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10
May 10

This made me cry real tears of joy

Thanks, MBL. Seriously, how fantastic is this? Oh NPR.

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25
Apr 10

And this is why god made youtube

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4
Nov 09

The relish of a born homosexual

One of my favorite movies is Capote. It’s a gripping portrayal of Truman Capote’s yadda yadda yadda, but what I really like is how SMOKING HOT Catherine Keener is as Harper Lee. Oh yes. The best way for me to explain this to you would probably be to say that it’s similar to how I imagine how you, dear reader, feel about Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. I don’t care who you are; I’m sure you have good feelings about that.

I was considering watching this fine cinematic venture the other night, and did a little impulsive googling, which yielded one of the most incredible film reviews I have seen in a long while. Behold this excerpt, all emphasis mine:

Truman had a lot of friends: homosexual, black-what have you, including the woman female novelist Harper Lee with whom he had a lesbian relationship. Wearing an unflattering wig, Catherine Keener’s Harper Lee was a volcano of seething lesbian ambition. The way Philip Seymour Hoffman pursed his lips while slurping on a Tom Collins really captured the character of this homosexual bon vivant like a photograph. It was almost eerie. Hoffman played this role with the relish of a born homosexual. He has said in interviews that he took up acting to meet girls after a football injury, but we don’t buy it. We know a homosexual when we see it!

I was both saddened and unsurprised to find that the dynamic duo responsible for this were composing in the vein of satire, but their prose still thrills. I will be hanging my hat upon the phrase, “a volcano of seething lesbian ambition,” for a long time to come!

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30
Sep 09

Teenage Russian Lesbians

I can’t resist quoting from an interview Morrissey did where he was asked what he thought of TATU’s cover of How Soon Is Now?. Morrissey said that he thought that it was magnificent but admitted that he did not know too much about TATU. The interviewer explained, “They’re teenage Russian Lesbians.” To which Morrissey replied, “Well, aren’t we all?”

– from here

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16
Sep 09

That sounds like a nice lifestyle.

A week from today is the ten year anniversary of my favorite blog on the whole internet, Mimi Smartypants. Like myself, she started out on diaryland, the wacky invention of much-beloved Andrew. Unlike me, she kept blogging there regularly up until very recently (July of this year), when she switched to a self-hosted wordpress blog (like this one! see how similar we are?).

Her blog reminds me of the tagline of Cat and Girl, which is “About a cat, a girl, and experimental metanarrative.” Mimi Smartypants writes about her Chicagoan editor self, her hilarious daughter Nora, her husband “LT,” the internet, and generally a sort of experimental metanarrative. It’s the literary equivalent of someone taking quotidian reality, shaking it inside out, tamping it down on their head like a hat, and dancing around in it. Well, not quite, but that might be as close as I can get.

I love her for so many reasons. Briefly, a few:

  • She doesn’t allow comments, and never has. Each entry feels like a special letter written just to you. Ten years’ worth of letters. It’s like David Foster Wallce meets Heloise and Abelard, except no one’s dead yet, or castrated, or a nun.
  • She writes entirely on her own terms (which she should! It’s her blog!). There’s no updating schedule and rarely any images. Just lots and lots of glorious text. And lists. And occasionally bizarre literary devices. Things in which I revel!
  • I don’t like kids. I don’t even really like most straight people, to tell you the truth. But the way she writes about her daughter Nora makes a) her daughter seem the coolest, funniest, smartest kid in the world. I would give Nora one or both of my kidneys, and b) you can tell how much she loves Nora, and what a crazy great parent she is. Even I am moved! I can’t underscore how much of a recommendation this is.

I am going to take this occasion to highlight some of my favorite Smartypants moments, in list format: Continue reading →