Bad Mommy: A New Blog About Parenting, Kind of, by Kaui Hart Hemmings
An Introduction to Bad Mommy I’m not a bad mother. That title is just a cheap teaser and something to differentiate myself from the mamma masses. It’s interesting. I’m not…
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Dear Sugar: The New Rumpus Advice Column
Sugar is what we in the advice column racket call a “handle.”
The Eyeball: A Blog About Film by Ryan Boudinot
Up the Riggings, You Monkeys! For Christmas, 1972, when I was almost two months old, my parents’ friend Mr. White gave them a book called A New Pictorial History of…
BitchCraft: A blog about handicrafts by Bitchy Jones
Getting Dressed One of the most annoying aspects of being a woman who sometimes like to get bossy in bed, is the notion that expressing yourself sartorially by coating yourself…
Swinging Modern Sounds #3: Time Has Done This To Me
I think it was in 1986 or thereabouts that my friend Jim Lewis gave me a bootlegged cassette of a live radio appearance by Peter Holsapple and Syd Straw (with,…
Funny America: IF THE SHOE FLIES, HURL IT
The President of the United States looked into the sole of another foreigner- twice- as a pair of shoes was flung at him during a Baghdad press conference on a…
The Eyeball: What I Watched this Weekend – Dracula, Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Hey tweens who enjoy a little abstinence-only subtext thrown in with your vampire movies: go out and get a load of the non-virginal variety in Guy Maddin’s Dracula: Pages from…
BitchCraft: A New Rumpus Blog About Handicrafts by Bitchy Jones
“If you have followed me here from my other corner of the internet, please know: I will not be knitting any handcuffs. I don’t think my excitingly rare sexual predilections…
The Eyeball, a Blog Ostensibly About Film by Ryan Boudinot
Your Weekend Popcorn Recipe My brother-in-law Chad Johnson’s popcorn recipe is the best. I’ve enjoyed it at his and my sister-in-law’s place over the years while watching Pulp Fiction and…
Swinging Modern Sounds #2: A Post Somewhat About Jazz
Arthur Danto, the Columbia University philosophy professor and frequent writer on contemporary art, has often referred to this “historical present” as a time after the history of art. What he…
The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Acts of Nostalgia My old friend Nate sent me this picture yesterday, taken some 17 years ago. That’s me in the middle, playing drums, wearing a pith helmet onto which…
A-18, A New Blog About The Back Of The Newspaper, by Ross Tuttle
Last Letter in the Alphabet – Zimbabwe Can we fault Sarah Palin for knowing little about Africa? (alright – it turns out she actually does know it’s a continent) But…