Tuesday, November 25, 2008
This morning, I woke up full of dread and shame. Bleary and haggard, I stumbled toward my computer screen. “No,” I muttered. “I didn’t do that. I would never do that. I must have dreamed it.” But I was wrong. There, before my eyes, was a pale-blue Safari window, glowing with menace. “Holy fuck,” I […]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
If I am going to tell you about Valley of the Dolls – and I am going to tell you about it, believe me – I have to tell you how I found it. After a friend’s great-aunt died, I was asked to take part in clearing out her attic. This attic: it was amazing. […]
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Well, TOO LATE. The attractively-named Sarah Ball of Newsweek has the goods for you. Mr. Van Damme begins: I really opened myself up in “JCVD.” I peeled back the skin of the fruit, cut the pulp and then took that very hard seed. In this film I cut that hard seed, and inside that seed […]
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Friday, November 21, 2008
She always makes the right choice! In April 2007, 24-year-old William Hallowell was accused of sending salacious and threatening emails to Robin Bernsen, his former boss in the library at the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. Bernsen had sent an email to address that was similar to Hallowell’s email address (but it wasn’t Hallowell’s), […]
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
You know, it’s not often that I feel nostalgic for the days before suffrage. Today, however, it occurs to me that, were I living in that day and age, I could at least have an apartment in Manhattan – namely, the Trowmart Inn. According to Ephemeral New York (and this article, thanks for linking, guy) […]
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
For people whose memories of the ’80s and early ’90s largely involve being driven to and from various functions in the Chevy trucks of their metal-enthusiast stepfathers, on those few occasions when the stepfathers in question were not asleep or working the night shift at Big Bear!* First we have this fine piece of reporting, […]
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Voters reject the term and the category of being a “feminist,” with only 20% of women willing to use that word about themselves. Nor do they want their daughters to become feminists—only 17% of voters said they would welcome their daughters using that label. But while “feminism” seems to connote a radicalism out of the […]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Let me preface this with a warning: there will be numerous spoilers for the plot to Little Women. SPOILER: there is no plot to Little Women. Not a plot in sight! The girls grow up, get married, have babies, and sometimes die. (SPOILER!) Then again, if you are a girl, you know this already. For […]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Once upon a time, in a magical land called Brooklyn, I got very drunk and ended up having a passionate discussion about Christopher Pike with someone I had just met. There were two dudes at the table, and one other lady. I don’t know what we had been discussing before – politics? – but I […]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
What is first female four-star general Ann E. Dunwoody wearing? Oh. I’m sorry. I thought that’s how we talked about it when women did things. ~This Blog Post Dedicated to the Endless Coverage of Michelle Obama’s Dress.~ ~Miss You, Coverage!~
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