March 2008
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In my experience, as well
“In her experience, men were more romantic than women, if romantic meant pursuing unsuitable partners for hopeless periods of time. … Women didn’t have time to pine away for years….” - Heidi Julavits, “The Mineral Palace”
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Living the American dream
The average Atlanta commuter travels 66 miles every day for work.
File under: Phrases I never thought I'd hear
“This is NPR and I’m Steve Inskeep. Good morning. Today is the day when the Bush Administration announces plan for greater federal regulation of the financial markets.” … I mean, is this opposite world? Who ARE these Republicans?!
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That vagina feeling
Samantha Bee on where she gets her interviewing nerve: “You know when you’re driving your car and you’re about to execute a maneuver that seems dangerous but you go for it anyway? You feel this heavy feeling down in your vagina just for a second, but you take a deep breath and press the gas pedal and go? That’s how I feel, pretty much every time. I know it’s going to...
Um, that's a lot
“Men say they that they get a bad rap: only 1 in 6 actually expects sex in exchange for a good meal.” - Elle mag.
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It's Sunday
Must be time for family guilt.
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You might find my constant family vacation...
But we’re all thinking it’s kind of hilarious. So much so that my aunt just started a tumblr!!
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“The past 10 days will be remembered as the time the U.S. government discarded a...”
– “Ten Days That Changed Capitalism” - Capital by David Wessel - WSJ.com A fantastic explanation and analysis.
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I really really really
Wanna Rick Owens leather jacket. Someday!
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Rub it all over me
“The question that women casually shopping for perfume ask more than any other is this: ‘What scent drives men wild?’ After years of intense research, we know the definitive answer. It is bacon.”
— Tania Sanchez, perfume critic and co-author of “Perfumes: The Guide,” which was very favorably reviewed in the The New Yorker.
Woah. The New Yorker uses the term "wife-beater"
Most surprising, but I’m afraid they used it incorrectly: “a black wife-beater T-shirt.” It’s an either/or thing. An article of clothing can’t be both a wife-beater and a T-shirt, right?
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I’m in the 30-minute LGA security line and shaking my ass to new Ranconteurs. It’s super.
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Animal (White)house
“I would vote for a monkey or a dog so long as it was a Democrat.” - A woman on WNYC Leonard Lopate show today. That would be fun!!! Who doesn’t like monkeys?
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“There are more slaves today than at any point in history. […] Baseline...”
– “Slavery’s Staying Power,” LA Times