feminist fun fact #2 October 30, 2005
Not all women are flattered when you refer to them as a “chick,” even if you put a nice adjective in front of it, like “cool” or, conversely, “hot.”
schooled October 28, 2005
Harold Ramis spoke at our schools literary festival today. I was hoping he would sniff out my genius as a writer and ask me to co-write a screen play with him, but instead I had to settle for the minor victory of him calling me “smart” because I was the only person in the room who raised her hand when he asked who had seen “Proof.”
And to my brother, I’m sorry to inform you that Ghostbusters III was pitched to Ramis several years ago. Apparently Murray said he’d only do it if he could be a ghost, which the others found “creepy” and “disturbing.” One of the many reasons the movie never made it to production.
game on! October 24, 2005
In truth, this isn’t a review; it’s a preview. But I was so excited by the existence of this book that I wanted to get it on the accidentalfeminist map right away.
The freaky thing is that this stuff seems to actually work. I’m going to read it to find out why I have always been a “pivot” rather than a “target” (I’ve already been told that the basic reason is that I “know too much.” Funny, that’s the same reason they gave as they covered my mouth and nose with formaldehyde after I penetrated the inner chamber of the local Freemason chapter. Coincidence?)
feminist fun fact #1 October 21, 2005
And now for a new feature aimed at providing men a sneak peek into the female mind…
feminist fun fact #1:
Women do not think that “Deliverance” is the scariest movie ever made.
Ring, Ring…. October 19, 2005
Wait a sec…let me get my cell. You see, it is protected by this very fashionable cell phone holder (graciously modeled by my own dear mother)!
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this season, get ready to believe again October 17, 2005
Wanna feel like you did in Jr. High when you first heard “They Might Be Giants”?
Every single song I have listened to thus far has been awesome, but the “Baby Got Back” cover made me pee my pants a little.
The philisophical question this discovery poses is the following: Are these songs proof that PoMo is alive and well, or that it has just decomposed the elements of culture into a fertile peat where the genuinely silly and clever can once again flourish? Has the self-referential and requisite cynicism of art gone from being it’s reason to being itself something to mock, like “a snake head eating the head on the opposite side”?
Then again, some things are just “happy.”
birthday girl October 12, 2005
Remember how I said I was the kid who would set out all of the tableware for her birthday party the night before, then freak out for 24 hours, fearing that someone might ruin my set-up? While I have never told this story to Bassie, the behavior seems to have seeped into her DNA somehow.
As I walked into her Pre-school classroom with cupcakes for her birthday, her teacher called to her. “Bassie, look who’s here!” Bassie turned to greet me with what I thought would be an expectant smile. Instead, she was horrified. “We’re not done with lunch!” she cried. Then she get hysterical. She started telling all of her friends that I had come to early. It was like watching a Class Presidental candidate canvassing her peers. She was winning them to her side. I had come too early. I had ruined her birthday. The crowd started to get ugly.
I reminded myself that I was the adult, and asserted control. “I’m not handing out the cupcakes until everyone is done eating lunch,” I announced. Bassie grew quiet. Calmed, she slowly returned to her seat, eyeing me suspiciously.
I asked her teacher if she was always this high-strung (and if so, why hadn’t I heard about it before)? “No, I think she’s just nervous about her birthday party.” Oh. I breathed a sigh of relief. Just one more way she’s like her mommy.
clap if you believe in the knitting blog! October 11, 2005
Everybody! Clap! Louder! Look, look, her light is getting brighter. Keep clapping. Yes! It’s working! Hooray! Tink’s all better! Thank you, thank you.
Breaking News: New York Times Alienates Neo-Cons
I mean, I worked for the company for four years, and by PC policy had to refer to blacks as “African Americans” (much to the dismay of my co-lesson plan writer, whose Haitian girlfriend felt very alienated by the title, but I digress). But any headline that starts with “Liberal Hopes Ebb” is just not even trying to hide it. Not that this bias is bad. The article is still very informative and interesting, don’t get me wrong. I think it just highlights the silliness behind the concept that “The Media” is supposed to be “centrist” or “unbiased.” The media is the critical “Fourth Estate”, keeping tabs on the government. This means that it should be, in my view, inherently anti-government. That position should make the media extremely volatile, flipping left and right in opposition to the party in power.
Okay, so on the other hand, writers tend to be liberal by nature. I can’t imagine why. The imagination, being the place of new ideas, ones that challenge our present way of thinking, ones that explore the icky depths of the human psyche, should be embraced by people who are self-named as “conservative.”
On one more hand, how forward-thinking can newspapers be? I always think of journalists is the kids who were really organized in English class (”So should I color code my binder by chapter or by theme?”) and wrote exposes on the new soda machine in the Student Union. Maybe that’s why the current media panders to politicians and consumers.
Where was I?
why does everyone keep stealing my book ideas? October 6, 2005
I’m such a completely unique and consummate genius, I just can’t figure out why people are always writing thoughtfully and intelligently about ideas over which clearly only I have mastery. It’s like they stole that part of my brain and used it for their own dastardly purposes. They should at least have to pay me “thought royalties.”
