Maria Sharapova goes noisily on the way out
By Jim Peltz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 28, 2008
She goes noisily on way out
Second-ranked Maria Sharapova might have been bounced out of Wimbledon by long shot Alla Kudryavtseva, but Sharapova did not go quietly.
The shrieks, yelps and grunts let out by Sharapova during her second-round loss at times reached decibel levels louder than a motorcycle or lawn mower, Britain's Daily Telegraph claimed.
The paper said it used a digital sound-level meter to measure the piercing sounds from Sharapova, whom it said "is known as the noisiest player on the circuit."
While normal conversation is between 60 and 70 decibels, Sharapova's top reading Thursday was 103.2 decibels, the paper said.
"Last year, Sharapova broke her previous record of 102.7 -- equivalent to an ambulance siren -- by yelling at 103.7, greater than the noise of a small aircraft landing," according to the Telegraph.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
and they said...
I am compassion fatigued! -Stephen Colbert
[While professor a throws left over food away, professor b noticed]
Professor B: There are so many people that need food
Professor A: Oh please don't give me that world hunger
I heart Professor A!
[While professor a throws left over food away, professor b noticed]
Professor B: There are so many people that need food
Professor A: Oh please don't give me that world hunger
I heart Professor A!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
and he said
"don't let me say shit like that"
"i like concrete"
"you look like a professor, livia"
"you should have called rosa first" [slap]
"i like concrete"
"you look like a professor, livia"
"you should have called rosa first" [slap]
Your Vitriol That Offends
While reading the comments in the NYT piece on Obama's personal check of $2,300 for the Hillary for President Committee, one person wrote in response to another reader's comment:
"peace4world, your spelling errors are the least of your or anyone else’s worries. It is your vitriol that offends."
[chuckle chuckle]
"peace4world, your spelling errors are the least of your or anyone else’s worries. It is your vitriol that offends."
[chuckle chuckle]
Best Line from The L-Word Season 5
“Were I receptive to such a proposition, it would first require a full booty check. (pause) And were you to pass muster, baby I'd give it to you family style." -Peggy Peabody
Saturday, June 21, 2008
In the name of pride
I thought I would list the hotties that make me uh er um yeah you know (in no particular order except for 1 and 2):
1. Tina Fey
2. Sara Ramirez
3. Penelope Cruz
4. Mary-Louise Parker
5. Rachel Weisz
6. Alicia Keys
7. Jennifer Beals
8. Mia Kirshner & Leisha Hailey (yeah a tie!)
9. Yolanda Andrade & Montserrat Oliver
10.Emily Blunt
11. Zooey Deschanel & Emily Deschanel
12. Rachel McAdams
13. Maura Tierney
14. Rachel Griffiths
15. Ana Ivanovic
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
About time CA followed suit
As a big 'mo/ma, I find marriage equality to be a momentous step in mainstream lgbt rights. The LA Times provides a map illustrating how counties are approaching marriage licenses for all interested parties. Congrats to those that have married and an early congrats to those that will do the same from this point forward! Nothing but warm wishes :D
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-marriagesmap,0,6124834.htmlstory
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-marriagesmap,0,6124834.htmlstory
Sunday, June 15, 2008
City Quotes 1.0
A compiliation of quotes from pride in filas and a weekend in NYC:
"You know when worlds collide..."
"OMG! I saw his face!"
"Lesbians own it!"
"When I try to talk to her, she doesn't pay attention because she's so immersed in her reading. She's six years old."
"My hair looks good wet. Yours doesn't." -Moi to Luis
Gigglefest at Central Park when it pours rain. Not a quote but giggles are funny.
"You know when worlds collide..."
"OMG! I saw his face!"
"Lesbians own it!"
"When I try to talk to her, she doesn't pay attention because she's so immersed in her reading. She's six years old."
"My hair looks good wet. Yours doesn't." -Moi to Luis
Gigglefest at Central Park when it pours rain. Not a quote but giggles are funny.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
When in Davos, Switzerland...
In a recent interview with some magazine journalist, Angelina Jolie talked about her partner's tattoo:
"I drew that. We went to Davos. It's not that we were bored at the World Economic Forum, but one night we didn't have anything to do, so I was drawing on his back."
Can she draw something on my back with her finger? Thanks!
"I drew that. We went to Davos. It's not that we were bored at the World Economic Forum, but one night we didn't have anything to do, so I was drawing on his back."
Can she draw something on my back with her finger? Thanks!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Da Upcoming Films
Nouveu Blair Witch? Yeah, I always associate scary films set in the forest with Blair Witch. Damn project:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/baghead/trailer/
Toni Collette in a new film? Delish! Brill! Swell...ing of the vlips. Seriously, the movie has a LOT goings on.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/towelhead/trailer/
Burn After Reading filmed in NYC (yes, Brad Pitt was just blocks away from me last fall while shooting the film). How does he eternally look youthful? I can tell he's aging quite rapidly -thanks to fatherhood among other do-gooder roles he has take on of late. The trailer is on the apple website. I'm too lazy to copy and paste the link.
Oh, and whatever films involve Colin Firth (Mamma Mia! & Then She Found Me) of course appeal to my het side.
But the film I'm most excited about watching? The Fall. Why do I like kids with accents? My ESL bias, I guerss.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/trailer/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/baghead/trailer/
Toni Collette in a new film? Delish! Brill! Swell...ing of the vlips. Seriously, the movie has a LOT goings on.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/towelhead/trailer/
Burn After Reading filmed in NYC (yes, Brad Pitt was just blocks away from me last fall while shooting the film). How does he eternally look youthful? I can tell he's aging quite rapidly -thanks to fatherhood among other do-gooder roles he has take on of late. The trailer is on the apple website. I'm too lazy to copy and paste the link.
Oh, and whatever films involve Colin Firth (Mamma Mia! & Then She Found Me) of course appeal to my het side.
But the film I'm most excited about watching? The Fall. Why do I like kids with accents? My ESL bias, I guerss.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/trailer/
Clinton, Gender, & Politics
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Clinton’s Next Campaign
The New York Times
By ANNA HOLMES
Published: June 1, 2008
RACISM. Sexism. Say what you will about the Democratic primaries, they have at the very least provoked a national dialogue about those two shameful scourges of American society. Just as the furor over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright drove Senator Barack Obama to make a widely admired speech on race, the growing outrage on the part of her supporters offers an opportunity for Senator Hillary Clinton to speak out on sexism in American life.
The idea of such a speech has been brought up and then shot down by unimaginative pundits as merely playing the gender card, an assertion both patronizing and offensive. But with her campaign apparently on the cusp of defeat, Senator Clinton is now free to speak with courage and conviction, two qualities not ascribed to her lately.
Watching Barack Obama speak in Philadelphia in March, I was uncomfortable (race is a sticky subject, to say the least) but exultant because, as a woman of color, I saw a man from a similar multiracial background speak openly and honestly about race in a way that was inclusive and enlightening, that gave credit to the intelligence of his audience. He avoided trotting out a laundry list of affronts.
But from my vantage as the daughter of a ’70s feminist who grew up in a house littered with Ms. magazines, E.R.A. buttons and other detritus of gender activism, I see many of my feminist forebears focusing too much on the cataloguing of slights, and not enough on solving the problem. Of course there’s been sexism throughout this campaign. (Remember “Iron my shirt”?) But at this point, keeping track of every tone-deaf criticism matters less than delivering an active, impassioned response.
Senator Clinton is the one woman in America right now who has the perspective, and the responsibility, to give that response. And history shows that she is more than capable of speaking definitively and honestly about the issue: Take the passion of her 1995 address at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing; or the personal touch of her tableside chat with voters in New Hampshire in early January; or the intelligence and wisdom she displayed in her 1969 commencement speech at Wellesley College. A gender speech combining these elements would be revelatory, historic and, yes, humanizing.
The question is when, and how, she could do it. The when: after she bows out of the presidential race, so that it couldn’t be painted as a last-ditch effort to win. The where: a public university, or perhaps a private women’s college like her alma mater, would be fitting. The how: she could speak from a place of pride and passion, pride for how far she and other women have come; passion for how far we have to go, including the sad fact that sexism is so pervasive as to be almost invisible and so accepted that to mention it is to risk being accused of hypersensitivity.
She could talk openly about the tug of war between the personal and the political, between the armor women wear in public and what they expose in private. Lastly, she could recognize the occasion for what it is: an opportunity to heal the rifts between women in the Democratic Party and to bring new female voters into the fold.
Addressing as broad an audience as possible is key, because as much as Senator Clinton serves as a symbol of the quintessential career woman, she has been preaching mainly to a choir of like-minded baby boomers, most of whom have markedly different experiences and interpretations of the world than their younger, poorer or darker-skinned sisters. The gender discrimination experienced by a first lady and the first viable female presidential candidate (or even, say, a corporation’s first female executive) is not the same as the gender discrimination experienced by a single mother in Wichita or a high school student in Watts.
She also needs to be honest in a way that she hasn’t been lately: about the uncommon privileges she has been given and, more important, the much more common struggles, disappointments and frustrations she has weathered despite those opportunities.
After all, if she can’t break the country’s highest glass ceiling this election season, the least she can do is take a good hard crack at other, no less important ones: the ones we all construct ourselves. As she said during that speech in Beijing 13 years ago, “For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence.” It’s time for Senator Clinton to start making some noise already.
Anna Holmes is the managing editor of the blog Jezebel.
Clinton’s Next Campaign
The New York Times
By ANNA HOLMES
Published: June 1, 2008
RACISM. Sexism. Say what you will about the Democratic primaries, they have at the very least provoked a national dialogue about those two shameful scourges of American society. Just as the furor over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright drove Senator Barack Obama to make a widely admired speech on race, the growing outrage on the part of her supporters offers an opportunity for Senator Hillary Clinton to speak out on sexism in American life.
The idea of such a speech has been brought up and then shot down by unimaginative pundits as merely playing the gender card, an assertion both patronizing and offensive. But with her campaign apparently on the cusp of defeat, Senator Clinton is now free to speak with courage and conviction, two qualities not ascribed to her lately.
Watching Barack Obama speak in Philadelphia in March, I was uncomfortable (race is a sticky subject, to say the least) but exultant because, as a woman of color, I saw a man from a similar multiracial background speak openly and honestly about race in a way that was inclusive and enlightening, that gave credit to the intelligence of his audience. He avoided trotting out a laundry list of affronts.
But from my vantage as the daughter of a ’70s feminist who grew up in a house littered with Ms. magazines, E.R.A. buttons and other detritus of gender activism, I see many of my feminist forebears focusing too much on the cataloguing of slights, and not enough on solving the problem. Of course there’s been sexism throughout this campaign. (Remember “Iron my shirt”?) But at this point, keeping track of every tone-deaf criticism matters less than delivering an active, impassioned response.
Senator Clinton is the one woman in America right now who has the perspective, and the responsibility, to give that response. And history shows that she is more than capable of speaking definitively and honestly about the issue: Take the passion of her 1995 address at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing; or the personal touch of her tableside chat with voters in New Hampshire in early January; or the intelligence and wisdom she displayed in her 1969 commencement speech at Wellesley College. A gender speech combining these elements would be revelatory, historic and, yes, humanizing.
The question is when, and how, she could do it. The when: after she bows out of the presidential race, so that it couldn’t be painted as a last-ditch effort to win. The where: a public university, or perhaps a private women’s college like her alma mater, would be fitting. The how: she could speak from a place of pride and passion, pride for how far she and other women have come; passion for how far we have to go, including the sad fact that sexism is so pervasive as to be almost invisible and so accepted that to mention it is to risk being accused of hypersensitivity.
She could talk openly about the tug of war between the personal and the political, between the armor women wear in public and what they expose in private. Lastly, she could recognize the occasion for what it is: an opportunity to heal the rifts between women in the Democratic Party and to bring new female voters into the fold.
Addressing as broad an audience as possible is key, because as much as Senator Clinton serves as a symbol of the quintessential career woman, she has been preaching mainly to a choir of like-minded baby boomers, most of whom have markedly different experiences and interpretations of the world than their younger, poorer or darker-skinned sisters. The gender discrimination experienced by a first lady and the first viable female presidential candidate (or even, say, a corporation’s first female executive) is not the same as the gender discrimination experienced by a single mother in Wichita or a high school student in Watts.
She also needs to be honest in a way that she hasn’t been lately: about the uncommon privileges she has been given and, more important, the much more common struggles, disappointments and frustrations she has weathered despite those opportunities.
After all, if she can’t break the country’s highest glass ceiling this election season, the least she can do is take a good hard crack at other, no less important ones: the ones we all construct ourselves. As she said during that speech in Beijing 13 years ago, “For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence.” It’s time for Senator Clinton to start making some noise already.
Anna Holmes is the managing editor of the blog Jezebel.
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