disorder of written expression

I wanted to rewrite this story I’ve been working on for the past month in first person, but I...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:45:06 -0400

I wanted to rewrite this story I’ve been working on for the past month in first person, but I didn’t have a voice. So I gave her Fuckhead’s from Jesus’ Son. Of course I didn’t realize that until I was 1000+ words in.

theswinginsixties: The Monkees on the cover of TV Magazine,...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:11:27 -0400

theswinginsixties:

The Monkees on the cover of TV Magazine, January 1967.

theswinginsixties: Alex Chilton

Sun, 26 May 2013 17:35:23 -0400

theswinginsixties:

Alex Chilton

maura: cassingles

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:49:12 -0400

maura:

cassingles

"Tea Party conservatives are explicitly anti-tax. The IRS is tasked with tax collection. So maybe it,..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:25:06 -0400

“Tea Party conservatives are explicitly anti-tax. The IRS is tasked with tax collection. So maybe it, you know, makes sense that the IRS would target for greater scrutiny tax-exemption applications from explicitly anti-tax groups? Especially groups that are running their own candidates, given that the charitable exemption has very specific rules about direct political advocacy.”

- Melissa McEwan

Mary Lou Lord - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:30:17 -0400

Mary Lou Lord - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

school uniforms and slut shaming

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:23:01 -0400

My private high school required girls wear a uniform — plaid skirt, white blouse with a collar, socks or tights in school colors only, and a shoe that wasn’t a sneaker or a sandal — while the boys could wear anything they wanted except jeans, tee shirts, and sneakers. This was because the girls “needed” the uniform. The boys didn’t need a uniform because, well, boys aren’t into silly and superfluous things like clothes. (I started high school during the ass-end of the eighties. Like hell they weren’t. Judging solely on the boys’ sartorial choices, my high school was like a mix of House Party, Saved by the Bell. and a midwesterner’s interpretation of Less Than Zero.) And had we the agency to dress ourselves we might do something irrational and show a little too much thigh or clavicle and — gasp — distract the boys.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have been the first to cry “slut shaming,” or at least, damn unfair. (We did lobby for the boys to get uniforms of their own, something along the lines of gray pants and a white shirt. At least we’d look like we belonged at the same school.) But we took at as fact: We needed to be told what to wear because, you know, apocalypse or whatever.

When someone asks, “What do you write?” I hate answering literary fiction. In fact, I...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:02:31 -0400

When someone asks, “What do you write?” I hate answering literary fiction. In fact, I don’t. I usually weasel out and say something like mainstream or realistic fiction, which isn’t always not literary fiction. Actually telling someone you write literary fiction is akin to saying, “Yes, I’m a huge snob and I’m judging you.” (Besides, everyone knows lit-fic is terrible now.) I don’t know. Maybe it just needs a new name.

Every time I’ve tried to add some sort of supernatural element to my writing, the result is just… embarrassing. I’ve come to the conclusion that despite pop culture’s predilection with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and ninjas, I’ve managed to grow up without those narratives. I don’t have a vampire narrative! If I wrote a vampires story, it would be, like, six vampires sitting around at a table at Denny’s talking about their feelings.

tinyluckygenius: Kim G talks Tunic and feminist...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:48:36 -0400

tinyluckygenius:

Kim G talks Tunic and feminist self-worth.

bollykecks:

What’s behind the song “Tunic (Song for Karen),” from Sonic Youth’s 1990 album, Goo?
I wanted to put Karen Carpenter [who died of anorexia] up in heaven playing drums and being happy. This whole thing about teenage girls cutting themselves and that being associated with anorexia and girls being conditioned to having such a big desire to please – I’m just curious, because of Coco, at what point do girls start getting their sense of self-worth and [need to please] people, and why don’t they have anything else?

Happy 60th birthday Kim Gordon! Read our 1997 Q&A with the Godmother of Grunge where she talks about feminism in rock.

superseventies: Grace Jones

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:52:47 -0400

superseventies:

Grace Jones

rollingstone: Roger Ebert, the influential film critic, has...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:36:22 -0400

rollingstone:

Roger Ebert, the influential film critic, has passed away.

rachael-maddux: Happy THIS STUPID DAY, everybody.

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:40:55 -0400

rachael-maddux:

Happy THIS STUPID DAY, everybody.

The Raw Story: Dana Loesch shouts at Piers Morgan: A spoon ‘can be qualified as an assault weapon!’

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:27:53 -0400

The Raw Story: Dana Loesch shouts at Piers Morgan: A spoon ‘can be qualified as an assault weapon!’:

‘Cause, you know, that rash of school spoonings...

I’m embarrassed that this woman is from my hometown.

cavetocanvas: Claude Cahun, Untitled (Self Portrait), c. 1928

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:46:07 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Claude Cahun, Untitled (Self Portrait), c. 1928

Think Progress: What It Will Take To Be The NFL’s First Openly Gay Player

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:36:40 -0400

Think Progress: What It Will Take To Be The NFL’s First Openly Gay Player:

think-progress:

Be willing to be an icon: As easy as that sounds — aren’t all professional athletes aiming to be icons? — it isn’t easy for a player to carry the burden of an entire movement, especially one that is inherently political in nature. When activists were asking Latino baseball players to take a…

fuckyeahfeminists: tpmmedia: Map of the week. Hoooooly crap....

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:46:02 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

tpmmedia:

Map of the week.

Hoooooly crap. As someone who surrounds herself with marriage equality supporters, this was a stark reminder this country has a loooong way to go. Crap.

When we get a blizzard in late March

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:12:39 -0400

whathighschoolshouldwecallme:

Spring?

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:11:00 -0400

Spring?

Does anyone use Zoho Writer? I need a good, basic, online word processor and I’m getting tired...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:43:50 -0400

Does anyone use Zoho Writer? I need a good, basic, online word processor and I’m getting tired of Google Drive’s unpredictability.

"I suspect your students are looking to plot as a scaffold on which they can hang their ideas. I..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:02:15 -0400

“I suspect your students are looking to plot as a scaffold on which they can hang their ideas. I think the beginning writer wants to think, there’s a way to do this and I just need to learn the pattern. It’s hard for an apprentice writer to bear that this not going to be a learnable formula. It’s much more like letting yourself fall off a building, and hope a net shows up beneath you.”

- Writer Carol Anshaw