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MY BIRTHDAY

March 25, 2014

When I was a child, I used to pour over the catalogs that came into our house and carefully note the items I wanted to purchase. I’ve always been meticulous in charting my desires, and though my parents and boyfriend (this one’s for you, sweetheart!) make fun of me for obsessively making lists (my book wish list is divided into need to buy and have purchased but not read) I find a great, though empty, comfort in it. Herewith, thirty things you, my loyal readers, are welcome to give me for my 30th birthday, a bit more than one month away:

1. DSM-V

2. P-Touch labelmaker

3. Bensimon sneakers

4. An old school Gameboy with Tetris and ONLY TETRIS

5. Popover tin

6. This mug

7. Tiny sheepskin rug

8. Any piece of jewelry that has a human body part on it (like a hand or an eye.) This sounds cryptic, but examples abound.

9. Gold mascara

10. Any patterned turban

11. A laminating machine

12. Any lounge pants that can be worn on the couch or outside, to fit my freelancer’s lifestyle

13. Mini stairs!!!

14. Dorothy Parker doll

15. The Tenant on DVD (yes, I still want to own physical DVDs)

16. Cool frum skirts

17. Anything from the Evolution Store

18. Le Creuset anything

19. This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen:

20. Illustrated Tender Buttons, as featured on this website

21. New bathing suits (athletic and not)

22. A tray made by my friend EM, mosaic artist

23. an endless supply of Meyer’s candles

24. Bunny chair, also featured on this site

25. A keychain (lame, I know, but you have the potential to get creative with this one!)

26. Chanel pearl bobby pins

27. An assistant (for just one day a week)

28. Millions of pairs of black opaque tights

29. File cabinet

30. A $500 gift certificate to a cool independent bookstore… OH WAIT…

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My Coworker’s Throwback Thursday

March 4, 2014

Way, way back.

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Great Cocktail Names

February 18, 2014

It’s almost as fun a game as “great band names!”

At 282 Burger on Atlantic Avenue, they have a cocktail named the Sally Draper. It is made of Old Overholt Rye, Crème de Cacao, Muddled Oranges and Sour Cherries. Yum!

There were way too many good pics to choose from.

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Baby Burlesks

February 16, 2014

While reading Shirley Temple’s fascinating, obituary, I came across the mention of Baby Burlesks, a series of very short films Temple starred in before she made the big time. According to Temple’s autobiography, the films were sexually suggestive and also kinda racist, and when the child actors misbehaved, they were (from the Times) “locked in a windowless sound box with only a block of ice on which to sit.” WHAT THE FUCK!?

The movies really are as weird as Temple (and others who have sought them out) described them. Check out War Babies, in which Temple is a dancer in a bar juggling the hearts of two admirers.

(Also, did you know that Temple had exactly 56 perfect ringlets? My inner child is dying of envy right now.)

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Dictionary Clutch

February 12, 2014

Always a coveter, never an owner.

Spotted on MLE

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The Mirror Stage

January 20, 2014

For the eight-millionth time, I had to look up Lacan’s “Mirror Stage” today to ensure I had the correct definition of it for a piece I’m working on. It’s one of a couple of things I never trust myself to remember correctly. (This list includes the meaning of the world “tautology,” and the theology of apostolic Christianity.) For the record, the mirror stage it seems was actually conceived of by a French psychologist named Henri Wallon, who wrote that “children started to react to their mirror image at the age of four months. By the end of the tenth month he claimed that children actually located a part of their self in their mirror image and that they then imagined that their own body was split into fragments. The child now fell under an inner compulsion, so the argument ran, to unify its ego in space and in order to do this is was forced gradually to subordinate the data of immediate experience to pure representation. The ordeal of the mirror eventually led, according to Wallon, to the child’s entry into the symbolic stage of development.” (Explanation courtesy the dead cultural historian Richard Webster.) Simpler version: baby sees image, baby realizes image is HIM, baby starts to control limbs and understand space and physicality.

That isn’t the point of this little post, though. The real point is to draw attention to how hilarious the graphic Wikipedia chose to accompany its article on the mirror stage is.

Highbrow, lowbrow, folks.

If you don’t get why this is funny, we can’t be friends.

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Baby Gift!

January 15, 2014

I got my one friend with a baby––whose seven honorary aunts are likely to spoil the shit out of her––the most adorable little thing. IT’S A UNICORN HORN!

Made by BrooklynOwl

The version I got is a little clip, so the baby’s going to have to grow some hair first, but still…

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This Is Part of My Job

December 27, 2013

I am a cultural critic. It’s probably the most obnoxious job title a person can have––what gives ME the right to critique society? Nothing, really, other than that I have a decent vocabulary, I’m pretty curmudgeonly, and I elbowed my way into getting paid simply for stating my opinions and developing my own theories. That, and I’m usually right.

To my budding cultural critics out there: watch the below video of a young girl wowing the audience during an episode of Holland’s Got Talent, and write me a short email answering the following two questions.

1. What is wrong with this video? (Focus on the part after she starts singing.)

2. What larger flaw in our culture (being Western, intellectual, consumerist, etc. etc.––if you’re reading this, you’re probably in it) does this video’s flaw indicate?

Extra credit: How can we prevent this girl from going by way of Susan Boyle? (I myself have no idea. I’m just genuinely curious.)

Good luck, pundits.