December 2011
24 posts
Anonymous asked: From your blog, some things are evident. Two such things are that you're from Baltimore and you like books. What, then, do you think of the Wire? (I ask this also because David Simon has a piece in your "currently reading" book)
“What Mr. Eugenides is clearly striving for here is a reinvention of the marriage...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides Tries to Reinvent the Marriage Plot | The New York Observer
Yes, this is similar to what I thought at the conclusion: good, but written by a woman it would likely have been classified as ‘women’s fiction’, the thought of which always makes me feel a little...
“Watching The Skin I Live In hours before meeting Almodovar prompts a mild...”
– I interviewed Pedro Almodovar in Madrid, for The Australian. I was very, very excited to meet him.
On the Jumper of Sadness
I knitted the Jumper of Sadness in the winter of 1995, running in to 1996, when I fell ill with severe clinical depression. For six months I spent a lot of time going to see psychiatrists and counsellors and crying. And in my spare time, I knitted this enormous jumper. The repetitive movement and need to count carefully to ensure I stayed on the pattern offered some mild relief from the hell I was...
On my new bike
I have a new bike! Regular Blogelstein readers will recall my intense love for my old bike, Sebastina, and the tragic turn of events in the late summer of 2010 when she was snatched away. Since then, I purchased a new-old bike, Juliana, who was (sadly) terrible. Riding Juliana felt very dangerous. After I left my job at Conde Nast, I left her parked outside the building for six weeks in the hopes...
“Monday morning I like; it’s rather like the second of January. I like the banks...”
– My perfect weekend: Simon Russell Beale - Telegraph
(I spend much of December looking forward to the second of January, so I liked this)
On London to Brighton, on Brighton to London
I. The train is packed. Properly packed. I am resigned to the possibility that I will have to stand in the aisle for an hour. I clutch the handle on the back of the seat next to me for balance. There is a handle for clutching for balance, because people standing for an hour happens all the time: discomfort is built in to the design.
I am hungry. Properly hungry. I’m going to Brighton for...
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On why we're all that investment banker
A man and a woman went on a date. The woman found it ‘horrific’. The man wanted to see her again. She didn’t respond to his invitations. He wrote her an email. It went viral.
‘It’s bad to play with your hair so much and make so much eye contact if you’re not interested in going out with me again.’
Most of the resultant internet banter has held up that the man in...
Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: The Sex Myth:... →
rachelhills:
I’m currently working on the “normality” chapter of my book, The Sex Myth: where our ideas about what’s normal come from, how they’ve changed over time, and how they impact us as individuals and as a society.
And if you’ve ever felt like, when it comes to sex and relationships, you’re…
Talk to Rachel for her interesting book!
