It’s Phineas Gage! And he’s holding the pole! And he was only that disfigured? The guy’s a champ!
I watched Spring Breakdown
with Amy Pohler, Rachel Dratch, and Parker Posey. It was really funny, whatever straight-to-DVD-release. And it had a throwaway Mists of Avalon joke. I love movies by girls for girls.
The thing that sucks about driving a big ole rental truck across the country is that you can’t stop and take pictures of all the cool stuff. But we were already stopped when we came across these.
Strands of American History
It’s a kind of calligraphy, these ringlets and waves, hair combed, twisted and pinned. A first lady’s coiffure is a pattern, chosen as deliberately as the White House china, but prey to wind and rain, especially on cold Inauguration Days. It’s also prey to public opinion, should she dare to make quixotic changes in her ’do — a sign of flippancy and flip-flopping. Notice there are no flips. In the beginning, we see a newborn empire in those Josephine curls. The mid-20th century is marcelled. And in recent decades, increasingly liberated first ladies sport more leonine locks. Interestingly, there are no bangs. Perhaps this has less to do with hair and more to do with campaign promises of marital harmony and world peace.—LAURA JACOBS, the author, most recently, of “The Bird Catcher”
Hair-Portraits of First Ladies. From left to right: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Martha Randolph,* Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Rachel Jackson,** Hannah Van Buren,** Anna Harrison, Letitia Tyler, Julia Tyler, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Harriet Lane,*** Mary Lincoln, Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes, Lucretia Garfield, Ellen Arthur,** Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Frances Cleveland, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Ellen Wilson, Edith Wilson, Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama.
* Served as hostess for her father, Thomas Jefferson. **Died before her husband became president. *** Served as hostess for her uncle, James Buchanan. ** Served as hostess in the White House for her uncle, James Buchanan.
Why is Leoben in the recent X-files movie with some stupid accent?
And were his teeth that bad in BSG? And will I watch his crime procedural?
After the mind expanding ‘people like hamburgers and french fries’ wedding story from earlier this week, they should just rename the Style section ‘Duh’.
watermelons (via sonmisonmi)
This girl needs to start a tumblr.
Milton Bradley is my favorite athlete. Why isn’t he on my fantasy team this year. (I am not good at fantasy, so I pad my roster with jokes so I won’t be upset at losing. I am very competitive, but used to disappointment.)
My friend Paul is convinced since adding The Onion to his RSS feed that the titles alone are more than enough joke and no one needs to read the actual story, since we have all been reading The Onion for what, 10 years now, and we know the joke. But this one was funny, except that it was written by the guy it is about. Did he know that? I think that may be the actual joke.
P.S. I meant to reblog this, but I lost the thread. Sorry, original person!
In San Diego, all that is left of the Aztec Bowl is this sign on a new apartment complex. But I will always remember the night in college that my friend Carl made out with a 40-something homeless alcoholic on the trunk of my car in the parking lot while I was in the car, then later jumped off the top of a camper while singing Fat Bottomed Girls. Ah, memories.
I care about seemingly unimportant things, mostly too emotionally.
I just got my Biology PhD in NYC.
It was stressful. Now I live in University Heights, San Diego. Potato tacos P/V!
Contact me at cremefracas at yahoo dot com.
