February 2012
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“Sections in the bookstore: Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read -...”
– from If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
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Wow. Something I wrote on Tumblr has amassed over one TWO thousand likes and reblogs. I am amazed.
And I’m mostly just really glad that the word is getting out there not to take for granted what you think you know about heart attack signs. What most people know only applies to cis-men, and that is less than half the population of this planet.
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For women, heart attacks look different. →
Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves health-wise, than men do. Women see doctors...
Writer and Tragedienne: I Want To Be A Hollywood... →
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Don’t we all? That is, ostensibly, why I left the the cold, liberal, comfortable snottiness of the East Coast and came to the land of sunshine and huge white smiles. Though at the tender age of twenty-five, I fear I’ve already missed the boat on this one, I can still recognize the ingredients that…
I’ve got Numbers 3, 5, and 7 down cold, am working on number 1...
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Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth... →
The whole country is talking about contraception right now and to the 90% of American women who use it, it’s a little baffling. Most of us have used some form of it our whole reproductive lives, and so have our mothers and even our grandmothers. We kinda took it for granted. So now that it’s under attack, it seems out of left field, but maybe it shouldn’t. Maybe we underestimated...
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How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day →
I, for one, couldn’t be more pleased that the GOP is flying their true colors more loud and proud. The more people they genuinely piss off, the more irrelevant they become and the real work of moving this country forward can be undertaken by serious people.
Seriously, guys. The American people are at the end of our rope, because it’s being forcibly taken by the Republicans to hang...
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I'm on Pinterest! →
And just in time for a 4-day vacation from both home and the Internet. (And after several months of telling my friends I wasn’t gonna do it. I think we all knew I was gonna.)
Right now, there’s a very little overlap from Tumblr. But that’s going to end soon, and then there won’t be any. So if you’re on Pinterest, follow me over there too. And I’ll see you when...
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My final and ultimate position on "misandry".
stfusexists:
Here’s the thing; hatred and discrimination against men simply for being men is not something that exists in a powerful institutional form in the US, and I suspect the world as a whole, but being a US citizen, I can only speak to the US. This is evidenced by the wage gap (which really does exist), the disproportionate number of men in government power, the statistics of rape and DV...
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Watch“I’m an artist. When rules don’t work for me, I change them.”
An 8tracks mix I made of some of the music that’s been inspiring me and helping me battle some creative demons lately.
There’s some Jimmy Eat World on there (of course!) Shiny Toy Guns, The Rescues, Sheryl Crow, Theory of a Deadman. Good stuff.
Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court... →
Ding Dong, the witch is dead!
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Liz Phair defends Lana Del Rey →
Let me break it down for you: she’s writing herself into existence. She’s giving herself a part to play because, God knows, no one else will and she wants to matter in this life. As far as I can tell, it’s working. I went straight to iTunes and bought her new release “Born To Die” in toto (how often do I do that??) because it was more than a collection of songs or a performance, it was a...
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Mad Men ads, altered →
Ask and you shall receive: now there’s a Tumblr for it.
The tightrope one is my favorite!
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That’s right anti-choicers. Keep underestimating America’s devotion to protecting a woman’s right to a legal abortion. The louder you get, the stronger your opponents get. Keep getting crazier and crazier and making your position even less tenable. I mean - how crazy do you have to be to come out *against* women with breast cancer? Come on now.
I still think I’m going to...
January 2012
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Downton Abbey Episode 5: A Summary →
There are spoilers here for tonight’s episode, but OMG it is perfect!
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“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in...”
– George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th November 2011
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I read a whole 435 page book on set yesterday and it made me think some things and now I’m going to tell them to you.
There will be spoilers for this book, (and also this book) so I’m putting everything after a break in case you don’t want to read them. It’s also long…
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch is mostly pretty awesome: for the medieval torture...
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“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
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Leverage score music: *doin' it's thing*
Me: Hey, doesn't that music sound a little like the Doctor Who theme?
Husband: Yeah... a little.
Parker: What is that?
Hardison: A bow tie. Bow ties are cool.
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“I can’t tell if [Obama]’s a Jedi Master, playing chess on a...”
– Jon Stewart
From this week’s Newsweek cover article, I’d say Andrew Sullivan is firmly in the Jedi camp. Add to it this piece from Forbes last month about some sneaky Ninja language buried in the Affordable Care Act, and I’m starting to feel a little more of 2008’s hope...
I have a line in my email signature, this is what it says:
Got a minute? Check out my webseries, The Majestic Theater Co. on YouTube!
That’s it. And sometimes I forget it’s there. I send emails all the time, but sometimes I get lovely little notes like this one:
Hi Caroline, First of all, let me say that I checked out your link for ‘The Majestic Theater Co,’ and...
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“Andrew Jackson had a clear cut idea of what to do with America’s enemies:...”
– Newt Gingrich
Yeah, they were Native Americans, it’s called the Trail of Tears and it’s maybe the worst thing this country has *ever* done you racist motherf*cker.
This wasn’t so much a “Moment of Zen” as a moment of blood-vessel-popping rage. Thanks, Jon Stewart.
An open letter to Washington from Artists and...
wilwheaton:
neil-gaiman:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very...
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North Korea To Punish Mourners Who Were Insincere →
By “mourners” they mean all citizens because they were forced into participating in the nationwide events celebrating the life and dramatically bemoaning the loss of Kim Jong Il.
By “punish” they mean send to labor camps that result in the deaths of 40% of the incarcerated.
North Korea is the legit, living incarnation of Panem’s Capitol.
