Summer, Sex and Spirits — and a free ticket!
Monday July 25th is the 7th annual Summer, Sex & Spirits hosted by the PPNYC Activist Council in New York City. I will be there, and you should come too. There will be an open bar all night, music by New York nightlife legends Justine D and DJ Ayres, and burlesque performances by Calamity Chang, [...]
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Summer, Sex and Spirits
Monday July 25th is the 7th annual Summer, Sex & Spirits hosted by the PPNYC Activist Council in New York City. I will be there, and you should come too. There will be an open bar all night, music by New York nightlife legends Justine D and DJ Ayres, and burlesque performances by Calamity Chang, [...]
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You’re such a dog.
Via the Hairpin, this is the funnest game ever: Upload a picture of yourself, and the Doggelganger program will find a dog that looks like you and that is also in your area. Unfortunately the program thinks I am in New Zealand, so I can’t actually go and get my doggelganger Elliot. But look how [...]
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Controversy, photoshopped.
Who could have guessed that some photoshop genius would combine the second and third most controversial Feministe posts of the week into one handy visual? Thank you, internet, you win again. Link via Tom Foolery.
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Lolz.
Too much serious today? Check these out. The Washington Post inadvertently publishes my online dating profile with the editor’s notes still included. Thanks for the link, Rebe! I like big butts and I cannot lie, but is there some evolutionary reason as to why? First page of my book: What do you think? (Amazing for [...]
...read moreUnsolved Hysteries
Remember the campaign, started by Devery, to submit photos of your used tampons to Rep. Bobby Franklin in Georgia? Well now there’s a blog aggregating all of the crime scene photos. Meet Unsolved Hysteries, and submit your pics. No zygote death shall go undocumented.
...read moreLove Stories
I’m in a slightly soppy mood, and that is a mood in which I want to hear your love stories. I was thinking stories of romantic loves you’ve had, readers, but also love for family and friends and pets/companion animals: who and whatever you love! Leave them in comments.
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New Time Suck
Pinterest. Basically, it’s an electronic pin-board, where you can save images that you like and share them with others. You can also search images for themes you like. I’m using it to consolidate apartment-decorating ideas — like the picture above of magnolias printed on the page of a dictionary, which I recently purchased from Etsy. [...]
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In Defense of Cat Ladies
Like Sloane Crosley, I am a New York City cat lady, at least insofar as I own one cat. Just one. And I wish he were a dog. But cats do make much more sense in the city.
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Last year, Ariel guest blogged at Feministe and changed the way I think about maps, geography, the internet, community, and how they interact in a collective space. One of my favorite collective geography projects she facilitated here was called “From Strength to Strength,” a collective remembering of places where we felt strong and did brave [...]
...read moreTuesday True Blood Roundtable: Evil Is Going On
Spoilers below! This week on True Blood, the season ended with less blood, guts, and sex than we’ve come to expect. See how it all came together and what we think of it.
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