I, too, dislike it.

May 31

Are we really going to let CANADA trounce us so thoroughly?? And France???

May 30

“Problem is: It’s a howling contradiction to leave up to the states an issue Obama now says is a right.” —

Is gay marriage a matter of empathy or of rights? - The Washington Post

Love this simple analysis of the issue. Empathy may be the way to win over individual supporters (and is certainly important to the cause as a whole), but legally speaking it needs to be a black and white issue of inviolable rights.

May 18

“William thought there must be a long compound German word for the way that large events in the world could affect your personal life: the scale was reduced to the point of insignificance, but the everyday effect was amplified.” —

Maile Meloy: “The Proxy Marriage” : The New Yorker

Yes. There should be compound German words for all occasions.

May 17

How We Share Content And Why - Adrants -

ANOTHER real byline. This is for real.

Hire me now, ok?

This will henceforth be my only OTP, forever and always.

May 16

How Brands Can Meet Consumer Demand With Content - Adrants -

Look Ma, a real byline!

Copy writer and blogger for hire. Will accept press passes for payment if your shit is cool. Because of vanity.

May 11

“for anyone who enjoyed Hiddleston’s spry and convincing turn in “Midnight in Paris,” the world would appear to be at the mercy of F. Scott Fitzgerald with a monkey wrench.” —

“The Avengers,” “Headhunters” Reviews : The New Yorker

Anthony Lane says what we were all thinking. “We” referring to the fellowship of lit-nerds.

How has no one bought this woman’s life rights yet.

I want a film. Albert Nobbs was good and all, but I’m more interested in the absolutely insane stories of ye-olde male impersonation.

Linck had grown up in an orphanage, and left it dressed as a young man “in order to lead a life of chastity.” She soon fell in with an ecstatic Christian cult given to hitting their heads against walls and speaking in tongues. For two years, Linck traveled with the group as an itinerant preacher and soothsayer, though her predictions did not always materialize — when she urged two men to walk on water and they sank, she fled. She became a swineherd, and later joined the army of Hannover as a musketeer until her desertion three years later.

Next came a stint in the Polish army. Her regiment was captured by French troops, but she managed to escape imprisonment. Her subsequent hitch with the Hessian army lasted about one year. Linck had by now fashioned a leather penis for herself, to which she appended two stuffed testicles made from a pig’s bladder. The contraption, held in place with a leather strap, served her well: She used it on a string of young girls, widows, and prostitutes.

Seriously, this whole article is worth a read. Check it out.

May 10

How did I miss this??? Our poetry blog has a ridiculous record of corporate promotion, all things considered.

thatwasnotveryravenofyou:

DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I think people see your career as almost having two halves, one where you played this kind of ingénue. And then there’s a perception that around the time you met Tim [Burton], you started getting weird. But I know you’d been weird long before that.

HELENA BONHAM CARTER: I was weird right from the start. It’s just that you can’t ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don’t know who you are. This is how ridiculous I was: I’d sometimes go look at a written profile of me and see how I was described and say, “Oh, is that who I am?” You can’t ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Daniel Radcliffe interviews Helena Bonham Carter for Interview Magazine (x)

GIVE THAT BACK TO BJÖRK RIGHT THIS INSTANT