minou commented on "I Love the Ghetto": Bushwick Hipsters Explain Their Outfits, at 8:07 PM on May 8 @Clarence Rosario: I've always wanted to take a busload of Royals and drop them off in Detroit, to the same end. more »

minou commented on Filthy Hipster Dorm Infiltrated, at 10:13 PM on May 7 @mattymcd: I hope the Times is paying you well to illustrate their point because, wow, you really deserve it. more »

minou commented on Christina Aguilera: Blue, Possibly-Blotto Baby Mama, at 12:10 PM on May 1 this is probably the first time she's had a drink in, like, a year. more » [jezebel]

minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 6:11 PM on Apr 29 @Raxl: Well, multivocality would mean that it IS the student's responsibility to learn as well as the instructor's responsibility to teach, no? more »

minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 6:04 PM on Apr 29 @1000 Tony Romo DJs: I should let you in on this fact: some of us working in those areas have heard this news. more »

minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 1:49 PM on Apr 29 @Dave J.: "Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of writing and Science" by Steven Meyer, pub 2001. Some one is writing about it. more »

minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 1:38 PM on Apr 29 She's at that point in the process where she probably just got hit by all her student loan debt. I guess this is one way to pay it off. more »

minou commented on David Sedaris: Do You Remember Smoking?, at 6:05 PM on Apr 28 @BigRiver: A friend of mine, after hearing that the relative of an acquaintance had been struck by lightning (and lived), said: You know what I'd do if I got struck by lightning? more »

minou commented on Which One Of The Five Types Of Moms Do You Have?, at 7:48 PM on Apr 27 @minou: I should mention that my Dad is a pretty wonderful creature, a perfectionist who genuinely believes it's possible for me to be perfect because he thinks I'm great. more » [jezebel]

minou commented on Which One Of The Five Types Of Moms Do You Have?, at 7:16 PM on Apr 27 mean/unpredictable/perfectionist mom. more » [jezebel]

minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 8:28 PM on Apr 26 @belltolls: I'm not picking on you, Bell, we just keep respectfully disagreeing. It is worth looking up, Granite. more »

minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 8:22 PM on Apr 26 @belltolls: For my part, I have a huge problem with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and would have give up on Stevens were it not for "The Idea of Order...". more »

minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:43 PM on Apr 26 @Seeräuber Jenny: Ha! more »

minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:42 PM on Apr 26 @belltolls: This is one of my favorites also. more »

minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:06 PM on Apr 26 My favorite Hemingway anecdote: Hemingway boasted(in a letter to Sara Murphy)that, in a boxing match at his home in Key West, he had knocked Wallace Stevens down quite handily: "... more »

minou commented on Plus-Size Miss England Contestant Would Like To See Your Bikini Line, at 7:08 PM on Apr 24 @Xavoc: Once and for all, the most flattering two-piece bottom on a big girl is a bikini with side ties. It's counterintuitive, I know, but in that situation, the less material the better. more » [jezebel]

minou commented on Is Top Chef Just One Big Lesbianic Morality Play?, at 1:47 PM on Apr 24 By the way, I think it's a "Sapphic" morality play. Oh my god it's working. more »

minou commented on Is Top Chef Just One Big Lesbianic Morality Play?, at 1:45 PM on Apr 24 @minou: Holy shit. more »