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+ Hollywood’s 5 saddest attempts at feminism.
+ Related: Masculinity and Disney movies.
+ Fashion at my alma mater. I’m sure glad I graduated before that words-on-the-ass-of-your-sweatpants trend started. Or, maybe what I really need are some of these. Hot, right?
+ I’m kidding.
+ McCain Shenanigans Watch: McCain pulled out of an interview on CNN because Campbell Brown actually, you know, did her job by asking some tough questions.
+ Cool skyscraper photography.
+ Some baseball card fun: The 23rd card in a set of 22.
+ Grease in Lego.
+ This article in the Times about Jessica Valenti and Marcia Pappas (the NOW-NY president who said last week that Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama was “a betrayal of women”) is interesting. As an Edwards supporter, you can guess how I come down on this debate, but I’ll add: Gee, Marcia, thanks for setting us straight because it’s not like women can make their own choices about who to vote for.
+ Speaking of voting, I’ve been having a very hard time choosing who to vote for now that Edwards is out of the race. Amanda has some pretty compelling reasons to consider Obama. But if you needed another reason, not to vote Clinton, she’s been endorse by Ann Coulter. Kind of.
+ Here’s a kind of hilarious list of complaints about TV to the FCC. Kind of makes you wonder; I haven’t seen most of the episodes of TV referenced, and I watch a far amount of TV. It’s sort of like complaining about porn on the internet; it’s not just there when you turn on your computer, for the most part, you have to go look for it. Do these people just surf channels looking for things to write to the FCC about?
+ Speaking of TV, in entirely unsurprising news, Karl Rove joins Fox News.
+ West Virginia wants to teach kids how to use guns.
+ Mississippi wants to keep fat people from eating. (Shapely Prose has a good round up of opinions on that. See also Feministe.
+ Scientists have discovered a new species of shrew.
Now that you’re ruing the day I got a new computer and was suddenly able to post more every day, here are some quickie news items:
+ A friend linked me to the answerto the question, “Why do you encourage fat women to embrace their bodies if fat is unhealthy?” at Shapely Prose. It’s a genius response. Shapely Prose has been duly added to the blogroll.
+ As the daughter of a chemist, I found this dialogue between a child and a chemistry professor to be pretty darn hilarious.
+ Other Things I’m Reading: I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading Margaret Cho’s archives at HuffPo. I’ve seen her live twice, I think. She’s awesome, but you knew that. | I just bought this book at the Strand. It looks really interesting, thirty years of recent New York history. Plus, there’s a photo of my old block in Inwood on page 335, so I am already endeared.
+ Also just bought Lisa Loeb’s recently reissued Purple Tape. Am I the only one still listening to Lisa Loeb? The album is so deliciously early-90s New York, it fits pretty well with the new book.
I was thinking this morning that, when I first started blogging in August 2003, I was thinking that the blog would just sort of be a brain dump, a place for whatever I was thinking about to go. Then I started writing about politics and science, and it kind of evolved from there. If I start writing more often, it might go back to being a hodge podge of whatever, but either way, it’ll be fun, so I hope you stick around for the rejuvenated blog.
