Whip It: Girls Need to See This Movie

Someone once said they would go out tonight but they haven’t got a stitch to wear, and I’m feeling that way after watching Whip It: in need of clothes and a destination.
Having seen it, I’m predictably fascinated by roller derby, awed by Juliette Lewis, and delighted with Drew Barrymore and Kristin Wiig. I’m all-around pretty [...]

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Introducing the Female Flight of the Conchords: Garfunkel and Oates

Well, damn. Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, how did I not know about y’all till now? They’re not Bret and Jemaine yet, but it’s just a matter of time before they do their own version of “Mermaids.”

When Parties Take a Turn for the Douche: A jewel complete with Axe body spray, Margaret Sanger and John [...]

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Open Secrets, Indeed

Dear M.,
I haven’t read Open Secrets, but am puttering through The Lives of Girls and Women.  I picked it up specifically because it is The Munro’s only novel, and I want to see why she never returned to the form.
The NPR interview with Lorrie Moore sounds horrid, but worth the quote about Iraq.  That moment [...]

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The Duggars and Casanova

Dear Millicent,
In honor of the Duggars’ announcement of expecting their 19th child, I offer some of the interesting tidbits I have gathered while reading Medical History of Contraception by Norman E. Himes.  I got the book while on a lark at the public library, and have enjoyed it immensely.  I have no idea how sound [...]

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Odd Saints: Daisy Steiner (a la Jessica Hynes)

Dear Millicent,
As a Hulu wonder, I have discovered the Simon Pegg/Jessica Hynes vehicle Spaced.  In doing so, I think I may have found a female equivalent of Jez from Peep Show.  Here, both roommates (Pegg and Hynes) are Jez, but it is a special delight to see the female character take hold.  She is ambitious, [...]

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My So-Called Freak: Angela Chase, Lindsay Weir, Voiceover and Voiceunder

Hullo darlin’,
Were the Funny People poster-people fabrics, Leslie Mann would be cotton, Sandler pleats and Rogen polyester: shiny and smooth even where we want and expect wrinkles. (That shot of him is a bit cetaceous, no? Like he’s looking forward to spinning a multi-colored ball on the tip of his nose to make it all [...]

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Safe Sex

Perhaps the next installment in our “Now We Know” series:

Also, both of their hair reminds me of those pastel decals that are sometimes on strip mall beauty shop windows.  The 80s or early 90s?

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If There’s a Tiger…I Give

Dear Millicent,
Kudos on your garbage! Yellow gingham and wicker: so cheery, so kempt! Also, THANK YOU for the spectacle of costuming featured below.  That green boob flash is one of those moments when I realize that, like storytelling, there maybe a finite number of ways to cut a cloth, but also an infinite chance of [...]

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Star Trek: Mudd’s Women

Dear CF,
I give you Episode 4 of Season 1 of the Original Star Trek, “Mudd’s Women,” complete with amiable pirate, diabolically sultry besequined space-ladies in search of husbands, undomesticated miners and the shiny heart-shaped “Venus pill.”

Youtube apparently won’t let me embed the episode, but click on Mudd’s women and they’ll beam you on up.
Fondly,
Millicent

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Judging Jezebel

Dear CF,
What a delicious problem you’ve brought to our picnic table. Of course feminism shouldn’t be divisive. It should be like being pro-human, or pro-kid. BUT. By the time I finished this post I realized I was defending divisiveness and having a problem, not with feminism, but with how it gets tacitly defined (or rather [...]

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