Eating Women...

Chickens are beautiful, until you have to raise them. Via UGArdner @ Flickr Okay, so my critique here is likely as shallow and bad as the thing I’m critiquing, but this fucking article from the NYT is bugging the shit out of me for myriad reasons. First of all:  “femivore” means “one...

And Now for Something Completely Differe...

I feel like we all need a little pick-me-up? I’ve been cackling all morning like the witch I am over this interview with Nicholas Sparks in USAToday?  It starts off amazing: Nicholas Sparks has no love for people who call his stories “romances.”The mega-best-selling author of The Notebook,...

I’m over Christina Hendricks....

Via Capital M @ Flickr. I admit, the title of this post may not be fair, or completely accurate, as I’ve got no beef with Christina Hendricks herself. Her ever-increasing fan club, however, turns me off. She is on the cover of New York’s Spring Fashion issue, modeling “the new lingerie-as-outerwear...

An Update...

Last week I bitched to the New York Times Public Editor about a Roman Polanski profile that used what I felt was offensive and misleading language to depict both Polanski’s sex crime and his teenage victim. Today I received an answer. I can’t run it here without permission, which I think...

Be A Bitch: To the New York Times Public...

Dear Mr. Hoyt: I am writing to express how disgusted I was by Dennis Lim’s February 12 article about Roman Polanski. Certainly, the Times has given plenty of coverage to Polanski’s crime, including a 2009 editorial which read: This case has nothing to do with Mr. Polanski’s work or his...

Woman’s Last Stand...

Feast your eyes and ears on this amazing spoof of the Dodge Charger SuperBowl commercial we hated.  I am having trouble embedding it here but I could not wait to share! Transcript: I will get up and pack your lunch at 6:30 a.m. I will eat half a grapefruit for breakfast. I will get the kids ready for...

What We Learned from the SuperBowl Ads...

That about sums it up. Via that_james @ Flickr Superbowl Sunday is as much–if not more–about the flashy, expensive ads as it is the outcome of the game.  A lot of the lead-up hubbub was about the Tebow “Abortions Murder Football Heros!” ad, but if one were an alien who landed...

Put the Oxygen Mask on Yourself First...

Is it funnier that this picture shows a dude, or that the oxygen mask makes said dude look like a cartoon pig? Via mockstar @ Flickr You’ve probably heard that phrase before, if only prior to taking off for a holiday somewhere. I’ve been seeing and hearing it quite a bit lately, and it’s...

Stop using the word “looting!̶...

So this morning I decided to check in on What The MSM Is Up To, just out of morbid curiosity. At MSNBC I found this image. The implication is that Haitians are ungrateful, uncivilized thieves. Right now, this is the top story over there. “Looters roam Haiti streets as aid trickles in.” Is...

Harpy Seminar: Sarah Palin’s New G...

Since ditching her job as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin’s been on the road, speaking, promoting her book and generally making the kind of money and attention that she never got from that the pesky desk job in Juneau. This week we learned that she’s joining the ranks of the propagandists...

Eff Fat Suits...

Actress Poppy Montgomery isn’t fat. But her character in the Lifetime movie Lying to be Perfect is. Because no fat actresses were available for or interested in the role, Montgomery wears a fat suit to play magazine editor Nola Devlin. Reader Alison tipped us off to this cringe-inducing doozy;...

Katie Roiphe and the Great Male Narcissi...

You’ve probably heard by now that Katie Roiphe wrote an essay for the New York Times in which she lamented the loss of virile sex writing as practiced by my favourite writers-I-hate, Updike, Roth and Mailer.  Her argument, such as it is, is that the “provocativeness” of their take on sex is aesthetically...