June 2012
1 post
May 2012
7 posts
Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? →
“I’m 39, now. The friends my Mom warned me about are bigger now, and older, bloodying my nose with old world numbers, and old world tactics, like, oh, I don’t know, sending out press releases to TV Guide at 7pm on a Friday.
But my Commodore 64 is mobile now, like yours, and the modems are invisible, and the internet is the air all around us. And the good friends, the real friends, are...
WHEN I LOOK AT THE PAGEVIEW GOALS FOR THE UPCOMING...
editorrealtalk:
WHEN THE CMS BREAKS. AGAIN.
editorrealtalk:
April 2012
3 posts
Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
Outstanding. Glad to see they’re connecting with their biggest demographic – young women.
plannedparenthood:
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering...
March 2012
5 posts
Instagram: Photo Feature Friday: Holi →
instagram:
This past week Hindus everywhere celebrated Holi, an annual festival of colors that signals the start of spring. Thousands of people took to the streets of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal to throw scented powders and perfumes at each other. The bright pigments and painted faces made for some…
“Germany has around 200 places where a mother can either leave her baby—heated...”
– Since their introduction in Hamburg in 2000, such refuges have taken charge of around a thousand babies that might otherwise have been given away less carefully. But there is a problem: abandoning children is illegal. (via theeconomist)
February 2012
9 posts
Talk Small: Order out of chaos: Writer's block →
aaronleaf:
I read recently that writing is about making a million small choices one after another. Maybe this is obvious but I’d never thought of it this way before.
Trouble making decisions is supposed to indicate a creative mind. Which means, I tell myself, that routine panic attacks over restaurant menus…
Nicki Minaj profiled in New York magazine →
“Shape-shifting is a survival mechanism for a lady in rap: If you stay in one place, the latent male aggression will gut you like a fish.”
What a sentence. I wish I had written that. Even if you’re not a Minaj fan, read this for the writing.
Though I Can’t Be Certain, I Suspect That This... →
doree:
barthel:
A Jake Tapper (!) piece from McSweeneys (!) in 1999 (!) speaks to point 4 of Maura’s “How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide.”
This is seriously genius. And so applicable to like… everything:
She doesn’t have tartar sauce. Just ketchup. She apologizes. That’s okay, I say. She asks me about writing profiles like this one. Is it fun? Is it interesting? Who...
“Collectively, women’s magazines—by which I mean the whole field, from fashion...”
– Hillary Rosner, Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags.
Rosner, a freelance science writer and former Knight Fellow at MIT, shares (frustrating) anecdotes about trying to write serious science journalism for women’s magazines.
(via futurejournalismproject)
January 2012
8 posts
“Really? ‘Nerds’? You know, actually, I think the word you’re looking for is...”
– JON STEWART, on members of Congress considering the SOPA and PIPA bills exasperatedly calling for “nerds” to help them understand SOPA and PIPA, on The Daily Show.
Why does Congress bother convening at all?
(via inothernews)
kellyoxford:
December 2011
12 posts
“We’re socializing boys to believe that being a man means being powerful and in...”
– Jackson Katz, PhD
Educator
Filmmaker, Tough Guise
Author, The Macho Paradox
Heard in the documentary Miss Representation.
(via metricjulie)
November 2011
5 posts
“Four weeks after my 13th birthday, my dad killed my mum. He stabbed her in the...”
– This new “Experience” series from the Guardian seems like internet journalism at its most compelling, but its worst, to me. If you click through, you’ll see that all the experiences are rather sensational, “my baby was stolen,” “I’m married but sleep with...
