Meredith Clark
July 2012
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February 2012
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I was going to write a post about why Chronicle is the best superhero origin film since the original Superman, but then I saw Maggie Gallagher on this morning’s Up with Chris Hayes and my brain broke.
But seriously, the movie is a spectacular argument against the continued raid on the comic book back catalog. It was refreshing and exhilarating to watch characters try to deal with new, terrifying powers without already knowing what was going to happen next. Also, two of the three main actors, Michael B. Jordan and Dane DeHaan, deserve to be big stars. Big stars. Jordan has got to be the most charismatic actor of his generation, and it was quite disturbing how much I felt like I knew what was going on inside the head of the main character. Always weird to realize you would probably also have gone villainous had you been given the chance at 15.
And here ends my semi-cryptic capsule film review.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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August 2011
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“What we conclude from this is that popular media outlets such as Rolling Stone are not depicting women as sexy musicians or actors; they are depicting women musicians and actors as ready and available for sex. This is problematic because it indicates a decisive narrowing of media representations of women.”
—Some people used issues of Rolling Stone to measure how the sexualization of women in media has increased over time. Their results? A lot.
Hogan Here: it's all true →
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I have enough trouble with my free will with trying not to jump out of windows every day — but as a childless old lady I gotta go ahead and say this stuff to somebody:
HEY YOUNG PEOPLE! you’d better moisturize your neck! you’d better take care of your teeth as often as your restaurant worker funds allow ! ”tanning” becomes “mottling!” one day your feet will hurt every day for no reason! same deal with your back! drinking & eating becomes a complicated algebra problem where famotidine is the constant and you’re always solving for the unknown hangover!
if you are a lady, then you will gradually and inexplicably become invisible to dudes in your late 30’s! at first this will bum you out a lot! then after awhile you won’t care most of the time! if you are savvy, you can even use your uninvited invisibility as a super-power for eavesdropping and collecting data!
There are some old person consolation prizes and they are:
knowing how to cook delicious food from scratch! knowing how to avoid dating assholes (no matter how cute they are!) getting to be really good friends with your parents (if they are not assholes!) knowing how to grow tomatoes! knowing how to be a good parent to a dog or cat (please forgive me, Chainsaw and Sammich, I didn’t know what I was doing half the time!) really and truly knowing how to have excellent sex with yourself and others! anywhere! any time!
okay menopause — bring it. let’s get this over with. I’m gonna sit on your chest and pound your face into aspic. yes, I’ll be crying the whole time, but my falling tears are gonna sting like hell on your gouged-out skin.
I’m glad that the internet gives me so many more opportunities to say, “Kelly Hogan is one of the most bad ass of all the Bad Ass Music-Making Ladies With Whom I Wish I Could Drink Whiskey. Her cover of “Papa Was a Rodeo” won her a permanent spot in my top five long ago, but it’s nice to get non-musical reminders too.
STFU, Conservatives: ON WISCONSIN! →
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ON WISCONSIN!
Very important information from Our Common Ground on a reblog of this link. I’ve inserted some extra links and info:
August 9th is Election Day for:
- Nancy Nusbaum [Facing Sen. Robert Cowles (R)] (Senate District 2)
- Sandy Pasch [Facing Sen. Alberta Darling (R)] (Senate District 8)
- Shelly Moore [Facing Sen. Shelia Harsdorf (R)] (Senate District 10)
- Fred Clark [Facing Sen. Luther Olsen (R)] (Senate District 14)
- Jessica King [Facing Sen. Randy Hopper (R)] (Senate District 18)
- Jennifer Shilling [Facing Sen. Dan Kapanke (R)] (Senate District 32)
August 16th is Election Day for: Jim Holperin (Senate District 12) and Bob Wirch (Senate District 22) (These are the two Democratic senators who were recalled)
If you are in Wisconsin, you can look up your voter registration and polling place location here.
No matter where you live, you can join this effort:
- If you are on the ground, go door to door with We Are Wisconsin.
- Make calls from anywhere with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
- Make calls from anywhere with DFA and the PCCC.
Background info on the recalls here. Currently, the Koch brothers and Tea Party Nation are dumping money and out-of-state organizers into Wisconsin. Judson Phillips, head of Tea Party Nation, is in Wisconsin claiming the unions/the left agenda “has killed billions of people” and is comparing Wisconsin protesters to Nazi storm troopers.
They’re against the ropes. Let’s go for the knockout.
Come on, Wisconsin, you can do this. I know you can.
July 2011
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Listen
I can’t sleep, but I’m too tired to stay awake and watch Chungking Express again. I listened to this song instead (not California Dreaming) and managed to get the feeling I wanted. I miss the Wong Kar-Wai of the 90s, the one that never let you know if he was going to break your heart until the very end. Maybe I just wish I could be more like Faye Wong, and that more men could be as beautiful as Takeshi Kaneshiro.
