Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - Posts
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Rock dreams really do come true. Green Day played a show at Madison
Square Garden on Monday. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong went looking
for an audience member to join the band on guitar—and settled on a girl
named Stephanie. Who shredded it ... (Read more in Double X.)
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June, Drop Dead Diva ties together two things we’ve been kicking around the blog the last few days: Is T.V. a better place for women than film?... (Read more in Double X.)
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I was a major, unabashed fan of Sex and the City. (The show, that is—the movie was a grating, be-crinolined, poopy joke nightmare.) The things that bothered other people—the sex and status obsession, the what-planet-are-you-on depiction of a freelance writer's earning potential—never really bothered me. Its lily-white vision of New York, however, did ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A guest post from Newsweek writer Jessica Bennett:
I've never been in a relationship with two people at the same time,
but I've spent the last two months talking about it constantly. Not
because I'm obsessed with the idea—though, um, increasingly I am—but
because I was writing a piece for Newsweek about one particular multi-partner family ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Yesterday’s David Brooks column was written in response to the rarely asked question: What would happen if a freak solar event sterilized everyone in the Western Hemisphere?
Without progeny, explains everyone's favorite National Greatness
Conservative, we of the West would plunge into a “cataclysmic spiritual
crisis,” deem our lives to be “without meaning and purpose,” and forgo
any grand ambitions we might once have nurtured ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Tracy Quan, who is normally so sex-positive and has written extensively about her life as a call girl, has an article in the Daily Beast warning women against using withdrawal as a birth control method, even though new research has shown it to be almost as effective as condoms ... (Read more in Double X.)
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