December 2010
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joni mitchell // people’s parties
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“Simply, three brave and articulate women who may have begun to raise the level...”
– Lynn Harris reviews “No Easy Decision,” and praises the poise, reflection, and responsibility with which three brave young women discussed their choice.
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“Pozner remains ambivalent about the special, noting that the fact that...”
– How Groundbreaking Was MTV’s Abortion Special? - LA Times
I certainly don’t begrudge any attempt to compassionately and thoughtfully demonstrate the reality that will eventually face 1 in 3 women in the United States, but I think the fact that any legitimate discussion of abortion is...
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“It’s like having only 24 hours to swim across the world.”
– Jenelle, from MTV’s 16 and pregnant, on being a teenage mother.
16 & Loved
iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn:thefeministhub:
16 & Loved is a campaign to give our public support to the three young women who told their abortion story on the MTV special – “No Easy Decision” – created for the popular series “16 & Pregnant.” Markai and several other young women did their part to let others know: “you are not alone. I’ve been there too.” Now, it’s time to do our part. We...
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shad // keep shining
I was just reading this list...
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The boiler is making super crazy hissing noises. I...
mar-see-ah:
My heat is either not working or I think it will kill me. That’s my entire relationship with heat in my building.
We could try to psychoanalyze that but I think it’s patently obvious I’m insane and shouldn’t be encouraged.
My boiler sounds like a rocketship taking off. I have a constant fear that my radiators will explode and start spouting water like a geyser, because sometimes...
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Lil Wayne buys a wheelchair for a fan's mom →
In case you are following my blog exclusively for Lil Wayne and Young Money related news, I do not want to disappoint this week.
Lil Wayne = real life Santa Claus
This makes me regret not writing to him in prison even more than I already did (I did), specifically to ask for his thoughts about pre-college programs in Wisconsin. Dreaming about Lil Wayne funding my students’ college...
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Wow, thanks for showing up, three kids who made appointments after five, forcing me to stay AFTER FIVE DURING CHRISTMAS WEEK like I’m one of the rats in the Muppet Christmas Carol or something. If I’m not at home, sitting in sweatclothes and eating this in fifteen minutes, I will suddenly no longer find your lip piercing, your pink weave, or your non-perscription glasses adorable.
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Black Swan: A Personal Review
Black Swan features several painful montages of Natalie Portman’s character picking and scratching at her skin. There is one especially visceral image of (*SPOILER ALERT!*) her picking at her cuticles. I have been a compulsive cuticle-picker for virtually my entire life, but you better believe I’m thinking twice about my nervous habit. Lately, at stressful intervals, I look down at my...
“Develop an eating disorder to save money. Move into an apartment on the corner...”
– Julia Sea: Ragu Sauce Over Barilla Noodles - How to be a 20-Something
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I’m not quite ready to put this into the...
…but I’m going to put it out there, realizing that it might end up in there eventually. (Sorry if you are a dude who follows me!)
Why are your pants too tight on some days and not others? Seriously, why does this happen? Let’s just say you’ve been limiting your caloric intake, doing sit-ups like it’s your job, and noticing that some of your other pants don’t look...
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“And this pandering worked! Well, this and making a Michael Jackson tribute all...”
– Rich Juzwiak, Death to Chris Brown
I almost posted a personal rant along these lines earlier this week, when I had to buy every song from the mediocre “No Mercy,” individually to avoid purchasing the one featuring Chris Brown, because I am sick of having to go out of my way to avoid...
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on holiday gatherings
This year I have been looking for advice about ways to avoid weight gain over the holidays, which is generally something that doesn’t interest me. But this year, because of my experiment to determine if I’m even slightly datable, I’ve decided to put forth an [almost negligible] effort. So far this has meant going to an abs class at the Y, where I do sit-ups for twenty minutes and...
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“A joke on the streets of Moscow these days: “Everything the Communists told us...”
– John Nellis, World Bank (via filigree)
Johansson, Reynolds Separate →
livinginlakeview:
Great tragedy of my day.
On the heels of the Zefron/Hudgens separation, I don’t even know what’s true anymore.
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on attending events with other people
I have slowly been coming to the conclusion that the drugs have worked, and I’m actually a heartless person with no use for feelings other than while eating them or while watching rom-coms on Netflix. And I get that, okay? But I don’t get why we all need to stop our lives and reroute our evenings because you’re going to have hang out with someone whose bed you used to drunkenly...
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“To hell with them all. Paint yourself out, through and through, it will come by...”
– Eva Hesse
on winter-weather party attire
I once got kicked out of a sorority/fraternity winter formal for being “too drunk.” I actually hadn’t had anything to drink there, but I fell on the ice on the way in, along with two of my friends who were not wearing strapless dresses or their new Jeffery Campbell heels. The sorority running the formal was somewhat of an opposing sorority, and I do understand that I represented...
kelsium:
I’m about to get all sappy, don’t mind me.
I feel immensely privileged to have been able to watch Senator Bernie Sanders’s speech for the entire day today. Not all Americans have cable internet (ahem, stolen from neighbors), not all Americans have television, not all Americans know that C-SPAN exists or what it’s for. Part of being a Progressive is acknowledging these facts and working...
“I don’t think that has to be the choice: awful or better than nothing.”
– Sen. Bernie Sanders (via kelsium)
“So I don’t think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl....”
– Aaron Sworkin is not fooled by your outdoorsy persona, Sarah Palin. Not today.
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“We stand today at a crossroads. In a time of economic crisis, with men fearful...”
– Caryl Rivers, ”The Soft War Against Women.”
I don’t know if you were having a good day or anything (I hope you were!) but if for some reason you wanted to stop having a good day and start having a bad one, here is a pretty good article to read in pursuit of that goal.
On that...
So there was this guy at Lucky's who basically had...
fatmanatee:
Guys, it’s Hoboken. Hobroken. Dudes say they’re gonna dress up and hit up the 1st Street bars and it ends up being all light blue striped shirts one or two sizes too big and their best pair of jeans. A few times I made a game out of taking pictures of bros in the striped shirt-jeans combo, trying to get the most in one picture (my highest score is 3). There aren’t any...
Guys relating to Charlie
fatmanatee:
Like, some guys think their drinking habits and general ineptitude with life are endearing, and believe me, I’d much rather be Charlie than Dennis, but seriously, what kind of asshole spills buffalo sauce and beer on his bed sheets. That’s cute for 22 sitcom minutes but I still have to do an extra laundry load.
I imagine that Charlie is the masculine equivalent to the adorably...
“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving...”
– Elizabeth Edwards (via livinginlakeview)
Ten reasons we need the DREAM act →
Are my mother and I the only people who think it’s bullshit that in order to drum up support for very nearly everything in this country, we have to demonstrate its relevance to the military? Yes, it would be great that many students who came to this country illegally would be able to serve the country as members of the military. It is also going to be pretty great that they have the...
Snapple Facts with Meredith!
luckypaperstars:
Snapple “Real Fact” #699: After working out, it takes five hours for your body temperature to return to normal.
Meredith “Real Fact” #699: There’s really no reason for your body temperature to change, ever, unless the heat in your apartment breaks. If that happens, move.
“It requires, for a woman, usually in today’s world still, an extra amount...”
– Just for reference, this is the question Hillary Clinton had just answered when she was asked what designers of clothes she prefered. Although it was an excellent illustration of her point, and it is comically awful that the moderator could not veer from prepared questions enough to follow up with a...
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mumford & sons // winter winds
was it love or...
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