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I’ve recently started watching White Collar on Netflix....

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:22:22 -0600

I’ve recently started watching White Collar on Netflix. And this is the main reason why. Goddamn.

"The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:28 -0600

“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women—negatively—to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter didn’t have anything to say about that, so I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny. (My two sons, fourteen and eleven, thought the Fiat ad was corny, so I guess they will be safe without Mr. Winter’s intervention.) I say we get out of The Pretending To Be Moral game altogether and use the Internet for important things like posting pictures of cats looking at croissants and PDFs of sensitive government documents.”

- Sasha Frere-Jones on MIA’s middle finger and everyone else’s panties being in a bunch over it.

"I am a single guy, and I would like to have access to free contraceptives. I think the health risks..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:56:05 -0600

“I am a single guy, and I would like to have access to free contraceptives. I think the health risks to me and my partners are hugely increased by having women on the Pill, and I think that women who simply want free BC Pills are making a huge mistake, both for their own health and for the spread of STDs. Why do we never talk about men and our health?”

- comment on Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones - News - GOOD

Dear god, I hope that’s a troll.

Condoms are a contraceptive, but they are also STD prevention. Most people realize condoms are still necessary unless you’ve both been tested, but lots of very smart people choose to double up. I just, ugh.

This one too. (via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:25:47 -0600

This one too. (via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus - The Atlantic)

These photos are all amazing… This is a soon to be...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:16:19 -0600

These photos are all amazing… This is a soon to be destroyed Atlanta. (via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus - The Atlantic)

Beautiful day in Chicago, and sadly, very quickly melting snow....

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:03:13 -0600

Beautiful day in Chicago, and sadly, very quickly melting snow. (Taken with instagram)

Cunt coozies come to Chicago. (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:03:11 -0600

Cunt coozies come to Chicago. (Taken with instagram)

(via Hark, a vagrant: 311) Just spending my insomnia going...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:47:59 -0600

(via Hark, a vagrant: 311)

Just spending my insomnia going through Kate Beaton’s amazing archives.

"I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:24:25 -0600

“I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve. However, the decision to update our granting model was made before I joined Komen, and the controversy related to Planned Parenthood has long been a concern to the organization. Neither the decision nor the changes themselves were based on anyone’s political beliefs or ideology. Rather, both were based on Komen’s mission and how to better serve women, as well as a realization of the need to distance Komen from controversy. I believe that Komen, like any other nonprofit organization, has the right and the responsibility to set criteria and highest standards for how and to whom it grants. What was a thoughtful and thoroughly reviewed decision – one that would have indeed enabled Komen to deliver even greater community impact – has unfortunately been turned into something about politics. This is entirely untrue. This development should sadden us all greatly.”

- Karen Handel | Discusses Komen and Planned Parenthood

What a cunt.

Out my window yesterday. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:42:47 -0600

Out my window yesterday. (Taken with instagram)

Savage Love, Episode 276

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:00 -0600

Oh man you guys, just listened to last week’s SL podcast and Ira Glass is the guest and he says “take his cock out of her mouth.”

!!!!!!!

Had my first crying jag while walking down the street today but...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:53:00 -0600

Had my first crying jag while walking down the street today but Atlanta’s creature comforts are helping. I smuggled Sweetwater across the Mason Dixon. (Taken with instagram)

On my last night in Atlanta, Carleigh came and hang out with me...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:18:00 -0600

On my last night in Atlanta, Carleigh came and hang out with me while the movers transported my shit. Some of the trash that was left behind was 3 (3!!!!) busted laptops that I for some reason kept? So we decided to destroy them by force, with our feet. It was the jam.

This blog has become: Chronicles of Sarah’s hair...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:51:00 -0600

This blog has become: Chronicles of Sarah’s hair choices.

I finally corrected my hair back to a normal, non-orange, pretty blonde after the red. It took 4 rounds of bleach/highlights and 2 months. NEVER AGAIN THE RED.

Also, I got over 2 inches chopped, which means it’s even shorter than I had cut it this summer. I went to this awesome place right downstairs from my new home and the girl (Carly and her last name ends in -eigh!!!!) is 22 and gorgeous and cool and sweet and did a great job. She cut it an inch and dried it and I hated it. So I asked her to rewet and cut again, and I was so glad. Another 1.5 inches and it’s perfect.

I just wrote way too many words about my hair. Chicago Sarah = same as Atlanta Sarah.

Hair = fixed. Color and cut.

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:15:18 -0600

Hair = fixed. Color and cut.

New city is fancy (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:09:36 -0600

New city is fancy (Taken with instagram)

Susan G. Komen "Race for the Cure" Turns Its Back On 170,000 Chances at Early Detection

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:50:17 -0600

garlandgrey:

Yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation blindsided Planned Parenthood with the news they would be withholding 700,000 dollars that would have allowed poor and underserved communities access to breast exams and mammogram and biopsy referrals. The stated reason for this bereavement of service was the fact that the organization is currently under investigation by the federal government — according to Komen their hands were tied. Which is a crock of shit, they changed the rule after Planned Parenthood was already under investigation in order to pretend they still give a fuck about breast cancer. Which is going to be a tough sell. It is hard to pretend you give a fuck about cancer when you commit to saying NO to a chance at early detection once every three minutes for an entire year. If I’m out in the field with you scouting for land mines, and the first stage of your land mine removal plan is to heap all the metal detectors in a pile and burn them, forgive me for assuming you LOVE land mines, and want them to keep taking people out.

This is what Karen Handel, the Vice President for Public Policy of Susan G. Komen and failed gubernatorial disaster, has orchestrated. She stated quite plainly during her campaign that she wanted to defund Planned Parenthood entirely and apparently she’s got a long enough stride to step over a few dead poor people to get what she wants. The money in question would have allowed people in dire straits the chance to save their own lives, to start treatment earlier, to discover the disease sooner. Handel is fine with a mammogram being an extravagance available only to the rich, with people with breast cancer dying for her personal crusade against reproductive justice. So far, she has failed. She has prevented a grand total of zero abortions, and proven that her foundation cares less about breast cancer than they do about about empty, grand gestures of evangelical and neoconservative solidarity.

With all of these failures under her belt, perhaps Karen Handel might consider retiring from the “doing things” racket? Might return to private life knowing that the universe is so consistently working against her will?

Here’s fucking hoping.

As a Georgian, I’d like to say I’m sorry y’all that we failed to elect Karen Handel and now she’s spreading her shit thick and wide. Gotdamn.

I was already pretty against Komen for several reasons, one being a preference to support local, more direct patient/survivor assistance breast cancer charities, but this is the nail in the coffin.

First Day in Chicago

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:45:00 -0600

This is a boring post and to keep anyone at home who cares apprised of my life. :)

I arrived this afternoon after driving from Louisville. Indiana is BORING. Goddamn corn. The windmills were cool though.
Moved in successfully. A little not into it… it’s not ideal. I have 2 tiny bedrooms, which is okay, but I’m sharing a bathroom with a dude that somehow has less storage than my last bathroom. No shelves or anything. Just 1 drawer and a small under the sink area. And I really prefer to be alone. I will be moving again soon. I’m only obligated here till April 1.
I’m in the West Loop and ‘hood seems cool. Need to explore!
Paid 20 bones to park at my office for 1 hour while I got the movers going there. I know I should expect such shit, but oh dear lord, $20 for 60 minutes!!!!!! That’s insane.
I have my car here till next week then my dad is flying up to take it home.
I drove in circles awhile while my GPS was on the fritz. I’ve mentioned before how I’ve only lived in ATL or Athens right? Well, I’ve never had to learn a new city in terms of how to get places and I am so overwhelmed. Shit is confusing.
Headed to Target for essentials. Proceeded to bitch on the phone to my mom about how they do not sell just bottom sheets. I do not use a top sheet. Hate ‘em. Fitted sheet + down comforter with duvet is amazing.
After getting home, immediately went into the salon at the corner and booked highlights and a haircut. This busted ass hair WILL NOT STAND.
Unpacked the essentials. Poured some wine. Trying to chill out. Trying not to be sad.
Good day overall though.

Louisville this morning from my hotel room. (Taken with...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:16:48 -0600

Louisville this morning from my hotel room. (Taken with instagram)

Cozy. Good thing I have two bedrooms. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:00:06 -0600

Cozy. Good thing I have two bedrooms. (Taken with instagram)