May 2010
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May 31st
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May 30th
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I stole this one from Kate — Never Marry a Woman With Big Feet, based on the book of the same name, has a seemingly endless collection of proverbs and sayings about women from around the world. Aside from the obvious fact that it’s a great international collection of traditional (mostly negative, but not all) attitudes toward the feminine and all the interesting conclusions we can draw...
May 30th
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May 29th
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Allsaints Spitalfields, now in New York. My bank account is weeping over every last jacket and those CORSET HEELS.
May 28th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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Despite commenters’ descriptions of my recent french-braid-obsession as ‘sweet’ and ‘cute’ and ‘folkloric’, halfway through braiding my whole head I discovered that I could use one tight, low side french braid to TOTALLY FAKE LIKE I HAVE AN UNDERCUT and walk around like a ginger Alice Dellal without having to, you know, actually shave one half of my...
May 20th
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WatchWatch
Man, this (The National live at BAM) was so much more intense live on Saturday night (not gonna lie, kinda teared up a bit, even in spite of the awkward seated arrangement, oppressive AmEx promotions, and house lights being left on because of the filming) but I’m still posting it just because IT WAS SO AWESOME AT THE TIME. Somehow Matt Berninger drunkenly (he drank a whole bottle of white...
May 19th
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CJR | Maureen Tkacik - Look at Me! A Writer's... →
Let’s just leave it at that this was the best 35 minutes of reading I had so far today: Moe Tkacik discussing at great length everything from the economy, American Apparel, Gawker Media and Jezebel and that Redbook cover that put Jezebel on my (and probably your) daily radar to begin with, that whole Emily Gould scandal, personal vs private, journalism vs branding/advertising, The Wall...
May 19th
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May 19th
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party
    And just to exacerbate the crippling nostalgia — a few of the above people andmi WHEN WE WERE BABIES.
May 18th
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literary tattoos
While quite a few of them are cringe-worthy (there’s about two dozen “to thine own self be true“‘s in miscellaneous old-english font, a number of mis-spelled cliches,  and more Kurt Vonnegut than even my sixteen-year-old superfan former self would have been able to handle) the collection of literary-themed tattoos at contrariwise.org is pretty durn rad. Look! Harriet...
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 11th
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American Women: Fashioning a National Identity
The Met right now has a special exhibition from the Costume Institute and the Brooklyn Museum called “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity,” which of COURSE I’m conceptually, ecstatically losing my shit over. Let’s just quote their press release for moment: “It will explore developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940 and how they...
May 10th
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Every now and again I start to forget about how much I love the goddamned Hudson Valley and how beautiful and weird and old so much of New York is and then one of my favourite bands has to go and do a thing like film a video at Castle Rock in Peekskill and before you know it I’m Wikipedia-ing melodramatic landscape painters and contemplating spending the day on the Metro North train JUST...
May 7th
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modesty, street harassment, and public space
About a month ago I posted about having purchased an ankle-length black linen skirt, which since then has rapidly become one of my favourite things in my closet.  I wear it like other women probably wear sweatpants — for lazy Saturdays at the flea market, to run to the grocery store, to walk to a cafe to work at my computer for a few hours, to hang out in the park, and basically every...
May 4th
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irina lazareanu in marie claire italia may 2010
Irina Lazareanu by David Bellemere… Love the lighting, styling, poses (did I read somewhere that she used to be a dancer? It shows), location, everything. At least the best inclusion of 2010’s weirdest editorial trend of “inexplicable athletic chalk/talcum powder/pasty white paint dusted all over models’ body”… more after the jump.  [via noir_facade]
May 3rd
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germs fuji instax
about a billion of these after the jump….
May 3rd
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