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The Toast : Things I Have Mistaken For A Personality Trait Or Love Over The Years, Both In Others And In Myself,

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:22:59 +0000

•Talks a lot about subjects I know nothing about so I always think of them as smart but they might be making it all up. OMG, just explained so much about a particular relationship.

The Toast : Is "It" Feminist?

Thu, 3 Dec 2015 20:00:41 +0000

Took me a long time to realize this was a test specifically for "It," and not a general test for determining if any cultural product is or is not feminist. I was getting some interesting results.

The Toast : Femslash Friday: Calamity Jane

Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:07:22 +0000

Secret Love is one of my all-time favorite coming out songs.

The Toast : Two Monks Discover How Tall Women And Horses Are

Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:38:41 +0000

I can think of a few co-workers who I'm going to have to boil alive, let's just say for "sinning," and I am pretty sure there has to be an easier way than bending them in half backwards.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:35:26 +0000

I love that Ina was a nuclear policy analyst before she opened up shop in the Hamptons and starting having gays over for cocktails.

The Toast : If You Were Wonder Woman and Chris Pine Were Your Boyfriend

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:19:10 +0000

If I were Wonder Woman and I were heterosexual, I think I might be more inclined to date Jason Momoa as Aquaman. We'd have more in common, I wouldn't worry about snapping him in half during sexxxy times, and also even though Chris Pine is fine and he can get it, Jason Momoa > Chris Pine.

The Toast : Emily Dickinson's Apps: A Cartoon

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:48:14 +0000

DeathÜber - cannot stop for Death? No worries! With DeathÜber, the app simply tells Death where you are, and Death will kindly stop for you! *Note: Immortality may also be a passenger.

The Toast : Movie Spoilers: A List

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:44:00 +0000

We never learn whether the President was a Clover or a Toro.

The Toast : Movie Spoilers: A List

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:42:46 +0000

"I am an efficient killing machine" is not the kind of personal statement most admissions offices are looking for.

The Toast : Movie Spoilers: A List

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:41:07 +0000

Thumbs would probably have helped too.

The Toast : Some People Eating Normally In Paintings, The Way People Eat

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:39:13 +0000

Given that it is evidently a little on the chilly side in her dining room, you'd think she'd put on a shawl or something.

The Toast : Life In The Classical Ancient World Was Easy As Heck For Inventors

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:07:50 +0000

What if - and I'm just thinking aloud here - we dug a kind of a trench thing from over there, where the water is, to over here, where we want to plant stuff? Then we wouldn't have to hope it rains a little bit every day.

The Toast : What is Your Personality Type?

Sun, 2 Aug 2015 15:26:22 +0000

Well, I wasn't afraid of potatoes...

The Toast : Things That Are Not Our Friends

Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:09:46 +0000

The moderators at Wikipedia are not our friends ~~even though~~ precisely because we were totally right about the park in Shaft being Carl Schurz Park and NOT Central Park. #FIFY People whom you have corrected are not your friends. Which... oops.

The Toast : Things That Are Not Our Friends

Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:08:27 +0000

I sense that anything you eat is not your friend. Or, perhaps, you are not its friend. Which, now I've typed it, reveals itself as a world of difference. I have to think about this. Perhaps over a bowl of lobster bisque.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:47:10 +0000

"Turtle Style" (If Humans Had Sex Like Animals) is an apt representation of my private life.

The Toast : Words We Can Never Spell Right The First Time

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:27:12 +0000

Cantelope. Cantalope? Canteloupe? That melon. No, not the honeydew, the other one.

The Toast : What To Do When Your Opinion Does Not Matter

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:26:53 +0000

Oh no, I'm sure he's talking to other people.

The Toast : Dad Magazine: July 2015 Edition

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:49:26 +0000

It is with mixed emotion that I think about how my mother did not live to fully appreciate the wonders of the modern internet. On the one hand, if she had, she would be with us (or me, at least) today. On the other hand, if she had, there would be a never-ending stream of emails and mildly inappropriate Faceplace posts.

Wonkville : Gawker ruins some guy's life, then says "oopsie!"

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:30:00 +0000

I am somewhat obsessed with this story, for reasons I don't fully understand. I suspect there's a little bit of "white guy like me got into a kind of trouble I could imagine myself getting into so now I am Mad About A Thing." But it's really shitty, and I think the standards that are being proposed - "truth" is the main criterion for publication, being adjacent to power makes your private life "newsworthy" - are troubling. I also think Gawker actively participated in extortion/blackmail, probably because it would be embarrassing to a rival with whom they have an ax to grind. But I'm mainly posting here because I had never until this morning clicked on the Wonkville tab.