WTF? Beer for women? Is the bottle pink? Does it contain folic acid? Does it increase bone density somehow? Does the bottling company donate to Girls on the Run and Emily’s List with every purchase?
Oh wait. It’s weaker than most beers, and tastes like fruit. In other words, it’s an f-ing wine cooler.
Beer doesn’t have to be this hard. Ready? Good all-purpose beer = Guinness. Good all-purpose beer for drinking when it is very hot, or when you want a shandy = Harp.
Someone has a lot of time on their hands, an axe to grind with anti-gay Christian hate groups, and a well-honed sense of the absurd.
A few of the shots in Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density project. Click forward to Wolf’s site to see the rest. Spectacular, impersonal, and kind of terrifying.
The research archives of the first female professor in Europe, scientist Laura Bassi (1711-1778), will be posted online later this year. Go here for the full story.
Illustration credit: Biblioteca comunale dell’Archiginnasio
Standish Lawder’s Necrology (1970). Payoff is at the end.
ETA: here is the link, because apparently I suck at embedding. No matter. You still want to watch it, trust me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dadi7mw5gCs
Nice collection of 37 streaming experimental films, shorts, documentaries from all over, spanning decades. Worth poking around, if you are looking to kill a little time and don’t find Nyan Cat all that compelling.
Bazooka page. More pages available here.
Folllies showgirl, circa 1920.
It used to bother me to be ‘starting again’ at something. I’d lose ground and then resent the climb back. At some point this stopped bothering me, apparently. Starting again at a physical practice, and I’m finding that the aches are comforting and familiar. “Oh yeah, this again. Cool.”
Good enough.
Ah yes. Remember when it just hurt so damn bad that you weren’t Ray Carver?
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