Mallory is in the wilds of Yosemite, so I am holding it down solo for a while this morning (puts feet on desk, flexes fingers behind head) but that doesn’t mean I’m gonna let any of you take an inch.
Super, super fascinating read on the New York City Ballet’s trip to Moscow in 1962:
New York City Ballet brought 61 dancers, ranging from 16-year-olds fresh out of the School of American Ballet, to established principal dancers in their late 20s and 30s. They were accompanied by Balanchine, Kirstein, Betty Cage, and a company doctor; four conductors and pianists, who had the task of rehearsing the Soviet orchestra that would travel with them on tour; their stage manager and a small crew; four wardrobe personnel; and chaperones for the dancers under age 18. They would be met by interpreters provided by Goskontsert and attachés from the U.S. Embassy.
On the books given away by publishers during WWII:
“Dog-eared and moldy and limp from the humidity those books go up the line,”wrote a war reporter from the southwest Pacific. “Because they are what they are, because they can be packed in a hip pocket or snuck into a shoulder pack, men are reading where men have never read before.” A lieutenant in the Marshall Islands wrote of seeing men devour books “by a dim flashlight under a shelter half, even after the air-raid siren has already blown and they should be in a foxhole.” Another soldier reported that “the books are read until they fall apart.”
Cool interview with the woman who created that gorgeous credit sequence for Captain America 2:
What’s your favorite part of the sequence?
My favorites of the actor vignettes are Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan. They are just so simple and well executed. It’s not easy to refine something into its simplest form and still have it look right. Especially in silhouette, where the slightest thing being off will make the person look unrecognizable. We literally talked about Chris’s eyelashes for days.
My favorite transition is when we are in the red world and Captain America tosses the shield and it cracks the screen. We then reveal a star and turn to show Chris Evans’ card. It’s the perfect combination of editorial and seamless transitions.
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A reader discovered this very, very Toast-appropriate “Nantucket Girl’s Song” in Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea:
I will read ANYTHING on The Knowledge, but this is also objectively great.
Some WORKED. UP. crossworders over here. Oh, man.
On preventing domestic violence, and what the NFL could look to for suggestions.
Because I am a cruel editor, I wish once more to draw your attention to L Bear’s very upsetting short story “Pink and White,” which I think is just an incredible piece of writing.
SCREW YOU. Americans, man.
The below video is about this nonsense here:
I have an illustrated copy of the Nantucket Girls’ Song that I am preparing to frame and hang up in my new house. It’s hilarious and amazing and perfect for my life and I love it. My husband doesn’t quite understand it (being as he is the one who leaves), but WHATEVER, I love it, and it used to be available from the Nantucket Museum Shop online? I think so–my parents got it for me at the museum there?
Also that article on publishers and books in WWII is just top-notch. A fighter pilot in the China-Burma-India theater reported that his British counterparts found the program “smashing,” helpfully translating that as “super-dooper.”‘ I concur.
I have made up my mind now to be a Sailor’s wife,
To have a purse full of money and a very easy life,
For a clever sailor husband is so seldom at his home,
That his wife can spend the dollars with a will that’s all her own,
That’s good stuff right there. YOU CAN TOTALLY BUY YOUR OWN COPY HERE http://www.nantucketmuseumshop.org/Shop/cart.php?…
And it has PICTURES and a WHALE.
I was the one who tipped that and my birthday is coming up and I’m not-so-subtly trying to convince my little sister – who is an avid cross-stitcher – to embroider that poem for me (preferably bordered by little whales attacking little boats) so I can frame it and hang it above my bed to scare my gentlemen callers.
Side note: In the Heart of the Sea is the most amazing/horrifying thing I’ve read in a while, and anyone who’s into grisly true tales (which I think is a lot of Toast readers) should totally give it a shot!
I HAVE THAT SAME COPY also framed & hanging very prominently in our house. My husband is an officer in the Navy & finds the poem high-larious.
PERFECT. My husband is a soldier in the CF and doesn’t quite understand it. But who cares, I LOVE IT.
I, too, could talk about Chris Evans’ eyelashes for days….
“We literally talked about Chris’s eyelashes for days.”
#BestLife
never have I related to anyone as much as I relate to Agent Carter (and that nurse) in this gif
Oh, now I get Chris Evans.
The best part? Apparently that boob grab thing that Hayley Atwell did was totally unscripted and involuntary.
Do you think that her attempt to grab his left boob is what sparked Chris Evans’ own, well-known habit of grabbing his own and other people’s left boobs? Or was she unconsciously mimicking his habit when confronted with his magnificent man-boobs?
Oh man, you ask the tough questions. I think in order to really answer this, I’ll have to go back through all the footage of Chris Evans’ boob-grabbing and analyze it really closely. It’ll take a while, but I’m willing to do it for science!
This is potentially embarrassing, but I’m pretty sure I read a thing that said he had pulled a muscle in his left chesticle at some point in making one of these movies, so it hurt when he laughed. That does not explain his grabbing of other people’s boobs, tho.
Never be embarrassed by the depth of your knowledge of Chris Evans’ chesticles! This is important information to have.
Maybe he is concerned that those other people might also hurt themselves and is reaching out to protect them? Chris Evans is just looking out for you! He wants you to be safe!
He is super thoughtful!!!!
No sentence has ever spoken to me more.
here. for. it.
I’m sorry, it’s possible to get PAID for talking about Evans’s eyelashes? I’m in the wrong line of work.
I tried to like this again once you added the photographic support and the comment system wouldn’t let me!
I may or may not have interrogated someone who went to High School with him last night
(nice guy, in drama club)
Only vaguely related, but does anyone have any links to tips/videos/tutorials for Winter Soldier’s topnotch eye makeup? For Halloween science purposes.
When the buzz started about Guardians of the Galaxy and people were talking about a Marvel movie featuring “a raccoon with a machine gun” I legit thought they meant the Winter Soldier at first.
Take a charcoal briquette and smoosh it around in your eye socket?
I generally find that ANY attempt to apply my own eyeliner makes me look like The Winter Soldier.
Also relevant to my interests.
My mother said, “Oh how lovely, you’re growing out your hair!” And I said, “I HAVE TO HAVE LONGER HAIR IF I WANT TO BE THE WINTER SOLDIER, MOM.”
The first and only time my hair is actually appropriate to a cosplay. “All everywhere and in your eyes and kinda straggly” is HOT this season.
“Growing out really short layers, never combing” is definitely translating into the disheveled look that I think really suits the role.
PERFECT exactly what i need thank you
Everything in the story about the KU student is appalling and sad and awful, but this is what made me want to throw my hands up and quit the planet:
That statement pointed to an existing relationship between the two students, and cited the fact that the woman took a birth control pill the night of the party as evidence that no rape had occurred: “While no one other than [the female student] can know of her intent, her decision to bring and subsequently take her birth control pill provides at least some indication that she intended to have consensual sex that night,” Fischer’s statement reads in part.
OH REALLY?! DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW THE PILL WORKS?! If you’re on the pill, you take it every damn day whether you have sex once every hour or one every four months! OR EVEN NEVER.
Ughh how does a university not expel a student who has admitted to rape?
Oh my goddddd, we went over that in a link roundup earlier this week and concluded that Men Do Not Understand. Someone pointed out that the analogy is probably to Viagra–you use it before you have sex–and men don’t think about it any further because nobody ever gives them a reason to and men aren’t brought up to care about/learn about women’s bodies and how they work. So then shit like this just….appears………and Men are like “uhhh durrrr she wanted to have sex she took the pill!” not realizing that taking the pill doesn’t create some sort of titanium shield in the uterus that fends off sperm and inexplicably wears off after a while.
WHY AGAIN IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND
Such a good point. In my 6th grade sex ed class (split into boys and girls), one girl asked what Viagra was, and the teacher explained! I would bet a billion dollars that the boys didn’t get an explanation of birth control.
It’s basically like saying a man can’t be raped if he has a condom in his wallet.
Or god forbid if a woman carries condoms with her
Well, then she’d be a witch, so.
sex witch
Also “She wanted to have sex with someone, so I have no obligation to punish the person who raped her.”
RIGHT!?
Also, an intent to have consensual sex is not blanket consent to all sex. (I can’t believe that this still needs spelling out.)
“I can’t believe that this still needs spelling out” seems like the unfortunate motto for all of these colleges who fail so miserably at addressing assault.
I KNOW, RIGHT? It makes me so angry. “She obviously wanted to have sex” does not mean that she wanted to have sex WITH YOU.
This whole logic that a woman who is hoping to have sex on a given night must not care who she has sex with because she’s apparently up for sex with anyone and can’t change her mind. Just. No. SO MUCH NO.
(Besides the aforementioned point that taking the pill does not mean one is wanting to have sex. But even if it did. Even if she did. Even if she straight up said, “Yeah, I went to that party hoping to get laid but then I got drunk off my ass and really did not want to have sex with this man” that does not make it any less a crime. An absolute fucking crime.)
Because they don’t want to have a rape on their books; they need to attract students because they need that tuition money, and it looks bad if crimes are known to occur on their campus. (That’s why many colleges discourage students from going to the police for Obviously Criminal Matters that occur on campus, and contact the campus police instead.) If you can somehow blame the girl, then a rape didn’t happen, and you don’t have the crime stat.
When it comes to things like rape, colleges and universities are NOT there to protect students; they’re going to do what it takes to protect their reputations.
Plus there’s added awfulness if the rapist is paying full freight or has familial connections. I vividly remember the dude who came to Take Back the Night when I was a freshman because he wanted to apologize to the woman he’d raped. The students were livid that the school hadn’t done anything about him and it was understood that it was because he was from an affluent family who was paying all of his tuition without any scholarships or aid. A lot of people threatened to boycott graduation although I don’t remember if that happened or not.
I recently got an IUD, so I guess I am intending to have hetero sex literally every moment for the next five years!
Plus you are totally agreeing to being raped! OBVS!
Jesus, this is some fucking ignorance. And once more evidence that Certain People have no concept of consent.
An unrelated link: some friends of my sister have created some awesomely Toast-friendly mugs and other things for sale (I’m looking into the World’s Best Misandrist one myself) and I think that y’all would probably dig a bunch of them! There was a coupon code for FLASHMUGSALE but I think that may have ended at midnight last night but it’s worth trying anyway.
They are ridiculous and hilarious and I might buy all of them!
OMG, those crossword comments. I was at the tournament that puzzle debuted at, and it was fun, but apparently all the regular online speed-solvers do NOT want a puzzle where you suddenly have to think.
My favorite comment is the one that calls the puzzle appearing on 9/11 an “abomination of insensitivity”.
CROSSWORD SOLVING SPOILER ALERT!!!
That comment is bonkers, but I do see the validity of tournament players’ anger that one was expected to divine that the across answers were all to be misspelled, rather than solved with 2 letters per box, which is a far more common trick.
Yeah, and it was definitely the trickiest puzzle at the tournament for everyone except the two people who were solving the puzzles downs-only.
Yeah, I would have been pissed to get the shtick and then still be marked wrong because I wrote two letters in each box.
I hated that puzzle! I mean I only played it at work yesterday, not the tournament, but I raged at it pretty hard here in my office.
i finished that puzzle out of spite because i would be damned if i let a crappy theme get to me.
it wasn’t even a clever misspelling, like having only the middle letters that were part of “heart” be switched. it was just straight up obnoxious.
it didn’t really make you think after the first couple of clues –that was the part that got me. it should have been a monday puzzle. there. i said it.
I know nothing about crossword puzzles, but I’m curious, so: what’s a Monday puzzle? Are there stereotypes for other days, too?
The easiest puzzles are on Monday, then they get harder each day of the week. (I think. This is DADS information.)
“Arbitrary and capricious puzzling based on self indulgence.”
!!!!!!!
I made it! I made it! I’m on Reddit and I’m STRAWMANNING. http://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/2g452…
“I just have to ask, is this some kind of satire? I’m not getting it. :/”
Hahahahahahahaa!
Oh man, my other half and I run a feminist webcomic and SO MANY DUDES think the ultimate insult is “Is this supposed to be funny? I don’t get it.” Like, c’mon, try a little harder why don’t you.
I need more feminist webcomics in my life. Share?
Here you go: Manfeels Park!
Angering Reddit is both my biggest fear and my life goal.
ALL HAIL JAYA, WHOSE SATIRE FLIES ABOVE THE HEAD OF TEH MENZ.
Mazel tov!
YOU’RE LIKE A REAL GAMES JOURNO NOW!!!
Jaya, you are a queen among women.
I read that CBC piece on the US cops just TOTALLY LEGALLY TAKING PEOPLE’S MONEY yesterday and it has reinforced my decision to never leave Canada again. Holy crap. What is going ON with police in that country???
Wasn’t that one of the houses on Game of Thrones?
i haz left canada bc job. where i apparently have “good” health insurance. I laugh. The day I decide I want children (likely never) will be the day I return – nay RUN – home. bc i can look after myself (white cis straight lady) and deal with racism and misogyny but my progeny should not have to. they should deal with its less awful canadian companions. polite racism (aka multiculturalism) and benevolent patriarchy.
Oscar Pistorius is guilty of “culpable homicide.” Whoopdy frickin dooo.
Here, here is some good news. Pertinent, if you are the kind of person who likes Rupert Giles.
http://www.themarysue.com/btvs-giles-knocked-down…
[one of] My favorite Giles gif[s]:
But he’s wearing neither tweed NOR his glasses! I’ll accept Giles in any form, but Librarian Giles owns my heart.
Ask and ye shall receive, friend:
with bonus exasperated-with-California, extra British, Giles:
!!! OH my heart’s delight! A hundred thousand blessings on you and all your kin as thanks for this greatest of gif(t)s.
Technically, it’s Anthony Stewart Head and not Giles, but…it’s totally Giles as Dr. Frank N Furter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uq2vaP2cLU
I love Giles in that scene so much. “In just a few moments that curtain is going to open on our very first production. Now, everyone that Willow’s ever met is out in that audience, including all of us […] Now, if we can stay in focus, keep our heads, and if Willow can stop stepping on everyone’s cues, I know this’ll be the best production of “Death of a Salesman” we’ve ever done. “
I showed up on time, so I got to be Cowboy Guy! ( aka the only time I enjoyed Riley)
You are officially the best. I needed a smile after reading about the KU bullshit.
Perfection.
Oh my god oh my god my one coworker (who is normally a really nice dude and actually had my back when another coworker was creepin on me) just joked that he was going to “Ray Rice” his wife AAAAAARGH SET IT ALL ON FIRE. I yelled at him and was all “as a woman I don’t appreciate that” and he was genuinely befuddled and like “I wasn’t directing it towards you! I would never hit a woman!” So, um, if the entire borough of Queens suddenly goes up in flames, sorry, it was me.
Set it aflame. “Jokes” like that are not funny.
That’s awful. Well done for yelling at him.
Even if he personally would never hit a woman, he’s talking within earshot of people who would. Those people will hear that joke and interpret it as support because they think that every man is violent the way they are and are just better at hiding it. So yeah, he needs to be careful about the messages he’s sending even if he doesn’t mean to be sending them.
And within earshot of people who may be enduring domestic violence who now know that he’s not a person who takes it seriously and your work place isn’t a safe space. Good for you, Porcupine, for shutting that garbage down!
Wait, so saying it about his WIFE, or other women, is OK? Do not get dude “logic.”
This is so insane. How could anyone think that a domestic violence joke is funny, let alone APPROPRIATE IN THE WORKPLACE?!?!?!?
Bravo to you for making it clear how wrong he was. And yeah burn it down.
Princess Juliana says “Burn it all down”:
This is amazing.
I saw this article about the artist who created these gifs this morning and loved this one. The others are cool, too.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/disturbing-ghosts-extra…
I knew you all would understand. I work with mostly dudes, so some days it gets rough. I was an angry porcupine indeed today. I should have thrown my quills at him. #bigquillsnoheart
I understand your feelings and support your arsonist plans, but would you mind sparing Flushing? It’s got the only places I’ve found on the east coast where I can get really good Sichuan food and Hong Kong desserts.
Re: crossword people gettin’ mad: Earlier this month Ben Tausig’s AVCX released, one of the coolest and most clever crosswords in recent memory (09/03/14 Bi-Curious by Patrick Blindauer… seriously go get it). The next email was full of apologies that it didn’t somehow work in the standard freeware crossword computer apps because they apparently got a deluge of negative emails about it. Is it REALLY that hard to print out a pdf? Sheesh
Blindauer also wrote the puzzle that the NYT comment section is up in arms about too! He does awesome stuff all around, pretty much (Lollapuzzoola is the best crossword tournament on a Saturday in August).
fun fact: about a year ago, my mother told me I would make a great military wife. when I asked her for clarification, she shrugged and said, “well, you wouldn’t have to see your husband all that often. I know you like to do your own thing.”
Hahahahaha #laughofrealization #sobofrealization #justflatoutsobbing
My uncle works at State Farm, so he travels whenever there is a natural disaster, and my aunt is home with the dogs a lot. They have two giant adorable slobbery pups Ozzie, their Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, who is big bundle of nerves and love, and Josie, who is younger and a snoot and totally dominates Ozzie because girls rule boys drool. It would pretty much be my ideal life, except they also have two kids — who are sweet, wonderful kids!, I just don’t know how much I, personally, would want to be soccer-momming all the time. They’re in school now, though, so that’s a solid, what, six hours of alone time per day? Sounds preeeeetty great.
My best friend was a navy wife for several years, and it worked out very well for exactly that reason. I was a little worried that the marriage would have trouble once her husband left the military, but they seem to be doing okay.
TimeHop told me that two years ago today, Mallory introduced us to the world after the end of men.
You can see my workplace in the photo of the cabman’s shelter in the article on The Knowledge! (I do not work in the cabman’s shelter.) Wincing at the description of “an old, green Victorian cabman’s shelter on Russell Street” – it’s Russell Square. (Also, “downtown London”? No.)
If only the author of the article had CONTACT with someone who could clarify that information.
Just imagine all the polite notes he’s getting from the people he interviewed.
Dorothy Parker takes the Nantucket Song one step further, as she is wont to do:
Song of Perfect Propriety
Oh, I should like to ride the seas,
A roaring buccaneer;
A cutlass banging at my knees,
A dirk behind my ear.
And when my captives’ chains would clank
I’d howl with glee and drink,
And then fling out the quivering plank
And watch the beggars sink.
I’d like to straddle gory decks,
And dig in laden sands,
And know the feel of throbbing necks
Between my knotted hands.
Oh, I should like to strut and curse
Among my blackguard crew….
But I am writing little verse,
As little ladies do.
Oh, I should like to dance and laugh
And pose and preen and sway,
And rip the hearts of men in half,
And toss the bits away.
I’d like to view the reeling years
Through unastonished eyes,
And dip my finger-tips in tears,
And give my smiles for sighs.
I’d stroll beyond the ancient bounds,
And tap at fastened gates,
And hear the prettiest of sound-
The clink of shattered fates.
My slaves I’d like to bind with thongs
That cut and burn and chill….
But I am writing little songs,
As little ladies will.
Oh Dorothy, again proving she is queen of my heart.
I’m going to frame that poem and memorize it and treasure it forever.
brb getting “rip the hearts of men in half/and toss the bits away” tattooed somewhere (everywhere?) on my body
Is there a print of this for sale somewhere? Because I desperately need it.
Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy, my heart!
Oh wow I have this sheet music in my library! I’ll sing! Who can accompany me!
piano! let’s do this!
YES!
… how?
if you liked that poem, please everyone go read “Cinnamon and Gunpowder” by Eli Brown, which combines awesome lady pirates, lavish descriptions of food, and blowing up the opium trade. http://www.amazon.com/Cinnamon-Gunpowder-Novel-El…
<3s from your local librarian who is obsessed with maritime narratives
As always, that AHP article is FASCINATING. I haven’t used Tinder but I have all the time in the world for online dating sociology/discussions of how “our deepest subconscious biases” and our “most overt and uncharitable personal politics” play out in romantic relationships. OOF.
(Also, I laughed a lot at this: ” “golf. overabundance of white dudes. who is Dave? Dave is legion. a legion of golf-playing white dude demons.” —pansexual/white”)
I was engrossed, too.
Dave. No one wants you, Dave.
I took the simulation and it made me really uncomfortably aware of my own unconscious biases, especially the class-based ones.
I took half of the simulation and quit because of how uncomfortable I was with same.
Me too. 🙁
Sometimes I have to take a break from Tinder because it makes me feel like a horrible person who is judging everyone.
I took part in her survey! For a lot of those dudes, I just wrote “Nope, ’cause he looks like a douche.”
How bullshit is it that you can subscribe to the NYT online but if you want to do the puzzle you have to pay for a separate puzzle subscription? The puzzle is like half the reason to get the paper!
I’m a Nantucket Girl. My husband suggested he could go work in the oil patch, which is like 2 weeks on, 1 week off or something like that. And while I love him dearly, the notion of being by myself for 2 weeks is extremely appealing. When we first moved in together, he worked nights and I was in school, so we really only saw each other on weekends. Being on the same schedule took an adjustment.
I’m just afraid he may starve to death. When I moved to another city for work, he took several months to wrap things up at home. He lived on tuna and rice the whole time. Meanwhile, I was having a wonderful time, wandering about a new city.
AHP’s Tinder experiment was fascinating! I never thought about the tiny social signals hidden in every photograph. BRB, I am off to change all the photos in my online dating profile…and re-examine my knee-jerk responses to the photos of my “matches.”
Every time I read something she has written, I am SO GLAD she chose to work in the public arena rather than getting lost to academia. Yay for AHP!!!
I’m just going to say, in a moment of gratitude, that reading Link Roundup is one of my favorite parts of the day.
Get up, make coffee, turn on laptop, goto The Toast, take a sip of coffee, mmmmm … . Commence reading.
Loveliness.
Mine too!! I get a short break from work at 10, and I basically fling myself at the link roundup, and sigh a sweet sigh of misandrist relief.
A more in depth (if older) piece on American police and “asset forfeiture,” ie when the police take peoples’ property with no justification.
Murderer finally convicted of murdering 4 women in British Columbia.
He claimed he met up with Leslie and they had sex. He admitted to hitting her with pipe wrench, but said she used a knife on herself to bludgeon and stab herself to death.
Really, dude? The best defense you could come up with is “She stabbed HERSELF to death”?
“I guess she was pretty upset about how I’d just hit her with a pipe wrench? Like, maybe it was some kind of honor suicide thing….”
With his defense of the other killings being “Oh, I didn’t do it, some other guys did it. Yes, I know who they are, but I won’t tell you…for Reasons. It totes wasn’t me, though.”
I was JUST ranting about the Change of Heart puzzle to my partner who was trapped in a car with me this morning and could not escape from my stream of crossword rage. I thought it was clever once I saw the solution, but I don’t think the “trick” was adequately signaled. It just made me give up and miss out on my usual amount of enjoyment.
That poem is perfect and amazing, and I am going to hide it in my heart for a little while. Someday-Maybe, little Freedom, someday-maybe.
Okay. About the Ray Rice editorial. I’m a fan of programs like the ones they describe, but I intensely dislike the false dichotomy this sort of arguments rely on. “So someone guilty of domestic violence should NEVER WORK OR EAT OR BE ALLOWED TO SLEEP IN A BED EVER AGAIN?” Dude, come on. Not getting to play for the NFL =/= bounced from human society forever. Playing at an elite level at the very top of your very most favorite chosen field is not a human right. You can lose that, and still we are not, as a society, consigning you to a ghost-like half-existence.
I also *strenuously object* (that’s how it works, I *strenuously* object) to the concern trolling. “Firing Rice is probably going to make him sad and angry and bitter, and then he’ll probably be more abusive! There is literally *nothing we can do about that* except make sure he’s not sad or angry or bitter in any way — you know, so he’s not forced to take it out on women!” What the fuck kind of logic is that? It’s now the entire city of Baltimore’s job to make sure Ray Rice is happy and successful so he doesn’t have to hurt anyone again?
Absolutely and far away the best comment on the NYT crossword puzzle controversy:
“This is not the puzzle I needed today. It’s 9/11, and the memorials have already started, broadcast on TV. I’m planning to view the light towers illuminating the skyline tonight, which I can see from my home. Frankly, to run this puzzle today is an abomination of insensitivity.
I solved about halfway through, realized there was something going on with changing letters. Decided I did not want to spend anymore time on this, so stopped. I do crosswords for pleasure and fun, and this wasn’t.
Thanks for a really depressing beginning to an already depressing day.”
HOW COULD YOU BETRAY THE NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBERENCE IN THIS CAVALIER FASHION, NYT?
If we allow fiendishly difficult crossword puzzles to be published on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, then the terrorists have won!
So… in 1962, Posy Fossil would have been in her early 40s, yes? She totally went with the NYC Ballet to Russia and found her former dancing troupe. IT’S CANON NOW.
i haz left canada bc job. where i apparently have "good" health insurance. I laugh. The day I decide I want children (likely never) will be the day I return – nay RUN – home. bc i can look after myself (white cis straight lady) and deal with racism and misogyny but my progeny should not have to. they should deal with its less awful canadian companions. polite racism (aka multiculturalism) and benevolent patriarchy.
re “Dancers and Diplomats”: read “The Muses are Heard” by Truman Capote, an essay about American actors who performed “Porgy and Bess” in Moscow in 1956. Wonderful, and this will live in my head forever: “When the cannons are heard, the muses are silent; when the cannons are silent, the muses are heard.”