If you don’t know what to do with yourself on this afternoon, might I recommend treating yourself to Robert Benchley’s “What–No Budapest?”
As you may or may not have heard, our own beloved Roxane is in the hospital laid up with a badly broken ankle, so we’re pushing the launch of the Butter back for a while.
An Obstetrician In Paris has a nice sort of sound to it, I think.
No big deal, we just ran an interview with Tanjua Desai Hidier this week.
What a nice harvest it’s been, let’s not murder anybody
Oh bless all of your HEARTS:
Rent became a sort of cultural currency among the theatre kids in my high school. We made a competitive/collaborative show of sing-shouting “La Vie Boheme” in the hallway after school, a feat of both memory (given its We-Didn’t-Start-the-Fire-esque catalogue of lyrics) and boldness (it took a special sort of Hoosier teen to yell “SODOMY, IT’S BETWEEN GOD AND ME” on school property in the early 2000s).
Can you guys read Hey Ladies without having to peek from through your fingers? BECAUSE I CAN’T.
*Morrissey voice* So ask me, ask me, ask me and don’t talk over Muslim women who want to talk about their experiences.
I have continued my streak of only reviewing movies about vampires, haunted catacombs, and Hercules this year with Dracula Untold: The Saddest Dad. It’s made me very happy.
ABORTIONS FOR EVERYBODY IN FICTION
Tags: meta, toast points
“‘The work can wait,'” I said, quoting our business motto.
Has anyone seen the Facebook comments where Bitch Magazine shared the list of characters who would have benefited from an abortion? Because apparently Bitch readers are very concerned about people “shaming” fictional characters about their choices to have kids. Because, you know, fictional ladies are making these choices and not, like, the people who write them.
Well, life is a rich tapestry.
I didn’t read that Tanuja Desai Hidier piece when it was first published because it looked (to me) like native advertising. I think because so much of your ad content is book-related, and the introduction to the interview is very straightforward without much of a “Toast voice.” I’m not complaining, but I thought maybe y’all could use the data point.
oh my gosh if our native advertising was in-depth interviews with South-Asian-American novelists who write beautiful coming-of-age books you all would have no right to complain about it
“Oh god, it’s just more auto-generated external content detailing the lives and inspirations of wonderfully creative people, ho hum.”
This one about Spy Scares is pretty good, too.
This one about Spy Scares is pretty good, too.
Wait, I thought it was “abortions for some, miniature American flags for others [in fiction]”
Twirling, twirling, whirling towards reproductive freedom!
The Toast has been the only good thing about this week.
Co-sign. A friend passed away, I thought I was going to be forced out of my job, my new meds are making me so, so tired. Thank god for The Toast.
The Toast has been the only good thing about this week.
you and i remember budapest very differently BOOM
OH NO! I broke my ankle once.
ETA I just found her post on the ankle-breaking http://roxanegay.tumblr.com/post/100195578415/acc…
Sounds so similar to my break (only I broke mine trying to walk down a steep hill, not from passing out). I wish I knew her so I could go visit her in the hospital and commiserate.
#anklestrong #wearecyborg
Broke mine falling off a horse. VERY PAINFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE #anklestrong