Friday quickie

Professor Bean and I, along with the rest of the East Coast, were crushed by the heat and humidity, and therefore unable to think of any sparkling topic for a blog post. Therefore, we’re punting with this fabulous link to The Twelve Creepiest Vintage Ads of All Time over at Retro Comedy. While all are [...]

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I’m really not obsessed with marriage

I wasn’t going to post any more on marriage and love, at least for a while, but then I saw this Newsweek article on polyamory. Polyamory (many loves) is a type of open relationship–the article defines it as “loving, intimate relationships with more than one person.” And if I can quote Wikipedia without having my [...]

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The Pursuit of Happiness?

This is the first post I’ve written that is not tied to one specific popular culture anchor, so forgive me if I’ve already broken our nascent blog’s rules.  Perhaps my heightened awareness of gender issues in pop culture–thanks in large part to Professor Moss’s and my decision finally to start sharing our thoughts with the [...]

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Why I hate Swiffer

The fact that women still do most of the housework in most families is not news. A 2003 study, for example, found women doing 23 hours per week to men’s 11, despite the fact that the women were earning as much or almost as much as their husbands. This seems to be one area where [...]

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The Cliched, the Bad, and the Ugly: Take Two

Yesterday, Professor Moss vented her ire at the atrocious new film, The Ugly Truth.  Since I barely endured the entire 90 minute movie without reenacting the final scene of Oedipus Rex, I’d like to add a bit more insult to injury here:

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The Cliched, the Bad, and the Ugly

Professor Bean and I actually went and sat through The Ugly Truth (check out the website, where you can post your own ugly truth!) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more horrible movie. If you took When Harry Met Sally and Cyrano de Bergerac, stripped them of any intelligence, humor or subtly, and [...]

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What’s Love Got to Do With It (part 3)

Gentle Reader(s), it is now your turn. The past few months have offered an orgy of hang-wringing and predictions of doom–the American marriage is dead.  Or dying. Or at least perverted beyond all recognition and decency.

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Speaking in Code

Last night ABC gave us the “Men Tell All” episode of The Bachelorette. While the teasers promised myriad secrets would be revealed, no one could have predicted the biggest revelation of all. There, on national t.v., America was introduced to the secret, illuminati-like world of the “man code.”

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What’s Love Got to Do With it (part 2)?

I ordered Cristina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love because I thought her ideas might make good fodder for a blog post. Now, barely 20% of the way through the book, I have to stop and rant—not about her ideas, but about her support for those ideas. Google tells me this woman writes for The Atlantic [...]

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Weekly Recap July 11-17

We love(d)… Obama’s choice for Surgeon General–Dr. Regina Benjamin is a doctor who makes housecalls and ran a nonprofit clinic in New Orleans before and after Katrina. But she’s also the first black woman to head a state medical society and the first doctor under 40 to be elected to the AMA’s board of trustees. [...]

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