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What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: You're/your confusion. It's just not that hard.
Folklife or A kick in the face while drowning in fish guts
Elliott Bay or Amazon
Tom Skerritt or Dave Matthews
Too many teeth or No teeth at all

Alicia stares longingly at pictures of snow and sweaters.

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May 17

Alicia commented on Wedding Crasher.

I've been to two weddings on the Skansonia, and both were fun as hell. It's a beautiful setting on those rare sunny days. Congrats to the happy couple!

May 14

Alicia commented on Michael Pollan Is the Steve Jobs of Food.

I'd have starved in graduate school without Marie Callender's pot pies, and I will hear no slander against them.

This is a great critique. The basic problem with Pollan as activist guru is right there in his reply: he suggests a change in consumption, when it's production patterns that are the most devastating source of problems.

May 8

Alicia commented on Last Days.

Man bites dog!

Apr 22

Alicia commented on You Don't Know Either, Amanda Palmer.

Polish poet/Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska wrote a poem about a bomber many years ago, and it's brilliant: http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.…

Apr 16

Alicia commented on France Study: Bras Contribute to Pendulousness of Breasts.

At first glance, it seems like the ability to comfortably go bra-less might possibly correlate with smaller breast size. I don't see anything in the Telegraph article that indicates the original study controlled for this. If not, then it isn't bralessness that causes lack of sagging, but the simple fact that smaller breasts will sag over time less than larger ones. In summation: I call bullshit.

Mar 8

Alicia commented on Disney for Adults.

I gasped aloud when the curtain went up on the snowy stage. Just beautiful. And Michael Todd Simpson's Marcello was a delight.

Feb 28

Alicia commented on Lindy West Blows Up My Interwebs Again.

@11: Regarding the wage gap... So a woman is more likely to make less because she takes time off to bear children, or care for an aged parent, both tasks that primarily fall to women and which have no comparable effect on men's career advancement. And this is your argument AGAINST the existence of rampant sexism?

Feb 25

Alicia commented on "Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night".

@51 You mean women who are surrounded by a sexist, patriarchal culture can act in sexist, patriarchal ways? Good golly!

Feb 25

Alicia commented on "Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night".

What the hell, Slog? I expect better of your comment threads. MacFarlane's performance was a tepid pile of sexist, racist chestnuts that repeatedly reduced an entire profession's female contingent to their body parts and whether or not he found said body parts sexually pleasing. It was a veritable swan song of entitled asshattery -- as is much of the "how dare you expect basic thought and human decency from a popular star hosting a popular awards show" nonsense in comments above.