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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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... →
writerandtragedienne:
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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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".
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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...
