- Peanut Butter Bourbon-filled Doughnuts? Yes, please.
- I know this is slightly old news now (sorry, jeez, I was moving...), but in case you missed it: Watch this adorable interview with the interracial Cheerios girl who proved so controversial.
- An oldie but a goodie (and mostly for my friend Jess): The power of sedatives used during wisdom teeth surgery makes one girl very remorseful about murdering her beloved teeth. "They were just tryin' to help me chew!"
- Life measured out in jelly beans. Seriously, watch this video. It will really make you stop and think about how you spend your days.
- I'm easily amused, but I think these famous pictures redone as selfies are very interesting.
- A fourteen year old girl is raped and then her community (adults and teens) slut-shames her instead of standing behind her. This kind of behavior has got to stop people. It's never the victims fault, no matter what she chose to drink or wear. NEVER!
- I've often joked that my improbably high heels could double as a weapon, but I never thought I'd actually see it as a real headline.
- Glenn Arthur's Forever Fabled series is my ideal blend of rockabilly, pinup, and classic fairy tales.
- For all of you fellow Sherlock Holmes fans: Interesting breakdown of the current suit between the Conan Doyle estate and several authors (including one of my faves, Laurie R. King) over the copyright for Sherlock Holmes. Is he public domain or not?
- Everything in the Out of Print store is now on my Christmas list. I want all of the bookish stuff!
- Neil Gaiman is one of the most prominent writerly voices in social media. Here's why he's planning to unplug and take a sabbatical from all his blogging, tweeting, and updating.
- Human-powered helicopter. Yep, da Vinci would be proud.
- Edible flowers fascinate me. I would love to learn to use them. They seem so ethereal and somehow very British to me.
- Get ready to go "awwww": Parent's compiled this video of their son featuring one second from each day of the first year of his life.
- Fat Heroes. I kind of want this framed.
The Stud Book by Monica Drake was a book that I honestly picked up because the ARC came to us pimped out in a care package from Chuck Palahniuk (Ha! Finally I spelled it right on the first go!). I figured that anything one of my all time faves endorsed would be worth at least checking out.
Mr. Palahniuk was right. This is a really great book that touches on a pretty big nerve in my life and the lives of a lot of young, and not so young, women: Motherhood.
The story centers around the lives of four long-time friends. One is married to a textbook example of metrosexuality and is desperate for a child of her own; despite multiple miscarriages she refuses to consider adoption. Another is a single mother with two daughters; one in college and the other a bored and slightly troubled teenager. The third is a married, freshly-minted mother of an infant girl who is struggling with her identity as she makes the shift from competent, academic she-warrior to sleep-deprived, fumbling mommy-hood. The final character is a bisexual photographer who refuses to tie herself down with marriage or labels.
Monica Drake's style is wonderfully, painfully honest and slightly cynical. She takes a page from her friend Chuck and makes the reader really think by showing the extremes that life can take. I came away from this book with the message that life is what you make it. Family is defined by you, not society; and sometimes we all strive a bit too hard for what we think we should be and forget to just enjoy what we are and who we're with.
