January 2012
December 2011
All I really want for 2012 is for everything I love to survive to see 2013. My closest animal companion, Pookie, was a prickly, skittish cat who avoided most human contact and was difficult to understand. But she’s always been my special one, I defended her from everything, even a family that wanted to put her back up for adoption again, and in return she would sit on my lap, nuzzle up to...
“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via soupsoup
)
“So far, most of the eulogies of Christopher have come from men, and there’s a...”
– Katha Pollitt, Regarding Christopher. (via thebronzemedal)
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)
Good lord, that is relevant.
“I lost my son this year from pneumonia. Standing in front of his set of dishes...”
– quote from the comments from this article about Joan Didion and death; I can’t stop thinking about this woman, how generous she is with the universe
Can you tell the difference between quotes from a... →
gethustle:
“Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo, as well as excerpts from interviews with actual convicted rapists originally published in the book The Rapist Files. The participants couldn’t reliably identify which statements came from magazines and which from rapists — what’s more, they rated the magazine quotes as slightly more...
“As the father of two daughters,” Obama told reporters, “I think it is important...”
– Obama’s woman problem - Salon.com
As the father of two daughters, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND KILL YOU IF THEY ARE NOT BACK BY 10 PM!
(HOLY SHIT OUR PRESIDENT IS EVERY AMERICAN TELEVISION FATHER FIGURE EVER)
As the father of two daughters, you impose your own rules on them as you see fit until they...
Must Love Kids: What we talk about when we talk... →
youmightfindyourself:
By: Jessa Crispin Excerpted from a review of Susan Hertog’s biography of two remarkable writers, Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson
Holding onto our mother’s grudges isn’t just affecting our current or future children. It also has to make us snipey and judgey about how other women raise their children. It can make us take two powerful women and diminish...
Here are some of my unfounded fears developed...
gethustle:
That, while I’m standing on the subway waiting for a train, some crazy person will push me onto the tracks right as the train is coming. Apparently this fear isn’t so unfounded because this ALMOST HAPPENED TO ALEX!
That, on a windy rainy day, my umbrella will flip inward instead of outward and the umbrella spike will stab me in the solar plexus. Or the aorta. Or the throat. I’m...
“… the world is not theirs and never was and the suffering and the horrors are...”
– “Cormac McCarthy” on Urban Outfitters, Union Square, San Francisco, CA on Yelping with Cormac
Man do I still love this blog.
(via housingworksbookstore)
I mentioned this before but Yelping With Cormac is just killing it.
Book Genre Problems: Femicrime Is The New Chick... →
nihilon:
analternative1:
Literature written by women are still being criticized, and it’s always by the male audience. Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Simone Freund, Helene Cixous - what will we do?
So awful. Clearly we’re going to play this game, so i hereby demote all literature written by males as dick lit. i also like the genre “mascucrime”.
DICK LIT!!! See: Philip Roth, John Updike,...
How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland... →
gadgetry:
inspiremekaelri:
fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin:
In late 2009, Lynn Zwerling stood in front of 600 male prisoners at the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup, Maryland. “Who wants to knit?” she asked the burly crowd. They looked at her like she was crazy.
Yet almost two years later, Zwerling and her associates have taught more than 100 prisoners to knit, while dozens more are on a...
This Shit's Pretty Neat: nihilon: I’m just steps... →
gethustle:
nihilon:
nihilon:
I’m just steps away from renouncing all male authors. one day i’m going to write a book called the Hysteric and the protagonist will be male.
“for he was aware of the great secret of life: women don’t look for handsome men. women look for men who have had beautiful women. having an…
oh i love you so much. Me too, I really need more women writers in my life....
