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April 29, 2012 · 10:59 pm

Sunday Scraps 57

1. GEOGRAPHY: Lovely essay by Ciara Flynn at Thought Catalog about the lure of a geographic change when you’re looking to jumpstart your life.

2. CULTURE: Should you check your email? Here’s a flowchart, but I’ll cut to the chase: The answer is probably no (via The Rumpus).

3. HOLLYWOOD: Where are they now? Buzzfeed has a gallery of child actors from the 90s (supporting characters only) and what they look like these days. Generally speaking, not good.

4. EDUCATION: David Brooks’ column in the New York Times is about institutions of higher education and the growing trend to measure students’ progress after $250,000 and four years. Reasonable, right?

5. SPREAD: CNN has a pretty sweet gallery of images from space documenting the spread of humanity around the world.

6. BOOBS: Thanks to New York City’s topless-in-the-park laws, a brave contributor at The Gloss ventures out sans shirt to see how the law works in practice.

Related Post: Sunday 56: Letter from Hef to Chicago, interview with Barney Frank, Come to Bed with Bryn and Caro

Related Post: Sunday 55: Photos from juvenile detention centers, fake MA towns, geeky tattoos

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April 10, 2012 · 3:18 am

S(Monday) Scraps 54

1. TRAYVON: Ugh. When NBC mixes and matches the 911 Trayvon Martin call to make George Zimmerman sound more racist, they do no one any favors. From Mother Jones.

2. BOOKS: Slate ponders what, if anything, we lose when scoping out perspective partners now that our reading material can be hidden behind kindle cases instead of on shelves for all to peruse and judge?

3. ADVERTISING: Use this Gendered Advertising Remixer to compile a pink or blue themed advertising onslaught all your own.

4. DINKLAGE: Everybody’s favorite Game of Thrones schemer is played by the small-statured actor Peter Dinklage. NYT profiles his rise to fame and his avoidance of all roles elfin.

5. YOGA: This man would like to sell you his used yoga mat, but he will tell you, in excruciating detail, how he tried to use it first.

6. SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Harper’s Magazine chronicles the astonishingly high rates of sexual violence on Native American reservations, and the appallingly lackluster responses that victims get from local, state, and federal law enforcement.

Related Post: Sunday 53 = Romans vs. the U.S. Military, nail art, the history of Bi-Rite

Related Post: Sunday 52 = Robert Bayles, taking the SAT at 35, what do you teach black children?

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October 30, 2011 · 7:28 pm

Sunday Scraps 34

1. TOLLBOOTH: Fun NPR story from Norton Juster, about the accidental way his first novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, became a masterpiece still beloved 50 years later.

2. HALLOWEEN: Great WBEZ piece from Claire Zulkey imagining the internal monologues of Halloween costume models.

3. BEAUTY: 2 minute trailer for Miss Representation, the documentary about media representations of women. The sequence of images of political women and the ridiculous accompanying commentary is pretty impactful.

4. EURO: Absolutely awesome infographic from the New York Times about the Euro crisis. Now I kind of sort of feel like I understand what’s going on. Maybe.

5. BELUGA: I was afraid of this video of the Shedd Aquarium’s beluga whale giving birth, but it is remarkably awesome and not at all scary. Plus, they set it to music.

6. RACE: Really interesting graphs about explicit and and implicit racial assumptions in Hollywood casting calls. Ok, fine, I guess Harry Potter has to be white, but why can’t more people follow Shonda Rimes’ lead?

Related Post: Sunday 33

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October 16, 2011 · 5:26 pm

Sunday Scraps 32

1. DREAMY: You’ve probably seen it by now, but just in case, it’s Feminist Ryan Gosling and he’s saying “Hey Girl….”

2. MEDIA: Really cool analysis I wish I’d done on Sociological Images. It maps the sexualization of male vs. female covers of Rolling Stone over the year to show that while everybody’s gotten sexified, the ladies are being outundressed by a long shot.

3. HOLLYWOOD: NYMag is asking where all the up and coming male actors are? Leo, Toby, and Jake had all done huge stuff before they turned 25. Where are their footstep-followers?

4. RACE: Smithsonian digs into the man behind Black Like Me, 50 years after the book hit shelves.

5. BEAUTY: Amazing gallery of images about beauty culture from photography Zed Nelson. Did you know there are more nose jobs done in Iran than any other country?

6. CLASS: Holy cow, this essay about class, gender and personal history in the era of Occupy Wall Street is knock-out. Also, the blog is called Tiger Beatdown, which is pretty outstanding.

Related Post: Sunday 31: Stewart, Sarkeesian, Lewis, Jobs.

Related Post: Sunday 30: TV fact checkers, soda bottles, Mindy Kaling.

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September 18, 2011 · 4:07 pm

Sunday Scraps 28

1. REAL: This Hanne Blank essay is featured on I Came to Run this week. It’s the best, most succinct explanation of why any attempt to define what makes a “real woman” is a futile exercise.

2. DATING: The Hairpin did a March Madness style tournament to find The Most Amusingly Horrible Thing Significant Others Have Said. There are some doozies.

3. SPORTS: NYMag summarizes all the reasons why they think a big name male athlete will come out any day now, and why the should.

4. CANCER: Rebecca Armendariz at GOOD writes about how her gchat archives are a record of life she built with Clark, and the cancer battle they fought and lost together. Prepare yourself, this is not a read for public places (unless you are cool with crying in public, which some people are).

5. CAKE: This is Smitten Kitchen entry is a) an amazing recipe for red wine cake that I will be making shortly, and b) the best “how we met” story ever.

6. JANE: The Advocate interviews Jane Lynch about stepmotherhood, coming out, and her incredibly diverse career.

Related Post: “Risk,” Maurice Sendak, inside the mind of a two-year-old = Sunday 27.

Related Post: High heels, are girls bad at math?, and the accuplacer = Sunday 26

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August 14, 2011 · 4:11 pm

Sunday Scraps 23

1. WORDS: Coolest new Google gadget until the next cool Google gadget comes out. This one lets you track and compare the frequency of certain words in print from the 1800s to now. Addictive, beware.

2. TELEVISION: Vulture has conveniently compiled the reappearance of The Wire actors in new shows. Who wins most alums? The Good Wife! No wonder I’m obsessed.

3. ICK: Slideshow of grossest t-shirts from The Frisky. Having never slept with a teenager, I’m still willing to bet that teenagers are almost all terrible at it.

4. TEENAGERS: Speaking of teens, here’s why YA sex scenes might do more good than harm (Salon).

5. MARTHA: Martha, Martha, Martha! The rise and fall of the queen, and the debate about “seafoam green.” From NYMag.

6. BOOKS: 100 best last lines of books. Ever.

Related Post: Sunday 22 = backpacks, bananas, Colbert, etc.

Related Post: Sunday 21 = Happy gays, geekology, FNL, men in dresses.

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July 25, 2011 · 12:55 pm

Guess Who I Interviewed? Hint, You’ve Seen Him Naked.

This week, on The Good Men Project, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing porn star James Deen. I guarantee you this would be fun for anybody, but if you’ve been paying attention, you know I may be operating under the influence of a slight crush.

While everyone else was watching the World Cup penalty kick showdown, I was chatting with Deen while he putzed around his apartment, killing spiders and doing laundry. Read the whole profile for our conversation about feminism, professionalism, and the behind-the-scenes of consent on porn sets.

Related Post: A different sort of interview skilllz.

Related Post: I did another interview for the GMP, with Chicago social worker Anthony Di Vittorio.

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June 9, 2011 · 2:17 pm

Time Suck Beware

Slate has done an incredible thing. The magazine has delved into the deepest, darkest depths of movie review mega-site Rotten Tomatoes. Type in a name of an actor or director, and watch the highs and lows map out in front of you. For example, here’s Halle Berry’s career:

You can even click each data point to find the movie title and character name. I played around with it for a while (read: hour and a half) trying to find someone with a spotless record. Not even Kate Winslet fit the bill. Remember The Holiday?

Slate has identified the worst actress of all time. Want to guess? I’ll give you a hint.

Related Post: These graphs look vaguely familiar….

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