Lovely breakup lines…
My favorite, most self-involved is: “You can’t die, because if you die, I’ll be forgotten.” I’m not sure that’s correct, any film quote sleuths out there?
http://flavorwire.com/379357/the-best-breakup-lines-in-film/
Tin Tiny Popes
In line with our love of all things miniature, here are Tiny Detailed Play-Doh Sculptures Of Popes, Carved In Fish Tin Cans. A great link! Thank you, Nicole Ferentz, the other partner in crime of the infamous Nicole & Nicole duo.
While We’re Talking About Feminism… .
As long as we’re on the subject of feminism, let’s take a look at this Salon.com post.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/06/im_not_a_feminist_but/
Clockwise, from top left: Carla Bruni, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Marissa Mayer, Sandra Day O’Connor, Madonna (Credit: AP/Jordan Strauss/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Reuters/Stephen Lam)
Finally Some News On Pussy Riot
This is a video from 60 Minutes, so it has two ads at the beginning and rather a slow start, but it’s tremendous and more in depth than anything you’ve seen on Pussy Riot. And the Salon article where it was found.
Not Passing Over Passover
Friends sent pictures of their tables at Passover. Bitter herbs, anyone?
Another lovely table, this one for Passover from Sharon E and John R. Note the plagues represented by crawly creatures. I gave those to John for his birthday and he put them to the proper use.
Reinventing Rubber
Bill Gates and I share an interest in condoms. Mine is more on the aesthetic side. I collected the packaging for a long time because it was both humorous and sometimes elegant. I eventually donated my collection to the Kinsey Sex Institute. They were pleased. My collection didn’t duplicate anything in their collection.
The Gates Foundation is looking for a more fun condom and offering a hefty reward to top winner: http://www.npr.org/blogs/
Expert Advice
A fascinating Ted Talk, partly because I was a big fan of Style Rookie! The Rookie, aka Tavi Gevinson, explains feminism, fashion and more.
For more from the Style Rookie, check out her blog: http://www.thestylerookie.com/
And for more inspiration, The Rookie Magazine: http://rookiemag.com/
How Books Get Banned
In case you didn’t get enough about the story on CPS and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, check out this post from InktArt on the banning of the graphic novel.
http://inktart.org/2013/03/18/
Lyrical Tattoos
I like the way tattoos look when they’re photographed. Much better than they are in reality (in my opinion, she says, hastily). My favorites are “How strange it is to be anything at all” and “You’re just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.”
http://flavorwire.com/373709/the-most-beautiful-song-lyric-tattoos-weve-ever-seen/
Not The Usual Pastry
The Japanese sensibility is a curious combination of “don’t look” and “look! look!” If you think of these rolls as the sweet roll we order by saying, “I’d like one of those strawberry danishes,” it works better, at least for me. There’s a comment from someone who wants us all to know what the actual names are for the parts of the vagina. When I woke up this morning I had no idea what I would learn. Off to my exercise class, to forget it all in a haze of sweat. Actually we don’t sweat, it’s a senior center.
Image from: http://laughingsquid.com/bread-that-looks-like-vaginas/
http://dangerousminds.net/
