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yeah, maureen dowd, and what?
To lead, and not just conduct campaigns that parrot the liberal elite’s editorial pages, you have to shape your own identity and political destiny. And ever since the 2000 race, the Democrats have let Republicans caricature them as effeminate. The Democrats have let the G.O.P. give them their shape, and it’s an hourglass.
Is anyone else disturbed by the photos that go along with this review of the latest anti-feminist polemic Women Who Make the World Worse: And How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Families, Military, Schools, and Sports? Betty Friedan looks like she has a headache, Jane Fonda’s smile looks plastic and painful, and Gloria [...]
One of the questions I had to answer in my grad school admissions essay was what publications I read. My list was insanely, stupidly long, and it’s only getting longer. The New Yorker is what really pushes me over the limit. I knew as soon as I got a subscription that it would bury me. [...]
Everyone is talking about this recipe for mac & cheese that was the #1 emailed article from the Times online for like a week. Everyone I talk to has read it, and salivated over it, and some people have actually made it. Anyone want to have a mac & cheese party? I am dying to [...]
ain’t it the (sad) truth…
The NY Observer notices that 2005 may not have been a great year for women’s movie roles:
“We should be writing more great roles for women, period,” said Ms. Witherspoon’s Walk the Line director, James Mangold, also on that red carpet on Sunday. “Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys—and 14-year-old boys [...]
Here’s what JT Leroy confidante Mary Gaitskill said back in 2001 about the then-distant possibility of a hoax:
“It’s occurred to me that the whole thing with Jeremy [J.T.] is a hoax, but I felt that even if it turned out to be a hoax, it’s a very enjoyable one. And a hoax that exposes things [...]
It’s funny how movies you don’t like sometimes leave much more of an imprint in your psyche than movies you love.
Noel Murray and Nathan Rabin talk about Woody Allen’s Match Point over at The Onion’s AV Club.
Andrew Bujalski (writer/director of Funny Ha Ha), has a new movie coming out, called Mutual Appreciation. He’s profiled in the Times:
[Bujalski's protagonists] are the most unassuming of existentialist heroes, slouching toward not epiphanies but the tiniest shifts in perspective. Both [Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation] are slow-burning comedies about the fear of adulthood made [...]
So here’s what I think of the insanity that Gawker is calling “Fake Writer Day.”
[ if you’re not up to speed and/or really want a headache, read these:“Who is the Real JT Leroy?” New York Magazine, 10/17/05“Who’s that boy/girl?” The Guardian, 1/4/06“The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He’s a She,” The New York Times, [...]
The other day I watched Funny Ha Ha, this tiny little indie movie about some people wandering around their early twenties. It was pretty good. There were moments that were excruciating, conversations that went nowhere but continued for waaaaay toooo loooong, but it did manage to capture a certain kind of ridiculousness while also pointing [...]