December 2010
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I’m sitting on the couch with my dog. He is old and I can feel his wee little heart beating against my foot (because that’s where he is sitting, you see). For Christmas we gave him a ham bone, amongst other things. He was supposed to eat it outside, and he did, mostly. Sometimes though we would all be inside watching a movie or enjoying the warm yellow light of Inside, and he would...
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Over the summer I posted something about body image and unhealthy weight loss circulating on tumblr. Within that post I mentioned my absolute loathing of “thinspiration” blogs. There is a particular blog whose over-the-top, text-adorned photo posts have been circulating through tumblr and through my dash and making me increasingly angrier and sadder for these beautiful young women who...
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Someone’s status on facebook said, “Voice Jury and Music History final today,” and while I do not know what a voice jury is, for a moment I thought it said “Voice injury,” and I thought Well, that’s sort of strange. Surely one’s vocal cords would be injured and not one’s voice. And then I just thought of how poetic it sounded. Speaking with an...
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tinytruant:
Helen Mirren talks about women in Hollywood.
This lady has a lot of very amazing things to say. Watch and listen to her wisdom.
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Today I got my hair cut, and what better a way to celebrate than to take myself out to see Tangled?
I just want to say that if you are looking for some beautiful animation, go see that film. There’s a scene where the kingdom releases thousands of floating lanterns (not a spoiler, really. I hope. No.) and it was so incredible it actually made me teary-eyed (ok, so part of this could be due...
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raeeeeeeee asked: You got me HOOKED on April Smith and the Great Picture Show. High 5 to youuuu.
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be happy?
– Oscar Wilde (via supersecretpizzaparty)
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I just auditioned for the Vagina Monologues. Really, I really did. I didn’t need to have anything prepared (although that doesn’t mean I didn’t spend time perusing the internet looking for monologue examples so I could get a better idea of what the show is like), we just signed up and filled out a form asking us questions like, “what does being a woman mean to you?”...