Monthly Archives: February 2012

Mythical Shoes

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

(Note to my regular readers: Due to circumstances beyond my control, my Oscars fashion post won’t be up until Thursday at the earliest.) I’ve been searching for a particular pair of shoes for about a decade now. I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Lessons to Unlearn from Glee – Season 3, Episode 14

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

You know what, show? Fuck you. This episode is making me unaccountably angry and I’m not sure I have a full handle on why. When I saw where things were going with Karofsky, my first instinct was to be angry … Continue reading →

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State-Sanctioned Rape

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

Let’s not pussy-foot around this. This is rape. Here, this woman seems to know more about it than I do, in terms of legal definitions. But very few news outlets are even reporting this, and the ones that do are … Continue reading →

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Lessons to Unlearn from Glee – Season 3, Episode 13

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

The lesson: There’s this character on the show named Sugar and I’m supposed to care about her. The truth: No, I’m pretty sure that’s not true. The lesson: Brian Stokes Mitchell should guest star on a musical show and not really … Continue reading →

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Valentine’s Day Quickie

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

If you didn’t see this today, please go look now. Okay, watched it? Heart sufficiently warm and fuzzy? Great. Because that’s the perfect video about what love means. Not giving someone stuff that you think will impress them but doing … Continue reading →

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The Grammys 2012

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

I’ve decided to significantly reduce the length of this post by only putting up pictures of people whose names I recognize. So I’m not going to discuss the girl whose gynecologist I now am, and I’m not going to address … Continue reading →

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The Birth Control Thing

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

Here’s the thing that always makes me pause when these conservative people start speaking out against birth control – what are they doing to prevent themselves from having more children? Now, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney both have enough children … Continue reading →

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Lessons to Unlearn from Glee – Season 3, Episode 12

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

This was such a grab-bag of an episode. We’re going to do a bunch of mini-lessons. They may or may not dip back into last week’s episode as well. The lesson: Santana Lopez is ssssssssmokin’. The truth: No, no, no. … Continue reading →

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Ricki Cooks the Book – Ancient Grains for Modern Meals

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

I have, approximately, 1,882 cookbooks. I have cooked food from approximately five. I think it’s time to rectify that. And to make myself in some way publicly accountable, I’m going to write about cooking from books I haven’t cooked from … Continue reading →

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Quoting

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

The Star Wars trilogy was re-released in theaters when I was in high school, and I went to see all of them with my dad and my brother. We had a great time. At some point after seeing the third, … Continue reading →

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