air so thick with the scent of fermenting grapes that to breathe is to be intoxicated, sliding across a sea of wine. a wine dark sea. see dark wine. coppery leaves swirl in the lights, stirred up beneath me, while wisps of fog lie coyly across the road, tossed scarves or maybe lost scarves. strangely …
Daily Archives: 15 October, 2009
Thursday Night Good Housekeeping
Time for a trip in the wayback machine to September, 1954, when Good Housekeeping cost .35c and children with rosy cheeks were on the covers of national magazines. Clearly aimed at laundry converts. And I hate doing laundry, so, you know. If I could fit a washer and dryer in my house I would sit …
Playing the Name Game
Periodically, a new flurry of outrage about a really old and really tired topic is stirred up in femiblogland. This topic is, of course, women who change their names when they marry. Inevitably, someone starts it off with a round of “women who change their names when they marry aren’t really feminists/give feminism a bad …
Creaking Soapboxes
It’s Carnival of Feminists time again! Go check it out, lots of really good stuff. (And thanks for all the work, RMJ.) I would specifically recommend the excellent Fatshionista post taking down colonialism. This documentary on how editors of respectable news outlets (and not so respectable) fall for hoaxes looks quite interesting. I hope it …