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We lost Elaine Stritch. She was gloriously “difficult.”
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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.
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Chicago’s Women and Children First book store has been sold…to two employees of the store, and, probably, their cats.
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Michelle Dean is RIGHT.
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Just a bunch of writers bitchin’ out other writers.
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This may or may not be the plot of the next season of True Detective.
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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.”
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Favourite deleted comment from yesterday:
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Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
Marxist babies. That is just taking things TOO FAR, apparently.
At least this one went out of his way to be polite. That’s 3 no thank you’s! What a nice guy.
Or he’s Not Hanks, which I’m pretty sure is how Tom Hanks checks into hotels.
Not Hank – you?
Just made me think of this, for whatever reason:
You don’t need a reason to think about that great moment in television comedy.
I got myself a kid’s popcorn combo at the movies last night, and at one point a piece of popcorn fell into the little hole for the drink and my hand got stuck trying to fish it out.
“Just let the popcorn go and take out your hand!” said logical brain.
“But I WANT the popcorn!” said lizard brain.
Rejected comments 4ever
YESSSS I really hope this becomes a regular feature.
I don’t even really get what ‘block’ means here – Mr. nothankyou often finds himself uncontrollably directed towards websites he doesn’t like?
Can we just throw today and yesterday in the toilet??? I work for a local news station and so usually, I can kind of separate myself from shitty news when I leave the newsroom. Not yesterday. Not today. In addition to MH17 and Gaza and Elaine Stritch there was an absolutely horrifying story from my region about two teenage girls torturing and killing an endangered tortoise…I just….shut it all down.
I need a laugh. And a drink.
Yeah these past few days have just been absolute shit. My heart is crying for Gaza and MH17 and that tortoise. I hate everyone.
Seconding the call to shut it all down. Between large disasters and small personal disasters, I am ready to throw in the towel on this month and start again in August.
The Orange Park girls, right? (Is it Orange Park? I’ve been doing my very best to not think about it, because it’s so awful.)
Gopher tortoises are such cool creatures, and it’s so exciting to come across a burrow when traipsing around the Talbot Islands or wherever and then plop down and just watch, quietly, from a careful distance. How could those girls do that. 🙁
Nobody, ever, will sing The Ladies Who Lunch with the same authority.
RIP Elaine, you fabulous bitch. I came across this yesterday, from an interview she gave last year, and I’ll just leave it here….
“ES: But I wanted to tell something intimate about myself to John [Turturro] about when he was interviewing me. I told him that when I was doing Virginia Woolf and when George and Martha had their scene together and George said, ‘Our son is dead.’ You know, that big scene? ‘Our son,’ he yells in my face, ‘is dead.’ And I went ‘No!’ At the height of my force, I said no to him. And I had an orgasm for the first time in my life.
AB: You did? Really?
ES: Yes. So this is how important that moment was on stage to me. This is unbelievable, you don’t know.”
I did not think I could love her more, and yet.
I LOVE when writers start gnawing at each other. It turns out that people who use words for a living create the best insults.
My favorite is Faulkner and Hemingway bitching each other out for word choice: “Never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary,” versus “Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Yesterday felt like the world had been conjured up out of one of those terrifying staged photos of childhood nightmares where everyone was made of garbage.
Poutine is sacred. Poutine is poutine, anything else is faux poutine.
Alec Baldwin. Let’s all laugh at him.
The proper response to deleted comment: “I don’t fucking care if you like it.”
I have opinions today, apparently.
Yesterday on a takeout menu I saw the words “shepherd’s pie poutine” and threw up a little in my mouth.
The pub in my hometown called this “Shepherd’s Fries” which is so much better than hitching it to poutine’s wagon. It’s shockingly delicious, but it’s not poutine. Like everything at Smoke’s Poutinerie is a scourge on poutine.
The best poutine I ever had was from a convenience store in Sudbury, the name and location of which escapes me (it might not have even been in Sudbury proper). The fries were that delectable old oil brown, the curds were plentiful, the gravy was the best, saltiest restaurant gravy. Poutine doesn’t need to be more than it is.
Yeah, Smoke’s. It’s delicious! But it’s not real poutine. (Except, of course, for their regular normal poutine, which I will allow.)
Well, this whole thread has convinced me that I need to get poutine after work today. I have to walk about 20 minutes there and back to get it, so that negates all the unhealthiness!
Yes! Roadside poutine is the way to go. It’s nothing fancy.
The Irish-style fish and chips joint up the street from me runs a pasty poutine special once in a while – they chop up a deep-fried meat pasty and put it over the cheese curds (which sprawl directly atop the fries) and under the gravy. It’s pretty rad.
No!
OH GOD THE POUTINE THING. YES.
Although the peas thing is legit (if not to my taste).
And also there is a chain poutinerie that has a zillion different types of poutine, most of which are Not Authentic, but still delicious. And at least all of them involve the main ingredients of FRIES, GRAVY, and CHEESE CURDS. (I mean, I really enjoy veggie nacho fries but for heaven’s sake it’s not Real Poutine.)
Oops guess what I want to get this weekend, now?
(McDonald’s actually has surprisingly decent poutine if you’re in a pinch. Fries, curds, gravy, done.)
There’s a place in the foothills of the Adirondacks that used to serve a thing they called duck poutine (fries, shredded cheese, duck quarters fried in duck fat, a tiny bit of gravy). It was surprisingly good, but not Real Poutine.
My wedding overlapped with a Poutine Festival which most of my guests took advantage of, and I believe they had duck poutine, which was apparently ungodly delicious. But it did involve cheese curds.
CHEESE CURDS 4EVER ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE
Wedding + poutine festival sounds like one HELL of a weekend! I’m in Minnesota right now and thus not permitted to admit my indifference to cheese curds. But damn, you just DO NOT OMIT CHEESE CURDS WHEN THEY ARE CALLED FOR.
One of my friends ate nine poutines over the course of a four-day weekend and was very proud of herself.
Wow. #goldstar for that person!
Ha! Yeah, I got poutine for lunch because of The Toast. I went to my favorite place, a half hour away, a drive in restaurant that’s only open in the summer.
why am i not surprised that Jimmy Fallon tried to tell Amy Poehler not to curse because it wasn’t cute?
Sincerely,
One Who Never Understood Jimmy Fallon’s Appeal
Even more appropriate as that glorious comic is ending
Aw, Hawkguy, no.
I need Kate to download some music illegally for me and Barney Barton to throw some bros out the window to make things better.
wow. stupid science editor literally claimed that the trope of trans women “tricking” men in order to sleep with them “defies the obvious stereotypes.”
no, jim austen. that is the most obvious of stereotypes. and it is bullshit. go away.
I just want to read deleted Toast comments all day.
Can we get a thread dedicated to them? I’d read it.
Weekly feature!
I want to print that New Republic article on fabric, make it into a dress and wear it every day for the rest of my life.
Yes. And, thanks to it, I have two new goals in life –
1. To yell “I don’t fucking care if you like it” at someone who has really, really earned it.
2. To raise my tiny daughter in such a fashion that her backbone is properly constructed to do the same.
Yep. Also, it’s my new goal of the day to make my eyes go black at someone.
My mother’s eyes go black when she gets angry. It’s TERRIFYING.
Spoonflower.com can make that fabric happen for you
I…really did not need to have that brought to my attention. ngngngngngngn
I know how awful hollywood is, but that casting call still boggles my mind with how bad it is. Beyonce being a B and the clear racism, classism, and sizeism on display is kind of unbelievable.
Today is a day for me to not closely follow the news. I’ll check in a couple of times, but there comes a point where there’s not enough new news and I’m just reading about the same awfulness over and over again.
A world where mofo BEYONCE is B-class is a world those casting directors need to EXIT.
Note: This is the 2nd post today where I have recommended a person leave Earth. No regrets.
I thought it was maybe just a case of the pregnants being overly upset by everything this week, but it seems like things have, in fact, been objectively That Bad.
Science decided to go all sexxxxay the same day this incredible study came out on insanely high rates of sexual assault and harassment during scientific fieldwork. It was like, YOU DON’T SAY.
The “It’s okay because they’re trans!!” excuse is maybe the worst defense I’ve ever seen mounted.
How anyone east of the Jordan and west of the Mediterranean is ever able to pray for anything other than to just make it stop is a little beyond me.
Right? It’s heartbreaking. My Egyptian sister-in-law has been posting a lot of things about it and repeatedly stressing that we shouldn’t look away just because it’s hard. I’m trying but I’m not always good at it. It’s hard to know what to do.
“It’s okay that we’re objectifying women, because transgenders* aren’t really women, right?”
“Won’t it be interesting to see how those horny men react when they find out the women are transgender?”-said no decent human being ever, because that is how trans women end up dead.
*I am trans and that was deliberate.
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.” — Virginia Woolf
‘“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson’
LOL PATRIARCHY SUCKS FOR WOMEN, DOESN’T IT, RALPH.
That article has cemented my ambition to become a famous writer so that in a couple of decades time there will be a list of 30 insults I have said about other writers (mainly Thoreau). There will also be some bonus insults for Jim Austen and his ilk, and I don’t fucking care if he doesn’t like it.
Hope the new owners move Women and Children First to New York so it can actually be important.
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Jim Austen “Am I the only one that finds moral indignation really boring?” #WHITEMEN #EXITLEFT
It makes me somewhat nostalgic for Dark Willow. I think she would have handled this…with authority.
“Am I the only one who finds things that affect OTHER HUMAN BEINGS AND NOT MYSELF really boring?”
sadly no which is why I have decided to permanently relocate to the moon
because sometimes THE SEA IS NOT FAR ENOUGH
Another form of “I long for the days when those people weren’t allowed to tell me about my offensiveness.”
I guess now is a good time for this again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-f6aAZ-XM
please…go and live in the garbage.
now…eat some moldy bread.
then…get stung by a bee.
after…a bird poops on your head.
maybe…you think you’re real great.
but…you’re really not that clever.
so…get off the internet.
and…block this site forever.
GUYS I'm going to Toronto next month and I'm gonna have poutine because apparently in Canada it sometimes comes with non-meat gravy and I'M SO EXCITED!
I'm find expanding that catchment area, just fyi.
"Am I the only one that finds moral indignation [about stuff that doesn't interest me] really boring?"
Yes, sir, you are. You are also a sociopath, so, good luck with all that.
1. When will I learn to not read the article comments, go back to The Toast and read those comments?
2. That GIF made me want them to make out, and then I understood the allure of Sherlock.
You are in, if not good company, highly populous company.
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Long time lurker, but OMG, THAT WAS MY GATEWAY TOAST ARTICLE TOO! AAAA!
FIST BUMP.
The Science apologia was so much worse than I expected. Literally ANYTHING would’ve been less offensive than the reason given. Like if he’d said they cut off their heads because the women had asked to not have their faces shown, that would’ve been at least somewhat understandable (though not great). And even that WashPo dude’s insanely offensive “my bad” apology would’ve been less offensive than “but they’re trans.” What does that even mean? Why does it even exist as a thought? I’m sending Jim Austin or whatever his dumb name is a bill for the extra aspirin I’m going to need after reading that story. He’s right about one thing, though, indignation is really boring… so if he could stop being the kind of juicebox that inspires it, that would be delightful.