Sonia Saraiya
what kind of magpie keeps this blog?

writer on the internet and at @soniasaraiya

clambistro:

Still my #1 hero

i definitely got into a really long argument this weekend with a real adult human being about kanye west. they seemed to think there was something wrong with him. do not understand how this is a thing that anyone can think.

Posted at 11:29 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 29,903 notes

linear-relationships:

is der a rite way to do dis or??

i have to say this is 100% exactly what I feel about this show

Posted at 11:24 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 1,590 notes

britticisms:

A man on twitter is trying to discredit my experiences and my friends’ experiences of sexual assault on the dance floor because, “dance music has more veterans that go out for music every weekend. For other top 40 places it’s mainly about sex.” He also said, “Of course but if you are used to grinding chances are creeps will look for someone to grind.” I don’t quite know what he means, but it certainly sounds like he’s blaming the victims here. It’s funny how people think the world works like that. 

This is a list of things that have happened to me while out dancing: cornered without a way to escape, roofied, ass grabbed, breasts grabbed, kissed on neck, breasts & lips, hands underneath my shirt, hands DOWN MY PANTS, hands IN MY PANTIES. This is a list of where these things have happened: aliveOne, Smart Bar, Primary, Beauty Bar, Berlin, Empty Bottle, Lincoln Hall. These are all music-oriented places. Not Top 40 environments. Not “meat markets” as he said. This does not mean that we can not and should not go out. I am against this as it further polices my experiences. What I think both men AND women should do is listen when both men AND women talk about their experiences of assault. What is important to remember is that an insidious culture of violence and rape allows even spaces we deem “safe” to be potential dangers. It is not right and it is not fair. But we must recognize this so we can help CHANGE the culture and these environments as best as we can. 

britt is so great. and right. and great.

Posted at 11:21 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 87 notes
clambistro:

coketalk:

coverjunkie:

Libertine (UK)
There’s a new mag in town. Libertine Magazine: “For Interested Women”
Founder and editor Debbi Evans explains:
“to redefine the ‘women’s interest’ category. In addition to luxury lifestyle content we cover tech, science and business, and celebrate high achieving maverick women for the contents of their brains, not their beds. There is no fashion or beauty content in issue 1, unless you count a piece on the semiotics of handbags. There’s nothing like it, and we’re really excited (and relieved!) to have finally got it out there.”

I love everything about this.

SO COOL

ooooh

clambistro:

coketalk:

coverjunkie:

Libertine (UK)

There’s a new mag in town. Libertine Magazine: “For Interested Women”

Founder and editor Debbi Evans explains:

“to redefine the ‘women’s interest’ category. In addition to luxury lifestyle content we cover tech, science and business, and celebrate high achieving maverick women for the contents of their brains, not their beds. There is no fashion or beauty content in issue 1, unless you count a piece on the semiotics of handbags. There’s nothing like it, and we’re really excited (and relieved!) to have finally got it out there.”

I love everything about this.

SO COOL

ooooh

Posted at 12:51 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 1,092 notes

hinduthug:

whatitmeanstomissneworleans:

Madhubala (1933 - 1969)

James Burke for Life Magazine, 1951

<3333

Posted at 12:37 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 94 notes

Dorothy Zbornak aka the Queen of the Bitch Face

Posted at 12:34 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 2,505 notes
"Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."

Jhumpa Lahiri (via talwaar)

Posted at 12:34 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 18 notes

cloysterbell:

I Forgot Why I Just Opened This New Tab : A Memoir By Me

Posted at 9:34 am on Monday, May 20, 2013 with 542 notes
"Because I only talk a good game, I only dream in my head, but do you know what I want in reality? That you all go to hell, that’s what! I want peace. I’d sell the whole world for a kopeck this minute, just not to be bothered. Shall the world go to hell, or shall I not have my tea? I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via morphinith)

Posted at 9:16 am on Monday, May 20, 2013 with 472 notes
"step 11. go to three other pawn shops, each packed with old engagement rings inside jewelry cases like a shiny graveyard. you’ve never been to pawn shops before. […] you decide pawn shops are the most depressing places on earth. they look and feel like a theatrical venue for dream death. watch a high school kid pawn his trumpet. ponder his reasons."

little thousand: how to sell your engagement ring in 13 steps 

Posted at 7:51 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013 with 20 notes
Posted at 10:09 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013 with 204 notes
Natasha VC: crotch rot

natashavc:

is this just something that happens to jeans? where the crotch blows out around the upper inner thigh area? or is this something that we ladies who don’t live off a diet of Marlboro lights, green apples and coke zero ( MISS U, THIGH GAP) just live with (are u excited for cat marnell’s book so am…

Feel. This. Feel.

Posted at 10:25 am on Thursday, May 16, 2013 with 130 notes
"[N]o big break is going to make it easier to get up in the morning and write. What makes it easier is trusting your own instincts and noticing that you have giant ideas percolating in that herd-animal brain of yours, you just have to dig in and find them. After you find them, you have to write something terrible that eventually, through a lot of editing, over and over and over, becomes something great."

Ask Polly: Jesus, My Struggling Writer Friends Never Shut Up! | The Awl (via kfan)

Posted at 10:20 am on Thursday, May 16, 2013 with 23 notes
godsgrief:

the odyssey, old west style, courtesy of vee’s fantastic brain

godsgrief:

the odyssey, old west style, courtesy of vee’s fantastic brain

Posted at 10:33 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 with 74 notes

but really

Posted at 2:08 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 with 31,099 notes