It’s lovely to be wanted, and then it isn’t. You start to wonder what they want you for–the audience, the men. If it’s even about you. If all I am, despite my many professional and artistic roles, is a woman who will make you pie. I was starting to understand how the act of channeling a powerful symbol comes with the risk of being annihilated.
We can’t measure our love for Kate Lebo’s “The Pie Lady’s Manifesto”, but we can try to measure other things with McSweeney’s new list of Standard Household Measures.
