Misty over at Shakesville posted this brilliant video history of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which I will now confess is one of my guilty yuletide pleasures. And I mean “guilty” in every sense of the word: it’s a crap song, it’s patronizing as all hell and, oh yeah, it totally didn’t solve the problem … Continue reading »
Posted in December 2007 …
Pre-holiday Fluff Cavalcade Five: A Very Obese Bird
Dan: You should come out here. There’s a very obese bird. FJ goes onto back porch. There is a small bird of some sort with puffed-up winter feathers sitting on the shed. Dan: He’s very obese. Someone should do something about the obese birds. FJ: It’s a serious problem. Dan: It’s an epidemic. Oh, he … Continue reading »
Pre-holiday Fluff Cavalcade Four: Happy Festivus
As I mentioned in my humorless feminist post, I really can’t stand “Seinfeld.” Or, for that matter, Larry David’s show. I know this isn’t a popular position, but I seriously have to change the channel the instant the “Simpsons” credits end. I thought it was because I didn’t enjoy watching people be self-absorbed, hurtful assholes, … Continue reading »
Pre-Holiday Fluff Cavalcade Three: Elfed!
Go here. Our fourth dancer is this little guy, if you were wondering. (H/T Mean Asian Girl. And if you can’t get enough, you can see the Mean Asian Baby and beagles dancing here.)
Pre-Holiday Fluff Cavalcade Two: Nora the Piano-Playing Kitteh
Okay, much like the dancing cockatoo, I’m sure everyone already saw this on Cute Overload, but I still feel compelled to post.
Pre-holiday Fluff Cavalcade One: Small Pleasures
Today I whanged myself in the eye with a mascara wand, so I got to put on new disposable contacts. Man oh man, I don’t want to disparage my boyfriend or my job or my friends or anything, but new contact lenses may be one of the greatest joys available to me. What else makes … Continue reading »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one
We had a brief douchehound visit yesterday from a fellow whose incisive commentary on the Obligatory Beauty post amounted to “hur hur, British people have bad teeth.” When called on the fact that this was a) stupid and b) kind of exactly what we were railing against, he took a familiar stance: “Oh, you just … Continue reading »
Speaking up
N.B.: Megan, the author of the article in question, got in touch with me and we discussed the unnecessarily harsh judgments I passed on her article (which, if I’m being perfectly honest, I was just using as a launching pad for the speaking up discussion — and you kind of jump all over launching pads, … Continue reading »
Open for Discussion: “Standard Obligatory Beauty Maintenance”
A few people have sent me the link to this article, which is supposedly about the differences between British and American women, but is really about what an insecure, clueless knob Tad Safran is. Wicked Child just mentioned it in comments on Fillyjonk’s latest, and people seem keen to discuss, so I thought I’d move … Continue reading »
My Triumphant Return
I’ve fucking finally started posting at Shakesville again, with some commentary on an Alternet interview with Gary Taubes. Check it out.
