Are You In a Troubled Relationship?
Bonus: if you’re not in a troubled relationship, you can laugh at this and feel smug about it.
(Source: boobsradley)
To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt’s ‘Uses For Boys’
A YOUNG WOMAN PARTIES with a group of teenagers, her friends and peers. She passes out, and is raped, degraded, videotaped and photographed. There is a trial in which it seems like she is being prosecuted for the crime of being a young woman around young men. The complexities of young adult sexual violence have dominated cultural conversations in the wake of harrowing news out of Steubenville, Ohio, which could, unfortunately, be Anywhere, America. It is an all too familiar story…
This is the first paragraph of Roxane Gay’s incredible review of USES FOR BOYS in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which I think you should read. (The review, I mean, but you should read the book, too.)
I don’t understand this, but it’s now important that I do…
Oh look, it’s lost footage from that Spice Girls music video directed by David Lynch.
Probably.
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat and dances on wine bottles in June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream. She practiced for eight hours a day to do this. (x)
“Her performance was based on a dream…” Go forth, dreamers! - Danielle
Be right back, just questioning every single one of my life choices that didn’t involve dressing up as a cat and doing ballet on wine bottles.
(via saltwaterpop)
John Roderick > Michael Bublé - The Talkhouse
Okay, here’s a rare thing, a brilliant and genuinely piece of funny piece of pop music criticism.
Nitpicking gossips will argue that this guy’s sideline fantasy involving Jennifer Aniston is, like, soooo 2007. But otherwise, what he said.
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Above: something less horrifying than 99% of the actual stories I have heard about OkCupid. (Also, today’s column.)
