Surplus Cats

The big story –on my planet, which is celebrating a forever-long moratorium on the infidelities of professional sports people, but sadly has reached its maximum capacity of 1 human, all past present and future cats, and a sauropod resurrected through a secret potion I accidentally-on-purpose swallowed– is that people are both shocked and Not Shocked [...]

You know that poster from elementary school with the rabbit sitting in a mountain-sized pile of carrots with Comic Sans letters proclaiming that Too Much of a Good Thing Is … Wonderful! ? Yeah? Maybe? No? Well, use your imagination and we’ll get through this together and then I will go off somewhere alone and [...]

Good reads around the Internet (a.k.a. Things I’ve starred in Google Reader to write about later but only manage to put in lists): My internet friend Lindsey Markel was mentioned in the current editon of Bitch Magazine. And she posted an excerpt from the introduction to her upcoming book, You Are Among Friends, in her [...]

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 – Google Maps: This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids’ Right to Read Project, which is sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Details are available in ALA’s “Books Banned and Challenged 2007-2008,” http://www.ila.org/pdf/2008banned.pdf and “Books Banned and Challenged 2008-2009” (not available online); and the “Kids’ Right to Read Project Report,” http://www.ncac.org/images/ncacimages/KR2R%202009(1).pdf.

Things I’ve enjoyed on the Internet lately: threadbared has been looking at standardization, street style and style blogs. This post Footpath Zeitgeist on Street Style includes links to their discussions on the subject while looking back at earlier takes on the subject from 2007. Too Many White Girls at Jacket Whys. Race in young adult [...]