September 2009
202 posts
Feminists, leave Barbie alone. →
And go after American Girl. I usually don’t agree with the post (except for its hilarity) and I have been a hater of American Girl dolls; their loose stereotypes got me, at age 6, interested in history. The original stories also showed a girl that she can do anything - I can still see Samantha riding that horse across the river in Samantha Saves the Day. The issues used to deal with...
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martha stewart, i have always respected you but...
The Polanski Petition →
hoitycoity:
You can read the whole thing here. The only time they mention the crime is when they refer to it as ‘a case of morals’. How is this not a joke? Another choice excerpt:
‘By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permitted works to be shown and for filmmakers to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this.
‘The arrest of...
hoitycoity:
You all should read the petition your favorite directors and actors have made and signed demanding Polanski’s release..it’s pretty disgusting and very self-involved. Apparently an international film event is just such a gauche place to arrest a child rapist as is Switzerland, which has a celebrated history of letting rich criminals enjoy their lives. Guh. (It’s on CNN..too lazy to...
SANTANA CHAMPAGNE IS REAL.
so hungover.
i’m glad my boss didn’t come in.
damn you, DVX.
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HEY INTERNET. WE’RE ENGAGED.
gubler:
Oh man! am i the only person who loved “jennifer’s body?” they are finally making 1980’s rad style drive-in movies again.
The Gube loves Jennifer’s body. OK, ok, who’s coming with me?
a beginning
There is nothing more warming than New England’s laziness; even its squalor smells of meticulously spiced apple cider and shares the impertinance of discarded leaves now raked, now stored in orange trash bags with smiling jack-o-lantern faces.
this. is. war.
every line is about who i don’t wanna write about anymore… hope you come down with something they can’t diagnose don’t have the cure for
holding on to your grudge, oh it’s so hard to have someone to love and keepin’ quiet is hard, cause you can’t keep a secret if it never was a secret to start. at least pretend you didn’t wanna get caught…
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I’m not entirely sure I can pretend to care anymore.
Sweet Valley High is being made into a movie →
michellemelon:
I have more memories of reading Sweet Valley Twins. I was always a Jessica; I just didn’t get Elizabeth and her goody goody ways.
loved. these. books.
why can’t Katamari games be for Wii, too?
Her eyes smarted from trying to see so far, so intensely. Her insides like the...
– The Witches of Easkwick J. Updike, p.11
In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the...
– The Witches of Eastwick back cover. So. Excited.
At times, after a day’s frantic resort to such invocations, a revulsion...
– The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder, p. 32