Archive For January, 2010
Just saw this linked on Jezebel: Ex-John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter tries to block ‘private and personal’ video (ABC) For those keeping score at home, this guy not only cheated on his cancer-stricken wife conceived an illegitimate child had an aide cover up the whole affair by claiming paternity but… wait for it… MADE A [...]
R.I.P.
By Jen | January 28, 2010
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it…” J.D. Salinger January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010
I used to think there was nothing on earth more odious than a man pontificating about a woman’s right to choose. Y’know, come to me when you find out you have something living inside your body that could not only cause you immense hardship, but could possibly kill you. Et cetera. Turns out I was [...]
GOOD posted an infographic depicting million-plus-dollar donations to Haitian relief efforts. Most of the corporate donors are banks and financial service providers, some of whom are receiving TARP funds. Bank of America: $1 million Credit Agricole: $1 million Credit Suisse: $1 million Goldman Sachs: $1 million JP Morgan Chase: $1 million Morgan Stanley: $1 million [...]
I got hacked. Everything was erased, and in its place, some scammy Paypal shit and a front-page homage to the “PALESTINIAN HACKER” who apparently got some kind of thrill out of wiping out 5 years of what sometimes seems like my only creative expression. I could make some nasty comment about suicide bombers and settlement-building, [...]
(originally posted 1.21.2010) I’m into replicas. Like iPhone soap and candles that look like Peeps. R2D2 salt and pepper shakers. Those play-food sets that look like mini versions of name-brand canned goods. The Etch-a-Sketch keychain I sported on my backpack in high school. Stuff like that. So by extension I think it’s awesome when kids dress [...]
Apparently there is some disagreement – sparked by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle – regarding whether it’s OK to order a plain ole’ pedestrian cocktail like a Jack and Coke at a tony cocktail bar. Serious Eats: The dustup comes down to this: many customers wouldn’t even dream of walking into a white-tablecloth restaurant [...]
You may have seen Katie Roiphe’s article in the New York Times’ Sunday Books Review, “The Naked and the Conflicted.” If nothing else, it’s got some pretty nifty infographics comparing the level of literary sexiness of the current generation’s big male authors versus those of the 60s. She compares Updike, Roth, Bellow, and Mailer to Chabon, Franzen, [...]
