Zucchini, A Perspective Piece
I would just like to draw your attention to the biggest zucchini ever. The boyfriend’s mother accidentally let this one go for a number of weeks as it grew to gargantuan proportions. We decided to rescue it from the trash pile and torture a number of people with its size — hitting people with it, [...]
...read moreAll Your Cats Are Belong To Us
Why the internet shrines to cats? The NYT has a possible answer: Maybe the difference is that dogs are public, everyone’s business. They go on subways and they go in parks. They are always caught in flagrante defecato. Cats stay home. They are private, nobody’s business. To watch them in their homes is a privilege. [...]
...read moreMore Weekend Music Blogging
Ryan posted some more music downloads along with the “most obtuse history of the War on Terra” on Liberal Avenger. I contributed Songs: Ohia’s “Riding With The Ghost.” Go see.
...read moreRick Santorum and Pitting the Working Mothers Against the “Non-Losers”
Chuck pointed out this letter to the editor in our local paper that I seem to have missed: I’m in my own little world apparently. Every day I wake up with two happy kids, even when I go out the door for work. I work nights, my husband works days and due to the rising [...]
...read moreElements of Style
From the fashion pages… Shopping while black — even Oprah can’t escape poor treatment in department stores, as she was recently shut out of an Hermes boutique in Paris. The Voice has more. Feminist fashion: the petticoat, apparently. I’ll admit, I love long floaty skirts as much as anyone — I’m rockin one right now. [...]
...read more“Wow! She’s fat!”
At first, I was taken aback by the Village Voice article on the new Dove ad campaign, as it starts with calling the model “fat.” But what I like about it is that it admits that when many of us (myself included) see an ad with an average-sized woman, there’s a moment of shock. Then [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The “Title It Your Damn Self” Edition
If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Roxanne was kind enough to point out it is already Friday in Asia, which is all I need as an excuse to publish the Friday Random Ten on a Thursday night without anything cool to do like attend the BlogHer conference this weekend. Load [...]
...read moreCats and Dogs
We’re starting this week’s festivities early.
...read moreBush Doesn’t Hate All Flip-Floppers
Case in point.
...read moreThe Humor Test
This is no surprise, though I should have scored higher on vulgarity.
...read moreThursday Reads, and My Family On Blogging
Physician, Heal Thyself: Legislating Morality Fact-esque: Rock, Paper, Scissors Man-on-Doggie Style Alas, A Blog: Femininity and Motherhood Pharyngula: Gilder Still Wailing Over His Spanking Suburban Guerilla: Sea Change To Be Determined: Why Don’t The Muslims Just Condemn Bombing? Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Unbearable Logic of the “Pro-Lifer” During last night’s dinner at a local [...]
...read moreThe Point and the View
My new favorite blog is BAGnewsNotes, a blog dedicated to analyzing news-based visual representations of politics, politicians, and what essentially functions as propaganda. These images are so often thrown in my face that I forget they are loaded with pro-Bush II administration sentiments. See today’s post on recent uses of the flag, and a paranoid [...]
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