February 2012
26 posts
“Today films are about “strong” women taking action. I resent it so much that you...”
– Allison Anders, BOMB Magazine
(via feministfilm)
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I continue to have vague embroidery-snob guilt that I should be doing something more technical than cross stitch. But I don’t have the skillz mad enough to do french knots while watching a Bogart film. Plus, I might as well get my naff cross stitch stage over and done with in the continual evolution of myself as an ~*artiste*~.
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Love Poem
wwnorton:
I want to write you a love poem as headlong as our creek after thaw when we stand on its dangerous banks and watch it carry with it every twig every dry leaf and branch in its path every scruple when we see it so swollen with runoff that even as we watch we must grab each other and step back we must grab each other or get our shoes soaked we must grab each other
Linda Pastan, from...
January 2012
26 posts
Decline of Values
wwnorton:
I’m reading a B.A. thesis on the decline of values. Logically, falling implies a height from which to fall, and who’s that stupid?
Life is neither up nor down, and still less in between. Life has no idea of up and down, fullness and void, before and after. And knows zip about the present.
Tear up your pages, ditch them in the sewer, abandon your degree and you can brag that you were...
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Zine recommendation
Upskirt: Dirty (un)Feminist Secrets by Teresa Chun-wen Cheng
http://www.qzap.org/v6/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=41&g2_itemId=1179
Brilliant stuff, and very relevant to my current interests.
