January 2011
17 posts
A genre-crossing crooner and admirer of Twain -... →
As if you needed more reasons to love Neko Case, this interview is full of them. My favorite quote - that Annie Dillard’s writing is so beautiful it’s like “a bacon chandelier. A Swarovski crystal bacon chandelier hanging in a log cabin.”
Exactly.
Portrait of a Modern Family - Newsweek →
I’m an honorary auntie to the kids in this family and I couldn’t be prouder. Please read.
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too...”
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
This has made its rounds on Tumblr, but I feel it should be reposted here nonetheless. Is Tim Gunn an honorary Serious Lady?
(via seriousladies)
Agreed on all counts.
mikkipedia:
“Must I think of everything for the whole world??” — from ShutUpFoodies, will be my motto when I finally get a proper heraldic coat of arms.
LOVE
“Last night I stood outside the Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds in downtown...”
– A Graveyard Stakeout
The Haiti story you won’t read →
Great piece via The OpEd Project from Gina Ulysse, a Haitian native and professor of anthropology at Wesleyan.
Call for Entries: EYRESSES: JANE EYRE ZINE →
mikkipedia:
(Reposting bec we want to hear from more people, and also, perhaps a bit of distraction)
Movie title text designed as a black and white book cover. Text reads “Twentieth Century Fox presents Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë”
Myself, Wendy McClure, Kate Harding, and others, are doing a…
“We apologise for any inconvenience but this is a revolution.”
– Subcomandante Marcos responding to confused tourists in San Cristóbal, after announcing Zapatista demands to a crowd of gathered tourists, journalists and locals on New Years Day 1994 at the start of the conflict with the Mexican army (in Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical...