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Becoming Marilyn

By shirty | Published: April 13, 2012
The name was a façade, and it seems the façade was a façade, too. Poor girl. It took a lot of work to “be” Marilyn Monroe. The starlet slathered on layers of Vaseline, hormone cream, Erno Laszlo Active pHelityl Cream, or Nivea (meaning “snow white”) to give a glow under studio lights, followed by a [...]
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ThinkGeek :: Self-Rescuing Princess – Kids

By Shirty | Published: April 21, 2009
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/kids/bad7/Ace. (Great find by my pal Kim, herself a self-rescuing princess, and the mom of a future SRP.)
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Video: She who laughs last – songstress Susan Boyle – Times Online

By Shirty | Published: April 18, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6121279.eceMost of the recent press about Susan Boyle has been commentary about her performance, or the YouTube sensation it created. Her TV interviews thus far have given the impression of someone quite shy and quiet when she isn’t performing. So it’s nice to see this Times article that proves there is a gritty, personable woman [...]
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Running Cause I Cant Fly: The Story of Susan Boyle

By Shirty | Published: April 15, 2009
http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2009/04/story-of-susan-boyle.htmlMore Susan Boyle stuff. She’s flooding the Internet (and, because of this, the traditional media too) but as far as I’m concerned, it’s 47 years of accumulated, overdue attention, plus late fees and interest. The majority of the press is focused on her looks, which grows tiresome. What I found more shocking was the contrast [...]
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By Shirty | Published: April 14, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY“The man and the hour had met.” In this case, though, it was the woman and the song: A Scottish spinster – who looks not unlike my grandmother and comports herself like a Glasgow keelie – sashayed onstage at Britain’s Got Talent, and proved that it certainly did. I’ve watched this five times and I’m [...]
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notagirlygirls reviews – StumbleUpon

By Shirty | Published: March 26, 2009
http://notagirlygirl.stumbleupon.com/Bitch, can you, like, hurry up and post some new stuff? I’m sitting here waiting to be entertained. (PS After years of Stumbling, isn’t this the review you’ve always dreamed I’d give?)
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Sadie Farrell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By Shirty | Published: January 11, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_the_GoatSadie Farrell (fl. 1869) was an American criminal, gang leader and river pirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat. She first came to prominence as a vicious street mugger in New York’s “Bloody” Fourth Ward. Upon encountering a lone traveler, she would headbutt men in the stomach and her male accomplice would hit the [...]
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By Shirty | Published: December 28, 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2008/10/101908_1.htmlRather than spending her post-political life settling down to the dinner circuit, ex-Minister of External Affairs Flora McDonald has taken to the remote areas of Afghanistan with her humanitarian NGO. She’s preaching the benefits of schools and health care (including birth control) in a country where international focus has mainly been on military action. I [...]
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Harvey Milk – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By Shirty | Published: November 22, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_MilkThought I’d read up on Harvey Milk prior to the release of the Gus Van Sant biopic marking the anniversary of his death. An interesting story, with an even more interesting – and irony-tinged – footnote: Though Feinstein was known to carry a handgun in her purse, she became a proponent of gun control. In [...]
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Why Is Harriet Tubman Facing South? – NYTimes.com

By Shirty | Published: November 22, 2008
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/why-is-harriet-tubman-facing-south/A new 10-foot-tall bronze statue of Harriet Tubman in Harlem, part of a $2.8 million project, is being formally dedicated by the city at 1 p.m. on Thursday, but the work has confounded some observers because Tubman appears to be striding determinedly south, rather than heading north toward freedom. The moment I saw the headline [...]
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