We lost Elaine Stritch. She was gloriously “difficult.”
Ugh, everything is repulsive. @PiaGlenn’s timeline offers an interesting counter-perspective, though. Let’s see if we can’t find a story about things going well somewhere.
Chicago’s Women and Children First book store has been sold…to two employees of the store, and, probably, their cats.
Michelle Dean is RIGHT.
Just a bunch of writers bitchin’ out other writers.
This may or may not be the plot of the next season of True Detective.
Yeah:
I wish it were different. I wish that every woman whose actions and worth are parsed and restricted, congratulated and condemned in this country might just once get to wheel around—on the committee that doesn’t believe their medically corroborated story of assault, or on the protesters who tell them that termination is a sin they will regret, or on the boss who tells them he doesn’t believe in their sexual choices, or on the mid-fifties man who congratulates them, or himself, on finding them appealing deep into their dotage—and go black in the eyes and say, “I don’t fucking care if you like it.”
Favourite deleted comment from yesterday:
