It’s “Flashback Friday,” meaning it’s a good day to get around to my New Year’s Eve outfit post. If I procrastinate on this one any longer, I’ll wind up being sucked into a long-term procrastination spiral, at the bottom of which will be the 2018 New Year’s post! To ring in 2017, my peeps and…
Marlo Thomas, Mary Tyler Moore’s Contemporary
As I was writing about Mary Tyler Moore last night, I kept thinking, “Hers wasn’t the only important show about a single working woman living alone in a big city.” But there was so much to say about Moore that I decided I’d write about Marlo Thomas another day. Procrastination in moderation once again worked…
RIP, Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore died today at age 80 of complications from pneumonia. In the headline for her obituary, the New York Times said she “incarnated the modern woman on TV.”. Embed from Getty Images It wasn’t just her The Mary Tyler Moore Show character of Mary Richards, a single woman working as television-news producer, that…
After the March: Your Next Action Is Tomorrow!
If you went to the Women’s March — either in Washington or anywhere else in the country (or the world) — I’m sure you know that that was only the first step. I wrote about the second step for The Activist Playbook. Here’s the info: Think of every Tuesday for the first 100 days of…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Thoughts on Martin Luther King Day. Tuesday: I’ve got three silver NASTY necklaces left in stock. Order now, and I’ll send a $25 donation to Planned Parenthood in your name. Also, here are some protest tips. Don’t let the Women’s March…
Free for Protestors: Purrkoy the Pussy Art
My right-hand woman Eryn Patton designed a sign featuring Purrkoy the Kitten for this weekend’s protests, and — due to popular demand — I’m sharing it! Click to download it for free: PurrkoyThePussy Purrkoy, aka PK or #babycat, is an Exotic Shorthair kitteh who was named after Anne Boleyn’s dog. (The dog’s name was Purkoy,…
Jewel of the Month: Happy Year of the Rooster!
The Chinese zodiac assigns an animal sign to each year of a 12-year cycle, and the Year of the Rooster starts on January 28. That means the last Rooster Year was in 2005, two years before I started this blog. I’ve never celebrated a Rooster Year here, and that’s all the excuse I need to…
Additional Protest Tips
For those of you going to the Women’s March on Washington or any of the sister marches, check out the protest tips I’ve shared here. I thought of a few more personal suggestions regarding potential protest infiltrators who are looking for a photo op or a way to instigate violence. Should you see a few…
Get NASTY Now! And Some Protest Tips.
If you’re a NASTY woman and would like to wear one of my NASTY necklaces to this weekend’s protest marches, I have a few available in silver — but you must order by tomorrow to receive yours in time! As always, $25 of the $300 purchase price will be donated to Planned Parenthood in your…
Prescient
It’s remarkable that Martin Luther King Jr. said this nearly 50 years ago: “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” It sounds like he’s talking about what’s happening in the U.S. today. And…