I recently discovered this: smart girls at the party. It's an online series by Amy Poehler that interviews a different girl or set of girls each episode. Each girl has a particular interest, or is super smart about some particular topic, and talks with Poehler about that topic. It's amazing. In every way. Poehler's interviews - and I should clarify ( Read more... )

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baby rachel maddow!!!

after a 1/2 hour of going on and on about how much i stress about home repair crap, my therapist broke down and said she would give me the name of her amazing handyperson. this might be the most productive thing that's happened in the whole six months or our relationship. i mean really. this is so exciting.

i'm overwhelmed and hung over. overjoyed about obama. pissed as hell about prop 8. pissed that it passed and pissed that this means i have to keep having this conversation. pissed that prop 8 totally overshadowed a number of other really important props (some of which went my way and some of which didn't. like fucking prison expansion. fuck.) ( Read more... )

i woke up crying at the thought of obama being elected. a happy sort of crying, but also such a deep sadness for the last eight years, for a stretch of time awful enough to make me this invested in this person and this system which are both so flawed. this has to end. it has to. obama has to win and he has to be an improvement ( Read more... )

recently i've rediscovered my love for A Prairie Home Companion, especially the tales from lake wobegon. it reminds me so much of living in Michigan, which is funny because i don't think i ever listened to it while i lived there. the first time i remember listening was the weekend before my first graduate seminar. Rae and i were driving down to L.A ( Read more... )

from "wandering wombs: a brief history of hsyteria" in In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism"the oldest surviving egyptian medical papyrus, dating from around 1900 b.c., deals specifically with recommended treatments for hysterical disorders. . . the cause for such curious behavioral disturbances, as the egyptians saw it, was the flight of the ( Read more... )

i just heard on npr that some german politicians are fighting to give children right to vote in national elections. i can see some problems with this in practice, but i love that someone is seriously thinking about it.

summer is good for eating. tobes and i have vowed to eat out less and it has motivated me to experiment with all kinds of things. i made the most delicious homemade hummus, which i'm quite excited about because i've never felt that i could make a homemade version that was as good as some store bought brands. now i've made one that's, dare i say it ( Read more... )