Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Psychologists, child development specialists, and all concerned with the development of personality, take note: it is twenty-six years later, and I have still not stopped making this face.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
People! It is February! Do you know what that means? Well, I will tell you what it means around Ye Olde Tyger Beatdowne: it means I am going to be incredibly bummed out for the next twenty-eight days. Seriously, February: what gives? You are cold, and you are dark, and you have none of the […]
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To me, political lesbianism continues to make intrinsic sense because it reinforces the idea that sexuality is a choice, and we are not destined to a particular fate because of our chromosomes. I also suspect that it is very difficult to spend your daily life fighting against male violence, only to share a bed with […]
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Are you fucking kidding me: We should examine the double standards in operation [regarding female novelists who write about sex]. There’s virtually no market for men to write about Lothario-style conquests. Nor would they be hailed as freedom fighters if they did dare to write a warts-and-all account of pulling women… Nor can I imagine […]
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
And so it came to pass that, on the thirty-first day of January, in this Year of Our Lord 2009, I did purchase a novel by Philip “Face-Fucker” Roth. You kind of have to know what you’re talking about if you’re talking opposition; even though every single long or short excerpt I have read from […]
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You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glassjar?)– Undeniably Great Genius John Updike, “A&P” So, John Updike’s still dead. Did you know that? It is a fact. I’ve been more or less thinking about […]
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Good morning! Are you ready…. FOR THE GREATEST INTERNET CROSS-BLOGGING DIALOGUE OF ALL TIME? I am just going to go ahead and assume that you are, for it has totally arrived: every Friday, the amazingly always funny and sensical Amanda Hess of Washington City Paper’s The Sexist and Me of the Blog That You Are […]
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
HEADLINE #1:Obama Signs First Piece of Legislation Into Law And it is the Lilly Ledbetter act, hurrah! This very important law (the best law ever? PERHAPS, but soon to be surpassed by my “Free Kisses from Adorable Puppies Every Day Unless You Are Allergic” bill, for which I will be lobbying hard) “expanded the time […]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
As the news of John Updike’s passing trickles down into obituaries, then appraisals, then annoying comment threads in which it is argued that feminist lit crit should just disappear because what matters is not whether John Updike created worthwhile, convincing fiction but whether he was “true to himself,” whatever that means, oh and also he […]
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Dead; not dead. Accurate; inaccurate. Extremely accurate; also, timely. Now: John Updike wrote and published an enormous amount of fiction and non-fiction, in defiance of the fact that seemingly everything he had to say about the world had been said more eloquently by someone else (see: suburban domesticity breeds conformity and destroys the soul) […]
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