February 2012
26 posts
“I am what is called a sex-positive feminist. Or maybe a radical feminist, or,...”
– Liz Phair forever (via emilygould)
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“People are coming to the same conclusions, and they’re the oldest conclusions in...”
– Salon.com’s EIC on why they’re shifting to more original, in-depth reporting vs. aggregated stories. Good news for journalism.
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“What effect does it have on a writer to be constantly confronted with facts that...”
– Salon | In defense of fact checking
This is so well put. Also loving the correct use of “myriad.”
“Nobody is telling male reporters to stay home despite the fact that they have...”
– Lauren Wolfe, journalist and director of Women Under Siege, in an interview with Torie Rose DeGhett.
M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized : The New Yorker →
The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was...
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Rolling Stone, Issue 1149, 2/2/2012
Rolling Stone: You're turning 50 in October. How do you plan to celebrate?
Flea: On acid, running down the street naked, howling at the moon.
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Just saw a pitch email in my inbox with the subject line: “Does the Knight in Shining Armor really exist?” and my first reaction was to delete it but not before saying, out loud to myself in my room, “Who gives a shit?”
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January 2012
39 posts
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bell hooks - Feminism Is For Everybody →
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Sleater-Kinney — “Call the Doctor”
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“[Selena] Gomez and [Harmony] Korine are rather strange bedfellows. While...”
– !!!
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Just wrote/edited for almost 5 hours straight at...
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“Don’t sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.”
– Kathleen Hanna
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden