarious and has a great amount of courage to go along with her insight.
2) I suck (I really really suck) for having avoided writing about the hard stuff like this which matters so much to me, and about which I think so often. No more suck! No more suck! Say it with me...
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GEOY (Gratuitous Essay of Yourself) →
This essay by Lois Payne on Daria, feminism, and people of color was floating around last week, and I just can’t stop thinking about it. I was the biggest Daria fan — it’s best if I leave it at that — so, boy, this essay hit a certain note. I do remember being in awe of Jodie Landon, but not just because she rocked. She also came from a different economic background than...
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Hillary Clinton is Chicken Soup for My Feminist... →
Two years ago when Tina Brown and Diane von Furstenberg first envisioned this conference, they asked me to do a play, a reading, called – the name of the play was called Seven. It was taken from transcripts, real testimony from real women activists around the world. I was the Irish one, and I had no idea that the real women would be sitting in the audience while we portrayed them. So I was...
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WatchI’m just going to lay down right here. I’m just going to sleep now. No, don’t wake me up until I’m dead.
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Houstory [n. haus- stohr-ee]
[[MORE]] I want a house. I wantahouseIwantahouse. I want it like some people want to share a last name with a person they love, or give a last name to a person not yet born. It’s an ache particularly human in its lucid decoration, in its graspable figments. Don’t we weave our best hopes in our imaginations with multi-faceted details, textures to hold it firm in...
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I Shouldn't Be Posting This! Yes, I should! Oh,... →
11. NEVER STOP WRITING
There are so many reasons not to write. But few are any better than because you are going to get laid. That is a good reason. Everything else, all these other distractions are meaningless. Friends betray you. There will always be another party. I remember when John Updike blew off some big important New Yorker Party because he was writing. The only thing I ever liked from...
March 2012
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Diploma/Dip Low, Ma/Diplo, Ma →
Yesterday, female leaders in entertainment, finance, education, law, and media joined a group of high school girls and college women to discuss the “status of women and girls” in California. Midway through the event, we learned that women in my state earn more associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees than our male peers. The crowd burst into applause. I...
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
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That Lilt and Sway
That silt and lay. That swill and lay-away.
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That Lilt and Sway
In my quiet moments, when I ponder all that swept me and left me here on the porch of this moment, I’m brought to my youth when I ached to look older. This ache was not noble. I wanted the glamour of maturity for self-preserving reasons. I wanted to be left alone to read books. I recall my hazy logic was based on the...
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Kony 2012
This whole Kony 2012 fiasco is fascinating. It’s a case study in branding, viral digital movement, and sincere criticisms that include words like ‘douchey’, ‘indie-ness’ and ‘hipster’. I can’t wait to read a book about all of this! At the rate everything is happening, I’m expecting that book to be written, edited and published in about five...
February 2012
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This Is Exactly What a Modern Day Warrior Princess... →
Police on Monday arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace environmental activists after the group spent four days protesting aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand.
Lawless spoke to The Associated Press from atop the tower Friday, where she said wind gusts were making it difficult for the group to stay put. She said she felt compelled to take a stand against oil-drilling in...
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My Dad Takes My Side On These Things
Rocio: You know, actually, is there, like, some planetary alignment for all of this year? It's a monumental year for everyone. Dad turned 50, it'll be your 30th wedding anniversary in April, Jav's 10th anniversary is coming up, you'll turn 50.
Mom: Yes.
Rocio: And 1234lander was telling me so many of his friends are getting married this year. Last week he named, like, five couples who recently got engaged, and then 3/4ths of Norm's friends will be married by summer.
Mom: Yes.
Rocio: Is it something in the air?
(Mom starts fanning and blowing air into Rocio's face)
Rocio: I'm going to interpret this to mean you really want my novel published this year.
Mom: Breathe it! Breathe the air!
UNCAGED FORCES AVON TO RETRACT FRAUDULENT... →
powerecoads:
Another Uncaged complaint has forced global cosmetics firm Avon to withdraw false claims that they don’t test on animals. Uncaged had written to the Advertising Standards Authority in protest at a deceptive statement on Avon’s UK website that told consumers:
‘Avon does not…
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January 2012
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Yelping with Cormac: Red Lobster →
Blogs are the new poetry.
Shut up.
yelpingwithcormac:
Wichita, KS
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The manager sat tied to the chair in the corral, firelit on all sides by the torches of the townfolk. Dean stood next to him with a Colt army revolver pointed to the hardpacked earth. Who else will speak, he said.
A chorus of voices rose at once. From the din a...
