Holy moly, London riots. No words. This photo from the Guardian website is incredible.
So things have been slow of late at fyiordie.
i have been in a crazy mess of paperwork trying to finish everything before I jet off to Cambodia & Eli has been doing something far more important and awesome: MAKING A BABY. Yes, a real life little human. (Not yet out in the real world, but incubating in her belly. lucky baby!)
However, I offer the following photo essay celebrating the genius that is Teresa Giudice from the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Not only does she have the best accent I’ve ever heard, her red-hot anger is matched only by her charm. She’s totally unhinged in a crazy best friend kinda way. If you got dumped she’d totally throw down for you in public, then make you eat pasta and drink multiple glasses bottles of wine as she rants about how important la familia and friends are to her. Then she’d suggest you put a hit on your ex and you’d both laugh but secretly you kind of think she might have been serious.
basically she’s totally awesome.
The time she threw Andy (the host) to the ground when he tried to stop her yelling in the season 2 reunion was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
I DIE FOR HER.
My sister wife Karen Pickering has written a great article about the recent Andrew Lovett case on the Vine.com.au “In the case of Andrew Lovett, we are once again transfixed by the terrible spectacle of another footballer accused of raping a young woman. That this whole sorry episode is more evidence of a hugely problematic culture within the AFL is clear – binge drinking, abusing influence, using women as disposable objects (especially in the apparent obsession with group sex as male bonding) can scarcely be denied as a serious issue for the competition, and at some clubs in particular.” Read it here.
Malcolm Harris has written a really interesting reverie on the last season of Entourage at The New Inquiry. He manages to pinpoint some of the reasons I slowly edged away from the series over the years. His suggestion that the show is performing a meta reality check for its audience a la Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is, while p’haps a mere hopeful projection, a superb analysis of the role audience and narrative play in modern entertainment.
There’s something self-flagellating in Ari’s collapse; Piven’s foul-mouthed scrappiness has carried the show for years, but it is uncovered in the seventh season as what it always has been: harassment and abuse. While yelling at his wife’s sister, Ari threatens to hit her with a frying pan. His wife responds, “What’re you gonna do? You gonna call her a whore? Bully some more women? … Fuck you.” That’s not a line from Entourage, it’s a well-aimed critique of the show’s first six seasons!
Bravo Malcolm, bravo. Read the full article here.
The New Inquiry: Support Aaron Swartz (please reblog) -
We just learned that Aaron Swartz, a long time friend of The New Inquiry, is facing up to 35 years in prison for his commitment to open knowledge.
Aaron is the visionary behind Reddit, Open Library, watchdog.net and Demand Progress. He is also the author of Raw Thought.
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Guys. Woah. It has been too long. So long that I feel to anyone who reads this blog I need to let you know - this is not Anna! It’s Eliza! We started this blog exactly a year ago (an incredible coincidence!) as an online salon between the two of us. I am the bad half, here to resurrect my commitment to being better.
So, hey readers. I’m Eliza. And Anna, I hope you’re okay with me being back?
It seems the easiest way to reenter this whole blogging thing is dot points. Ease down the road, y’know. So here’s some stuff I’ve genuinely loved this week.
And that’s all for now. Thanks for letting me back in the fold. I promise to be better.
A MUST READ from the guardian today. Father Frank Lindh writes of the injustice his son faces as a captured “enemy combatant”. Seriously awful. READ IT ALL HERE.
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So yesterday this happened and the internerd collectively let out a loud -stopalreadypls- sigh.
And Bob was all like:
John Birmingham superbly responded with this.
And the world let out a -we’redonehere- sigh.
and moved the fuck on.
