February 2012
44 posts
It's time you had the talk →
Just when you think we’d have nothing else to say about Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend, the good people over at the Hairpin create a post envisioning what said call would actually look like.
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How much are you going to spend on birth control... →
katieheaney:
“Just a few dollars.” - Rick Santorum
It’s like a super fun, horrifically expensive online calculator game.
Here’s a fun game to get your Thursday morning going. In other news, if it were legal (and socially acceptable) for a 30 year old woman to adopt a 25 year old woman that she has never met, I would adopt Katie Heaney.
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“Has a fictional aristocrat as upright and honorable, as tender of heart and...”
– -“The Upside-Down Appeal of ‘Downton Abbey’”, Carina Chocano, New York Times Magazine
Two seasons in and we’re finally getting around to the anachronistic interpersonal relationships on Downton Abbey? Sure, sometimes the cross-class interactions play out like...
Four of America's Hottest Presidents (and One... →
via Gawker
The fine folks at My Daguerrotype Boyfriend are celebrating President’s Day the only appropriate way: by posting pictures of our hottest commanders-in-chief.
I’m not sure if this is what the leaders of our country had in mind when they declared this day a national holiday. And I think they forgot a little President named Gerald Ford…
Photo: National Archives
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WatchHello, my name is Jonathan Franzen. I would like to order 50 pizzas.
As a total SNL apologist who refuses to harken back to good old days for any reason, I fucking love it when they knock a show out of the park.
“If the adolescent mind delights in any abstraction, it’s recognizing...”
– American Boy, Larry Watson
An unofficial part his best friend Johnny Dunbar’s family, Matthew Garth is present at their Thanksgiving dinner when Dr. Dunbar treats Louisa Lindhal, a local woman shot by her ne’er-do-well boyfriend. The Dunbars take in Louisa, allowing her to stay with...
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What IS a week-end?
In case we didn’t make it clear that Briana is our love, our light, our everything, she is. She keeps us laughing, introduces us to delicious vegan desserts and shares phenomenal internet finds like this one.
Please clear your weekend calendars for the glory that is Downton Abbey PAPER DOLLS.
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WatchHey girl, what are you doing?
This video is a flaming hot hot mess. Think low-budget Austin Powers meets 500 Days of Summer: several years out of date and yet still somehow hastily assembled. The only thing that sorta saves it is seeing the other actors in the show try to do a choreographed dance with mixed success.
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Whitney & Me
1987: For my Kindergarten “graduation,” my class stood in a heart formation singing Whitney’s “The Greatest Love of All,” which was probably amazing given the amount of belting in that particular song. I still remember everything about that moment, down to my purple and white dress with both lace and ruffles.
1990: My shyness gets the better of me and I let...
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If you love it so much, why don't you marry it? →
If there’s one thing we hate, it’s homophobia. Actually, it’s probably gladiator sandals, but homophobia is up there. Living the Bay Area bubble, it’s hard to comprehend why people wouldn’t want two men or two women to get married if they wanted to, but in 2008 we learned that many, many people in our ostensibly progressive state do not.
The fight’s not over...
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L-U-V....
There are so many reasons that I love being friends with Maria. She’s funny and unbelievably loyal, fiercely smart and unendingly forgiving. But nothing exemplifies why our friendship works so well better than the IM she just sent me:
Maria: is it just me or do you want to yell “Jumbaco!” all the time?
especially in place of “madonna” in that new LUV...
We Read What We Like
After hating on famous writers’ favorite books, I feel we must now, in the interest of full disclosure, share our own and open our tastes up for scrutiny and ridicule to our tens and tens of followers.
One of my main issues with the Flavorpill list Maria found was that all the writers seemed to choose only classical literature as their favorites. I’m calling BS. Even a precocious...
You would prefer Stephanie Meyer?
Maria and I already established over G-chat that we think we have better taste in books that many noted, prize-winning authors, and that maybe we’re not all that wild about their books either (except for you Murakami. You’re my boy.), but with the exception of that David Mitchell character (seriously, who is he?), we at least know who they are and why their favorite reads might be of...
Fuck Yeah Mayor Bloomberg
I never thought I’d say that.
ADDENDUM: I think the lesson here -Ahem!KomenFoundation!- is don’t shit where you (plan to) eat. -Moe
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(Mouth) Kiss On My List
I’m just scratching the surface here of the many many photos on the interweb of Joe Biden laying one on some poor unsuspecting woman. Except Michelle appears to be leaning in a little* … Get a room, you guys!
*Unlike the more clear (but still awkward) boundaries being set by their spouses on the left.
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Not liking this seems to be asking a lot of an...
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January 2012
65 posts
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It's In His (Mouth) Kiss
(August 23, 2008 - Photo by None/Getty Images North America)
Apparently, all the Bidens are mouth kissers. Yes, he does kiss his mother with that mouth.
Stuff people you may hate love to read
And people say that a graduate degree in literature is worthless. Behold:
Maria: http://flavorwire.com/253959/your-favorite-authors-favorite-books-of-all-time
Sent at 9:37 PM on Monday
Maria: Fear of Flying, DFW??
That book is for slutty girls who read good
me: DFW front and center?
Homeboy was nothing if not enlightened
Jennifer Egan’s my girl
Look who loves her some...
Stuff You Read to Hate
Hate reading is basically all I do on the internet, so when my coworker showed me this delightful Jezebel piece, I felt like my soul had finally found its other half. (In the author of the piece, not my coworker. Though I am very fond of her as well.)
Unlike the Jezebel lady, I won’t disclose my top 10 hate reads because they are the blogs, Twitter feeds and Facebook statuses of people I...
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Mouth Kissin' in the U.S.A.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Somewhere in 2008 election times, it occurred to me that V.P. Joe Biden is a mouth kisser. Like Aunt Julie, 88, and that one friend’s mom, mouth kissers prefer to greet you with a kiss and they always go mouth.
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You guys, what the hell is Pinterest?
I learned about Pinterest the way I learn about most shit I don’t care really about: via Facebook. I saw the crafty people I know obsessing over it in various statuses and wall posts and immediately opted out because I have no tolerance for crafting.
My mom sent me an email asking if I knew what it was and if I was part of it because one of her 20-something coworkers was raving about it...