Despite being an intelligent, well-educated, practical, feminist woman, I read Twilight. I read the crap out of Twilight. I don’t know why I did, particularly past the first one, but I did even though the amount of satisfaction I got from it didn’t even come close to the amount of anger it inspired in me. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
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Posted in Miscellany, tagged bella, books, edward cullen, terrible terrible things, twilight, vampires, Why god why on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged aztecs, latin american saints, mexico, nahuatl, our lady of guadalupe, virgin mary on December 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Virgin, obviously, is neither obscure nor technically a saint, but she’s pretty much my favorite Catholic thing ever. Partly because she’s so pretty, partly because she’s all over everything in Los Angeles, but mostly because her saint day–today–is my birthday. I didn’t even know that until I moved to L.A. and got carded buying [...]
