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“Anytime a woman documents the indignities of withstanding a misogynistic world, there are a dozen bench-warmers at the ready to charge her with wallowing, with perpetuating a cycle or psychology of victimhood, with the cynical glamorization of her own suffering. In short, of making a scene. Of being pathetic. Haven‘t we gone far enough? Why can‘t we just shut the fuck up? It‘s all more silencing.”
Here‘s a new video on Cajun/Acadien French by a young French YouTuber. https://youtu.be/6eEQqQJw_jA?si=kawNMwNDZArvCDaE
Part 2
I‘m listing all musicians and bands mentioned. I thought I lost this book out in the wild. It turns out it fell behind the sofa.
-TLC
-Bob Dylan
-Billy Joel
-Buddy Holly
-Jimmy Cliff
-Lou Reed
-The Magnetic Fields
-Yo La Tengo
-Modest Mouse
-Nick Lowe
-The Shins
-Stevie Nicks
-Nina Simone
-Fiona Apple
-Pete Seeger
-Neil Young
-Pavement
-Radiohead
“I let myself be cocooned in Ok Computer. No-body paid me any mind when I threw up a little, sending a stream of Long Island iced tea tricking down to the sidewalk. Briefly I dozed off and had an an insanely unsubtle dream in which my vagina spilt open as I walked, causing a whole bloody spectacle on Telegraph Avenue, children screaming, men fleeing”.
Hmm. Yeah. That happened to me once.
On the new Wuthering Heights film. Uuugh!
https://youtu.be/KmnM7PTOsLI?si=DkjwNdaU3nxHc5UA
“For years the myth of Philomela hung over me. The tongue stump. That soundless scream. A formal revolution in testimonial utterance. At the time I first encountered Heroines I was meant to be writing a dissertation on confessional poetry and women‘s projects of self-making, mainly Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, two ‘poetesses‘ you should never admire publicly if you wish to be taken seriously. (In any case I wasn‘t. Taken seriously that is.) -
Adolescence (Netflix) review. Red pill culture: https://youtu.be/OcM-od_uV6M?si=1XvApkCtjJ7lXL6Q
Ok now I have six of these figures. Probably enough, right? They should make an Amelie one, the red-head from Run Lola Run, Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind😉. It‘s a good thing plenty of them just don‘t appeal to meee.
This is a lovely little book with 100 different ingredients- flowers, fruits, herbs, resins, spices, etc, used in fragrances. 🍋🍐🍓🌹🌳
I had to add this to my collection. Many books on French writers don‘t include very many women writers. They usually have Marie de France, Madame de La fayette , sometimes Simone de Beauvoir and George Sand and that‘s it.
It is possible to go into a bookstore without buying anything. I did today. I almost didn‘t. See. This looks interesting.
“It‘s most direct successor in modern French literature may be Baudelaire‘s post-romantic” Fleurs du mal”. It was only a few years after “The Regrets” that the wars of religion between varying factions of Protestants and Catholics (1562-98) profoundly changed French culture and set the stage for the more highly structured and often less personal literature of the 17th century”.
Ok I know I relate based on the title and the description. I had to look her up. 🤷🏻♀️
I‘m slowing down on the book shopping. I swear. Slowing down. Not stopping. 😬
The positives: Ta da! The nutritional breakdown. The recipes look pretty easy. Yay! The author is a nutritionist. Options for meat substitutes. It has good photos. I could have definitely used this a couple years ago /weight management.
The negatives: Not everything looks appetizing. Some look pretty basic. If you can get a look at the recipes before you buy that would be the best.
1. Violets. Orchids. So many. I love native flowers like salvias and monkey flowers.
2. This is a lovely cover.
@TheSpineView
“I loved these Craftsman homes of Berkeley, especially the undisturbed, unkempt ones. They were soulful and comfortable and had all the amenities that actually make people happy, like porches and window seats, and none of the things we believed to make us happy, like open-floor plans and living rooms optimized for super bowl viewing. They were built for reading and close conversation. Berkeley felt like a glitch in the modern machine, back then,
“I KNOW I KNOW YOU HATE SUBLIME EVEN MORE THAN YOU HATE NO DOUBT”.
Sometimes I do miss the 90s.
I‘m listing all the bands and singers mentioned as I read this. I‘m now on ch 4. I‘ll post a full list at the end. No doubles. Here‘s hoping I don‘t miss any.
-Hall and Oates (Sara Smile)
-Joni Mitchell
-The Brian‘s Jonestown Massacre
-The Beatles
-Elvis Costello
-Elliot Smith
-Beach Boys
-Stevie Wonder
- Green Day (Dookie)
-Neutral Milk Hotel
-Tracy Chapman (Fast Car)
This covers all the basics. I got a helix and a tragus piercing last week. They can take 6 months to a year to completely heal. They both hurt, especially the tragus. I wasn‘t sure what to expect. I watched a number of YouTube videos with people saying they didn‘t hurt at all. Balderdash! I‘m now planning at least a few more.
“Actually,” I said, unable to stop myself, “ I would call this a perfect track, a perfect recording. Not a perfect song.” I could tell he already halfway understood but I explained anyway, with a level of detail befitting an idea of far greater complexity: “ A perfect song has stronger bones. Lyrics, chords, melody. It can be played differently, produced differently, and it will almost always be great. Take “Both Sides Now,” if you‘ll excuse me
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