Friday Random Ten – the Triumphant Return edition
1. The Avett Brothers – Swept Away 2. Aimee Mann – Nothing is Good Enough 3. MC Solaar – Caroline 4. Tom Waits – Table Top Joe 5. Mark Lanegan – When Your Number Isn’t Up 6. Cat Power – No Sense 7. Radiohead – There There 8. The Bad Plus – Cheney Pinata 9. [...]
...read moreMy Favorite Concept Ever…
Is harm reduction. And I don’t mean it in the standard public-health way (though of course that’s awesome too). I was introduced to the idea of harm reduction as applied more broadly through an interview with Julia Butterfly Hill that appeared in the spring 2005 issue of LiP (“Addicted to Waste: Harm Reduction, Disposability and [...]
...read moreFood Porn Friday on Feministe!!!
I hope we can all agree that the love of good food is the great equalizing factor. I always write about food on Fridays. And I see no reason to except you today. I’ll be doing my regular food article over on my blog. Today’s Food Porn Friday is about Fried Green Tomatoes. When people [...]
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Monkeys are stealing your money
It’s no secret that the Republican party has depended on racism to secure votes, from the Southern Strategy to Welfare Queens to the border fence. So this latest ad (the first ad listed, “Lawyers seek ‘victims’ for class action lawsuits”) from a right-wing legal organization, which ran on the New York Times Op/Ed page on [...]
...read moreForbes: 100 Most Powerful Women in the World
Angela Merckel, the first female chancellor of Germany rates Number One for the second time. Our ranking system starts with a list of women who have crossed certain thresholds. Most of them run companies, governments or nonprofits, or are very close to the top. A handful have established power bases in other ways (an entertainment [...]
...read moreThe Animal Game
Of all my favorite games, The Animal Game tops all (with Would You Rather coming in a close second). It’s pretty simple: You evaluate people you know according to what animal they look like. Everyone has an animal, and it’s a real skill to figure out who looks like what. Some people (like horse and [...]
...read moreAn American in Hamburg
There’s nothing like living abroad to make you feel like the biggest fucking moron ever.
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Love, Redemption…Retribution
I’ve witnessed some amazing stories of love up here in the mountains. Love, when it goes right here, is an amazing and beautiful thing. I’ve touched on some of the great loves I’ve seen in “I’ll Fly Away” and “Whose Sweetheart are You?” Both of those stories are about widows, but I’ve also seen members [...]
...read moreTo My Friends
I am feeling really down about my lack of phone or internet connection. My mum had to call me from England on my mobile and we could only chat for a few minutes. I feel out of touch with my blogging and all my dearest blogging friends. Bad day. Anyway, I apologise for my absence [...]
...read moreFashion Police
If showing asscrack is outlawed, only outlaws will show asscrack. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the racial motivations behind these anti-sagging ordinances — it’s a style that’s associated with so-called “hip-hop culture,” and that in itself is offensive to white people. Of course, sagging pants doesn’t actually harm anyone, but that’s beside [...]
...read moreMedia for women: what will we support?
It’s not just indie magazines that are at risk for folding these days (as discussed in a previous entry here). It seems that any non-mainstream mass-male-produced media is destined to either dissolve or not be profitable and have to work at a not-for-profit level. Why can’t women make a go of it and be a [...]
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