Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the critically acclaimed new musical Hamilton, hopes to film the Broadway production with its current cast, according to a Tweet posted by the Tony-winning composer Oct. 5.
Miranda’s Tweet clarified a posting on Vulture.com in which the composer-lyricist reportedly said the production would be filmed before June 2016, adding, “You-couldn’t-make-it-up filmmakers have been coming to the show…I have talked to producers about filming this cast before this cast moves on.”
WELL:
Upon his death, Fiorina praised Shumate as “the heart and soul” of her team. She issued a news release praising him as a person who believed in “investing in those he worked with” and offering her “sincerest condolences” to his widow.
But records show there was something that Fiorina did not offer his widow: Shumate’s last paycheck, for at least $30,000. It was one of more than 30 invoices, totaling about $500,000, that the multimillionaire didn’t settle — even as Fiorina reimbursed herself nearly $1.3 million she lent the campaign. She finally cleared most of the balance in January, a few months before announcing her run for president.
“Occasionally, I’d call and tell her she should pay them,” said Martin Wilson, Fiorina’s former campaign manager, who found Shumate after the pollster collapsed from a heart attack. “She just wouldn’t.”
WELLLLL:
“People are just upset and angry and throwing her under the bus,” said Jon Cross, Fiorina’s operations director for her Senate campaign. “If we didn’t win, why do you deserve to get paid? If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”
Anti-vaxxers are mad that the primate study they funded did NOT show a link between autism and vaccines:
She added that all of the researchers, technicians and behaviorists involved in collection and analysis of data did not know which of the monkeys were in the vaccine groups or the control group. The researchers also implemented a “chain of custody” protocol once the data were collected, in which they reviewed chronological documentation that shows the control, transfer and analysis of all data sets. Hewitson says that her team used an independent statistical consultant for all data analysis, and that two additional outside investigators from two other academic institutions confirmed their findings.
how did no one tell them not to do this
The inner lives of animals:
The best wolves are brilliant leaders that pursue lifelong strategies in order to lead their families to success. According to wolf watchers, the greatest wolf Yellowstone has ever known was Twenty-one (wolf researchers use numbers rather than names for individuals). He was big and brave, once taking on six attacking wolves and routing them all. He never lost a fight, but he was also magnanimous, for he never killed a vanquished enemy. And that made him as unusual among wolves as did his size and strength. He was born into the first litter of Yellowstone pups following the reintroduction of wolves in the park. Twenty-one’s big break came at age two and a half when he left his family and joined a pack whose alpha male had been shot just two days earlier. He adopted the dead wolf’s pups and helped to feed them.
A telling characteristic of Twenty-one was the way he loved to wrestle with the little ones and pretend to lose. The wolf expert Rick McIntyre said, “He’d just fall on his back with his paws in the air. And the triumphant-looking little one would be standing over him with his tail wagging.” “The ability to pretend,” McIntyre said, “shows that you understand how your actions are perceived by others. It indicates high intelligence.”
I am heartened that Isabella Cruise at least married out of the cult.
Every five years, someone writes about Times Square, so here we go (I used to work on 45th St btwn 6th and Broadway and it was…invigorating. Once I came back to the office from getting my pupils dilated at the optician’s, and it was like being in Tron):
When the Times Square Alliance commissioned a survey in 2012 and asked respondents for the word that best describes the area, the top three negative answers given by New Yorkers were “touristy,” “crowded,” and “noisy.” (The top three negative words among respondents nationwide: “crowded,” “touristy,” and “commercialized” — even the tourists like to complain about the tourists.) These are the exact sentiments that the Times Square Alliance is hoping to change. Its recent mandate, in part, is to give Times Square back to New Yorkers — or, at least, to reimagine Times Square as something New Yorkers might embrace. “It’s the geographical center of the city and a huge transportation hub,” says Sherry Dobbin, who was hired by the TSA in 2012 as its director of public art. “So the idea is: How do we also make it a cultural hub?” Sure, there’s Broadway, but there’s also no reason why you can’t stage cultural happenings in Times Square that New Yorkers would actively seek out. To that end, Dobbins has instituted events like the Midnight Moment, when most of the billboards are given over for three minutes to a visiting artist. In a larger sense, the mandate is about reinventing Times Square in people’s imaginations as a place to gather in and enjoy, rather than to avoid or endure. “We want to have a larger conversation,” Tompkins says. “What’s the vision for this public space? What can Times Square be?”
What Tangerine gets right about sex work and trans friendships:
Trans sex workers’ rights activist Morgan M. Page points out that it’s also one of very few films that portrays trans women in relationships with other trans people. “Most films produced by and for cis people presume that trans people are islands, unattached to communities of other trans people, drowning in a sea of cis people,” she explains. “In this way, Tangerine succeeds where nearly every film and book featuring trans characters written by cis people has failed for the past one hundred years in Anglophone culture.”
Please enjoy a depressing piece about the future of recycling:
IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility. As you sort everything into the right bins, you probably assume that recycling is helping your community and protecting the environment. But is it? Are you in fact wasting your time?
My friend Carrie’s new puppy is ready to play cards:
Puppy staring contest!
When your candidate is most well known for being a really poor CEO of a large company who made numerous bad decisions, maybe this isn’t the best approach. Imagine if HP had just not paid Fiorina anything at all, or at least stiffed her of her golden parachute.
“People are just upset and angry and throwing her under the bus,” said Jon Cross, Fiorina’s operations director for her Senate campaign. “If we didn’t win, why do you deserve to get paid? If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”
Aside from just how hypocritical and ridiculous that statement is… they mutually entered into an agreement in which he rendered services in exchange for money, you can’t reneg on that after the work’s already done…?
oh yeah, absolutely. Also, as if it’s the fault of a pollster and whoever else that a Republican candidate in California lost.
yeah if people ain’t buying it the fault may be with what you’re selling, Carly, not how you’re selling it.
Look man you don’t get to be a rich person by conducting your business dealings fairly and honorably.
that’s what I’ve been doing wrong!
Well, shit.
I am sputtering VERY LOUDLY having seen some of those exec comp packages at a lower level. Basically if you get hired in a C-suite job you’re being paid enough to retire even if you fuck up royally. With great power comes great responsibility MY ASS.
In a more perfect world, six months from this guy would be long due his last paycheck from this campaign.
If you want some kind of agreement that they only get paid if you win — assuming it’s legal; it might not be — that’s cool and you write that into the contract AT THE BEGINNING, not go like “well, sure, you did your job but we lost so, sucks to be you”.
EXACTLY. Unless there’s a written agreement beforehand to the effect of “I’m cool volunteering all my time and services if you don’t win,” which does not sound like a standard agreement for political operatives, this is some ballsy bullshit. Everyone knows what a volunteer is! There’s no established class of “volunteer if we lose, employee if we win.”
There is for lawyers: it’s called contingency fee, where they only get paid if you win the case, and generally they take their fee out of the winnings. But that is ABSOLUTELY SPELLED OUT UP FRONT IN THE CONTRACT.
Also, there are often laws about the types of cases that can and can’t be done on a contingency basis.
There’s NO FEE unless WE win the ELECTION for YOU!
Jim “The Pollster” Shapiro
I actually worked for an environmental consulting company that had a client do this. They prepared the application for regulatory review, the regulator rejected the project as too risky, and the client sued the consultants saying they should give the money back if they “failed” to get the approval. When that didn’t work they sued the government instead.
I truly hope they lost so much money. All the money.
Well, yes…but they won the case against the government and had the rejection overturned as “unfair”. It’s spent a couple years flailing about in limbo and I hope it stays there forever while they hemorrhage money.
They did their jobs. It’s y’all that failed. Pay up.
OMG please read this article on online dating scams http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-w…
It’s so screwed up and bizarre and yet strangely intriguing all at the same time.
I read that yesterday and just… what. Though I can totally imagine the cycle this kinda thing throws you in where deep down you KNOW it’s a scam but you’ve already given everything you have to it and to live without it would be devastating so you just double down on your committment to it 🙁
“Psychologist Monica Whitty, a coauthor of the British study who specializes in romance-scam research, has found that although the people who get fooled by the Yahoo Boys are not necessarily lonelier or more trusting than their peers, they do tend to score highly on tests that measure how much they idealize romantic love. They are thus prone to fall fast and hard for anyone who showers them with exaggerated affection, even if that affection is expressed only via emails and instant messages.”
Oh wow the psychology stuff packed in here is so much. It’s interesting to divorce trusting-ness (gullibility?) from idealization of romantic love. I wonder if these fake-romance scams work better than, say, the monetary-gain-motivated ones (Nigerian prince wants to wire you money, etc.) or if they’re equally successful with different demographics.
Oof that last line really got me. Oh honey.
Yeah, that’s a punch in the gut.
The way these scammers play on such a basic need–to be loved and valued–it’s devastating.
what really struck me was her increasingly desperate schemes to get money – it sounded just like an addiction story. the idea of needing to feel loved as much as one can need a drug is terrifying.
Man, that was insane.
Oh man, I have a good friend who got totally sucked into one of these scams and didn’t get out until she had sent a sizable chunk of money. She’s not stupid or naive, but she just found it irresistible to be pursued so diligently by this “guy.” She was so hurt and ashamed when she realized the scam–I wanted to find the people responsible and rip their eyeballs out for doing that to her.
What a horror story. So chilling and sad — I’m really sorry she didn’t have someone to pull her out of it from the start. It’s awful what can happen to emotionally vulnerable people.
That’s so depressing. And from the outside it seems so impossible – it’s obviously a scam! Look at the quality of the English! None of the scenarios make sense! Anyone who asks you to send loads of money to various overseas bank accounts is scamming you! But once you’re in that situation, it must be so hard to get out.
Okay guys, who’s gonna read the epic love story of Beaufort and Edythe????
(i can’t even with those names it’s killing me)
Is this basically what EL James just did, rewrite the thing from the guy’s POV? Keep raking in that $$$ I guess
Nope, that was Midnight Sun which got abandoned a while back since it got leaked on the Internet (obviously, James stole that idea from SMeyer too). In this, Bella = Beaufort and Edward = Edythe. I give it three months until we get a gender swapped Fifty Shades
Oops, I was typing my comment when yours posted.
I hate that I know this, but actually Stephenie Meyer already rewrote Twilight from the guy’s perspective, but it was leaked and so she never ended up publishing it. Which means that EL James ripped off not only Meyer’s story but also her idea of rewriting her own story. Which makes me curious if EL James is about to release a genderswapped version of 50 Shades of Grey.
I thought she did publish a genderswapped 50 Shades of Grey? (Did I somehow dream this? I HOPE NOT)
EDIT oh wait no I see I have the concepts mixed up, thanks guys
I can understand being confused because why would she just keep reworking the same concept over and over and over again? It’s almost like she doesn’t have any other ideas…
No, she did Fifty Shades from Christian’s perspective. She’s not talented enough to dream up the things Stephenie Meyer hasn’t done yet.
This reminds me of the time me and some friends put lady-centric erotica into http://regender.com/ so we could finally have stories about delicate wilting dudes and their virile lady lovers. XD
Oh my god, thank you! Rereading Pride and Prejudice right now: http://regender.com/swap/http://www.literaturepro…
(a little taste: “Why, my dear, you must know, Mr. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young woman of large fortune from the north of England; that she came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that she agreed with Ms. Morgan immediately; that she is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of her servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
“What is her name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is she married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single woman of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our boys!”)
OH my god this might be all I desire in life
I never knew that I wanted this and yet this all makes so much sense.
i read a fanfiction with this concept and it was so charming.
YES.
I want to begin casting for the movie immediately!
I would be up for a spot of fancasting! My vote is Zoe Saldaña for Ms. Darcy (or Ms. David as it comes out in the regender page) and Tom Hardy for Elias (Elizabeth) Bennet.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
OH MY GOD
Just this passage makes me smile like a loon, thank you! (Also think about how we gender strange things, such that it immediately seems thrilling and passionate that she came down in chaise and four on her own, and was so excited about the place, whereas it’s just normal for a male character.)
You’re KILLING me, Stephenie.
Wait I really can’t figure out what’s going on with this: is she actually just swapping the names and the pronouns? (From the article, it kind of seems like it…)
That sounds like a love story between a toad and a turtle. I was disappointed by that click.
I can’t believe this is real. The Twilight world is a bizarre gift that keeps on giving (minor variations on itself).
Oh, and it’s out today! And there’s livetweeting! O frabjous day!
I was just thinking it had been a while since I’d heard anything about Twilight. That was a nice time. (But here for Cleolinda, natch.)
It’s not fair that someone gets to have an adorable baby AND an adorable puppy in their house at the same time.
If it’s any consolation, they’re definitely paying for it with the amount of poo they have to deal with on the daily.
This dose of reality genuinely makes me feel better about not having a puppy or baby at my house.
Yet, I’ll bet that the hard core antivaxxers are going to complain that the study was flawed due to infiltration by the dreaded ninjas of BIG PHARMA.
(Speaking of big pharma, I’ve put my back out. It’s the worst it’s been in years. Besides drugs and heating pads, what can I do?)
I do not know but I am right there with you.
Lower back? I have often found relief by laying on the floor with my legs going straight up a wall.
Not sure what your insurance or money situation is, but maybe a massage therapist could be a good investment, and sometimes a portion of it will be covered by insurance under “wellness” stuff. I have some sort of weird lower back/hip pain that has been immensely helped by regular fish oil supplements, but I have no idea why 🙂
It’s a bit of an anti-inflammatory (also a blood thinner).
Seconding this, also potentially physical therapy – physical therapy can often involve a lot of massage, but usually also includes strengthening exercises/education to try to keep things from happening again. It might be easier to get a prescription and/or get it covered by your insurance for one or the other, so good to keep both options in mind!
If you can possibly afford it, I’d see a sports therapist as soon as you’re reasonably mobile again. I did a much worse number on my back than I thought and delayed my return to the gym by a year because I didn’t get professional help sooner. So….
I second this. I threw my back out to the point that I had to lay on the floor at work to keep from crying and broke down & went to a chiropractor who specialized in sports therapy. He refused to do any cracking on my spine and did only physical therapy for a few weeks. Saved me. (I was lucky and he was covered by insurance. I had to pay a $15 copay for each visit, but it was worth it.
You should be handing out his business cards to strangers you meet in line at the grocery store- reasonable respectable chiropractors always seem so hard to find even though I know they’re everywhere.
I enjoy chiropractic adjustments, and second the physical therapist recommendations. My chiropractor has given me a series of ridiculous simple exercises (like, how does this even count as doing anything? Like, lifting my knee up for a few seconds) that really do help a lot.
Also do your best to avoid any asymmetric poses (don’t cross your legs, don’t lean on one leg, don’t reach sideways for anything (especially don’t unload the dishwasher! woo!), don’t let yourself tip over sideways when scrolling through the internet, don’t carry a bag on one shoulder, etc.). And don’t try to have sex in any even slightly interesting positions (current status: it seemed like it would be worth it at the time, but it wasn’t).
THAT BEING SAID I have definitely had instances in which bedroom activity seemed to have jarred vertebrae back into place?
Sometimes it seems to relax things enough that they can go back where they’re supposed to be! Maybe I should try again. In a less acrobatic style.
Muscle relaxers and ibuprofen are my best friends when my back gets angry–you gotta get those muscles to quit spasming before they can heal. Then, when you’re healed again, do those exercises you know you should do that I also don’t do.
Shoutout to robax for getting me through a week of couriering after being hit by a car! Woo!
As an American, I am SO ANGRY that stuff isn’t over-the-counter in the USA. I have been known to ask Canadian friends visiting us/American friends heading north, to bring me a bottle for which I reimburse them (neither has happened in ages, alas). If I’m having the kind of cramps that make me want to curl up and die, they are amazing. I mean, I sleep through them, but my day is shot one way or the other at that point, so I’d rather be asleep than in constant pain.
I suppose I should just ask a doctor for muscle relaxants.
I’d highly suggest getting a referral for physical therapy (and staying away from chiropractors and similar quacks).
I would also suggest staying away from steroid injections- there seems to be a growing body of evidence that they don’t work particularly well, and they can have some unpleasant side effects.
steroid injections actually worked on me, but gave me the WORST side effect.
i went 2 years without any back issues at all, after some pretty severe spasms that left me unable to stand up because pain where they finally gave the epidural because what else could we do. it worked! but it also gave me POTS/dysautonomia for 2 years and i’m still dealing with tachycardia and blood pressure problems as a result of 2 years of being unable to do any exercise.
anyway, yeah, i agree: avoid the injections until other options have been tried.
the butt steroid injection didn’t really have any effect, which is why they went to the epidural for me.
Yeah, ice and chiropractor is what works for me. Heat feels good, but it seems to make recovery longer, not shorter 🙁
Massage Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Chiropractors are all people who could be helpful, or might not be helpful.
There won’t be quite as much variability with Physical Therapists– they generally go to similar schools with similar outlooks. Some will, of course, be better than others. Some will be a better personality fit for you, or have more experience, or stay up to date on research/new techniques. But they are mostly using the same sorts of tools for the same problems.
If interested in Massage, try to find someone that specifically talks about things like sports injuries.
Chiropractors are very diverse. Most chiropractors have been required to go to school to learn pseudoscience bullshit. Many of them buy into it, but not all of them. Some of them practice something that is more similar to physical therapy and/or massage therapy, and help people to correct their posture, strengthen muscles, etc. Some chiropractors think that slight misallignments in the spine can cause viral infections, and design their “treatments” so that you feel better for a short amount of time, but never actually “get better”, so you keep going to see them indefinitely. (This huge variability is troublesome for the random internet advice giver- on one hand, there are lots of people who have been helped by chiropractors, and who were more easily able to access that sort of care than a PT or MT due to insurance, but received treatment similar to that a PT or MT might offer. On the other hand, there are a lot of quacks and snake oil salespeople in the field, who cannot offer anything other than the placebo effect.)
So, basically, before you let someone put their hands on you and manipulate your body, ask around locally, make an appointment, and then interview them a bit. Ask them what their plan is, how it will help, and why they’re doing that versus something else. If they don’t want to explain these sorts of things to you, they might be a quack, or they might just be an asshole. Either way, probably not the person for you.
*wild applause*
TENS unit, if you haven’t tried that yet, it’s worth a shot. I’ve had shoulder problems off and on for nearly two decades at this point, and had a horrible flare-up last December that made me cry from pain and meant all I could do, really, was lie on my back in bed.
I borrowed a TENS unit and it felt much worse at first, but the next day I had improved dramatically, and within a few days I was back to normal. I mean, for all I know I was about to feel better anyway.
So, I finally did it. I listened to Hamilton while reading along with the lyrics. I finished it last night and my eyes are still red and watery this morning. How dare you. How could you.
Once my sobbing subsided into shallow belabored breathing, I started looking up video clips of the performers. You can hear even from the recording how dynamic they are, how they must be moving around and interacting with each other, and I really wanted to see their faces! There’s only a little bit of promotional footage I could find, so I can. not. wait. to see a film version with the same cast. So excited about that.
There’s a fair amount here, although fragmented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBEpTrPhd2Q
Yep, that’s the one I found! I kept thinking there would be more because I’ve seen so many mashups on Tumblr, but those appear to have been made with clips from the B-roll.
Yess! Thank you for sharing this. I had been looking for footage of the performance. Definitely looking forward to a film version.
Ohhhhhhhhh I’m so happy now <3 <3 <3
AHHHH it’s already taken down
woe is me
There’s a 10 minute video here. (I think–I’m at work so I can’t check if it’s still up.) I assume it’s pre-Broadway, because there are no stage turntables of doom.
wow they are really on it– this one is sadly down as well! i suppose i WILL have to just buy tickets for next year and then be frugal until then!
Yeah, I know that I am super late to this party but WOW I literally have been listening to it on repeat non-stop for the last week. I briefly considered waiting until I could see it but then realized that’s not gonna happen for… probably years, and certainly not with the original cast, so I just dove right in there and now it is everywhere in my life. SO EXCITED for the filming!
YESSS! Sarraaaaa, I can’t wait for us to talk about Hamilton, it has consumed me. I’m so excited that you listened to it!
There’s a 10 minute video here. (I think–I’m at work so I can’t check if it’s still up.) I assume it’s pre-Broadway, because there are no stage turntables of doom.
Beyond frustrated by the suffragette t-shirts.
1) Sure, the late 19th/early 20th century women’s rights movement used the term “slavery” to talk about the status of women, especially married women, in a patriarchal society. That doesn’t mean it belongs in sound-bite form on a t-shirt in 2015.
2) The early British feminist movement was not anti-racist, per se. Some people argued that white women deserved the vote because they were helping to civilize and govern the rest of the Empire. So the “slavery” rhetoric was, arguably, just as tone-deaf in 190x as it is today.
3) It was EMMELINE PANKHURST. WHY CAN’T WE EMBRACE THE AWESOME SYLVIA PANKHURST INSTEAD? she was a pacifist and socialist who broke with her mother (Emmeline) and sister over WWI, being unwilling to trade votes for nationalist warmongering. She is the best Pankhurst, and the most overlooked Pankhurst.
tl;dr don’t defend this crappy t-shirt by talking about historical context. my hair will catch fire.
Who who was like YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA?! …and then everyone afterwards “oh what problem no I don’t see a problem with that”
UM. VERY NO.
That’s what’s baffling me! How did NO ONE involved in this photoshoot stop and go “um . . . guys?” I can see one clueless person thinking it was a good idea, but NO ONE realized the implications? How sheltered/clueless ARE the people working on this movie?
#whitefauxminism
On the racist thing, this article from last year is enlightening: http://the-toast.net/2014/04/21/suffragettes-suck…
Best comment on the topic.
Oh man, one day last year I fell down the Wikipedia rabbit hole reading all about the Pankhursts. Here, I summed up what I learned:
-Emmeline Pankhurst married at the age of 20 to a man 24 years older than her, who was fortunately sympathetic to women’s rights
-She had five children, including three prominent daughters (Christabel, Sylvia, Adela)
-Both Emmeline and Christabel served prison time. In fact, on one occasion, Emmeline made sure she was arrested by hitting a police officer twice in the face
-They also both endorsed terrorist tactics (it’s referred to as “arson,” but they also did their best to create explosives, and they threw an axe at the car carrying the prime minister. And also laid a hatchet inside with “Votes for Women” written on it, oh my God)
–This is Christabel Pankhurst and I’m just fascinated by her face. That is a woman who does not take any shit.
-Christabel also wrote a book about STDs, promoting awareness and how suffrage for women would help
-Christabel marched in step with her mother with the militant suffragette activism, but when WWI broke out, they both called for a timeout and supported the British government in the war effort – which upset a lot of other suffragettes, including sister Sylvia
-Sylvia didn’t like the militant activism, nor Christabel’s focus just on middle- and upper-class women
-Sylvia focused on helping working women and soldiers’ wives during the war, establishing a toy factory to give them work, and advocating for peace, which pissed her mother and Christabel off
-Emmeline and Christabel were both angry at Sylvia for differing from their organization’s policies, and finally they kicked her out. –
-When Sylvia created her own suffragette organization, Emmeline told her she couldn’t use the word “suffragette” in the name, but Sylvia refused to change it, which pissed Emmeline off even more
-Sylvia never liked the idea of marriage or taking a husband’s name, but she moved in with an Italian anarchist, with whom she eventually had a son (Richard, who carries her name and is still alive)
-Emmeline actually broke ties with her over her being an unwed mother and never spoke to her again. Nothing else had been the final straw, but that one did it!
-Sylvia had been a socialist/communist, but in the 1930s she focused more on anti-fascism and anti-colonialism, and MI5 started tracking all her correspondence from 1936 on
-She became highly interested in Ethiopia (fundraising for their first teaching hospital and writing extensively on their art and culture), and then became friends with Haile Selassie. He invited her to come live in Addis Ababa, so she moved there with her son, and that’s where she died in 1960. Haile Selassie gave her a state funeral and named her an honorary Ethiopian.
-Sylvia’s son Richard still lives in Ethiopia. He’s written two books on his mother
-Richard’s son Alula is a “social development consultant” who studies Ethiopian issues and has also led a number of philanthropic programs for Africa
-Back now to Emmeline’s third daughter: though Adela had been involved enough in her mother’s suffrage organization to serve her round of prison time, she also hadn’t been a fan of the violent tactics or the war, and she ended up leaving the group. She didn’t have a job, so Emmeline ended up paying for her relocation to Australia. They never saw each other again
-Adela also worked in peace organizations during the war, and supported communism, then later anti-communism, and was interned for advocating peace with Japan at the start of WWII
-Christabel, meanwhile ended up moving to California, where she became an evangelical Christian and frequent TV guest
Daaaang I need to get another baby or a dog so I can name it Sylvia.
Oh my god this family should be a TV show
Well, if anything could bring down the Kardashians. 😀
Welp, I guess I need to start reading some biographies…
I had dinner with someone who knows a lady descendent of the Pankhursts. Her only comment was “her husband is a very quiet man.”
” If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”
Are you fucking KIDDING ME? You work for a lady who took a MILLION DOLLAR PAYOUT FOR GETTING FIRED FROM A COMPANY THAT SHE TANKED.
uggggh I fucking hate business people it is literally 100% of the time “deserve deserve deserve” and there is no moral principle, whatever “deserve” might mean, all it ever does mean is “I should get paid and the people I owe money to shouldn’t.”
Once I worked for a director who was against giving raises so much she said, in an irate, put upon tone, “They should just be grateful to have jobs!”
This is why our economy is struggling -those are the people in charge. So stingy and mean spirited, they remind me of scrooge
yeah, and however it goes, whatever the rule is, it’s never ME that should be grateful to have to job, it’s never, “I’m going to give up MY raise, or cut MY salary, because I’m thankful to just have a job.” This dumb motherfucker isn’t going to turn around and say, “You shouldn’t complain about getting paid if you don’t succeed, and that’s why if we lose this election I’m going to be giving all of my paychecks back.”
Ohhhh what a COINCIDENCE! Your moral philosophy reinforces all of the things that you were already doing! Lucky how that turned out, that you figured out the difference between right and wrong and it just happened to exactly match your own personal self-interest!
One of the leadership-type humans in my office used that line in response to employees suggesting casual Fridays… at a forum designed specifically to address low morale.
It’s not a for-profit enterprise, and it wasn’t a suggestion that would cost money, so it honestly took me past “ugggh profit motive” to “wow this human’s perspective is… really different, how ’bout that“
Last time I went to New York I had to walk through Times Square more than once (because the person I was visiting worked in one of the buildings there) and it was like I had descended into my own personal hell. My favorite joke in Mistress America was when Greta Gerwig’s character said that she moved to TImes Square because she thought it was the cool place to live.
I went to Times Square for the first time in maybe ever this summer, because I was visiting NYC with European friends who had never been. I actually found it fascinating, but I tend to find postmodern media-saturated hellscapes fascinating.
Then you would love walking through Times Square an hour after the New Year is rung in. It is empty. Deserted. A bit of detritus and some haphazardly placed barriers from when the countdown crowd was penned in. And all of those bright lights and brand logos shine upon nothing, dancing for no one.
I have family on the east coast. When we visit them, as a reward for not losing our minds over their racist, conservative nonsense, MJoy and I always take a trip to the city. During one trip, late at night, we were tired and fried and wandering around and somehow accidentally* ended up in Times Square. ohgodohgodohgodohgod
* – I know. It’s ridiculous, but that’s how tired and fried. Also probably ranting about some cousin’s racist comments.
I lived in New York for two years and went to Times Square exactly once: the night Obama was elected president for the first time. It was glorious; for once all those people and lights and noise were exactly what I was looking for.
Unrelated but: As someone trying to get back to the UK, Theresa May’s immigration speech this morning is giving me a panic attack, and it’s not even 10 AM.
Yes. Her speech filled me with pure rage. They kept talking about it on the news this morning before she’d done it and said what she was going to say, and I was listening whilst doing circuits and it REALLY FUELED the exercise. Immigration prevents a cohesive society MY ARSE.
What.. I just. What.
I started to listen, but I just couldn’t finish. It was really disheartening. Heartless, really.
Ugh, Theresa May. Does it? Does it really?
I know that immigration prevents a cohesive society when people move somewhere, settle into their life, and then are forced to leave again because the government is making it harder for people to stay in the country, but that’s about it.
There was even an article in the Torygraph attacking May’s speech. I MEAN.
If even they think you’re being too harsh about immigration, you have unquestionably gone Too Far.
Anything she says breaks my heart. Seriously.
What gets me, what really gets me is that 1. studies by the Home Office, you know, the one she’s in charge of, have disproven most of the ‘facts’ in her own speech. She’s straight up lying. Also, 2. If she’s so against immigration, and she’s been in charge of the home office for the past, what, 5 years? Why is the level of net migration the highest it’s been in 10 years? Is she criticizing herself and pretending it wasn’t her? Does she think her speeches are going to keep immigrants out? Is it all a big show for the Euro in/out vote? Is she trying to get UKIP voters on their side 5 years ahead of the next election?
This staring contest is 800000% cuter than that Marina Abramovic piece.
That Carly Fiorina and Jon Cross don’t seem to understand (or feel entitled to willfully ignore) what a CONTRACT is, shows that she is not in any way qualified to hold any elective office (or know what irony is either -she got millions in severance after trashing HP).
I regret to say that I’m beginning to really hate her with the heat of a thousand burning suns. I don’t like hating people.It takes so much energy. But not paying people who worked for you, who died from overwork in your cause! That’s a special kind of coldheartledness.
Overheard a couple of weeks ago: the two middle-aged conservabros seated behind me on a small but crowded flight noisily discussing the candidates.
American MACB: Now I’m pretty conservative, but I don’t think Trump is the answer.
Canadian MACB: (chuckles knowingly)
American MACB: Now that lady from HP, I liked her. Liked her tone, you know? She reminded me a little of Thatcher.
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I mean seriously, what the hell, because (a) nope and (b) nope.
You know it’s bad when Fiorina makes Thatcher look good.
I bet Thatcher would have at least paid the people she hired.
I’m really excited to see Wesley Morris writing about more than just movies for the New York Times, though I enjoy his movie reviews a lot,
“Artistically, Miranda has created a great night out. Racially, the show tags the entertainment industry status quo with color. It’s obviously musical theater. But damn if it’s not graffiti too.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/magazine/the-ye…
Guys. Guyyyysssss. Can we talk about the terrifying “mothering” coworker at AAM yesterday? Talk about haunting your dreams.
OHMYGOD. Just the title of the post gave me the heebie-jeebies and the actuality of it was so much worse
Just read that a few minutes ago and I cannot comprehend what Sue’s deal is. It truly boggles my mind. Definitely want an update on that one!
Wooaah. And I thought my coworker who can’t go more than 15 minutes without saying something, even if she’s just talking to herself was bad. I am now feeling much more charitable towards her.
Oh maaan that one is a doozy. I’ve fortunately never had anything that bad, but after reading the comments, I’m reminded of one of my own coworkers who seems to have parenting-related boundary issues. He’s got a couple daughters around my age, and will say stuff like, “My daughter went to a One Direction concert last night. Sausagedog, you’re a female, can you explain the appeal of boy bands?” or even worse, “The dog got into the bathroom trash last night. Sausagedog, has your dog ever stolen your tampons from the trash?” And I’m just like “UM, NO” to both.
“has your dog ever stolen your tampons from the trash”
WHA—
THIS IS NEVER AN APPROPRIATE WORK QUESTION
Because yes, being asked “Everything all right down there?” is absolutely what I want my coworkers asking of me.
*shudder*
I have forbidden my actual mother from asking me such questions, so I can’t imagine getting it from a work colleague. What in tarnation.
*tiny screams*
No relation to anything (except that I’m now reading a genderswapped Pride & Prejudice thanks to @Erica_Stratton’s comment below, and so thinking about the concept of femininity a bit), I read this story recently and thought other toasties might like it too: http://www.more.com/relationships/attitudes/femin… Just happens to be by Chimamanda Adichie, my current favorite author. Apologies if it’s been linked before! I get around to everything millions of years late in internet time.
What’s the genderswapped Pride & Prejudice called?
It’s actually just a website shared below that regenders any text (although it seems to be blocked by Project Gutenberg, so I had to find an html txt elsewhere), so you can follow this link for P&P http://regender.com/swap/http://www.literaturepro… or make your own at http://regender.com/ It’s quite fun! I may do Little Women next! Warning though, sometimes names are swapped seemingly at random, which can either work surprisingly well or cause a lot of confusion.
Yup! As promised, the names are PERFECT! (here’s the start to Little Women: http://regender.com/swap/http://xroads.virginia.e…
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled John, lying on the rug.
It’s so dreadful to be poor! sighed Melvin, looking down at his old dress.
I don’t think it’s fair for some boys to have plenty of pretty things, and other boys nothing at all, added little Anthony, with an injured sniff.”
I am thinking of reading this version to the hypothetical children I may some day have.
Chimamanda is AMAZING, and I have not read this, so thank you!
Yes! Glad to share. I find her writing just gets to the heart of whatever I’m worrying about and helps unravel it for me.
That “Beyond Words” book is exactly the book I have been looking for (in the sense of not actually looking but occasionally thinking “Man, I wish I had some books about animal communication and society that weren’t written 10+ years ago, I should search for that”). Thank you, Toast, for doing the searching for me!
hopes to film the Broadway production with its current cast
hopes to film the Broadway production with its current cast
The fact that it says “before June” makes me optimistic that most, if not all, of the original cast will still be there when I go in April. I’m sure it’ll be amazing whoever’s in it, but I really really want to see Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs (and everyone else, but LESLIE ODOM JR.)
Yeah, the current cast will almost definitely be sticking around until the Tonys, so you should be fine.
I’ll have to pray they finally do so I can realistically see the show with the original cast ala Passing Strange.
That’s not a depressing piece about recycling, it’s an inaccurate one. Read the comments, some of which are by people in the industry. Dude is ignoring a lot of externalities to make his point. Most annoyingly, he claims landfills are actually fine because rural communities want them. Well, I know at least one rural community that’s been fighting over a landfill that would take waste from a big city for over a decade. I don’t think recycling is a panacea, but I hate articles like this. The only potential real effect of an article like this is that some people will read the headline and go around telling people that recycling is a waste of time, when even this guy admits that recycling paper and cans is really worth it.
That community wouldn’t happen to be in upstate new york, would it? Because my mom has been part of that fight for years, and unfortunately I think they’ve lost, or are going to lose on the expansion of a landfill that gets most of its trash from the greater NYC region. It’s just awful. It’s an eyesore and you can smell it for literally MILES around, not to mention the pollutants from the huge trucks hauling the trash hundreds of miles upstate.
Nope, it’s in Maine. But not shocking that there’s more than one place where this is happening. Someone in the nytimes comments mentioned one near the finger lakes, which might be the one you’re talking about…or it might not.
how about: recycling is good because i don’t want to leave pits of non-biodegradable plastics for future generations to inherit???
Hey. . .can I ask the collective Toast brain for teaching-type help? I’m trying to think of an example of a cause and effect type essay that has elements of satire, parody, or an origin story–maybe a ridiculous premise or future-type fic that is organized like cause and effect?. My composition 1 textbook, for examples of process essays, includes Arthur Miller’s “Privatize Executions,” Jessica Mitford’s “The Embalming of Mr. Jones,” and, um, “The Lottery,” but the cause and effect examples are kind of boring or honestly, kind of weird or else about topics I don’t feel up to mediating at 8:00 am with a head cold. I’m sure that the kind of thing I’m thinking of exists, in a form longer than an Onion article, but I am drawing a blank on actually finding any.
(ps I have to be offline for a couple of hours, so forgive me if I can’t reply too quickly!)
George Saunders’ short stories?
ooh, interesting. . .
Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”?
I thought about that, but I feel like it might have too much going on for the class at this point, in terms of then style and the historical context, but I’m keeping it on the backburner.
“A modest proposal” might be everything you’re looking for.
Shirley Jackson’s The Night we All Had Grippe might be good. Also, she wrote an essay about the public reaction to The Lottery that shows people’s reaction to the piece – it’s pretty cause-and-effect, in that it shows (humorously) how one small thing can have a huge, unexpected effect.
Oh, I love that essay about The Lottery! And either the grippe one or the one from Raising Demons with the missing sneaker might do. thanks!
I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for (it’s more general humor than parody), but James Thurber’s “The Night the Bed Fell” is a lot of fun
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/07/08/my-l…
Almost all of Thurber’s autobiographical essays could work, couldn’t they? Even if they don’t work the kids should read them anyway they’re the best. (although heaven knows why textbooks always have “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” which is no where near his best work (in my horse’s opinion).
body ritual among the nacirema?
FILMED HAMILTON. This is the best news this morning. My friend and I are trying to plan a trip to see it sometime in the spring, but if that doesn’t work out at least there’s hope of seeing the OBC in some form!
Also Hamilton related, this Tumblr is bringing me so much joy: http://incorrect-hamilton-quotes.tumblr.com/ All of the Leslie Knope quotes fit Alexander Hamilton PERFECTLY. How have I never seen it before? My personal favorite:
Burr: I mean, sometimes when we disagree you’re so passionate I feel like I’m arguing with the sun.
Hamilton: WHAT? THAT IS TOTALLY CRAZY! I AM SUPER CHILL ALL THE TIME!
and also:
Hamilton: Look, I don’t like to throw around the word “butthead” too often. If you call everybody a butthead then it kinda loses its impact. But I can say without hesitation that Jefferson is being a real dick.
I need Parks & Declaration to be a meme, I think.
There’s also a few Brooklyn Nine-Nine quotes that are fantastic:
Hamilton: Fine. Here’s my gun and my badge.
Washington: I don’t need those. You’re not suspended yet, you’re on administrative leave!
Hamilton: You never let me do anything cool!
This is so good!
I have bookmarked that Tumblr for my “sometimes people are awesome” folder. Thank you so much!
(is still cackling at “four letter word for disappointment”)
CW for some pretty horrifyingly racist stuff.
#HisNameIsCayden
“i didn’t know you were a slave owner”
NOPENOPENOPE
But the poor guy has been VICTIMISED because people have seen his racist friends (though,he’s sure they didn’t mean to be,like,RACIST-racist) and assumed that HE is racist too and when he and his shithead racist friends racistly mocked a little black kid they didn’t INTEND him to get fired!
Let’s not even get into the weirdness of this guy having two different jobs under two different names at the same time.
Re: recycling piece: http://shanghaiscrap.com/2015/10/something-john-t…
Here is an additional comment my spouse sent me from Ron Gonen: “As the former Deputy Commissioner for Sanitation and Recycling in NYC (Bloomberg administration) and as someone who now manages a Fund (www.closedlooopfund.com) that invests in municipal recycling projects, I can tell you that the purported “facts and figures” in the oped are completely erroneous. With industry knowledge, it reads like a oped pushed for by the owners of landfills. Quoting the CEO of Waste Management, the largest owner of landfills in the U.S. and the largest owner of transfer stations (facilities that transfer waste from cities to landfills) in the U.S. about the state of recycling without disclosing their financial interest in landfills and transfer stations misleads readers.
NYC has contracts with Sims (a global multi billion dollar publicly traded company) that recently built a $100m+ recycling facility in Brooklyn and Visy Paper (a global multi billion dollar privately held company) with facility in Staten Island. The author did not think it would be informative for readers if he interviewed either of the companies that have recycling contracts and facilities in NYC?
The economics of recycling for a City are simple. Send paper, metal, glass, plastics and food waste to landfill, the City is charged a fee. In the case of NYC, over $350m of tax-payer money annually. Send the same material, to a local recycling facility or organics processor, the City avoids the landfill fee and sometimes also generates revenue.”
Also, he’s talking about recycling food waste, which – don’t you compost food waste, not recycle? And food waste in a landfill emits a LOT of methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than co2, so looking at the carbon dioxide avoided is not really the best metric.
municipal-level food waste composting is also so rare at the moment, the fact that he was drawing conclusions about its effectiveness raised my skeptic eyebrow too.
Right?? Where is that data even from?
THANK YOU!!! That article PISSED ME OFF.
So I just got back from a business trip where we worked with an amazing woman’s rights organization from Morocco called “MRA – Mobilizing for Rights Associates.” I asked them about the acronym, thinking of what MRA meant in the U.S., and they said they chose it because “mra” is woman in Arabic.
That’s right – MRA = WOMAN.
Just savor that for a moment. I have secret hopes that this knowledge will somehow go viral, forever destroying the men’s rights movement after they realize they’ve been calling themselves women all this time.
AH the irony of us saying “ugh I hate MRAs”
therefore MAKING US MRAs!
That is amazing!
as a woman in Arabic I have the insider authority to say that the friend zone is the biggest crisis facing civilization today
Coincidentally, “mra” is also the Irish pronunciation for the word “woman”. (Although, for Weird Historical Reasons, it’s spelled “mná”).
Goddamnit, Ireland.
This is ironic news given your nom de internet, because today at least you are very, very good at names.
One thing I like about my neighborhood is that poor people, mostly elderly, sort through the trash for metal cans. If they’re getting money for the cans, then the can-purchaser must be doing something useful with the cans, I figure.
When I was in Berlin I was surprised by all the people collecting glass bottles; turns out you get like 5c per bottle you return, so this whole economy has sprung up where poor people collect bottles, and everyone leaves their bottles (everyone drinks beer, and soft drinks come in glass bottles) gathered up in groups on the street and then someone will come along and collect them and get a bit of cash. Its sad that people have to resort to collecting bottles (I noticed it was mostly elderly or foreign people), but at least it stops them having to beg for money
You might be interested in this story, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/nyregion/a-stre…
this one, too!
Is this not a thing in the states? Most Canadian cities have something like this. In Montreal there are machines in grocery stores where you can deposit cans and plastic bottles and get money back. Going through people’s recycling is a pretty good way to get extra cash – I made $14 for a half-hour of collecting one time
Its not a thing in Ireland/UK where I’m from, but I remember seeing it on American TV as a kid.
I noticed it first in Berlin because everyone hangs out in parks and there’s little old ladies going around asking people for their bottles and dragging huge sacks of glass bottles all around. So I asked my friend who was living there what it was about and then I though OMG think of the money you could make back after a house party! Cha-ching.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the shape of it. In quebec you can return soda cans and plastic bottles too, so even little kid birthday parties are a potential goldmine.
Yeah, I definitely did that for the few years I lived in NY. I had an *entire system*, you guys. It paid for like half of my grocery bills. So worth it.
being from Michigan, where they have bottle/can deposits, i encouraged everyone to come party at my first apartment. everyone left their empties afterwords, which is a great windfall for a broke-ass 20 year old. all those cans adds up to a lot of ramen by the end of the weekend.
i was astounded when i moved to AZ and realized they don’t do bottle returns. lame!
We have this in Portland. Curbside recycling, but inevitably people will come by to take out all the bottles and cans that have a 5c return on them. The only thing that pisses me off is that they recently closed a large and conveniently located redemption center at a grocery store and opened a facility that is WAY out of the way for the people who actually need to use it (i.e. very hard to get to via public transit or by bike). I see what you did there, Portland. -_-
Audiobook recommendation for all the Hamil-Toasties: I recently listened to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which is performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and I LOVED it. It’s a great story about the intense friendship and love that develops between two Mexican-American boys growing up in 1980s Texas, and Miranda has this youthful, earnest voice that just works so well for the characters.
I loved that book! I should give it a listen, but I also know that it will make me incredibly homesick, so maybe not right this minute…
Mystery Show fans: Have you seen the clip of Starlee and Conan measuring Jake Gyllenhaal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_MZy7vBTo
That is such a fun podcast!
Oh that was so good.
Also……not how I pictured Starlee Kine and her perfect lisp.
From the comments on the Archie Panjabi article:
I’ve loved her in anything I’ve seen her in except The Good Wife. I fucking can’t stand Kalinda. She’s such a stereotype of the tough-chick-with-a-chip-on-her-shoulder, down to the ridiculous wardrobe, so in this case, I was glad she got sacked.
MAN, I KNOW, I for one am just so bored of every single programme on TV having a yet-another bisexual Asian tough-chick character.
Hamilton obsession update: I dreamed last night that I drove my goofy ass all the way to NYC from Michigan to see the production on Broadway and I was just SO HAPPY in the dream and the SO SAD when I woke up and it hadn’t really happened.
What I’m trying to say is, thank you thank you thank you for the news that a film version with the original cast is forthcoming, because me getting to NYC to see the production (especially with the original cast) is unlikely/impossible.
Just because it’s cheaper to bury your trash in the ground doesn’t mean it’s good for human health or for the environment. I hate this “recycling is inefficient” argument that comes up every few years. I work in a recycling-adjacent industry, and lately, yes, it’s less cost efficient. China is producing the same trash as we are and selling it to recyclers for cheaper. But at a certain point, we have to decide if we want to decimate our environment, and condemn people – disproportionately, low income or people of color – to living side by side steaming trash piles, or if we have an obligation to suck it up and do the right thing even if it is more costly. Plus, cost efficiency aside – the EPA says that recycling a product uses greenhouse gas emissions than creating a product made of entirely new materials for everything except lumber and fiberboard. Most municipal home recycling isn’t dealing with lumber or fiberboard anyway.
tl;dr please don’t listen to this guy, keep recycling.
The worst part was when he was all “You’d have to recycle 7 billion trillion bottles just to offset a plane flight to New York!” as if (1) that plane weren’t going to leave the ground if YOU, personally, weren’t on it, and (2) this was an argument against recycling those bottles instead of, I dunno, continuing to recycle those bottles AND ALSO improving the environmental impact of commercial air travel/shifting our culture so that slower, cleaner methods of travel are a viable alternative again/taking advantage of modern technology to conduct more business remotely. That whole section was just really, really bad argumentation.
Exactly! You have to use different strategies to reduce different types of emissions.
oh my god oh my god OH MY GOD there is a Gallifreyan Shopping Network ad for the new Doctor Who Lego set and I am sort of hyperventilating a little bit?
Hahaha! Oh wow, that is an absolutely spectacular video.
Guys, I am pretty excited that reasonable paid family leave might happen soon in DC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/…
“Under the legislation that will be introduced Tuesday, almost every part-time and full-time employee in the nation’s capital would be entitled to 16 weeks of paid family leave to bond with an infant or an adopted child, recover from an illness, recuperate from a military deployment or tend to an ill family member. The broad new worker benefit, enthusiastically supported by the Obama administration, would be paid from a fund created by a new tax on D.C. employers.”
YES DO IT TAX THE RICH TO HELP THE POOR SOCIALISM SOCIALISM MU HA HA HA
I pray that in his last year, Obama becomes the socialist Republicans have always accused him of being. This sounds like an awesome policy.
wait wait WHAT
That is pretty awesome. I’m just waiting for it to be blocked by the House, because Congress Knows Best when their vaunted “local governance” does things they don’t agree with, and inexplicably has veto power over DC’s local lawmaking. 😛
Thanks everyone who gave me suggestions yesterday for the talk with my son. It went pretty well–his big brother talked to him, plus then drove the teen to his counseling appointment, so by the time I talked to the boy everybody was calm and ready to listen to each other. If I hadn’t had those links/your support, though, I might have really gotten too worked up waiting all day to talk to him.
It’s okay, everyone, my white dude friend said those t-shirts are fine.
CHANTAL AKERMAN you guys. I am demolished.
That was the worst thing I have ever done.
Last night was a mess of hyper-vomiting. Everything came up. My throat was raw and on fire from so much retching. I didn’t even have anything to release, and was tethered to the toilet. All I could do was cry. Over the last few weeks, I would have these moments–hours, really–where things would seem okay and termination would seem extreme. Last night was a reaffirmation that, no, I really cannot cope. I was going to have to go through with this.
The ultrasound measured the baby as a week larger than the previous estimate, making this a second trimester termination instead of first, with all the attendant cost increases. I cannot tell you how much I could not handle listening to a well-meaning nurse ask if I was okay with the $300 increase while clinging to the trash can.
I sobbed so hard, every single staff person wanted to be sure that I was okay with my decision. I wish I had a concise way to explain that this wasn’t the choice I wanted to make. That I wanted this baby–my last baby!–but that I was too weak to deal with the pregnancy illness. Instead, I just nodded pathetically and refused the offer of a social worker again and again.
It’s done. I have ibuprofen. I’m not okay, but I will be.
I’m so sorry for your loss, and so sorry for what you’ve been through.
All I can offer is internet hugs from a stranger. You will be okay.
I’m so so so sorry. God. I’m so sorry.
I am so sorry and I offer you all the Internet hugs and the understanding and comfort of a stranger friend.
I am so, so sorry.
I have been thinking about you so much and hoping you were ok. You will feel better. I haven’t ever shared my story publicly, so I can’t show you that I understand, but I do. I have faith that every woman knows what she can bear and what she can’t, and I am livid that we live in a society that has tried to take this decision from us, or shame us for making it. You will feel better and you will have all the yummy, rich, food and drink you desire. Be well.
I’m so sorry. Hang in there. You will be ok, eventually.
I wish there were any comment that could make “okay” come a bit sooner. Sending love.
I’m so sorry. Heal safely. xx
I am so sorry. It sounds like a horrible situation (and having to pay for it just feels like adding insult to injury). I hope you are okay before too long.
I am so sorry. What you have been through sounds painful on so many levels. Remember, your body and your heart will heal. You will feel joy again. Sending love!
I am sorry for how hard this has been for you, that you had things get even harder at the last minute, that you couldn’t find the words to express yourself in the moment, I’m so sorry that this decision (the one you never wanted) was the right one for you in the end.
I am glad that you had a well meaning nurse, I am glad that everyone offered you everything they could to make sure that you were sure. I am glad that other things that could have gone wrong for you did not go wrong. I am glad you feel like you can come here for support, and I’m glad that you’ve updated us. I’m glad that this particular terrible, heartbreaking part of this story has happened, so that you can move on to the next parts— and I hope that those parts are terrible in ways you are better able to deal with.
I do not think that you are weak. Yeah, I get you didn’t really mean it in THAT way, but still. I do not think that you are weak. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know that I would not have been able to last nearly as long as you did, given your symptoms. So while you are seeing the gap between yourself and what you would have like to be able to tolerate and you’re seeing weakness, I am just seeing the strength it took to endure what you did, and I am in awe.
ALL of the jedi hugs, just… all of them.
Oh Runbug. I’m so sorry. I am continuing to send you all the warm and comforting and healing thoughts I have, and then some. <3
I’m so sorry you had such a hard thing to do. It isn’t fair.
I read this article today about a girl who posed as a female called Alice looking for casual work on a classified ads website. The responses she got from men were pretty gross. Interesting read! http://bawdyfox.com/what-its-like-to-be-female-lo…
YESSS! Sarraaaaa, I can't wait for us to talk about Hamilton, it has consumed me. I'm so excited that you listened to it!
There's a 10 minute video here. (I think–I'm at work so I can't check if it's still up.) I assume it's pre-Broadway, because there are no stage turntables of doom.
There's a 10 minute video here. (I think–I'm at work so I can't check if it's still up.) I assume it's pre-Broadway, because there are no stage turntables of doom.
Let's not even get into the weirdness of this guy having two different jobs under two different names at the same time.