Roxane Gay on Ferguson.
huh
Perhaps she will found the Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, the Arts and Feelings in order to create a new generation of choreographers, and puppeteers, clowns, video artists and theatrical jugglers who will ask the world, ‘What is art?’:
Dear Prudence,
My ex-wife and I divorced about three years ago. Since the divorce, she has kept my last name. That has annoyed me since we originally agreed that she’d take back her maiden name. Now she’s pregnant by her new boyfriend. There aren’t any young children of this generation in my family, and I’m worried that she’s going to pass on my family name to her child. I’d want her to change her name back to her maiden name, so how do I approach this conversation? Or is this a petty request?—Surly Surnames
Super interesting piece about the writing partnership of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder:
Brackett emerges from his own pages as a sort of platonic ideal of WASPishness: observant, hyperliterate, reserved, snobbish, fiercely loyal. And on almost every page is Wilder, Wilder, Wilder, Brackett’s collaborator, rival, friend, and opponent. His day-by-day account of their work together gives a fascinating portrait of their partnership, at least from Brackett’s perspective, and one of the most detailed accounts of any artistic partnership ever. Wilder once told biographer Charlotte Chandler that “a good writing collaboration is more difficult to achieve than a good marriage. And it’s more intimate.” Brackett’s diaries reveal just how apt that comparison was. Over the years the two men worked together, they came to know each other better than anyone else ever would. And when the end came for Brackett and Wilder, it came with guilt and recrimination, jealousy and betrayal.
My daughter is very fierce and brave, whereas I am rather timid and approval-seeking, so I should not have been surprised that her reaction on running across a Mommy Moose and a Baby Moose on a hike was to:
a) Growl
b) Announce “YOU GROWLED AT THEM” (we are working on pronouns with limited success)
But I was, just the same.
“Break Free” vs. “Oops I Did It Again”: A Scientific Music Video Comparison of Girls in Space:
Regardless, both of these songs are 100% hook. The difference is that “Break Free” is immediately and then always like, “Yeah! I know this song! It’s that song!” and “Oops!” sounds like nothing else but Oops.
This is a really great idea, and I am inspired to do this when next I go on vacation.
SeaWorld is gonna fix some stuff bc they looked like fucking assholes in Blackfish, people stopped going, and then their share price dropped, SO, maybe your angry tweets helped.
So many jobs at Buzzfeed right now! Go get one of them!
Smithsonian Library GIFs! Oh, thank God. Levity.
Ferguson picture of the day:
@jonswaine: “Highway patrol captain Ron Johnson is leading protesters on a march through Ferguson. A corner turned?”
Photo/tweet from this Buzzfeed article.
It is super nice to see a non-white person without a gun in a uniform down there.
Ron Johnson for captain of all police forces, please.
Seriously. Attn: everyone: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT. IT’S REALLY EASY. WHY DID I EVEN HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS.
YES. Saw him on CNN last night, hugging people and shaking their hands. These are his friends and neighbors. Imagine – treating people in pain like people in pain, not like enemy combatants!
Re: fierce and brave girls – one of my friends’ daughters is 6 years old and wants nothing more than to be a wolf… sometimes a wolf with laser eyes, sometimes with super speed, but always a wolf. The wolf also really likes singing Let it Go.
As a small child I desperately wanted to be a psychic, crime-fighting tiger actress and singer.
It never happened.
And then I had an imaginary pack of wolves.
Circe? Is that you?
There’s more than one of us?
Unless this is a reference I’m too stupid to get.
Circe, original stone cold misandrist QUEEEEEEN. “She was able by means of drugs and incantations to change humans into wolves, lions, and swine. The Greek hero Odysseus visited her island, Aeaea, with his companions, whom she changed into swine.”
See, I should have remembered that.
I never turned anyone into imaginary animals, though, I just had a vicious wolf pack that would rend the people I hated.
It is worth noting that despite a well-earned reputation for misandry, Odysseus does defeat Circe using the power of boning, which tells you probably everything you need to know about ancient Greek sexual politics.
My husband’s last serious gf before he and I started dating (about a decade ago), was named Searcy. Ten years on, and I still get all prickly feeling about all of the above information. Oof.
Ancient Greeks: NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS!
My small-child-self would like to be best friends with your small-child-self.
my niece wants to be a cat ninja, with long claws that hook people who hurt others… people with guns, knives and “blow ups” (aka: bombs). so proud to be related to her.
Former wolf-child checking in.
Former wolf child checking in, slinging off pelt dramatically and handing it to the coat check person as I casually saunter into the room.
One of my twin toddler nieces is, last I heard, planning to be “a spooky spider princess. who can fly. and lives in a spooky spider cave” when she grows up. Hooray for strange, fierce little girls!
That sounds awesome! If she needs any handmaidens, I’m available!
They are awesome kids. My wife and I are The Aunts Who Send Them Science Books, which is a pretty cushy gig.
While out and about recently, I chanced by a wishing well and overheard the following:
Mother to small female human, “if you tell your wish, sometime people will help them come true.”
Small female human,”I want to be called ‘that scary girl.'”
Heee! When my sister was very young she was INSISTENT that she was a cat. She would go around the house on all fours and basically behave like a cat. It was really adorable, since she was so little…
My daughter is obsessed with wolves. We check out library books about wolves and talk about how wolves kill everything and how she’s pretty sure they won’t kill her because she can bite them.
But she wants to be a fairyprincessartistengineer, when she grows up. So.
I was looking for a freelance writing gig and happened upon a job that sounded pretty good–an agency with a client that needed an image post. When I clicked for more information, I discovered that client was Sea World.
A+ excellent use of gif
It’s by far the best thing I’ll accomplish today.
Hee. That’s right up there with the George W. Bush Presidential Library librarian gig I saw a few years ago.
someone get that octopus in a tank god we’re just letting them run amuck in nature of all places
Wow, that Dear Prudence of “People look at me weird when they think my name doesn’t match my face” hits a weeee bit too close to home. Almost as good as the time I gave my name to a salon over the phone, then walked in later, and the receptionist went “Oh! You’re not Asian!” and I just stared at her because why. (And no, I don’t go there any more.)
Also that listing of jobs available at Buzzfeed made me weep and review the job listings in my own area for the third time this morning just to see if anything new had appeared. (It hadn’t!)
In case anyone is wondering, the Buzzfeed jobs appear to be exclusively in New York City, LA, San Francisco, and various exotic international locales. Commence weeping.
All the UK ones are in London even if they are ones that could be done from home, and I refuse to commute to London for less than £30k a year.
I’ve actually noticed a significant difference between how my life in being recognized with my maiden name (VERY Finnish) and my married name (still Scandinavian, but common in the US). Previously people would say all manner of things, including “Oh, I thought you’d be Indian,” (?) “Your English is great, how long have you lived here?” (forever) and “Oh! I wasn’t expecting a white girl!” (why were you expecting anything?)
Now, people just trip over my first name, but I don’t get any of the race comments anymore. Just the English one.
My name is an uncommon Biblical name, and it is pronounced like a certain 80’s space Princess.
The strangest thing I have ever been told by a client a few years back, upon meeting me in person after talking to me on the phone several times, was that I “don’t look black”. I had no idea how to even answer that because
1) I am white, so white I can get a sunburn during a full moon
2) what??!?!?!
3) WHAT!?!?!!??!?!?!
Well hello Shira.
Did I get it right? 🙂
Hahahaha, no, here’s a hint: hair like cinnamon buns.
Oof duh. And as a little Jewish girl I totally thought she was too.
Heee. “It rhymes with Leia” is how I teach people to say my name! High five!
I just was like “how is that a ‘black’ name”
also what the fuck. “Oh, your name was unusual, I assumed you were black.”
IGNORANT WHITE DUDES THO
I have an…uncommon name with several vowels and syllables in it. Almost every single set of parents of my significant others I have dated through the years assumed I was black until they met me.
I am as pale as the moon and shine like a lantern when light hits me.
I have also learned that schooling parents of significant others on how weird/rude/awful their assumptions were is viewed as uncouth.
None of those relationships lasted.
I opened the door to Jehovah Witnesses once, and they blurted out “You’re not Greek!”. Um, so?
The only time JWs have ever knocked on my door, I opened it in a robe (with nothing underneath) and they were like “um, we have the wrong apartment”. I don’t know who they thought they were gonna get, but it wasn’t a mid-20s white woman with no clothes on.
One time Mormons came, and I was all COME IN I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VERACITY OF YOUR FAITH! Seriously, I wanted to talk because I had just read the (actual) book of Mormon and Under the Banner of Heaven and they kind of were like, “Oh we’ll come back later and talk…” And they never did. I was so sad. I still am.
I want them to come to my house! They went to my friends’ last week. I am super curious about Mormonism, but I think the area they are sent to is pretty vast, so they will not be back to my tiny town. Also, for any mormons on the toast, I think being a missionary would be really hard. When I lived in a big city I would always smile and wave at them because they looked slightly overwhelmed. And now that I live in a place where it would be totally fine to have randos in my house, they aren’t around. Sad day.
When I was in Sri Lanka, everyone thought I was Indian when I gave my name, and was super super surprised when an American girl showed up. It was actually sorta refreshing to know that it just happens everywhere.
Thanks for the Fox news picture. I don’t need a cup of coffee , now. The rush of adrenaline from rage should get me through the day nicely.
I mean.
Wut.
=( =( =(
Rembert Browne has a really good piece on Ferguson. http://grantland.com/features/ferguson-missouri-p…
Whenever I get into arguments with people who are opposed to Bill Simmons for being, well, Bill Simmons, I like to defend him (I am a somewhat-conflicted Sports Guy apologist) by pointing out that he hired Rembert Browne and Molly Lambert, so he’s clearly doing something right.
yeah, he does hire good people. Brian Phillips is good too, like his piece today on Ray Rice and domestic violence, http://grantland.com/features/ray-rice-domestic-a… . Wesley Morris is one of my favorite writers for them.
The one area Grantland is lacking is WOC, since I’m pretty sure they don’t have a single one writing for them.
They do have Emily Yoshida (I loved her piece on Sailor Moon), but no others I can think of off the top of my head.
oh yeah! I almost always read the sports stuff and rarely the Hollywood stuff, so I forgot about her. Now to go read some of her stuff.
He’s a fantastic editor, producer, and talent locater. He just needs to not write anything ever.
Yeah, pretty much all the Grantland writers whose names don’t rhyme with Swill Flimmons are good.
hi taking Swill Flimmons thank you for your A++ contribution to my life
Wow, I did not think I could get more pissed about the MSM reaction to Ferguson but I GUESS I CAN.
I was at dinner with my sweetheart last night, and he said something about how the rioting and looting didn’t help, and I was like “um, yeah, there hasn’t BEEN any. There was a little on the first night” and he was like “oh. That’s not what I’ve been hearing.” He works in an office that has CNN on all day, whereas I was getting all my Ferguson news via Twitter (and watched one of the livestreams). I know that Twitter isn’t 100% reliable, but the difference in coverage between the Internet in general and the MSM is pretty stark.
Likewise, I had a beer last night with a friend who I consider to be pretty well-informed and she thought there were riots like the LA ones. Um, no.
The guy whose ex-wife still uses his name. Ugh. Your surname is not as precious as you think it is. And how does he even know the baby will definitely have that surname?
yeah, seriously was like this when I read that letter
Awesome GIF! Toasties are on GIF fire today, I tells ya!
He sounds like the kind of dude who would give his fiancee an ultimatum about taking his name after the wedding
that letter was fantastic and amazing. wait, you mean embracing customs that broadcast women’s second-class citizenship to the world might have an unanticipated downside for the superior class? He has to suffer the unpleasant unintended consequences of women’s lesser status, and him a man? everything is backwards and upsetting!
& if he doesn’t want anyone to be confused and think that his ex-wife’s children are his, and why should he, the solution is easy, change his name to her birth name, since she’s not using it anymore. he can hardly claim that continuity of identity is an an important value to him at this point.
edit: “your” name my ass, it’s HER GODDAMN NAME NOW. What ever happened to, oh, it’s no big deal to change your name when you get married because a woman never had her own name to begin with, it was just her father’s name? Now suddenly her father’s name is her real, true, original name that she must revert to out of integrity. Sorry, too late for that argument, asshole. once you convince her to throw it away, you can’t make her take it back.
*High fives a million angels*
Yes! It’s HER name! She chose it! She can have it embroidered on all her linens, put it on a billboard, name her dog and kids it and he just has to deal with it.
plus it’s the same rules that make a woman take her husband’s name that also make her keep it as a divorced woman until she remarries AND refuse her children their father’s name if she doesn’t marry him. so this bozo is discovering what it is like to bite off a little more patriarchy than he has the stomach for. TOO BAD. you want some of it, you can choke on all of it, that’s what I say.
I was curious so I looked this up and where I live a person can change their name back (formally) during the divorce and even have in put in the Divorce Orders. What I found interesting was that if during the marriage either spouse wants to change their name that they must have their spouse’s legal permission (!!!) so I guess if I want to be Princess Banana Hammock I have to ask my husband. I’m not down with that. That seems like a weird rule and I can’t figure out why it is. They can go before a judge for permission though if they really want it changed.
I have decided, as of this instant, that if I ever get married, we will exchange names. Of course, this will mean that my most-likely-prospect/current-boyfriend would end up with the same full name as my uncle, and I would end up with an alliterative name, like some kind of Stan Lee superhero’s secret identity, but this is something I can live with just to see the looks on certain relatives faces when I explain the whole situation.
I wanted to do that when my partner and I got married, but apparently there’s an infamous serial killer with the name I would then have had, and even though she’s not that famous outside of Australia, I just can’t. Alas.
You could really amp up smash the patriarchy vibes and exchange each other’s mother’s maiden names. Or grandmothers!
If I were to have four kids, they’d each get a different last name: one with the birth name of each grandparent.
Or I could take his first name as a last name and he could take a common noun for his last name, like “soil” or “happiness” or “DVD player”.
Add all this to my long, long list of bad reasons to want to get married. (For the record, top of the list is spite.)
It was my parents’ 33rd wedding anniversary recently, and my dad posted on Facebook about how one of the best things about it was being able to rub it in the faces of all the people who said they shouldn’t get married. Spite is a great reason to get and stay married. (And my parents got married for a free house, so I think conventional reasons are overrated.)
Well, I had thought at one point it would be funny to send a wedding invitation to an acquaintance of mine who had once told me she was super liberal and gay-friendly, but “really traditional when it comes to marriage”. The invitation would be for her and a +1, knowing that her husband was in prison at the time. I doubt I could have convinced my boyfriend to get married on such short notice, just so we could get the invitations out before her husband’s sentence was completed.
I actually know a couple who did something similar! At first they both just kept their own names when they got married, but a few years later, when they had a baby, all three of them took the husband’s grandmother’s maiden name.
Dorothy Parker refused to change her name after she was divorced because she liked the sound of it better. LEGIT REASONING, A+ WOULD MARRY THAT GUY JUST FOR HIS NAME AGAIN.
I’m taking my guy’s name when we get married because it’s awesome and unless I have unanticipated Feelings about it I’m damn well keeping it no matter what happens to the relationship. I worked for this kickass name, it’s mine now.
Yeah! If someone gives you a name, that’s it! that’s how gifts work, you can’t take back a wedding present TO YOUR BRIDE several years later unless you are a human monster. I mean can you imagine saying — here, wife, here is my name, please take it and wear it for me every day of your life and display it for friends and strangers alike to broadcast our eternal relation, keep it and guard it, I trust you to carry its reputation for me. oh I mean, just as a loan until we break up and then I’ll be wanting it back so I can regift it to some other woman maybe.
that is like heartstoppingly ungallant and a man who wants a woman to take his name must care about gallantry or what even is his life worth, what is he doing.
Agatha Christie kept her first husband’s name, even after he left her for another woman…because she was already a rich and famous author with that name. So suck on that, Archie.
(Actually, eventually they were on friendly terms and she remarried a hot archeologist many years younger than herself. But, you know, rock on, Agatha.)
*reading…reading…reading…fuck this*
Ugh – I was reading comments (why) under an instagram post from someone sort of internet famous who did not take her also internet famous husband’s last name. I wasn’t so much annoyed at the commenters that made all the same tired comments about commitment and children’s names, as I was shocked at the people who literally had no idea that it was an option. Like these people seriously thought that women weren’t allowed to keep their own names, that there was some sort of law against it. Granted, I’m sure they were like 15 years old, but, Jesus H Christ.
Besides, everybody who’s anybody KNOWS that Jaya is keeping her name!
😉
🙂 you guys are the best.
So, no one would second the bloke?
I’m sure his surname is not as precious as he thinks it is, just precious enough for her to keep it. And no he doesn’t know that the baby will have his surname; he says so. He’s just concerned that just as the woman had reneged on not keeping the name for herself, she might keep it another generation yet.
We don’t know if he ‘made’ her take his name – we do know she chose to take it. And yeah, it’s within her rights to change her name to whatever she wants and keep it. Why then, that the marriage is over, when he would rather she not and she had agreed to that effect, keep his name?
His surname is important to him. Seems petty of her to keep it.
I probably shouldn’t engage but…
Surprise! Fox News sucks at reality!
Also boo hoo SeaWorld boo hoo I HOPE YOU NEVER GET VISITORS AGAIN
Yeah I read the article and was like “that’s good… I guess? Eh. Fuck them no matter what.” I would still never go.
LOL @ that Dear Prudie dude with the giant penis who suggested his girlfriend get therapy. What an ass. His girlfriend needs to get a new boyfriend.
I’ll bet the reason it hurts so much is because he doesn’t do any foreplaaaaaaaayyyyy.
Seriously. The tiniest women can birth babies. No penis is as big as a newborn’s head.
Yeah I am immediately suspicious of the sexual prowess of any dude whose first reaction to a problem is “IT’S [MY PARTNER’S] FAULT!”
I am instituting a new rule:
YOUR PENIS YOUR FAULT
AMEN
Yeah I pretty much assume that any time a straight dude has a sexual problem it’s because he has no idea how to do sex, and I will not apologize for that.
#YPYF
I feel like this needs to be embroidered on a pillow.
That was EXACTLY my reaction. “The answer to your predicament is FOREPLAY, ASSHOLE”
I will never not see a complaint like that as the most dudely humblebrag ever. “My dick is TOO BIG!”
He’s that guy who sits with his legs two miles apart on the bus. “Dick TOO big!”
And drives a huge truck to his office job. “Dick needs cargo space!”
And bitches about women. “Dick game TOO STRONG.”
“Dick game TOO STRONG” sounds like some sort of weird computer error. I love it.
To quote a paraphrase of a disingenuous MetaFilter post: “My penis is so big that it’s uncomfortable to ride a bicycle. What other problems will my big penis and I encounter?”
OH MY GOD I STARTED READING THIS ONE http://ask.metafilter.com/78970/Trials-of-a-Respo… AND NOW I CAN’T STOP
I have gone to many sex parties and dress like a 40’s gangster themed episode of Star Trek. Why aren’t women throwing themselves at me? Should I continue to harangue passersby?
From one commenter, with whom I am now deeply in love:
Seriously, your whole style is wrong, from your clothes to your mannerisms to your approach to your writing style. Stop trying so hard to be a caricature of what you imagine to be a cultivated, intellectual man of mystery. Or, alternatively, cheers on having crafted two humorous fake craigslist ads and one thought-provoking hoax of an AskMe thread.
omg
“I have a natural accent” “pinstripes and a fedora” OMG this is hilarious
It’s from 2007, so I think that’s before the fedora became synonymous with douchebaggery. It warms my little heart to know that men like this helped to bring about that particular stereotype that we are enjoying today.
OH MY GOD
It’s like the proto-Nice Guy. I feel like we’ve unearthed an early ancestor of the Pick Up Artist and I cannot stop reading.
I was reminded of my very sweet and lovely former toyboy, who said he wanted to start a thing with me because ‘girls my age are scared of it and I want someone to teach me how to be good in bed and how to use it in a non-terrifying way’. Obviously I thought he was flattering himself and rolled my eyes, then I saw it and he was totally telling the truth.
His girlfriend after me gave me a box of chocolates in thanks.
That is absolutely adorable is what that is.
Bless you child, for you are doing the Lord’s work.
The Daimler out-of-office message kind of cracks me up. I’m just going to copy it word for word the next time I go on vacation. Right down to the “contact Hans or Monika”. I don’t even know a Hans or Monika!
“Please email anyone at Daimler if there’s an emergency. They’ll know what to do.”
Dear The Toast:
your gif game is strong. never change.
Warm Regards,
Noodge
Ew but all those Buzzfeed jobs are in New York. (Plus I can’t move to the States at all because of your terrible health care situation and my chronic conditions! \o/)
There are some in Brazil and the UK!
My local newspaper partners with CNHI and their crapitorial on Ferguson this morning made me want to set things on fire.
(I did not set things on fire. I prefer the kitchen table and surrounds in an uncharred state.)
The Roxanne Gay piece was amazing (no surprise) but still so heartbreaking and then I saw the article link about the last polar bear in Africa dying of a broken heart and I am so fucking done for the day and it’s not even 9am JFC.
The guy from 10 Things I Hate About You started a religion! With things like this! “The meditation at the service had involved water crystals, which participants used to focus their energy to bring an ending to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.”
http://www.vice.com/read/andrew-keegan-started-a-…
WHAAAAAAAAAAT what what what what.
Joey “Eat Me” Donner has his own religion now. I am DONE.
“Venice Beach’s burner community was out in full force for the evening, wearing their desert-inspired Lord of the Rings costumes.”
MY PEOPLE
I couldn’t even finish reading that article. Too many instances of the word “synchronicity.”
Alternative first line: “Realizing that “they keep getting younger” and they may not have seen 10 Things I Hate About You, Andrew Keegan finds a new way to coerce young women into sex.”
We can start our own religions? Let’s DO THIS, TOASTIES
… My brain just shorted out. I think I said “stop it. stop it. stop it.” about 10 times. This is so great.
Are “water crystals” the substance sometimes known as “ice”?
A healthy growl and its liberal use is something that should be taught to all daughters.
Sons, too, I guess.
No. NO. Faux News, you do not get to lecture black people on the appropriate way to respond to the racist state violence against them. Violence that you, Faux News, have encouraged and perpetuated through your fear-mongering, gun- and police-fetishizing, race-baiting ways. NO NO NO NO NO.
Nicole, you of all people should know full well that Art is paintings of horses!
Considering the amazing use of GIF’s today, won’t somebody think of the children and insert a horsey GIF pretty please?
ART
You’re wonderful!
Sent from my iPad
Don’t forget ships with sails and men holding swords while staring off into the distance.
1000% over white people erasing MLK’s radicalism in order to create a version of history [edited I should say “we’re” and not “they’re”] more comfortable with while simultaneously trying to shame black people into submission. 1000% over this country and this week and UGH I’m so angry.
You would think that at some point in the educational process every kid in America would be required to spend some time with Letter from Birmingham jail and his Nobel Prize speech but clearly that’s still too edgy.
He’s much better as a stick to beat the ethnics with when they start getting too, y’know, ‘civil rights-ey’
Sorta like every ‘good’ form of political dissidence has to revolve around being totally unobtrusive and ignorable with a petition or a couple people with placards and a lame chant way out of everybody’s way in the hopes that that’s somehow enough to trigger a highly televised police riot which will totally open everyone’s eyes and make the world a better place, and if anyone so much as flips the bird the movement is forever discredited, because Gandhi somehow
I still can’t figure out if that’s better or worse than my history textbook (made for super-conservative religious people homeschooling their kids! like, so super-conservative it made my parents uncomfortable, and my parents were ACTUAL MISSIONARIES) that brought up MLK and then went “Also, he cheated on his wife. He totally cheated on his wife. We should talk about this so that you should know to be really wary of people everyone says are really good people and who everyone admires because did we mention he cheated on his wife?”
…I guess both versions suck lots. That’s a safe conclusion.
I am 100% behind that deleting emails received while on vacation bit. I can’t tell you how many times I have been away or in the field or something and come back to fifty emails at least, and I’m still a “junior” employee.
That letter about tracking the IP of her harasser back to a friend is making my skin crawl. I hope for her sake that it’s not him, but I don’t know much about IP tracking apart from fandom wank. It sounds like pretty damning evidence to me… If so, SET FIRE TO HIM.
I know, I am already anticipating the gaslighting he is going to perform if she calls him on it.
Luckily, all the gas will help fuel the fire she will set him on.
US Rep. Hank Johnson is introducing a bill to stem the tide of military weapons going to police.
Thanks, Rep. Johnson! Good job, people who are doing RIGHT AND RESPONSIBLE THINGS HERE, REALLY, IS THIS SO HARD?
The Smithsonian Libraries Instagram account is also delightful.
LOVING the Smithsonian GIF’s, the Roxanne Gay & Sea World article, Prudie, etc. Another great Link Roundup!
Scuttles off to read the Wilder collaboration, knowing it’s gonna be great and deliciously dishy.
I, too, was garbage at pronouns as a wee child. It Gets Better.
Or not for a while (in my case), but it stays funny!
My boyfriend is currently garbage at pronouns. Last night while we were driving home from a movie, he announced, “I didn’t realize how hungry it was until just now.” We’ve decided that “it” is whatever hideous monster lurks inside his heart.
this made me laugh figgie
So I feel silly commenting on this after a morning of reading about much more serious things, but do you folks have a policy for reporting crap advertising that shows up randomly on the Toast? I’ve been getting Male Gaze via American Apparel butts on the sidebar all morning.
Yep, screenshot and email to pavich at the toast dot net with the name of the piece it appeared in!
Shall do so when it appears again! Thanks!
Loved the article on Brackett and Wilder. I clicked on the link about Brackett’s ancestry and discovered that we’re cousins! I’m so pleased that the author thinks that we have a prestigious heritage, but really, I know for a fact that a great many of our mutual ancestors are dirtbags. High class dirtbags, but dirtbags just the same.
Genealogy! YAY! (I’m reinventing myself as a professional genealogist. Toasties are welcome to try my services for free!)
grade a ferguson coverage here by the way. I love this place. I hope you get Buzzfeed money one day.
Fox News: because when lunatic Christians want to harass women for making private medical decisions, it’s FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY AND MAYBE GUNS TOO – but when Black people want to protest the murder of a teenager, it’s a fucking national threat.
No one ever wants to hire anyone who lives in Iowa. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, BUZZFEED!
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE AGATHA CHRISTIE OF IOWA!!! Make it happen, Lyz. MAKE. IT. HAPPEN.
I selfishly, incredibly selfishly, want Sea World to stay open because they do a nightly fireworks show in the summer and I can see those fireworks from my front window. Though more than that, I want them to clean up their act and stop mistreating whales and other animals. My ideal world contains both those truths.
I want them to come to my house! They went to my friends' last week. I am super curious about Mormonism, but I think the area they are sent to is pretty vast, so they will not be back to my tiny town. Also, for any mormons on the toast, I think being a missionary would be really hard. When I lived in a big city I would always smile and wave at them because they looked slightly overwhelmed. And now that I live in a place where it would be totally fine to have randos in my house, they aren't around. Sad day.
I probably shouldn't engage but…
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Agatha Christie kept her first husband's name, even after he left her for another woman…because she was already a rich and famous author with that name. So suck on that, Archie.
(Actually, eventually they were on friendly terms and she remarried a hot archeologist many years younger than herself. But, you know, rock on, Agatha.)
I feel like this needs to be embroidered on a pillow.