I have a love/hate relationship with Gawker Media--sometimes I think they're spot on and others I think they're recklessly cruel--but their latest venture, Jezebel, is wickedly funny and the smartest of the bunch. Today's post on perceptions of curly hair makes me want to buy their editorial staff a round of blueberry-glaze donuts:
http://jezebel.com/gossip/standards-of-beauty/why-is-straight-hair-the-epitome-of-style-280210.php
And if you haven't already, check out the unrelated but equally compelling Feministing.com:
http://feministing.com/
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About Me
- Litsa Dremousis:
- My work appears in The Believer, BlackBook, Esquire, HuffPo, Jezebel, McSweeney's, Monkeybicycle, MSN, New York Magazine, Nerve, The Nervous Breakdown, Nylon, The Onion's A.V. Club, Paper, Paste, Poets & Writers, the Seattle Weekly, Slate, Aol's Spinner, on NPR, KUOW, and in sundry additional venues. Among others, I've interviewed Sherman Alexie, The Black Keys, Dan Boeckner, Augusten Burroughs, Billy Corgan, Betty Davis (the legendary, reclusive soul singer), Dead Can Dance, Death Cab for Cutie, Estelle, Ron Jeremy, Demetri Martin, Colin Meloy, Alanis Morissette, Tim Blake Nelson, the Posies, John Roderick, Lynn Shelton, Jesse Sykes, Wanda Sykes, John Vanderslice, Rufus Wainwright and Ann Wilson. My essay, "The Great Cookie Offering", appears in Seal Press' anthology, "Single State of the Union", I have a piece in Smith Magazine's HarperCollins anthology, "It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs" and I'm a winner of BlackBook's Hemingway Short Story Contest. I'm completing my first novel. YOU CAN CONTACT ME AT ldremousis at yahoo dot com and, if you want, follow me on Twitter @LitsaDremousis.
2 comments:
AH yes, the love hate relationship with Gawker. I feel the same, and actually have a love/hate relationship with Jezbel, too. Some of the writers are brilliant and funny, and others, eh. Some of their posts on the election have been a bit, well, enraging, lol.
Feministing is fabulous. Have you read Courtney Martin and Jessica Valenti's books? They're both very, very good reads.
Cate, I haven't read Courtney Martin and Jessica Valenti's books. Thanks for the recommendation.
Since I posted this in July, I've re-assessed Jezebel, for the same reasons you mention. Some of their writers are definitely brilliant and funny, but much of their election coverage has been embarrassingly bad and recent posts on Joan Didion and on Fibromyalgia were soft-headed and poorly reasoned.
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