Notes made on the way to the grave by Melissa Kirsch, author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything.
How awesome is it that this Obama ad has a soundtrack by The National? Even if the song is “Fake Empire.” This makes me love The National even more.
Oh New York Times! Why won’t you fix it?!
“For months, Hillary has been trying to emasculate Obama with the sort of words and themes she has chosen.” And with the sort of words and themes she has chosen, Maureen Dowd has been trying to…what? Undo the work of the women’s movement? Remind me I’m lucky to have a vote? If a man wrote this, he’d be pounced on for criminal misogyny.
Is this really something people do?
What does it mean about me that 1. I have unearthed a Best of The Doobie Brothers CD that I had no idea I had and 2. I like it? I was allowed (by the me police) to kind of like the Allman Brothers because of “Sweet Melissa,” but I don’t know how to feel about this new relationship. I also have to admit that the only thing I knew separated the Doobie Brothers from the Allman Brothers before today was that the Doobie Brothers don’t sing “Sweet Melissa.”
You can watch the entire trillion-part PBS documentary online. It’s about the lives of sailors on a giant aircraft carrier. I love it. It’s like American High but in the armed forces.