“At this point in my life I’ve done so many things wrong I don’t know if I can do right.” -Tracy Chapman Being as neurotic as I am, I spend a lot of time wondering if I’m contradicting myself when I put forth an opinion in this blog, in Soap Opera Weekly, or on Twitter.… Read More As if redemption was in sight…
Valentine’s Day has never been my day. I’ve never been with someone when it rolls around. I’m too busy, too neurotic, too everything to devote the time to relationships. I think it’s why I like seeing love stories unfold in books, TV shows and movies… because it’s the only way I can make time for… Read More Love takes a holiday
After the Bitch magazine brouhaha last week, I did some thinking about the women in books that impacted me when I was growing up. Ninety percent of what I read featured female protagonists or prominent female supporting characters, and while I wouldn’t rush to call this a list of feminist books (since an outlet like… Read More Books With Girls Who Kick Ass
I wish I had grace; that my tongue dripped silver and spun sugar instead of jagged, cut glass. I wish my feet fell like autumn leaves on the breeze and not haphazard horseshoes in a lawn game. I am cumbersome, burdensome, too much and then some. I can’t be proper or perfect… just simply enough.
The NY City Council is voting to ban smoking in all city parks, marinas, boardwalks, AND Times Square. And I’m baffled. I’m not pulling out pom-poms to be like, “Smoking Yay!” and claim that it’s this wonderful thing folks should be allowed to do. Of course it’s bad for you. Duh. But it’s still legal.… Read More Smokin’ Aces
Bitch Magazine recently named their list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. After a few dissenting comments and e-mails (the ol’ “the lurkers support me in e-mail!” argument), they yanked three books off the list for being inappropriate and triggering: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, and Living… Read More Must be the season of the Bitch!
I spent entirely too much time last night thinking about Charlie Sheen. War is raging all over the world, political dissent brought down the Internet in Egypt, and I was thinking about Charlie Sheen. That speaks, obviously, to my own entertainment-oriented consciousness, but it also, to me, is indicative of how our culture is so… Read More Idoling at the curb: Charlie Sheen, media and what matters
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