File under “things to remember when you vote in 2012”.
and this why I try not to refer to abortion opponents as pro-life
Call them “anti-choice” instead because that’s what they are.
THIS
I have been watching My So Called Life on Netflix for the past few days. I love it so much. I always went for the Jordan Catalano’s of the world and ignored the Brian Krakows’. But yeah. Love that show. And it was filmed at my high school and they even used our school mascot, the Pirate. Kinda fun watching and seeing where I spent my awkward teen years.
Anyhoo Daria was my other show that I watched on a pretty constant basis and I will love it forever. I had such a crush on Trent…even though he was a cartoon.
It hasn’t dipped below 90 degrees here in Albuquerque and I am craving Fall and colder weather. I dream of shift dresses like the one in the top left corner with tights and boots or colorful flats. I think I might have to add the hat that’s above for weekends.
Source: 
Anthony has lost all his sex appeal with the addition of that pornstache he’s sporting but he still makes me laugh.
“I think we’re going under the trees.”
“Are we going under the trees again?”
“Yeah!”Too cute
My heart pretty much bursts every time I see Eddie with his daughters. Love love love.
I really love hellogiggles.com It’s one of my favorite sites. Anyhoo one of my favorite weekly articles is the Misogynist Soup by Filleosophy. She’s hot and intelligent. Great combo. This is this week’s article from her. Rick Perry frightens me.
Misogynist Soup
American Appalling, One Nation Under Rick Perry, and the Hollywood Gentlemen’s Club
by Filleosophy
To make this week’s Misogynist Soup, you’re going to need the following ingredients:
- American Apparel: More of us can finally shop there, but we’d all really rather not.
- Rick Perry: Sociopath or 4chan troll?
- Hollywood: A man’s best friend.
THE BROTH
Image via American Apparel.
American Apparel, seemingly determined to keep a firm grasp on their current spot as “Creepiest Retailer of the Decade”, has pulled a 180 on their previous position of anything larger than a “large” falling outside of their target demographic.
In a truly fashion-forward move, they’ve opted to finally clothe the bodies of average-sized American women by introducing size XL (around the equivalent of a size 12) to their stores for their “booty-ful” customers with “full-size fannies” (their words; my vomit).
This marketing strategy makes sense, as women who wear an XL not only need special attention drawn to their size, but also punny descriptions for it while they choose between the 23 options that American Apparel has so graciously offered them.
Is this decision a result of their realization that girls of a wider variety of sizes are worthy of their over-priced basic aesthetic or is it a last-ditch effort to save the company from bankruptcy? It’s anyone’s guess!
But first, they’re going to need a model. And what better way is there to make women feel booty-ful and happy with themselves and their bodies than to have hopeful models submit their photographs to the website for the public to “score”? If seeing 1.86 (out of a possible 5 on a scale of “Not Quite” to “XLent”) attached to your photograph doesn’t make you stoked about American Apparel’s overdue size addition, what will?
Source: American Apparel
THE MEAT
Image via Benzinga.
Governor of Texas and wannabe president Rick Perry, who’s actually inexplicably mad popular to boot, signed the Susan B. Anthony anti-abortion pledge last week.
The apocalypse is nigh: His signature translates to a promise to nominate strict constructionist judges, appoint only pro-life Cabinet and Executive Branch members, attempt to keep defunding Planned Parenthood, and to sign a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection act, which is currently signed into law in Nebraska, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, limits abortions after 22 weeks. None of this should have any consequence, however, as Rick Perry knows that abortions aren’t necessary as long as you have abstinence education.
When asked why Texas is continuing with abstinence education when they have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Perry got all robotic on us and replied, “Abstinence works.” If that isn’t enough proof, he was also able to cite statistics on the subject to back up his stance: “From my own personal life, abstinence works.” Just so we’re clear, by this logic, pyramid schemes “work”.
I’m glad that Rick Perry is the model that Rick Perry will be officially referencing should the population lose their minds and elect him into office.
Sources: Think Progress, YouTube
THE TOPPING
Like most individuals with the job title of “Chief Executive”, Chief Executive of Alloy Entertainment Leslie Morgenstein is a dude.
He’s also the dude behind television shows geared towards 12- to 34-year-old women, such as Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars. While these shows are all successful among dozens, why is a man the best fit for the job of deciding what women want to watch?
Meanwhile, one in six writers on prime-time sitcoms, dramas and reality television shows are women. One in four producers, directors, writers, editors and directors are women. 41% of on-screen characters are women. Those are actually all the statistics I have, so I hope the pattern has emerged by this point.
Perhaps the biggest injustice is that Angelina Jolie, the highest paid actress, made $30 million last year while top male earner Leonardo DiCaprio sat pretty on $72 million. It’s like Hollywood doesn’t even recognize that she has kids to feed and take to Bora Bora.
But on the real, when more women tune in than men, why are we still so scarce behind the camera?
Sources: New York Times, Media Bistro, Huffington Post
DIRECTIONS
Combine all ingredients and bring them to a boil, much like my blood pressure is at the moment. You’ll know it’s done when it tastes like misogyny with a hint of “please tell me this isn’t real life”. Enjoy!
Filleosophy’s real name is Cézanne. She is a blogger who moonlights as a cat. You can find her at filleosophy.com, @filleosophy, or in a perpetual state of distress. See more posts from Filleosophy
I love their feathers but peacocks are nasty creatures. They leave poo that looks like enlarged Hershey kisses everywhere for you to step in and attack cars and leave a ton of scratches because they see their reflection in a clean car and go into attack mode. And they also screech at 5 am. Their mating call is horrendous. I grew up in a neighborhood that has a bunch of peacocks and peahens and it forever changed the way I look at them.
Oh how I miss Daria. I need to keep reminding myself to get the whole series on dvd. I loved Trent. lol
Monday Rant
So we found out this weekend that the house we rent is going to go into foreclosure. The woman who owns it bought it at the top of the market and couldn’t rent it for what she pays so she rented it for less. So we started renting and she couldn’t cover the difference and just didn’t pay her mortgage for two months. So now it’s going into foreclosure. We signed a year lease so they can’t kick us out until November so that’s a good thing at least.
But we are left with 3 options. We buy it, the property sales management company that is in charge of the property tries to find an investor buyer who buys it and we continue to live in and rent it. Or we move in November. All these options make me sick. I love the house but I probably won’t qualify for a home loan. If an investor buyer comes in will he/she just raise the rent in November? That makes me uneasy. And moving. I HATE moving and the thought makes me sick to my stomach. So stressed out right now. And we also have a big dog and it was hard to find a house that would allow us to have her anyway.
Want to play Indiana Jones* while you procrastinate? →
This website gives you untranslated chunks of ancient Greek papyri texts from Oxyrhynchus Egypt to transcribe. There are a series of characters for you to match up with what you see on the fragments. It’s kind of a fun puzzle, and it helps speed along the transcription of these documents so that they can be deciphered.
Some of them are much harder to read than others, so click next a few times until you find a sheet where you can actually make out the letters. Nerdy fun!
*Not the exciting part of his job.
Yes please!
This is so cool.
REALLY????? This is the MOST awesome.
So cool!
Page 1 of 36
