July 2010
16 posts
“Reading through this virtual toast, I was reminded of the Ray Bradbury story,...”
– How Not to Congratulate Your Ex on Her Wedding Day
WatchOhio to Minnesota Time Lapse (by Dave Lucius)
“All of this is to say that I never necessarily aspired to be a copy editor. I...”
– What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor - The Awl
“Dear Beezus, I’m sorry you’ve been turned into a teen-Disney Lolita...”
– Letters With Character: Beverly Cleary | Ramona Forever | 1984
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness,...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Tweet.
“a 5’ 4” woman gets 60 more contacts each year than a six-footer”
– The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating « OkTrends
“The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record...”
– Book Review - A Visit From the Goon Squad - By Jennifer Egan - NYTimes.com
Thursdays: Giveaway! Super Stars and T-shirt! →
Because I have the best group of readers in the history of blogdom (and because I want you all to know I haven’t disappeared), I’m giving away more stuff.
I created a couple designs for t-shirts and stuff, and I’m giving away the first batch - a t-shirt, coffee mug and magnet - along with Lila’s…
WatchProof that July 5th 2010 was never entered in Back to the Future Part… (via John Shearrow - Proof that July 5th 2010 was never entered in Back to the Future Part 1 - TwitVid)
June 2010
6 posts
“Remember how everyone talked in the 90s about selling out, which implied there...”
– Reality Bites: In Which The Girl Never Has To Play Dumb
“When I saw that Tao Lin endorsed this tiny little flit of a book, I should have...”
– Goodreads | oriana (Brooklyn, NY)’s review of Eat When You Feel Sad
May 2010
9 posts
“The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic.
“Like every countercultural movement, feminism has been decapitated to become...”
– Bookslut | Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done by Susan J. Douglas
“What should we do? Should we join the herd and use “beg the...”
– The Book Bench: The Next Question You Beg May Be Your Last : The New Yorker
@dbrauer @derushaj While you're out shopping and... →
It’s this kind of sexism that makes my head explode. Apparently dusting and shopping is “women’s” work. Fuck that. What is this 1957?
(via brauerandcollinstwittering)
April 2010
18 posts
“It is laudatory that McDowell has set herself against the tenor of much of the...”
– Lovers, Not Victims | The New Republic
“A lot of men really took it as a provocative stance, that you were personally...”
– Women of the punk era - The F-Word
“The trouble of course is that a good book is not something you can put together...”
– How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons - Magazine - The Atlantic
“A recent study in the Journal of Marketing Communications finds that bearded men...”
– Are You Trustworthy? Do You Have A Beard? - PSFK
“We live in a world in which women’s bodies are fodder for politics, for...”
– Reader Roundup - Comments - Jezebel
“Maybe one day, when I’m on solid ground, when I am completely surrounded...”
– Girls of Lonely Means - The Barnes & Noble Review
“The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its...”
– BBC News - Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change
March 2010
15 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
The Bird and the Bee (26)
Rhett Miller (18)
Michael Jackson (6)
Lucinda Williams (3)
Counting Crows (3)
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