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If you’re looking to mix up your mobile life, spend a little time sizing up Samsung’s impressive new line of Android devices. Meet the Samsung Galaxy S series stars, the Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate…
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Lindsay Lohan: Machete
What does “autostraddle” mean? To autostraddle? an autostraddle?
it’s a kind of way to ride a rare breed of magical horse. like a unicorn almost but not exactly. they used to put girls on it. some fell off and then went home. girls who could stay on the horse were sent into the woods. it was a dark forest. the girls who survived, they became weirdos.
We’re setting you up for the crisp season of autumn with this epic post of styles selected by Becky, Lily and guest blogger Nicolette. From dresses to flannel shirts, plus-sized to menswear. There’s…
Hey there, do you love Anyone But Me? Me too! I know right? A generous benefactor has agreed that if they can get $1000 of donations in the next 24 hours, it will be matched with another $1000. This…
We never really saw any reason to spend energy caring about Ann Coulter, and even hearing that she was going to speak at Homocon 2010 didn’t entirely convince us otherwise. But then getting to read…
Do you know how to make Justin Bieber sound good? If you answered “turn up the volume,” that is incorrect. The right answer is: slow down his songs 800%.
The more depressed I am the better and more I write. Now I’m better depression wise and I haven’t wrote anything in a while. I tried to but it’s just not something I could ever force. Do you have this emotional sadness-good writing correlation too?
yes, i do! but i’m a better autostraddle writer when i’m happy. i’m a better like autowin, bloggy, fiction or personal non-fiction or even poems, writer when i’m depressed. maybe happiness is just a simpler feeling to describe, or to share, and so there’s not much to say besides to observe the world around you and try to make active sense of it, and communicate this the best you can. but when you’re depressed, it’s complicated. you work it out in prose. in fiction, in a blog, in your journal. you know?
I’m interested in people who do and say stupid, insane or compulsive things, and finding respect for them despite that. I’m not interested in pointing out how wrong people are—-even the President [G.W.Bush]-—it’s way too easy—-like watching Cops. Take the biggest yahoo on Dr. Phil and discover your common humanity. The dark side’s real, and it’s something to stand against. But nobody is all one thing. I was in a class with Gerald Stern who said that every human being-—unless they were raised in a cage or got kicked in the head-—has the standard set of feelings that everybody else has: hate, love, fear, loneliness, hunger, etc. He said, “Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian who loved his dogs. In other words, he was a man who cared deeply about the sanctity of life.”
Jennifer L. Knox, 2008
