Ouch.: I had an accident while walking. Though wearing both shoes and socks, somehow the tip of my left toe suffered the consequences.
Your New Favorite
A blog by Katie Spence.
Here is where I document some of my new favorite things that will surely become some of your new favorite things.
See?
Email me: yournewfavorite [at] gmail dot com
Here is where I document some of my new favorite things that will surely become some of your new favorite things.
See?
Email me: yournewfavorite [at] gmail dot com
“ The characters are slaves to their own fetishization of commodities. This fetishization is responsible for the failure of Carrie’s wedding to Big. Dressed in their billowing designer costumes like unwitting circus clowns, she and her friends fuss around the limousine to carry Carrie to her wedding. “It’s like trying to push a cream-puff through a keyhole,” comments the token homosexual figure (who serves as the Jester) regarding the difficulty of fitting Carrie’s extravagant Vivienne Westwood gown within the limousine. Here, Carrie is quite literally overwhelmed by her own materialism.
- Drunk e-mail from my little sister: Will watching Sex and the City make you into a communist?
Maybe! Anthony Lane in the New Yorker name checks Marx in his review of the film.
Getting good at something takes a while.
“While Hillary Clinton’s campaign has cast a spotlight on the issue of sexism, this isn’t a partisan issue: it’s about making sure that women’s voices are present and powerful in our national dialogue.” - Women’s Media Center
I predict that we will stop talking abuot sexism very soon after Hillary drops out of the race.
“ ‘We must be careful about what we pretend to be.’ […] That lesson springs to mind every time a comedian whose shtick relies on hoaxes and audience-baiting—or a political pundit who traffics in shock and hyperbole—gets hauled in front of the court of public opinion for pushing the act too far. Why can’t people just say what they mean? It’s a question Don Imus and Michael Richards—and maybe someday Ann Coulter—must ask themselves on their many sleepless nights.
- First quote by Kurt Vonnegut, second from The AV Club in “15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Has or Will,” written shortly after Vonnegut’s death last year.
[via Romeo Juliet Sierra]
“ If implemented, President George W. Bush could, with the stroke of a pen, protect vast stretches of U.S. territorial waters from fishing, oil exploration and other forms of commercial development. The initiative could also create some of the largest marine reserves in the world — far larger than national parks like Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
-NPR
Bush appears to want to do something that people will appreciate him for in the future become “the Teddy Roosevelt of the seas”.
“ In 1997, the Times looked at Mentos and Hanson and called us “edgeless.” They dragged out Generation X rep Douglas Coupland to call us all uncool for liking the Spice Girls. We were little kids! Sorry I wasn’t an edgy 12-year-old, Doug! I wasn’t into Built to Spill yet!
- Alex Pareene in ‘One millenial responds to Gen X’s discontents’
I am apparently on the cusp of being a millenial as I was born in 1982. It’s no fun being on the cusp. It is fun however to witness this tiff between the generations. GEN XERS SUCK, MILLENNIALS RULE!!!