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A glimpse into the Edwardian period

January 16, 2012

  Victoria flounced into the airy, spacious dining room where her dashing industry magnate husband was already breakfasting on porridge and strong tea.  The maids were fluttering about, just out of sight, dusting the china cabinets and it smelled like fresh linen. Mr. Rothschild was engrossed in his newspapers.  Not only was he rich, but he was $uper $mart and knew all sorts of things about physics and electricity that Victoria would never dare to read about because she’d heard that if ...

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Why don’t women buy men jewelry? Or, more importantly, why I hate Christmas jewelry ads.

December 14, 2011

After seeing this commercial:   “Why don’t they ever show women buying men jewelry and having the jewelry face?” “Are you serious?” “What?” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard?” “But why? If more ads showed women buying men jewelry, it would become more acceptable? What if I bought you jewelry?” *crazy stare* “No.” “What if I bought you a man ring?” “Still no.  I don’t even like to wear my wedding ring.” “What about a necklace?  Like a chain?” ...

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Golda Meir weighs in on women in tech

December 13, 2011

      Links: Stop telling women to do startups. Stop telling women not to do startups. STFU about what women want. Penelope Trunk’s skewed perceptions of the world. Techcrunch, Penelope Trunk, and the damaging stereotype in pursuit of traffic Gotham Girl    

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A Very Russian Family Thanksgiving, complete with Russian movies.

November 27, 2011

Mr. B and I went to my parents’ for Thanksgiving. My parents recently got a free year of Russian channels on their cable account, which makes for some entertaining viewing. This is the face of a mother who would do anything for her child. Thank God I have never been to Chechnya. For example, on Thanksgiving, my mom was two episodes deep into a show/movie about a Russian guy returning from Checnya (or Afghanistan) who had PTSD related to the ...

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The Rise of the Schmuck

November 15, 2011

I started reading Confederacy of Dunces on the train this morning.  It is so, so good and so, so funny. I am bummed I didn’t know about this book earlier. One of the things it reminds me of is my own novel, which starts thusly: From the moment he spilled his apple juice on his pants on 7:30 from JFK to Tel Aviv, cruisng over Munich, Michael Shtulman knew he would die airborne.  He always looked for omens to tell ...

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