I’ve been a terrible blogger for the past couple of weeks. Parenting duties were insane. I’ve been reading and RT-ing lots of stuff on Twitter, while sitting in the car at red lights. A red light is long enough for a RT, but not a proper blog post.
I’ve also been stocking up the camera with lots of pictures of cooking and kids and trips to the city. Just need the few minutes to download and edit them. This morning, Steve took Ian to a free cooking class at William Sonoma, and Jonah is down the shore with a buddy. I’m relishing this hour of “me time” by blogging. Weird? Yes.
So, what have I been reading?
Messi has barely broken a sweat for his goals in the World Cup.
This take-down of Emily Gould is so brutal that it crosses the line into crazy.
American Prospect “In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in budget hotels.”
Oooh. Look at this ranking of websites based on traffic numbers. Why is Vox ranked higher than the Atlantic?
The last column of a sports writer.
Watch Sarah Jessica Parker and Jerry Seinfeld talk about parenting.
More on the Emily Gould twitter-storm.
Apt. 11d 
After reading that piece, I’m still not sure why Emily Gould is worth writing about. However, I’d greatly appreciate if someone would institutionalize the author before he does himself or anyone else harm with such atrocities as these:
“One clearly sees that, even before she poured the Internet’s water over her naked confessional form in an oddly bathetic baptism,”
“pleading for the more surefire helm of a young Elizabeth Wurtzel to push Gould’s sad makeshift schooner across the ocean. ”
“Aggrieved workers in the media industry would pass along rumors, forward memos, or shoot any toxic grist into this digital bundt cake factory.”
I’m sure there are more; I just couldn’t continue.
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I wish I hadn’t read as much of that piece as I did, and I only skimmed a bit of it. I think the guy is actually going over the bend (as evidenced by the later suicide threats on twitter). My rule about the potentially mentally ill is to refer them to help, if I have the capacity to do so, and otherwise cease engaging. That’s a lesson everyone on the internet need to learn, too, I think.
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Matt Lauer needs to shut up.
I think it would be fine to just re-post this sentence every month or so. No need to have any special new reason. It would work with many other news figures, too.
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Every time a fatuous ass such as Edward Champion lets loose his misogynist insecurities in an attack on a woman, I’m forced to go out and buy three more books by women. It’s gotten to the point where I only read books by women anymore due to all the man-boys whining about how women are ruining their personal preserve of a literary genre or bookstore shelf. Honestly, that’s not entirely a bad outcome as far as the enjoyability and quality of what I get to read. Sorry, male writers who aren’t fatuous asses!
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