erica saves the day

"If this amendment passes, it will mean that virtually all women with insurance through the exchange..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:42:19 -0500

“If this amendment passes, it will mean that virtually all women with insurance through the exchange who find themselves in the unwanted and unexpected position of needing to terminate a pregnancy will not have coverage for the procedure. Abortion coverage will not be outlawed in this country. It will simply be tiered, reserved for those rich enough to afford insurance themselves or lucky enough to receive from their employers.”

- Ezra Call your Representative NOW (via joyengel)

meredithnyc: Periodic Table table I hated every second of the...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:31:10 -0500

meredithnyc:

Periodic Table table

I hated every second of the one year of chemistry I took in high school. This is for the rest of you science nerds.

Autotune Carl Sagan & Stephen Hawking. This is quite...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:10:00 -0500

Autotune Carl Sagan & Stephen Hawking. This is quite possibly my favorite thing, ever. (via)

UPDATE: Did you know there’s a whole Symphony of Science series!?!

"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion —..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:22:05 -0500

““Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion. And talk about a lifestyle choice — that is absolutely a choice… It’s a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else…””

- Jon Stewart (via christinefriar, sade, nolauren, meredithnyc)

The best revenge is not served cold. It is sending your ex one...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:40:45 -0400

The best revenge is not served cold. It is sending your ex one of these chastity e-cards 12 months after you break up.

Best Pro-Choice Halloween Costumes

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:45:26 -0400

Dress normally. Since STDs often can’t be distinguished with the naked eye, it’ll be up to you to tell people what you are.
Wear all your winter gear and curl into the fetal position whenever possible: You’re a frozen embryo.
Walk around with a bunch of babies: You’re “abstinence only” sex education
Wear all black, but then spell out the word “Damn” on your chest with bright green dental floss: You’re a Dental Dam!

Oh yes, there are many more.

Who set the Hipster pipe bomb?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:00:50 -0400

Did you see? Someone set off a bomb made of Draino this Saturday night/Sunday morning in South Williamsburg. Why would someone want to terrorize this otherwise innocuous block? My guesses on who the drain-unclogging-enthiasts/terror group might be:

Publicity stunt for the new Heathers Musical gone horribly awry
Chabadniks reclaiming the ‘Burg as their own (feel free to read into the Draino whatever metaphors you/G-d sees fit)
Gang of hipsters from Bushwick trying to flee their bedbug infested hovels by stiking fear into the hearts of residents and thus lowering property values (bonus evidence: who else but the bearded would have Draino readily lying around the house?)
Victims of the no-longer affordable-in-a-recession coke prices trying to find other options

30 Rock is BACK

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:55 -0400

Jenna: You probably don't know this because you've never played a Moonologist, but werewolves only come out at night.
Liz: Yes, I remember that from the Thriller video.
Tracy: Too soon.

You know, fuck all this poitical back and forth BS about health...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:42 -0400

You know, fuck all this poitical back and forth BS about health care. Seriously. Remember when we were all so excited about how Obama was going to give us free health care, and all the freelancers and unemployed people and homeless people and poor people wouldn’t have to like die because they got the flu (not even swine flu!)? And then remember how sad you’ve been watching these crazy fucking people say stupid shit about death panels and socialism and it kind of makes you want to cry because you feel like it’s back when George Bush was president and the only people that the news listened to or who had political power seemed batshit crazy and you started to wonder if maybe actually you were the crazy one or something? Even though all you wanted was to make sure people weren’t dying for stupid reasons like the flu or a war or something?

Anyways, Planned Parenthood is doing this thing where you take a picture of yourself holding up a sign saying what you want from health care. OK, it might not smother the voices of the teabaggers (heh) or anything, but it’s something, and pictures can be a pretty (and pretty effective) way to make your voice heard. Also, politcally correctness be damned — why the fuck shouldn’t my health insurance, or the goddamned government, pay for an abortion if I need one?

I'm usually clueless about fashion posts, but this one is like listening to two Syrian cabbies in an argument: You know EXACTLY which words are the bad words.

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:59:09 -0400

I'm usually clueless about fashion posts, but this one is like listening to two Syrian cabbies in an argument: You know EXACTLY which words are the bad words.:

meredithnyc:(via alexbalk)

Genius and oh-so-true.

omg amazing

"Yeah, they just started questioning us. Now all I have to do is act really racist and I’ll be..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:42:00 -0400

“Yeah, they just started questioning us. Now all I have to do is act really racist and I’ll be out in no time.”

- I was going to write some incensed commentary about this remark I overhead on the jury duty lunchbreak, but now that I think about it, a person who thinks that ‘playing the racist card’ is a good idea, especially at the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn, probably shouldn’t be on a jury in the first place.

Most hated girls in NYC? I hope so.

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:56:45 -0400

Most hated girls in NYC? I hope so.

Dispatches from Hasidica: Carjacking edition

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:49:00 -0400

When your neighborhood has seen enough slashings, stabbings and poisoned machete attacks to fill a B horror movie, a police blockade around the corner from your house is something you notice.

Which is why I biked towards the cop cars on my way home down Wythe avenue tonight. Turns out there was a car jacking, but they caught the guy, which in the enclave of super religious Hasidic families I live near means a five alarm quarantine of the area and a conference with all the local heads of households.

I saw for the first time Hasidic policemen, some in normal uniform and some in those special windbreaker jackets like the FBI, DEA or bomb squad wears in movies, which made me wonder if they were working undercover like that Melanie Griffith movie from the 90’s. I also saw what I can only assume were members of the super secret private armed guard that patrols the neighborhood with machine guns and minivans. These are people whose existence until tonight I’d actually considered an urban legend, best used to freak out newcomers to the neighborhood. But there they were, amidst the mothers on balconies clutching their babies, the crowd of patriarchs gathered around the scene of the crime in their black hats and long coats, standing in the spotlights of about six parked minivans’ headlights while their young sons lurked behind them with a mixture of adolescent bravado and fear.

But the best part was the cop who I encountered at the first blockade.

“What happened?” I asked, thinking of shootouts, dead bodies and guns, blood, knives and the anxiety-ridden horror show that would be my walk home for the next two weeks.

“Oh, attempted car robbery,” the cop sighed. “Some guy tried to jack a car and got caught, and now they’re taking prints.”

“But is it safe?” I asked, eying the five patrol cars and crowd of officers that lay ahead.

“Lady,” he said, looking up from his book right at me “there are about fifty cops down the block. This is the safest damn place in Brooklyn.”

Little known aftereffects of the almost but not quite swine flu.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:10:10 -0400

me: I didn’t bring lunch today.
me: did you?
Co-worker: i did.
me: dang.
me: I might walk to get a
me: omg
me: what are they called
me: the corn things
me: that are cheap
me: and we like so much
me: that come with the rice and beans?
me: AND THE SALAD???
me: MIND BLANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me: COLD HAS KILLED ALL BRAIN CELLS
me: CAN NO LONGER THINK OR REMEMBER INSIGNIFICANT FACTS
Co-worker: …tamale?
me: omg yes yes yes tamale.
me: thank you thank you thank you

In which I realize in might be time to go BACK on the cold meds.

brendanmc: frankhejl: (via juliasegal)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:31:37 -0400

brendanmc:

frankhejl:

(via juliasegal)

And over at Planned Parenthood, Spiderman-approved safe sex...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:20:54 -0400

And over at Planned Parenthood, Spiderman-approved safe sex tips! From the only known Spiderman-Planned Parenthood collaboration that includes a plot by a diabolical alien to give kids the WRONG information about sex, so they HAVE lots of babies and can fuel his child labor army!

Would be funnier if the things the alien says don’t so closely mirror some of the sex ed programs taught today….

I got my reviews for “A Serious Man” and...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:22:39 -0400

I got my reviews for “A Serious Man” and “Zombieland” mixed up, and somehow thought that I’d bought tickets tonight to see a hilarious-yet-poignant film with Woody Harlson about a Jewish man in the 1960’s midwest who battles with both anti-semitism and a world full of zombies (A Serious Zombieland?).

Wouldn’t that be kind of awesome though? I love my horror flicks to have a deeper meaning.

(pic via natashavc)

Outakes

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:31:13 -0400

From that last post, presented without comment.

I want

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:25:00 -0400

Fall, and working in Soho, means I come into contact with lots of beautiful clothes I could never afford. Bear with me as I post them online here instead of buying them. Reading this is like a good deed: you’re helping me avoid building up more credit card debt.

Yeah, it’s American Apparel. But it’s cute. What?

I love this dress. A lot.

I actually tried this dress on in the store. And. Well, let’s just say it’s super cute, but made for women with the chest of at most a 14 year old. Unless the popping button look is coming back or something.

I’m kinda into these pants. In a very 1940’s Inglourious Basterds Shoshana kind of way.

<3 Flannel.

And this would be cute too. Maybe with Navy shorts?

Kinda mad men esqe, in a gender bending sort of way.

To belt that flat-chested dress up there. Duh.

Fuck them for charging $375 for a scarf. And fuck me for wanting it.

cute.

I’d wear that.

And these.

with these.

Cause I’m always late.

Shuttup, I like them.

I almost bought this after fasting all day on Rosh Hashana. I swear, it actually looked good.

meredithnyc:obamafamily:apsies: President Barack Obama sits...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:17:09 -0400

meredithnyc:obamafamily:apsies:

President Barack Obama sits next to first lady Michelle Obama before speaking in Copenhagen October 2, 2009 to promote Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. (via)

Let’s make a bunch of valentines day cards with pictures like this on the front and then inside we can write “like that, only from me to you.”

Because I dunno about you, but I would want to get those cards.