It's all just a matter of philosophy, you see
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
She has a couple of friends (or friends of friends) who have decided to keep a couple of chickens - so she interviews a female farmer - deliberately equates the two - is this 600 words yet?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
As I rustled up a quick dinner of whole-wheat quesadillas and frozen organic peas, I found my thoughts drifting back to our conversation, to the questions she raised about the nature of success, satisfaction, sustenance (continues)
where are the "stay-at-home dads" to make this slightly more convincing
― harbl, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"femivore"? what the hell
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
a person who eats women duh
― harbl, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
read it as fernivore at first, though that might be taking Nutrition Nazism a bit far
― FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.firebaugh.com/FDA/Courses/CS.120/Week.13/Lect25.www/FernGully1.JPG
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
SIGH
At least it's not in the fashion and style section.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at "(continues)"
― caek, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"All of these gals — these chicks with chicks"
*arglefargmurderstabstabstab*
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Monday, 15 March 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes - yes she went there
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 March 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a good companion piece:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/fashion/14moms.html?ref=style
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there any chance that moms will ever get overthemselves and stfu?
― quincie, Monday, 15 March 2010 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^ILXmoms excluded from this because I mean I don't see sunny or nath acting like a bunch of mommybloggers.
― quincie, Monday, 15 March 2010 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome - that even includes a classic self-promotion-masquerading-as-disclosure statement -- A+
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 March 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Could only tolerate first 1/2 of femivore(??) article. Hey, my mom canned peaches (and tomatoes, and grape jam, and strawberry jam, and applesauce, and spaghetti sauce, and...) because we were POOR, OKAY? Also she grew corn and sunflowers and all our other vegetables for a while there.
She never went for chickens, personally, tho I know I've said before that we knew people who had ACTUAL FARMS who kept chix. God, people.
― The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Monday, 15 March 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoa-oa here she comesWatchout girls she'll chew you upWhoa-oa here she comesShe's a femivore
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 March 2010 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Partyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
“The founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor,” he said. “They believed in it so much that they would sacrifice. That’s the kind of loyalty to this country that we stand for.”
He blames the government for his unemployment. “Government is absolutely responsible, not because of what they did recently with the car companies, but what they’ve done since the 1980s,” he said. “The government has allowed free trade and never set up any rules.”
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i instantly slapped my own forehead
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 March 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
those ppl aren't ruling class, they just identify with them
― harbl, Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
buncha joes the plumber
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?ref=garden&pagewanted=all
― max, Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Unemployed, the author became obsessed with gazing at and eating eggs.
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa that lady is loony, gazing at eggs, discovering weather
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
good god who is she friends with that let her write an article so long about something so trivial & uninteresting
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^^
― ksh, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, and it is actually an excerpt from a book, which means there are several hundred pages of this stuff out there.
― crazy ass between (askance johnson), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean she obv has an attraction to the "spiritual" but good grief
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
im temped imagine myself plunging through a window and onto the unforgiving patio below after only reading the article!
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
only to have your fall broken by fresh spinach and basil
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
lol some girl i dont really know just linked to this shit on facebook - she works (worked?) at a magazine
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked the article & felt bad 4 this lady
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i stopped reading
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dont think its really that presumptuous or terrible to write a long article abt the effects of unemployment & dealing w/ the fallout of having p much yr whole world torn away. what that felt like & looked like how a person deals w/ it idk felt like she p thoughtful & earnest & true
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sometimes-area-woman-just-feels,17072/
― symsymsym, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
*rolls eyes*
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes in life we have 2 stop and gaze @ the eggs
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
When I had a job, I never thought about eggs
would be a GREAT opening line for a short story
― max, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous egg.
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck I gazed @ so many eggs when I took drawing classes as a kid
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, all's well that ends well, right? Except that, uh, Browning already wrote this book-or at least, a very similar one. And the Times wrote about it. As Alex Witchel reported in 2002, Browning's book Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvement chronicled "her long sadness and [her] house's decay"—the story of "a woman who has experienced loss and pain and has mended, somewhat."
gawker, lol
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
also do you get it she lost her nest egg so now she gaze at eggs HAH so clever
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just gonna put this out there:
i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of farmland in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.
― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of eggs in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.
― max, Monday, 29 March 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
eggs are such a good metaphor think baout it
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes they are white somtimes they are brown
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:26 PM (2 weeks ago)
savages, truly
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i assume whiney hasn't seen that