October 2009
26 posts
“This is the magical thing about babies on the subway. They carry the antidote to...”
– Print media is trying to save itself article by article, and I think the NYTimes made some valiant strides with this all-important editorial on BABYFACES (thanks KatieBakes).
Places I Would Have Liked To Have Been,...
[Inter-city competition aside, the ultimate goal was to impress one’s host, the impeccably groomed “agitator of the absurd” and cad-about-town, David Piper. Those who brought the most bizarre bits were invited to a dinner party held inside a fully restored late-19th century railway carriage, an intimate space stacked with curio and unfathomable steam-powered devices. Drinks were served by...
Lincoln Center's Vagina-logue
[That is a profound moment, when women are truly honest with each other…One of the things that really struck me was how, even though women have a reputation for talking, talking, talking, confiding, confiding, confiding, we’re not that honest with each other, a lot of times—particularly across experience or ethnicity or age, or any kind of difference among...
“City people or not, they creep out with wicker baskets at dawn, when mist is...”
– This story on mushroom hunting in Russia is so very good. Thanks to The Awl for pointing it out.
“Not specifically, but what I tapped into is the part of all of us that was not...”
– Jane Lynch talks Glee in NYM today. I love that at age 49 she is finally having her mainstream moment.
In which I was a fortunate enough child to now...
So we have an American Girl Doll catalog floating around the office today (addressed, somewhat questionably, to a 50-something male coworker), and I finally got the chance to check out the full spread on Rebecca Rubin, the new 1914 Jewish New Yorker who launched so that the flaxen pioneer Kirsten Larson might be forever retired to the “archives,” the big fjords in the sky. Now, only...
Dirty Projectors at Lincoln Center's American... →
Ooh. (via krankmills)
“You know what comes up a lot? It always comes from an older woman. They ask me,...”
– Very much enjoying a) Doree’s interview with Gail Collins over on the Jez, and b) Gail Collins’ effusive use of “neat.”
“In the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s — years when stars like Jane Fonda,...”
– The WaPo runs an article (which I’ve read 100 times before but it bears repeating—though perhaps in a less harpy fashion) about the lack of strong female roles in films, pegged to Amelia’s tanking.
The fact that Amelia is terrible, they don’t seem to want to say.
Oh, hi.
I’m back. Welcome back me.
I now have a proper URL (thereby making me an official, breathing, vote-counts person as far as the void of the web is concerned), and a new look, but this is still essentially the same action formerly known as rach.tumblr.com.
Over the last months, I contemplated starting completely anew—as I am with another online project, soon to be launched into the...
