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Fabric Of Our Lives

Sadie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:00 EST

"Today's fabrics often don't work in other time periods...The weights, textures and content are quite different, and these factors really do make a difference in making a costume look true to a time period." -Rabbit Goody, Thistle Hill Weavers [Smithsonian]

Heartburn

Sadie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

"I feel bad for the people who don't at some point understand that there's something funny in even the worst things that can happen to you." - Nora Ephron [CNN]

On Style Experts

Sadie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:00 EST

"They may as well have said, 'Yes, that's a shame about you being poor – why have you not considered being rich?'" - Hadley Freeman [The Guardian]

Well, Obviously

Sadie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

Interviewer: "If you came back in your next life as a food item, what would it be and how would you like to be served?" Jacques Pépin: "Pigeon, served with peas, to my wife." [MiamiNewTimes]

The F Word

Sadie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EDT

"There's a difference between feminism and political correctness. P.C. sucks." - Diablo Cody [Elle]

Margaret Atwood, In 140 Characters

Sadie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EDT

"Twitter isn't writing, it's signaling...It could be writing. In fact, I thought of doing something like John Cage's symphony that will be played over 100 years. You could put a word a day on to the 'twit', or 'tweet'?" [Reuters]

"I Sometimes Forget How Things Will Translate Once They Are In Print."

Dodai — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:40:00 EDT

"But this is a bullshit industry and I made a decision not to be a bullshit person. I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity and I can't compromise that." — Your friend, Megan Fox. [Telegraph]

That's "Fiction," People

Sadie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:20:00 EDT

Polymath and mature student James Franco on his creative writing: "When I started, it was fairly autobiographical and I hated it...So I started writing about people that I knew." [New Yorker]

Rachel Maddow Fibs At New Yorker Festival!

Sadie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:40:00 EDT

"I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a dude. I wear boring jackets. I have a big nose. I have short hair. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor." [NYer]

Happiness Is A Warm Puppy

Sadie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EDT

"It's wonderful: when you're happy all the time, you drive other people crazy."- Songstress Nellie McKay on her latest, Doris Day-inspired album. [NYT]

Character Study

Sadie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Susie Essman on her famously self-confident alter-ego: "Susie Greene thinks she is drop-dead gorgeous and everything she chooses to put on is drop-dead gorgeous. Imagine being like that." [NYT]

Yeah, A Laugh A Minute

Sadie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:40:00 EDT

Liv Ullmann: "On [Ingmar Bergman]'s sets there was so much joking around. We told each other everything about ourselves. I have a picture from that time and Ingmar has written on it, ‘Here we are playing again.'" [W]

Diary Of A Young Girl

Sadie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Francine Prose, on Anne Frank: The Book, the Life and the Afterlife: " Teenaged girls are the most maligned, undervalued portion of the population, as though they're all gossip girls. They can be very smart and attuned to the world." [WSJ]

The Importance Of Being Earnest

Sadie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:00 EDT

Joan Baez: "I think I kept (my humor) under wraps...I was pretty humorless in the face of the cameras. And desperately soul-searching, talking to people like you – desperately wanting to be real, you know, and not phoney." [Telegraph]

Dude Looks Like A Lady

Sadie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:20:00 EDT

"For three years I lived the life of a girl. It was most dull," - Horst Ratjen, speaking in 1957 of posing as female jumper on the 1936 German Olympic team. [BBC]

In Vino

Sadie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Sommelier Emily Wines: "Never be ashamed of your wine choices...I'm the one who once poured a nearly empty bottle of one of my favorite wines into little travel-size shampoo bottles so I could finish it off during a trip." [NYT]

Mama Mia

Sadie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:40:00 EDT

"We run up the steps and flirt with the fishermen. There are gorgeous huge boulders and we take dance breaks... I'm getting my booty shaking. It's silly, outrageous, a celebratory dance, shaking it for the fishermen." -Regena "Mama-Gena" Thomashauer [NYT]

If You Weren't Depressed Before...

Sadie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Hugo Lindgren: "Who needs the GDP?...The indicator I prefer is the Hot Waitress Index: The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy." Because in this economy, you see, even the hot are reduced to what they can get. [New York]

Wandering Jewels

Sadie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:20:00 EDT

Cintra Wilson: "I have always been mystified by Tiffany's heart-shaped silver dog tags, worn on a choke chain, with the engraved instructions, 'Please Return to Tiffany & Co.' This, I have always assumed, is precautionary." [NY Times]

Porn Identity

Sadie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Amanda Marcotte: "On one hand, [asking why women don't watch more porn]'s like asking why men don't read more romance novels. You can usually tell when you're in the intended audience, you know. Women aren't stupid." [Pandagon]