January 2012
11 posts
A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895 →
Don’t be a fright.
Don’t faint on the road.
Don’t wear a man’s cap.
Don’t wear tight garters.
Don’t forget your toolbag
Don’t attempt a “century.”
Don’t coast. It is dangerous.
Don’t boast of your long rides.
Don’t criticize people’s “legs.”
Don’t wear loud hued leggings.
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
Don’t refuse assistance up a hill.
Don’t wear clothes that don’t fit.
Don’t...
December 2011
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June 2011
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“Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the...”
– Hanne Blank (via ehsisyphus)
April 2011
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WatchThis is the neatest.
January 2011
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August 2010
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April 2010
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Vacation From Home
I’ve been working 7 days a week lately, though my bank balance wouldn’t indicate that. It’s tiring, even if the total number of hours I work in a week is still just less than 40. I wish I had proper weekends, and a proper, grown-up income, but in lieu of that, I’ll take days like yesterday, when I took the bus out to the beach, stopping on the way for an Underdog vegan...
December 2009
2 posts
You Know What Is Boring?
People posting chat transcripts. Yes, you have hilarious friends, and you get into frustrating arguments with people who are obtuse and stupid, and you get funny drunk IMs, and you and everyone you know are oh so witty and charming and informative and fascinating and so imminently emulatable at all times, but sadly, you cannot escape the fact that your chat transcripts are still fucking boring.
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November 2009
3 posts
PE-TA!!!
(Read that title in the same kind of bellow that Fred Flinstone uses to summon Wilma. Huh? Huh?)
So (sigh!) PETA is at it again. Not content with being the most annoying animal advocacy group on the planet, they’re now turning their attention towards politics (well, sort of). Introducing, Bin Laden Bites! Honestly, I don’t know what to make of these. Are they being funny? Is this...
BINGO!
Have you ever wanted to have a handy dandy sheet of paper that would help you navigate those conversations? You know, the ones you have with “funny” omnivores? The ones where you wish you had a handy dandy sheet of paper to hold up in front of their faces and then punch them through a la three stooges? Well, friend, your wait is over - that sheet of paper is here. I give you Defensive...