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Where have all the weird girls gone?
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/20
She’s a dying breed, but not yet extinct. You just need to know where to look.
Paul Rogers’s Name that Movie. I’ll give you super special brownie points if you know this one. Hint: it’s my default favorite film. What is it?
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Fast-Talking Dames
http://fasttalkingdames.tumblr.com/
I started a new Tumblr.
I had no idea who they were, but I knew I had stumbled onto a unique company of women. Because of them I came to experience the pleasure to be had in words—in the
mere saying of them—and the gratification in giving a good as well as fair account of yourself. If I had not had their example, I might have passed my adolescence muttering that there was little for me to hope for in a world that paid so much attention to the likes of Marilyn Monroe. Surely I wasn’t the only girl, then or now, puzzled and somewhat
depressed to learn that Monroe epitomized for so many what was most desirable in my sex. It wasn’t that her physical features, breathy voice, and languid movements were inimitable, although I remember several of my friends trying to mimic her speech and walk anyway. It was that she lacked any semblance of ready wit. Even when she said funny lines, which she often did, she never said them as if she knew that a joke was
on the way. Even as a teenager I knew that I never wante
mere saying of them—and the gratification in giving a good as well as fair account of yourself. If I had not had their example, I might have passed my adolescence muttering that there was little for me to hope for in a world that paid so much attention to the likes of Marilyn Monroe. Surely I wasn’t the only girl, then or now, puzzled and somewhat
depressed to learn that Monroe epitomized for so many what was most desirable in my sex. It wasn’t that her physical features, breathy voice, and languid movements were inimitable, although I remember several of my friends trying to mimic her speech and walk anyway. It was that she lacked any semblance of ready wit. Even when she said funny lines, which she often did, she never said them as if she knew that a joke was
on the way. Even as a teenager I knew that I never wante
– Fast-Talking Dames, by Maria DiBattista
surpluscats:
“ Dorothy Parker, Collected Works Poster by Michael Farrell at Art.com
Once I get settled in a new place, this has to go above my desk.
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Spooky … I was just recently looking at getting this for my desk!
“ Dorothy Parker, Collected Works Poster by Michael Farrell at Art.com
Once I get settled in a new place, this has to go above my desk.
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Spooky … I was just recently looking at getting this for my desk!
Simple or minimal? (Via Disassociated. The 15 best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. The Batgirl that TV never saw...
It doesn’t matter, right, if you are in San Francisco or Birmingham or the Congo, all human beings are dreamers. Those dreams are bigger when we are kids. You ask a classroom of five-year-olds: ‘Who can dance and who can sing?’ and everyone will put their hand up; ask a group of 21-year-olds the same question and maybe two people will put up their hand. Acting on a dream by going on an adventure is keeping that childhood faith in possibility alive, and the only real product of any adventure is story- telling. When those stories are told well they will inspire more dreams. Which closes the equation and starts the cycle again.
– David de Rothschild
If I look at the film and it’s no good, I don’t like to give it an aggressive title, I give it … the kind of title that is low-key and promises nothing, so people are less disappointed by it …. [You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger] was a very aggressive title, so you can hope that it’s a good movie … If I didn’t think it was a good film, I would give it a quiet one-word title to deflect attention from it — so now you know the secret.
– Woody Allen.
She [Jackie O’Nassis Kennedy] had a kind of grace and inner strength that few people have. More than anything, it was her sense of grace, which I didn’t think I would have as I was coming nearer to my wedding day. A part of me really wanted to do it; another part of me could see myself in flashback to my whole life having said I would never do it, because I would never go in front of church and state and do such a thing. In the end, it didn’t become about that; it became about, ‘this is somebody that I love’ … A part of me could see myself in this wedding dress sitting at 7-Eleven on the curb, having a Slurpee and missing the whole thing. Not because I wanted to, but just because I’m still frozen in a piece of film somewhere when I was 18 and that was my outlook on life. So ‘Jackie’s Strength’ was written about the girl that went to the 7-Eleven; I went and got married…
– Tori Amos
Speaking of that Mad Men episode … how appropriate is this song in that context? Might as well rename it the Ballad of Betty Draper. Always been one of my favorite songs.
The latest Mad Men episode, “The Grown Ups,” particularly struck me. Whether because of the subject matter or the fact that it’s the penultimate episode of season three and serious things are starting to happen - or both - I don’t know. But it did. I...
This is, hands down, my new favorite pulp magazine cover. CHEWED TO BITS BY GIANT TURTLES.
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Actual Titles from Early 60's Men's Pulp Magazines
“ The Nympho Who Beheaded 26 Lovers
Moscow Has a Nympho Street!
Sadist Nympho of the Sahara Sands
The Nympho Doctor Who Bought a Bordello!
Nympho Mary Anne and Her Pirate Ship
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Apparently nymphos...
What with all that, it looks like there’s plenty on your plate. And if you don’t feel like dwelling on the non-problems, if you automatically assume that a woman has as much right to have a terrific career and exciting adventures as any guy, that’s great. For the entire history of recorded civilization, people had ideas about women’s limitations, and their proper (domestic) place in the world. That all changed in my lifetime — came crumbling down. The fact that I got to see it, in the tiny sliver of history I inhabit, just knocks me out. You taking it for granted knocks me out.
But if you do want to take a look back now and then, and contemplate how America evolved into a country where women could finally claim their rights, you might enjoy the ride even more. It’s a great story, and it was all leading up to you.
But if you do want to take a look back now and then, and contemplate how America evolved into a country where women could finally claim their rights, you might enjoy the ride even more. It’s a great story, and it was all leading up to you.
– Gail Collins, Letter to Young American Women
MOTHER, WHY CAN’T I GO TO ROCKET CADET SCHOOL LIKE YOU DID?
BECAUSE YOU’RE A MAN, GREG— THAT’S WHY !!
Will Women Rule Over Men In The Future?
What does this mean for men, you ask? John Broome, author of “It’s a Woman’s World,” a science fiction story...
BECAUSE YOU’RE A MAN, GREG— THAT’S WHY !!
Will Women Rule Over Men In The Future?
What does this mean for men, you ask? John Broome, author of “It’s a Woman’s World,” a science fiction story...
Martin Scorsese's 11 scariest horror movies of all time Disney imagery in Citizen Kane. Wanted: girls who like computer science....
