May 2012
23 posts
“Female authority is still associated with childhood, and the last time a lot of...”
– Gloria Steinem, on why there aren’t more women in power. (via cheatsheet)
Being Gay Talese
INTERVIEWER How does your writing day begin?
GAY TALESE Usually I wake up in bed with my wife. I don’t want to have breakfast with anyone. So I go from the third floor, which is our bedroom, to the fourth floor, where I keep my clothes. I get dressed as if I’m going to an office. I wear a tie.
INTERVIEWER Cuff links?
TALESE Yes. I dress as if I’m going to an office in midtown or on Wall Street...
“The British Cheese Board asked songwriters to compose a national cheddar anthem,...”
– Harper’s Weekly forever.
“GIVE ‘EM WHAT THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WANTED.”
– Diana Vreeland
April 2012
34 posts
WHEN I TELL ANN I IMPULSE BOUGHT US SOMETHING...
aminatou:
duh aficionado magazine
longlasting and mutually beneficial relationships between females turn out to be the basic unit of social life
josh: Doves are mating on my balcony. I put on...
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Femininity Olympics, Sports and Events
- Shaving legs in shower without getting hair wet
- Semi-wet nails triathlon (putting on hosiery, buttoning jacket, locating keys)
- Synchronized menstruating
- Liquid eyeliner application (judged on 0-10 scale on how well eyes match)
- Walking down the street in a full skirt on a windy day with aplomb (also judged on 0-10 scale)
- Eyebrow shaping (overplucking = disqualification)
- Lipstick...
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