Eryn
princesses and sluts
Currently among the top ten most emailed articles on NYTimes.com…
The New York Times Magazine, December 24th
“What’s Wrong With Cinderella?” by Peggy Orenstein
“They’ve been begging to come to this store for three weeks,” [Anne] McAuliffe said. “I’d never heard of it. So I said they could, but they’d have to spend their own money if they [...]
So, aside from the ever-worsening Clamor/Infoshop disaster, Kitchen Sink is shutting down, too. But that’s more sad than disastrous. Especially since they’re positioning it as the conclusion of the Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project’s “pilot program” instead of as the death of yet another indie publication. And um, they’re not taking anyone else down with [...]
it’s been awhile
More than once lately, I’ve thought that the year that’s about to end is 2007. Which I guess only shows how fast time has been moving. So how about some predictable Best of 2006 listing to get back into this long abandoned blog?
Movies…
Mutual Appreciation, Children of Men, Babel, The Queen, Little Children, The Science of [...]
Sesame Street is unveiling a new character, and she’s a girly-girl. A fairy, actually. What’s really bothers me (and okay, there are a few things) is that her “pink skin” makes her pretty obviously a white girl, and who needs that?
For all the educational consultants and child psychologists the show could have enlisted, the success [...]
this is what a PR coup looks like
Bitch in the NYT Magazine? Fucking awesome. Deborah Solomon applies her characteristic skepticism to Andi Zeisler. It’s a little annoying/condescending, but Andi holds her own.
DS: Did you and your co-founder, Lisa Jervis, have any magazine experience before you started Bitch?
AZ: We were both interns at Sassy.
DS: As opposed to Savvy.
AZ: Savvy was earlier, right? Maybe [...]
Ashlee Simpson appeared on the July cover of Marie Claire magazine extolling the virtues of appreciating one’s body as it is — then she had a nose job.
Marie Claire readers erupted in fury at what they said was Ms. Simpson’s hypocrisy and the magazine’s “cluelessness.” They wrote 1,000 letters in protest to the magazine, according [...]
love for savage, again
In New York, the court ruled in effect that irresponsible heterosexuals often have children by accident — we gay couples, in contrast, cannot get drunk and adopt in one night — so the state can reserve marriage rights for heterosexuals in order to coerce them into taking care of their offspring. Without the promise of [...]
Yet as consumers young and old tire of being marketed to, the skull appears to offer a kind of antidote: the ultimate unbrand, one that belongs to no one. Curiously, then, what began as an outlaw anti-logo may as well be viewed as the death rattle of an underground aesthetic.
…or something.