martinimade

• This checks out.
• High Park’s OG capybara....
• Would love to see this show.
• I understand the impulse.
• And folks ask why I'm no longer an adjunct.

"If A, then B," is what we were taught. If you are pure — non-sexual to whatever extent is the requirement — before marriage, then you will have a perfect, blissful highly sexual life after marriage. You will please your husband. He will never leave you. He will never cheat on you, because you will be such a sexual delight for him.

My latest Dry Martini column is live over at Another Mother Runner. This one is a potpourri of weather, PRs, and Florence.

• The farm-to-table game.
• When you love teh LARP.
• The next person who tries to sell me a vision of the past that fails to include these things is getting a punch right in the mouth. 
• Darn it.
• Corroding the nostalgia.

American sports have seen their share of colorful minor leagues, but none quite as crazy as the USFL, which, as Pearlman writes, "enlisted your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, your one-armed and chain-smoking and half-blind and clinically insane." 

-- from Michael Schaub's review of Football for a Buck, a book that I'm now going to have to get based on the review alone.

• Why did this take so long?
• How to Jog: A Guide for Women
• Middle finger tutu.
• Some of my favorite plays.
• Female bodies are gross. Related. Also related.
• The hardest part is to sit without hope.
• In praise of mediocre children.
• I endorse all of these (but especially Slings and Arrows.)

Over at Another Mother Runner, a few words about body image, Serena Williams, and giant dogs.