I know its spring and beautiful and optimistic and lively outside, but right now I am inside and impatient. Do you know that I had a dentist appointment at 7 am this morning? While the dashing dentist was drilling away bits of tooth, I asked myself over and over, 'What will I be doing exactly three months from now?' 7:45am, June in Brooklyn. A new ( Read more... )

One of the advantages to working for a religious organization is that they will give you two paid holidays for Easter - one for Good Friday & one on Holy Monday. As I am an agnostic, these lovely days generally are not filled up with church and prayers and thinking about the torture and pain of Jesus (which is what I thought about at Eastertime ( Read more... )

Bitch Magazine Auction House Bid on a tarot reading by Michelle Tea, original art by Lynda Barry, a signed Gorilla Girls poster, a homecooked meal and so much more!

I am looking for a column written by Dave Eggers in the June 04 issue of Spin Magazine about his love for Joanna Newsom. Does anyone have it lying around, maybe under their couch? I love Joanna Newsom & I love Dave Eggers for making the point about which strange female artists we accept and love - the beautiful ones!

Here is a quote:

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taken from the bookslut blog
"Lynne Cheney Terry Gross SMACKDOWN! I'm sure Ms. Cheney just wanted to talk about her children's books, but instead Ms. Gross pushed her on children being taught "intelligent design," gay rights, and whether Cheney is advocating for a sugar coating of American history. (The most unintentionally funny moment is when ( Read more... )

'...knitted wellington boots, knitted pot plants, a knitted sink, knitted stove, knitted vegemite jars...'

Its funny - the resurgence of knitting all the articles are titled Knitting! The New Yoga! & say that its not just for Grannies anymore! But these Australian grannies made a whole room of 1950s life out of knitted & crocheted yarn... so much ( Read more... )

This is my favorite thing right now.


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!!!Teaser trailer!!!! Johnny Depp in technicolor Charlie & the Chocolate Factory adaptation! Chipmunk singing, supermod brightwhite bug eye sunglasses, a Monkees-esque stage performance of kiddy rock&rollers, Augustus in red&white stripes and so on & so forth.

I need a twenty dollar bath.
Fluffy jelly retains heat four times longer than water!

proof that a thing that once scared you can one day be seen in a new light

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