…I’m in love with the hook upon which everyone hangs… Rolling Stone magazine is kind of a joke these days, less relevant than ever, but I keep the subscription out of nostalgia. It’s followed me from my parents’ house to the dorms, to every apartment I’ve ever had, and now to my first home. More [...]
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Nerdy and beautiful
This is awesome and I want one. Busted all previous funding records on the Kickstarter site, too.
Bonus playlist Wednesday: soul food redux edition
(Links to previous soul food mix posts here and here.) Enjoy! 1. Hot Dog⎯New Mastersounds 2. Burnt Biscuits⎯Triumphs 3. Grits & Gravy⎯The Fame Gang 4. Broasted Or Fried⎯Willie Bobo & The Bo Gents 5. Bar B-Q⎯Wendy Rene 6. Chitterlings Con Carne⎯Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers 7. Cuchy Frito Man⎯Cal Tjader 8. Hot Dog⎯Four Shells [...]
Not a typical girl
RIP Ari Up, one of the most badass, cool, feminist, inspiring punk pioneers ever to blow my mind.
Make it better now
I can’t get Asher Brown’s face out of my head. The Texas teenager committed suicide last month after years of bullying at school. You probably haven’t heard of him. His story was overshadowed by that of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded him kissing [...]
Pressed for the truth
The other night I was ironing a shirt for work when I accidentally got a steam burn down the side of one finger. The wound was invisible, the pain wicked, especially since I was still wielding the iron, its hot, wet air hissing out all over the place. Though I persevered until the shirt was [...]
Be my guest
A sleeping bag and maybe a towel⎯that’s all we used to need. Crashing at a friend’s place required no great forethought⎯a few days’ notice, maybe. But combine age, bigger incomes, more complicated lives, and greater needs for privacy and independence, and all of a sudden hospitality is a fraught issue. It’s Monday morning as I [...]
Grudges
Not the big hurts and betrayals that you grieve over, nurse for years, take to therapy. Not the stuff of broken hearts. Just the little insults that continue to gnaw at you, sometimes years later. Sure, it takes energy to sustain a grudge, and usually it’s easier just to let the offense fade into the [...]
Happiness is…
It’s a little bit like internet dating, nowadays: instead of going to the pound, you browse thumbnail photos online. Someone has written first-person blurbs that read like personal ads: “Hi! I’m two months old, with lots of energy. I like liver treats, tennis balls, and long walks in the park. How about you?!” Hundreds of [...]
