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Sunday Scraps Week 6
1. BOOKS/CRAFTS: Etsy + Penguin classics = gorgeous, hand embroidered covers to Emma, Black Beauty, and The Secret Garden. 2. POLITICS: If Congress looked like America, what would it look like? More...
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1. JOY: I don’t know who can avoid sniffling at this amazing Buzzfeed gallery of pictures of happy gay couples moments before or moments after they tie the legal knot in New York. 2. TERRORISM: Glenn...
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Three Strikes, Newsroom, Three Strikes
Three episodes is the standard hook-me-or-I’m-out window I give new shows. That’s about all the time I’m willing to spare for something unproven. My attention span shrinks by the day, but some of my...
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Is Parks and Rec the Most Feminist Show on TV?
I had an epiphany last night while watching the episode of Parks and Rec where Andy takes a women’s studies class. I said to myself, “I think this might just be the most feminist show on television.”...
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1. DIVA: NYMag counted out the most un-diva moments in Beyonce’s new HBO documentary. 2. GUNS: This sprawling ridiculous, incredible, challenging essay from the Center for Investigative Reporting...
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Obvious Child and the Plight of the Abortion Story
When I started thinking about this week’s Role/Reboot essay on Obvious Child, the “abortion rom com” starring comedian Jenny Slate, I started out by trying to come up with a list of contemporary...
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