Music John Denver’s Testimony At The PMRC Hearings Was Transcendently Good
He just wanted to talk about the mountains!
Mallory Ortberg
Music 
Advice WHY YOU KEEP HAVING THE SAME FIGHT EVERY TIME: A TEXT GAME
EVERY TIME, HONESTLY
Relationships Why Everyone Is Attracted To Baristas (It’s Because Of Late-Stage Capitalism)
(It's because of late-stage capitalism.)
Open Thread Open Thread In Lieu Of Link Roundup
I'm needed to keep the content fires burning elsewhere!
Beauty Happy Madeline Kahn Monday: High Anxiety
I'm sorry, please forgive me. I'm just so close to my menstrual cycle that I could scream.
Poetry Lord Byron’s “To A Lady”
What more do you WANT.
Beauty Happy Fran Drescher Friday: The Beautician and the Beast
UNDERRATED.
Books The Best Part Of Jane Eyre Is Guessing What French Is
One of the most rewarding parts of reading Jane Eyre as a thirteen-year-old Midwesterner is taking a wild shot in the dark at the meaning of all of the untranslated French passages.
The Book of the Bee
"And as the bee carries the waxen substance upon her thighs because of its insipidity and tastelessness."
History Know Your Medieval Terminology
"Le droit du seigneur" = the droit of the seigneur
"Primae noctis" = the most noctis
Poetry Desiderata: An Inspirational Poem By Max Ehrmann
Max Ehrman's famous 1927 prose poem.
Feminism “When I was little, I didn’t have any female ghost hunters to look up to”
Only female ghosts, I suppose.
Food The Seven Stages Of Aspirational Produce Shopping
Life is a waking nightmare.
Books Every Meal Lucy Snowe Almost Eats In Villette
Vinegar-and-sugar potatoes is definitely a new one!
Poetry How To Tell If You’re In A Robert Frost Poem
You're not full of unnecessary untranslated Italian sentences, for one. TAKE THAT, EZRA POUND.
