Tips of the Day
Because I’m avoiding my Bluebooking work. Here’s what I learned this week: 1. If you’re on the subway and would like to comment on someone’s purse (mine, let’s say), it is generally considered rude to loudly say to your friend, “That bag is so Jewish.” The appropriate ethnic slur would be “JAP-y,” thank you very [...]
...read moreGreatest Oracle EVER
I’m doing this partly to move Che down from his #1 position on this site, and partly because this thing is amazingly accurate: Jill Filipovic, Your ideal job is a Professional Tramp. and when I put my full name in… Jill Nicole Filipovic, Your ideal job is a Gigolo. How did they know??
...read moreYet Another One Of Those Things I Must Have
I’d really like it on my desk at school. Nothing starts a conversation like a vengeful unicorn. Something about this is very appealing. via Rawr UPDATE See here for blasphemous Jesus songs.
...read moreButt Plugs for Charity
Tristan Taormino, who apparently has the most famous ass in the world (who knew?) is interviewed on Suicide Girls. (via The Lusty Lady, who also has a few choice words for Female Chauvinist Pigs). Relatedly, Joel Stein asks, remember when porn wasn’t boring?
...read moreHappy International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Today is so piratey that all the children in Ethan’s school were asked to dress like pirates. I put him in a bandana and a second-hand pirate hat. He was thrilled. “Mama, how’s my hat?” “You mean, ‘How’s me hat?’” “Mom. Stop it.” Maybe it’s just me. I hope someone finds this as amusing as [...]
...read moreSassy v. Jane
I still love Sassy best. But I like Jane, too. Now, the history of Jane Pratt, and why her new rag never lived up to Sassy. via Karol.
...read moreButt Print Art
For afficionados and juvenile delinquents alike. Also see the artistic explanation. Oh my.
...read moreHillary v. Xbox: Long Ramble on Video Games, Movies, Representation, and The Gaze
Dear Sen. Clinton, I’m writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious “Grand Theft Auto” series. I’d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility [...]
...read moreTuesday Time Waster
A Super Mario Brothers opera of sorts.
...read moreCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
Yesterday’s highlight was taking Ethan to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We had bought the original recently, watched it and liked it, and I promised E we would go to the new one sometime this summer. I’m usually loathe to go see movies in the theater. I saw the newest Batman this summer (hated [...]
...read moreGigapixl Project
Check out this project: If you are reading this text on a 1280×1024 computer monitor, a one-gigapixel Gigapxl? image would be 35 of your screens wide and 22 screens tall. A four-gigapixel image is twice as wide and twice as high?that is, 70 screens wide and 44 screens tall. When printed at the highest resolution [...]
...read moreThe Disneyfication of Feminism
Screenwriters may have internalized them, graduate schools may have assimilated them, but contemporary romantic comedy heroines are pure corporate product, a desperately pandering and clueless assemblage of received notions, sexual anxiety and recycled focus-group-think handed down over the years like Grandma’s cheesecake recipe. and Romantic comedy heroines aren’t characters anymore, they’re tranquilizers. They provide exactly [...]
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