January 2012
25 posts
“The hero in question is Virginia senator Janet Howell. The Democrat wasn’t happy...”
– Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam to Anti-Abortion Bill (via alexleo)
Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: Notes on a... →
rachelhills:
It is a rare weekend in the life of this journalist that five opinion pieces are published in major newspapers in response to something I wrote. (Paging you Julia Baird, Crispin Hull, Anne Summers, Miranda Devine and Melinda Tankard Reist. And for good measure, paging you…
Excellent post on what it means to be a public figure of sorts online, and the ethics of trying to...
COURAGE. →
Story of a young woman punching a guy in the face, after she just plain had enough of the verbal harassment that can plague lesbian couples who dare to, I don’t know, walk down the damn street.
Right on, sister. More people need to be called out on their bullshit. Not necessarily face-punched, but if that’s what it takes…
Thanks for sharing, Chad.
Garden Update
My little garden at Pomona College is still cranking away. There really isn’t a winter here in Los Angeles! I shouldn’t have paused in my planting like I did.
Today I did some work in the garden, and I hadn’t in weeks and weeks. I would creep up to cut a few pounds of arugula every now and then, because I pretty much paved the open spaces with arugula seeds, just to get...
Oh Where are you Going: The car. →
ohwhereareyougoing:
I’m sorry Tumblr, this is far too long and wordy a post for your visually-oriented self. But thankfully this is the internet, where anything goes. So, readit! — JM
This morning we were heading into town to get breakfast and coffee, when we realized I had left the trunk of the car open, and the…
Sho…this is something I wrote today, which I feel quite proud of,...
The Impulsive Farmer: dearcornelia: “Michael... →
dearcornelia:
“Michael Pollan wrote about Polyface Farm in The Omnivore’s Dilemma like it was something great, but that farm is horrible. It’s a joke. Joel Salatin is doing industrial [genetically modified] birds. Call him up and ask him. So he puts them on pasture. It makes no difference….
I don’t know, I raised Cornish Cross birds on pasture (plus organic feed…which Salatin...
||| || | |||| ||||||| || ||||: The Amish Horde →
emperorx:
It’s a little hard to see in the pictures, but a whole horde of Amish people just got on in Rochester. I didn’t know they had a specific smell. It’s not a bad smell; it just smells like people: sharp and tangy and alive, kind of like venison. One loud lady keeps saying thick, serious-sounding…
I bet it would be an interesting conversation. All the anabaptists are so...
Why Yoplait is crap. →
themindlesswanderer:
berryhealthy:
beccasfitlife:
Want some petroleum and modified corn starch for breakfast? Be my guest.
oh daaaamn. i don’t eat yoplait, but i just checked my danone yogurt and it has a couple of these ingredients. looks like i’m looking for a new yogurt next time i go grocery shopping! but canada’s choices are serious lacking. especially since i’m not near a whole...
Win a Copy of Perennial Vegetables! →
The company I work for sometimes partners with blogs to give away books (and get in touch with the little specific slivers of audience that we’re mutually interested in, homesteaders, fermentation fetishists, crafty folks, green builders…peak oilers, you get the idea).
This week we’re giving away a copy of Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier. It’s a book full of...
Arm Hurts
How’s a girl supposed to work full-time for a publisher and build a side-career as a writer when her right forearm is waging a total protest against typing or writing?! It’s like #occupykeyboard in here. Or more like, #don’toccupykeyboard #ornotebook #oranythingelseforthatmatter…just like #OWwws
Alright carpal tunnels, I’ll just watch some more X-Files on Netflix....
scaling back: 7 days of smoothies →
scalingback:
I made it through my first day of no caffeine but if I had known how difficult it was going to be I might have thought twice about it. I felt like my head weighed 1000 pounds and at one point I thought I was going to toss my cookies. It is really alarming to realize how dependent my body is on…
Wow, I know two other people who went from being heavy soda drinkers to...
Fuck Yeah FTMs!: Rant (+ another rant) →
gendermagick:
fuckyeahftms:
My mom won’t let me cut off my hair. She thinks I’ll look too masculine. I’ve told her that’s what I want. She’ll get mad, leading me to cry myself to sleep because I’m so ashamed of myself. All I want is to be a boy. Why is my mom stopping me from happiness? We’ve talked about me going to gender…
NO you are not selfish, dude. Your mom is projecting her shit onto...
