A Little Bit of Everything

A curious collection. Pop culture, photography, design, soccer, politics, miscellaneous.

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Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer released a new arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s spoken-word song “Democracy” in support of PEN America.  Animation by Olga Nunes, illustrations by David Mack.

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Michelle Obama. Are we ever going to have a First Lady that is as stylish, intelligent, laidback, funny, dedicated to causes & activism, and an amazing public speaker?

To the First Lady, With Love

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SNL - Melanianade

Trump gets the Lemonade treatment

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City of Women - The New Yorker

Almost every city is full of men’s names, names that indicate who made history. What if New York’s streets instead celebrated the city’s great women?

A recent essay by Allison Meier notes that there are only five statues of named women in New York City: Joan of Arc, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Har­riet Tubman, the last four added in the past third of a century. Until 1984, there was only one, the medieval Joan in Riverside Park, installed in 1915. [...] I can’t imagine how I might have conceived of myself and my possibilities if, in my formative years, I had moved through a city where most things were named after women and many or most of the monuments were of powerful, successful, honored women. Of course, these sites commemorate only those who were allowed to hold power and live in public; most American cities are, by their nomenclature, mostly white as well as mostly male. Still, you can imagine.

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Pop Hillary. Illustrations by Nate Kitch

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Lift Each Other Up by Libby VanderPloeg

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Shimmy If You’re With Her by Libby VanderPloeg

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Next week’s The New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt

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This exchange. That shimmy. 

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Illustrations by Ben Wiseman, for the New York Times. 

(Appeared in Sunday’s NYT, but seem pretty prophetic/accurate for tonight’s presidential debate)

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Love these colorful crosswalks in Madrid

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Loving these illustrations for the Politico 50 by John Jay Cabuay

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Love this Serena Williams mural

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Lisa Hannigan

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Beyonce and Blue Ivy at the VMAs

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I don’t think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, ‘I’m anti-woman,’ they don’t see themselves that way and you can’t treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth. It’s important to be respectful of the things that have been accomplished but also to acknowledge what hasn’t been accomplished yet.

Venus Williams

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The Biles!