Jenny An

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In her girl portraits often published in “pulp” (hence not literary) journals like College Humor, Zelda writes of the young girl perennially imagining herself as a character, performance artists of surface and frivolity, although inside is this sense of apartness, of unexpressed sadness. There is a loneliness and lament to these pretty girls. Throughout the author-narrator watches these girls, from a distance, perhaps the distance of the former self. There is Gay, in “The Original Follies Girl”: “The thing that made you first notice Gay was that manner she had, as though she was masquerading as herself.

From Kate Zambreno’s Heroines via http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/all-the-sad-young-pretty-girls

Oh look, it’s my twee as fuck workspace. (Taken with Instagram)

ourmaninchicago:

tankboy:

Oh yeah!

Grant Achatz is lead singer for The Darkness now? Awesome!

WHEN I’M DRUNK AND WANT TO SAY HELLO TO THE GUY I LIKE

whatshouldwecallnorthwestern:

amidanruo:

returnoftherotr:

newsprintsmudges:

Zoe Kravitz and a homeless man at Coachella 2012

PFUNK WHY?!!!!?

This is a whole new level of muppet. Blair Waldorf better not be approving of this any more.

this just. no. i can’t even condone this sort of behavior anymore. @jenny

Oh dear god. I’d also like to not condone the sweatshirt around the waist.

Interns.

Me: am not introducing you to my interns to sleep with.
Friend: why not? and who says I only want to sleep with your interns. I'm not that big of a creep
Me: what. you want to have deep discussions with them about the future of media?!
Friend: yes that sounds nice
Me: over coitus?
Friend: sure. before, during, after. all good

Lapham's Quarterly: How to Date 12th Century Ladies →

laphamsquarterly:

1. Try not to treat her like a whore.

“First he should greet her in his usual way; this, however, should always be done, and all lovers must realize that after the salutation they should not immediately begin talking about love, for it is only with their concubines that men begin in that way.”

2. Let her talk! Ladies love talking…

When I realize it’s not Friday yet

whatshouldwecallme:

New Girl on the role of the new male

GOOD says New Girl shows how men are transforming in this new economy very akin to all the Atlantic’s end of men stories.

Fox’s New Girl suggests it’s not only women of the 21st century who are changing, but straight men, too: in a recession-era America, they’re learning to be, or have already become, more like women.

The story references things like “chit-chat” becoming how interviews are done but that doesn’t seem right. I mean, if everything I know about the 1950s and 1960s comes from Mad Men, interviews with men in bars drinking is way more about personal relationships than a “are you capable of doing this job” talk.

So, what has changed? Gender roles, certainly are less concrete, more fluid. The chit-chat is happening between men and women, rather than between people of the same gender. There are no longer “men jobs” and “women jobs” though issues of strength and lifting ability does keep many women out of the heavy labor field of “men jobs.” As jobs become more and more service oriented, men are moving into those traditionally “women jobs” which does reflect a change but women are moving into management jobs as well.