Coming to Terms | The Point Magazine
(well, this seems to have been written with me in mind)
Congressional Birth Control Hearing Involves Exactly Zero People Who Have a Uterus
Today on Capitol Hill, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform assembled a panel to discuss the birth control mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Specifically, whether or not requiring insurers to cover birth control violates religious freedom of people who don’t believe in science. The committee, chaired by a male, consisted of eight men who felt personally persecuted by the requirement. And that’s about the least depressing aspect of the whole circus.
I wouldn’t let these guys determine my haircut, much less what’s really at stake here.
“I know nothing about basketball. I only know when Jeremy puts the ball in the basket he has done a good thing.” —
Jeremy Lin’s Grandmother Watches, Along With Taiwan - NYTimes.com
A Taiwanese treasure. This is adorable.
bacon chocolate chip cookie recipe | pete bakes!
This is my old friend (who introduced me to Less Than Jake), and his baking blog.
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(via “Cherry” Photocall - 62nd Berlinale International Film Festival - Pictures - Zimbio)
shorterexcerpts asked: If you're a fan of both brutal honesty in non-fiction, and DFW, I think you owe it to yourself to pick of one of Mary Karr's books.
That is true. They’re on my list.
If you are coming to one of the TWO shows at the Brooklyn Bowl you can get one of the limited Edition LTJ Bowling Shirts! Only 50 made and ONLY available at the Brooklyn bowl shows. http://www.lessthanjaketix.com
Oh shit, that’s awesome. Hope I get one tonight. (It’ll go well with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones bowling shirt I got at Warped Tour in bright orange 12 years ago).
Yesterday’s announcement that the anonymous Rumpus advice columnist Sugar (to read Sugar is to love Sugar) was a writer named Cheryl Strayed, brought me to read for the first time some of her writing published under her true byline.
“The Love Of My Life” published in The Sun Magazine (2002), a beautiful personal perfect essay that starts with the line:
THE FIRST TIME I cheated on my husband, my mother had been dead for exactly one week.
and a 4,500 word excerpt from her forthcoming (six figure deal) memoir Wild published in Vogue, Into the Woods, which would make anyone preorder that sure-to-be-amazing story.
And it all got me thinking about what I love to read. I’ve always found nothing more compelling than: brutally open and honest and true nonfiction first person literary personal memoir/essays. Bonus points if you’re male, coming of age, and writing about New York.
Likewise, they’ve mostly been male writers: Jonathan Ames, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan, etc. but stand-out women like Zadie Smith, Sloane Crosby, and now Cheryl Strayed have started to balance out my list, because nothing has been more devastatingly personal, honest, open, self-aware, seedy, well-written, selfish, and true than “The Love Of My Life” that I’ve read recently. It’s got everything to rope you in (death, drugs, sex, drama) but it’s the self-awareness that keeps you there. Read it.
The Colbert Report Mysteriously Suspends Production -
Let’s hope he’s ok and this comes back soon.
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“What is the secret to love? A secret is a secret and I don’t reveal my secrets!”
—Ykov Shapirshteyn, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
From a photo series of New York couples who have been together for 50 years or more (via Cup of Jo).
Vogue has published an excerpt from the upcoming wild by Cheryl Strayed (aka Sugar for The Rumpus).
My solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail—three months, 1,100 miles—had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting of my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce from a man I still loved and selling almost everything I owned and visiting my mother’s grave one last time. There was the driving across the country from Minneapolis to Portland, Oregon, and, a few days later, catching a flight to Los Angeles and a ride to the town of Mojave.
“Santorum claims that the use of contraception has a “profound impact on the health of our society,” and he’s right, unintentionally: Contraception prevents STDs and unwanted pregnancies, and in the process, lowers government health-care spending and cuts down on those abortions Santorum is so dedicated to stopping. Because people are going to have sex — hedonistic, non-procreation-y sex — whether Father Santorum approves of it or not. A president who doesn’t accept that has lost touch with reality.” — Rick Santorum Fine With Shaming Women in Certain Situations — Daily Intel
We just announced this event we’re having at Housing Works, with McNally Jackson, The Rumpus, and the newly “out” Dear Sugar herself, the inimitable Cheryl Strayed. It’s going to be amazing. So amazing. Get a ticket soon, it will sell out!
Poster design and illustration by Andrea Sparacio.
This will rock.