Quote of the Day - Jos on Adam Lambert and the Patriarchy

"Hey male gaze, your arousal is showing."

Read more about Jos' take on Adam Lambert's performance and subsequent ousting from Good Morning America, on Feministing.

Oh, America

FYI: "Fairness" and "straight-talk" are not policies. But, oh yeah...taxes are so annoying with all those roads, schools, and medicare that they create...



Thanks, Republican Party for giving us the gun-totting, wolf killing, Alaskan version of a sparkly vampire celebrity created through Orwellian double-speak. But, I guess it doesn't really matter since if the Red Dawn Russian/Arab terrorist a-bomb doesn't get us before 2012 those feminists and immigrants will...

Your Friday Awesome

We interrupt this almost total lack of posting this week (thanks to a pinched shoulder nerve - yay! I'm old...) to bring you another announcement about my awesome circle of friends and family. Cause you know what? They deserve it, dammit.

My ridiculously talented husband has his first gallery show this weekend. It's a benefit for Robogames. While we aren't quite that kind of soldering-geeky, he does paint awesome robots and make fantastic robot costumes, so if you are in the Bay Area come check it out. There is ample parking, its public transit accessible thanks to the new 3rd Street rail, and will have beer:


He's not the only one that makes stuff though. My friend Renee just opened up a new Etsy store, Brisk. She's selling fingerless gloves and will be selling the patterns to make them soon. Oh, and she has totally awesome models...


This circle of folks is also smart and witty, so be sure to check out my friend Nnekay and her musings about libraries and Bay Area living, and my friend Starr C., who is my role model for parenting and general awesomeness at Suburbtopia.

Myths and Venn Diagrams

We are all clear that the bra burning was a myth, right?


I heart Indexed.

Duh, Tires are Only for Dudes

Thanks, Bridgestone for adding your self to list of things I'm not going to buy. Though I'm sure you don't really care since I'm a nag, and never a driver:

Things I Read This Week

Latoya reminds us what is important to focus on when it comes to the Stupak amendment.

Jenn has a smart analysis and awesomely titled post on Stupak.

Is Megan Fox just a really smart business woman exploiting the exploiters? Sady and Amanda discuss.

Facebook needs to enforce gender binaries so it knows what to sell you.

MY Friday Awesome

I got scooped by Sarah Haskins. Why is that awesome? Because it is further proof that we need to be best friends:



To be clear. It is not the "rape allegory" and fact that Broadview security is capitalizing on the very real threat that women face, it's this:

Sarah Haskins is awesome.
I wrote a post on Broadview's commercials on Wednesday that I needed to spellcheck before posting.
Which means, I think like Sarah Haskins.
Therefore, I must also be awesome.

And again, we should be besties.