January 2010
42 posts
doree:
God, it’s just like, really? I have never been more interested in starting that utopian women’s commune in Topanga or wherever they were going to do it. Remember when Ruth shows up, all ready to go, and all the other ladies are like, Oh honey.
I sort of feel like Ruth right now. DOESN’T ANYONE WANT ANY MACARONI SALAD?
I’m ready to drop everything and do this. (And judging from...
You have another day to send in your first kiss...
Soooooo disappointed that I’ll be out of town for the Anti-Valentines Riot Grrrl Cover Band Show.
The White Lightning YouTube channel might be enough to make me stop paying for cable.
PS More tickets for the 92 St. Y Tribeca event—“What It Feels Like for a Girl” with Sean Fennessey, Emily Gould, Elizabeth Spiridakis, Supercute!, and me—are available.
me, my reading glasses, your town
I just wrote something about this event at the 92 St. Y Tribeca but it looks like it’s already sold out, so now seems like a good time to list the various other places in New York—and the rest of America—where you can talk about the nineties with me:
Thursday, February 11 NEW YORK CITY 7:00 PM with Allison Wolfe (of Bratmobile fame) and Denise Oswald (of Soft Skull/being my former editor at FSG...
Howard Zinn interviewed by Ian Svenonius for Index circa 2002. (I admit I did laugh at the part that says “Add. GET MORE FROM IAN.” I hope that didn’t make the print edition, but we tried our best under the circumstances.)
damn, vanilla latte got skills
I watched Bring It On and all four of its straight-to-DVD sequels and explored the highs and lows of the experience at Slate.
“I really feel like there is a zenith, a SHAMELUST SUMMIT … and that man, the “ring” of SHAMLUSTERY, he who rules them all is: Adnan Ghalib.”
Elizabeth’s primer on shamelust is both terrifying and true.
I wrote about exploring some of my baser desires.
gentle reminder
Elizabeth and I have gotten many submissions for our First Kiss zine. They faithfully represent the rainbow of feelings—awkward, excited, sexy, weird, confusing, et al.—that generally go with adolescent experiences. They take place at jewish summer camps and at screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (okay, that one’s mine) and range from three to roughly 3000 words. Many...
“One time, not too long ago, I saw a few people do a thing. They were almost like me, except they had nicer shoes. And this thing they were doing was something that a lot of people do, but it was different because it meant something larger, because it was happening in New York City and they were women.”
This is totally perfect. I say this as a woman.
hellohazel:
zzellers:
amandalynferri:
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Some mornings you wake up ready to be a fully...
I joined Twitter. Follow me?
Watchc’est space
This is everything I want to be thinking about this year.
when feminist writers who like clothes and...
Okay, Former beauty editor/current grad student/lifelong partner in Sassy obsession Kara started her very own tumblr. Her greatest hits of email subject lines is amazing.
karaj:
i tried really hard not to use the same tumblr theme as marisa—i mean, already half of my posts are reblogs of hers—but it is sort of like how we read the same books, buy the same dresses, etc. in honor of our years of...
Jon, between “the evanescent thrill of truth telling” and using your real name on Twitter and outing yourself as totally OCD at The Awl (and commenting!), I am really into your 2010. Kara and I might actually have to make our imaginary WWJCD t-shirts and sell them at our imaginary Etsy shop. (Other t-shirts we’d sell: “JUDY! [with photo of Judith Butler],” “LIVE...
This woman who DIY’d her own Everyone I Have Ever Slept With Tracey Emin tent is my new hero.
