Really hoping that Lena Dunham (mother to four mini-pigs) can usher in a new Hollywood pig craze, the likes of which we haven't seen since the '90s when Luke Perry cuddled his porcine roommate for Annie Leibovitz/GAP.
I'm not saying Dems are going to take this race, but keep in mind that 2018 was the highest midterm turnout in a century, and people are even madder now. There's a strong possibility of an absolutely epic blowout up and down the ballot that sweeps in lots of races we never through were competitive.
Kitten telepathy!! I'm in. Congratulations!!
Her criticisms of him as a bit of a bull charging in are fair! But most of all, I love it because it takes real guts to look at one of the leading artists of yr generation and say, "no thanks." It's a testament to her own impeccable sensibility. If Prince was a bull, Sade was the sleekest panther.
So one of my favorite things about Sade - who was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - is that she apparently refused to collab with Prince and once described his music as "trashy," and "slapdash." She also conceded that he was "very talented" so it wasn't all bad.
This piece never should've seen the light of day. I won't link to it because it's trash.
But the article doesn't mention the high chair or any of Porter's accusations against her ex, because that would further degrade the already shitty thesis that somehow, a woman dumping a Thanksgiving side on an abusive man's head, is tantamount to rape. Do better, @thehill.com
Just read the worst piece in the Hill, comparing Swalwell's sexual assault with Katie Porter allegedly dumping hot mashed potatoes on her ex-husband's head. The same ex-husband who she claims slammed their 1-year-old across the room in her high chair.
Forwarded this to my husband so that the next time one of us rips one, we can call it the DIY lofi masterpiece that it is.
High-key underrated.
Normalize art not giving you all the narrative information all the time. Resist the urge to have everything wrapped up in a bow. In real life, people disappear, backstories remain in the darkest shadow, we are all amalgamations of "good" and "bad." In other words, FRICTION, BABY!
Can't they just... not do it? He's never stepped foot in a forest once in his life, he won't know the difference!!
Sad to hear this. Sean McD offered shelter to some risky & weird books in this choked-off conservative publishing era. Here's my piece about MCD from 2017: www.latimes.com/books/jacket...
very few sounds sweeter to my ears than a Southern drawl saying “It’s giving war crime. You can’t do that.”
Sorry but this is more beautiful and badass than all of our outraged tweets rolled together.
The leading researchers behind the Arab Barometer are out with a new @foreignaffairs.com piece examining America’s plummeting popularity (and the growing acceptance of China) in the region
There is some variation across countries but the trends are clear
www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/america...
Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys?
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
When the Tao slaps, it really slaps
I didn't expect this to heal a little wound for the second-grade girl who watched the Challenger blow up, but it did. 🥹
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
This is a five alarm fire of YES for me. Or should I say ACID GREEN!! Congratulations, @gracekrilanovich.bsky.social!!
Nancy has chaotic drunk aunt energy. The truest we've ever seen her is that time she argued with a gay guy in Target. I swear she was two seconds from asking if she could just hang out with him and give him the most toxic relationship advice ever.
I'm glad for the trans people in my life and in this world! Don't let #scotus bring you down. 💜
It's amazing that "please don't use secret tech casinos that incentivize screwing over your own constituents" is an issue but here we are.
Would read a novel about an architect/architect ghost who builds an absolutely stunning lemon house, haunted AF, to tempt billionaire a-holes.
Yes, this person exercised v poor judgement but no conversation about the book review complex would be complete w/o mentioning the extremely low pay / work ratio that practically BEGS for something like this to happen.
And a stunning poem from Robert Pinsky using some of the same imagery: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47696/...
Oh my god.