Did you guys see that incredibly offensive Cintra Wilson piece about JCPenney in the NYTimes a couple of weeks ago? The Public Editor addresses it: [link]
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 23, 2009 1:06:30 pm PDT #5190 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2009 1:29:39 pm PDT #5191 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. That sounds like a truly hateful piece. I hope her apologies are sincere.
Just read that Jamaica won as many golds in Berlin as we had won in total at the IAAF championships up to last year. I'm all asquee.
beth b - Aug 23, 2009 1:32:26 pm PDT #5192 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
another household with mail problems. there are just a few things every day that should get opened, but really , we don't need to hang onto . nor would it be tragic if it was never opened. But they must hang out for a few months, just in case. Just in case of what, I'm not sure...
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2009 1:36:25 pm PDT #5193 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail. I'm finally cancelling mail delivery of them. Which is when I realised that at least one provider (T Mobile) is about to start charging me for sending me paper.
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 1:40:12 pm PDT #5194 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That sounds like a truly hateful piece.
It truly was.
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 1:42:39 pm PDT #5195 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail.
I do this, and then with all the travel I was doing this spring I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all. Earlier this summer I actually wondered if I'd not actually been invited to a wedding I'd made travel plans to attend, until it occurred to me it'd been over a month since I opened my mailbox. (Luckily it was still two days before the RSVP date.)
beth b - Aug 23, 2009 1:51:41 pm PDT #5196 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
The article by Wilson seems to have a duel personality --- in the sam e sentence she praises and mocks JC Pennys - so odd.
and she is mean - to the point where she sounds ignorant. I don't shop a lot in JC penny's -- mostly because the one here is really messy. But it is the place where I found a pair of jeans for 1.99.
Amy - Aug 23, 2009 1:54:01 pm PDT #5197 of 30001
Because books.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
I have become super strict about mail. Everything that is not a bill or something I need for work gets thrown away immediately. I still have a hard time with birthday cards and stuff, though -- my instinct is to save them, even knowing I never ever go back to reread them.
Jesse - Aug 23, 2009 1:57:26 pm PDT #5198 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
She had no ideeeaaaaa people read the New York Times outside of Manhattan! Pfui.
Dana - Aug 23, 2009 2:08:04 pm PDT #5199 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
Yes, thank you! It's like yet another person gets introduced to the internet, except Wilson's been publishing on the internet for years.