December 2010
“I love how, in threads about rape, one dude always comes in to be like, “Okay....”
– wembley
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Now that President Obama has jumped on the Michael Vick bandwagon with an official call to Eagles’ owner Jeffrey Lurie to congratulate him for giving the quarterback another chance, all of us here at Best Friends are waiting for a call from the White House to congratulate us for giving Vick’s dogs a second chance. I’m quite sure that the other organizations that also took on some of the...
jgh-2 replied to your post: M’s parents moved out to the boonies, right?
what is a lawn jockey?
M's parents moved out to the boonies, right?
OK maybe not the boonies but they no longer live in Scranton proper. So I went out there for the first time on Christmas day and one of their neighbors has a lawn jockey. Almost swerved off the road.
My cousin:
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I'm having nostalgia for my pre- 25 year old body...
I guess if/when I finish school I can join a gym again but until then, I don’t have time for anything besides walking the dog. I’m afraid to quit smoking because it might get a lot worse. I’m bitter because I’m not naturally thin like so many women I know.
I tried on a whole bunch of dresses this morning...
I am truly disgusted by myself. I feel too embarrassed to even go to the wedding for which I was shopping.
Didn’t buy anything, natch.
Oral hygiene: a haiku
“I’ll floss more often:”
a lie I tell my dentist
biannually
Thanks to those of you who linked me to the Car...
What's a good place to go for routine car...
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I beg of you.
No more fuckyeahgirlquotes.
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Hello!
I am back in DC. :sad trombone:
Not really. Maybe. I don’t know. I had a nice holiday at my parents’, all things considered. It doesn’t really feel like Christmas anymore. My parents don’t put a tree up, we don’t exchange gifts (which I like), I don’t go to church with them anymore …
But it was nice. Our annual Trivial Pursuit game was a hoot, and like...
Brogressive = Lefty type who routinely downplays...
redlightpolitics:
downlo:
Note: A brogressive can be a man or a woman.
If you google brogressive, our very own’s downlo definition is the first result. And yes, I see it can be a man or a woman.
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a asked: Hm OK I will ask.
1. What is your favorite part of the holidays? I like the lights.
2. What is your favorite accessory?
3. This is feeling kind of cosmo. What was the most formative piece of lit or information you came across as an impressionable child?
4. If you had to live your life eating only one fruit, which fruit would it be?
1. What is your favorite part of the holidays? I like the lights.
2. What is your favorite accessory?
3. This is feeling kind of cosmo. What was the most formative piece of lit or information you came across as an impressionable child?
4. If you had to live your life eating only one fruit, which fruit would it be?
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a asked: Hm OK I will ask.
1. What is your favorite part of the holidays? I like the lights.
2. What is your favorite accessory?
3. This is feeling kind of cosmo. What was the most formative piece of lit or information you came across as an impressionable child?
4. If you had to live your life eating only one fruit, which fruit would it be?
1. What is your favorite part of the holidays? I like the lights.
2. What is your favorite accessory?
3. This is feeling kind of cosmo. What was the most formative piece of lit or information you came across as an impressionable child?
4. If you had to live your life eating only one fruit, which fruit would it be?
I am going to be (mostly) away from the Interwebs for the next bunch of days, and the Internet time I do get will be interrupted by my mom standing behind me asking, “Whatcha lookin’ at?!” every five minutes. Would you like to ask me something? I would probably answer it.
We're on a "hi!" "good morning!" "nice weather...
As I arrived home today from my completely pointless shopping trip, I wished her a Merry Christmas. She wished me happy holidays in return.
Oh shit, she probs thinks I’m one of those Keep the Christ in Christmas people. I bet she’s Muslim or Jewish. I should have wished her a happy holidays. I am the OPPOSITE of those people! I don’t even believe in god!
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Wednesday's Child
OMG do any other D.C. dwellers catch clips of the Wednesday’s Child segments on NBC Washington? Good lawd, y’all. Children in foster care in need of adoptive families, on the teevee, being all sweet and gentle and wanting permanent homes. Sobville.
ronniedobbs said:
Or you could buy just three of their chocolate-covered strawberries!
How funny would that be. Everyone else gets something substantial worth $75 and my gift to G is three berries, also “worth” $75. Don’t eat them all in one sitting!
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The T.J.Maxx in Scranton is a good one.
My mom goes there like, every night after work. I am not exaggerating. They know her by name. She always drags me there when I’m home. I just do not enjoy shopping at this point in my life. It depresses me. But now I am looking forward to the inevitable T.J. trip because I am confident—CONFIDENT, YEAH!—I can find quality bedroom slippers and/or an electric blanket and/or pretty...
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One of the things on our SIL’s wish list is Godiva chocolate. I am tempted to buy $75 worth of Godiva chocolate at this point. Yeah they upped the limit this year! I’ll bring it to her house in a wheelbarrow.
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I am going to have a shopping related breakdown.
I left work early (almost nobody is left at the office now) to go shopping. I was excited! The only gifts I have to buy are for M’s niece and nephew and my secret Santa—M’s SIL. I also wanted to get snow boots for myself. I am now home on my couch having back spasms. I bought nothing. NOTHING. NOTTTTTTTTTHIIIING!
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I just tried to "heart" a work email I received.
jenfromjersey said:
I failed micro the first time I took it! But when I took it again I got a C+. I’ve got enough stupid for the both of us in econland, so no worries :)
Except anything less than a B is not accepted in the program, which means I have to take it again and get a...
Well, at least I got a B in my econ math class....
I need to find some stupid Tumblrs to follow, though, so I don’t feel like such a loser among the straight-A earning folks around here.
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The New York Times Mansplains Manplaining →
Oh god now everyone is heaping praise upon Michael Moore—who completely ignored a passionate and visible Internet campaign to educate him and hold him responsible for lies he spread about rape accusers—for going on television and saying, yeah, rape accusations should be taken seriously. And that’s it.
He didn’t say, “I hate women” on the Rachel Maddow show and...
Michael Moore went on Rachel Maddow; he didn’t apologize for spreading lies and rape myths. He did say rape victims deserve respect. Feminists on Twitter rejoice, burst into tears and applause. This is how (deservedly) low our expectations are.
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IS IT TIME YET? IS IT TIME? (I can't wait.)
Fact: 50 Americans have attempted terror attacks...
chrisjgavin:
I guess this doesn’t count the white men who succeeded in attacking abortion providers or Holocaust museums.
:Kanye shrug:
WHY AM I HAVING A TWITTER FIGHT ABOUT BABY IT'S...
kdek:
I don’t care if the song was written 60 years ago. Read as a modern interpretation, it can be interpreted as date rapey. A dude denying all this? And saying that a man coercing a woman to stay even after she said no but she gave up saying no because it’s hard to keep saying no sometimes is actually consent?
UGH. I HATE MEN AND I HATE RAPE CULTURE.
At this point I just assume that men...
“WHILE JULIAN Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, celebrated his release on bail...”
– The Irish Times: Alleged Wikileaks source suffers out of spotlight (via bingoparaphernalia)
Whoa. The President of my org got everyone a $100 gift card to Amazon.com.
That’s a lot of money I didn’t think they had. They have never done bonuses or gifts like this before. Unless not everyone got a $100 gift card? I’m amazed, and relieved I don’t have to spend (all) my own money on school books next month.
I would create a Twitter account if ANY of the...
Damn. Thinking about that little shit in the... →
velmavelma:
thecranium:
Damn. Thinking about that little shit in the Gawker video, throwing a fit because someone bought him a book, is making me ragey. I emailed “our” niece and nephews’ moms the other day to ask whether they had the books I was considering buying them. Were they thinking, “Ugh, aunt…
One of my Sister in Law’s is such a shit that we had to switch to donating to a 529...
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Damn. Thinking about that little shit in the Gawker video, throwing a fit because someone bought him a book, is making me ragey. I emailed “our” niece and nephews’ moms the other day to ask whether they had the books I was considering buying them. Were they thinking, “Ugh, aunt Sarah, always the killjoy?”
WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET THESE BRATS? They’re...
Let me tell you a little story about buying books...
msavignon:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before! Ha!
Last year, we bought our nephew a boxed set of all seven Harry Potter books (paperback). He was 10, an advanced reader according to all accounts, and we were assured by multiple people that he loves reading.
He hated them, and hasn’t read a single one of those damn books.
The End.
Ruh roh. I’ve had it with buying gifts for...
“And that’s what I wanted to write about—the friends, brothers, lovers in the...”
– Robin Morgan (Goodbye To All That, 1970)
“Privilege means you can walk away from the conversation whenever you like...”
– Garland Grey. (via sexismandthecity)
Right you are, me. Right you are.
Also: Do you see how Sexismsandthecity totes attributed what I wrote to me and did not actually burst into flames? This post is sitting at almost 500 notes, and I’m guessing that not a single person went “Oh, that’s really...