Thursday, February 12, 2009
Here is a thing you need to know about me, first of all: sometimes I do not answer my phone. Here is another thing: I love both baby animals and baby humans. My love for baby humans is kind of conditional – I think they are awesome up until about the age of twelve, at […]
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Here we are, folks, deep in the heart of February. Its cruel torments continue unabated; even the weather – the fabulous springlike weather, the golden sunbeams and fair breezes that have imbued me with an irrational conviction that cartoon birds are about to swoop down onto my shoulder and start chirping merrily at my face […]
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
OMFG! Valentine’s Day is coming!!!!! Do you have a date yet? I do, because I am better than you. You are probably a sad, loveless old spinster who fritters away her precious childbearing years doing things like “working” and “making friends” and “discovering a cure for cancer.” Ha ha ha, you are pathetic. No need […]
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Ladies, gentlemen: the Internet is a wondrous place. It can, for example, allow you to speak with people you like! It can deliver to you big chunky nuggets of Palin, for your consumption! It can totally break down and make Sexist Beatdown a little bit late, sorry. However! It has arrived! THE SINGLE GREATEST AND […]
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Dude: my mom is the best. You may think I am only saying this because she is my mom! Yet that is only partially true. She is my mom, and should be applauded for that achievement, but is also an awesome lady – awesome to the extent that, whenever I find myself in a troubling […]
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Ah, the travails of modern life. On an almost daily basis, I am confronted with the fact that Amanda Marcotte is smarter and funnier than she has any right to be, most recently in her write-up of this poop: And here she is: I laughed out loud watching it, and then I felt angry about […]
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“It’s like a journal. The only difference is you hit ‘publish,’ and everyone gets to read it.” Oh, if only we all had such journals! Journals… that were LIVE. Imagine it, my friends!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
My goodness, reading the news is hard. All day, every day, I engage myself in the tedious and unprofitable business of news-reading, attempting to extricate some random series of coherent thoughts from it in order that I might bore you, the reader. Sometimes, when I am reading the news, I read Jezebel, or Salon! Today, […]
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Every now and again, I come on something that I feel I can’t even begin to address. Every now and then, I come on something that I have to address. This is both: Samira Ahmed Jassim, 51, is accused of recruiting more than 80 women to become human bombs, including 28 who carried out attacks. […]
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A) Enjoyed the sensitive folk-rock hits of the Seventies; also, Stevie Nicks.B) Tried to raise me as a vegetarian and a person unconfined by traditional gender roles of generations past; was successful on one count.C) Was really, really pretty. (Still is, in fact!)D) Bought me this EFFING AWESOME SWIMSUIT.
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