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Category Archives: mass media and popular culture

Finding a new best friend

Since my not-really-a-breakup with Pandagon (I still refresh obsessively /o\ ), I’ve been on the hunt for new feminist blogs to fill the void. Thankfully, I Blame the Patriarchy has been briefly active, so I enjoyed and was dismayed by many of the commentariat during Science Week, and thought about a lot of new things [...]

pretty dresses, how i long for thee

True Story: I had completely forgotten that I had changed the layout on my blog, so I was pleasantly surprised when I visited just now. To make this a slightly less worthless entry, I will also tell you that I am plugging away at my Anne Elliot Spencer. I recently finished the second half of [...]

grosgrain

I don’t think I’ve ever posted about this, but there is a lovely woman who makes beautiful clothes (mostly for her daughters, but recently she seems to be branching out into adult things), takes breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL pictures of the, and then gives the clothes away! The whole reason I am posting all this is that [...]

Movies: Knocked Up

A few months long time ago, when this movie came out, pretty much everyone was telling me how fucking hilarious it was.  Even the more feminist-leaning ones were apologetically liking it.  “Hilarious!” they told me. I finally got my Netflix up and going again, and it showed up last week a while ago, and I [...]

Movies: How To Loose A Guy in 10 Days

The Watch It Now thing from Netflix is actually pretty cool. You can watch those crappy movies and TV shows that don’t really seem worth the several day wait for the disc to be mailed to you, and you can see the things you actually care about in DVD quality with the regular mail service. [...]