October 2009
26 posts
Mad Men Anachronism: Kids Trick or Treated Alone...
This has to be true. Once my parents finally relented on their fundy Halloween ban, I trick-or-treated alone (with my brother and our friends) in the EIGHTIES. That was the whole fun of it. The idea that parents would have accompanied a child as old as 10 in suburbia in 1963 is just not realistic, especially for the Drapers. Hell, we had the run of the neighborhood (including a lake with a canoe...
They Don't Speak For Us (But Who Cares?)
“So I become, once more, the kind of person I can’t bear: the female critic who despises any female writer who doesn’t project what she feels is the accurate or ideal vision of modern womanhood. This critic believes it is her job to tear down women who are “off-message” because there is only so much publishing space allotted to women, and so more attention for them is...
Mad Men Might Be A Dumb Soap Opera, Guys
Last night I had a brief conversation with a person who has only ever seen a few minutes of Mad Men. It went like this:
Me: Tomorrow’s going to be brutal since I’m saving Mad Men for (other friend) tomorrow night and all the blogs are going to put whatever happens in their *headlines* like they did last week with “Betty Finds the Box”
Person: What’s the box?
Me:...
My Special Thoughts About Amelia
Probably for procrastinatory reasons, I woke up this morning and decided to go and see the movie Amelia at my neighborhood movie theater by myself. It was just me and like four old couples. Anyway, it was bad, of course. It’s kind of heartbreaking that nobody I know is ever going to see it, however, because it’s one of those movies you want to tear apart with someone. Anyway, some...
“The first thing you need to know is that the internet is amazing.”
– http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2009/10/internet-for-kidz.html
“Interestingly, the name “Lee Garner Junior” has exactly the same number of...”
– The insane Mad Men theorists over at Basket of Kisses are a near-daily source of hilarity for me. (See also: the significance of the Bowdoin tshirt worn by Miss Farrell in the last episode. You won’t believe how significant!) I wish this was more famous. It would be really fun to parody.
Why Gawker Is So Wrong About Virginia Heffernan's...
(I was just going to comment this on this absolutely WRONG post on Gawker but I read the other comments and, uh, you know, pearls before swine, so I’m putting it here instead.)
Hamilton, love ya, but have you actually read The Medium or any of Virginia Heffernan’s other work? We’ve all had two whole years to suspend our initial knee-jerk reaction to the concept of a column about...
"Can You Eat the Bowl?"
Last night, I ordered from a new Mexican place in my neighborhood. I wanted a salad with an edible bowl, a dish of which I am something of a connoisseur (yes, edible soup bowls too, maybe one day I’ll start my edible bowl blog), and this conversation happened after I’d given my address information to the guy who answered the phone, who seemed to speak very little English:
Me: I have a...
I Feel Petty
Last night I suddenly remembered the (unique and unusual) name of the guy I had my first camp crush on when I was 12, but who, upon finding out I liked him, told one of my cabin mates to give me the Heisman (which then had to be explained to me — every year when someone gets the actual Heisman I have a brief moment of confusion and empathy). Anyway, today I looked him up and he has no web...
"I wish Best Week Ever was still on because this... →
- (the great) Claire Zulkey, commenting on Jezebel.
Stranger Danger
“Kissing Matt was like suddenly this cow in a sweater is bearing down on you, who will not take no for an answer, and his huge cow head is being flooded by chemicals that are drowning out what little powers of reason Matt actually did have.”*
It’s been two weeks and I still can’t get “Victory Lap” by George Saunders out of my head. Every person should read it...
“I felt a little frustrated with that superstar.”
– http://jezebel.com/5378285/when-will-a-superstar-come-out-of-the-closet
editor's response
keithgessen:
Yesterday the news-aggregator site The Awl posted a reading of Mark Greif’s piece on abortion and gay marriage from the latest issue of n+1. It’s the old complaint, which boils down to: What is this intellectual mumbo-jumbo?? Speak English! I can’t understand you!!
(Here is where it starts being me, Lindsay. Tumblr isn’t showing that because it sucks.)
(And then...
A Safe Space to Admit You Don’t Like the Godfather, by Sadie Stein
Because she mentions Manhattan: two summers ago I saw it outside on the elevated acre in downtown Manhattan. I’d seen the movie a zillion times, but not in about ten years. It took me about twenty minutes to realize the only things I liked about it were the first five minutes and the shot that’s on the poster....
reading that n+1 thing in real time
Tom Scocca: Holy shit.
Tom Scocca: This guy.
Tom Scocca: His editors.
Tom Scocca: Their planet.
This is the best thing today.
The Obvious Diet
“According to devoted vegan Alicia Silverstone, these are just a few of the perks that come with ditching meat and dairy. She once subsisted on a diet of mostly steak and donuts before discovering the health and environmental benefits of going vegan.”
- Some stupid newsletter I get for some reason.
Wow, veganism is impressive! This reminds me of the time I caught up with a comedian...
