Results for: dead to me
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Healthcare: The Autostraddle Roundtable
You’ve heard the propose policies, the pundits, the fear-mongers, the critics and the cynics — now hear the people. Autostraddle talks about the future of health care with true stories from the unemployed, laid off, employed, students, underemployed, stuffed dogs, government-aided, Canadian, Australian, British (a boy, even!) and Intern Daphne from Belgium, Offering the Greatest Healthcare in the World.
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Top Ten Feats of Lesbian-Storyline-Television Endurance
“We’ll comb desperately and hungrily through minutes upon minutes of storylines we don’t care about on shows we’ve never seen before — aliens! middle schoolers! telenovelas! big brother 10! — to reach the two-minute morsel we care about more than we probably should: the holy grail of promised homosexual content.”
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Daily Fix: I’m Coming Out, I Want my Facebook Friends Network to Know
“Apparently I am suffering from GBICT, or Gay Blog Induced Carpal Tunnel. In an effort to relax, I turned on the teevee. I saw this terrible thing on True Life: I Hate my Small Boobs. So I had to look it up and see what the fuck was up with that girl’s Mom”
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Daily Fix: Also, Announcing the First Annual Autostraddle Rodeo Disco Party!
June 28th, 2009. Autostraddle Disco Rodeo. The girl-on-girl party of the century. Hot cowgirls, sweet prizes, party photographers, drink special, DJ Lady Starlight and a mechanical freakin’ bull.
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In Honor of NYC Pride, The L Word RECAP Returns with (15% of) Episode 211: “Loud & Proud”
If you forget the whole child-rape-flashback thing, the Papa Porter dying thing, the Helena-wasting-time-Tina-could-be-with-Bette thing, the paper-dolls/Baruch Atah LaLa Hoolehay Heeyhoooo thing, the Marc pantsing himself thing (when he really should just write “fuck me” on his chest) and the Jenny/Random Elder thing, Loud and Proud is one of the series’ best episodes. Let me rephrase this: if “The L Word” was “The Dana & Alice Show,” Loud and Proud would be one of THAT show’s best episodes.
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Autostraddle Storytime Roundtable: I Quit! You’re Fired! I’m Taking the Goldfish!
Our very best stories of getting fired, quitting triumphantly, and moving forward during that recession thing everyone keeps talking about.
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Tuesday Televisionary: Finales and Flashbacks and Fiascos — Oh My!
This week, Carlytron covers a bunch of season finales, including the best rundown ever of how Grey’s Anatomy has gone “L-Word level crazy,” and geeks out over the premiere of Real Housewives: New Jersey.
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Daily Fix: I Hope My Cartoon Baby Also Sounds a Little Gay
“Many residents are out of work; others worry they will lose their jobs. Thousands of people have difficulty making ends meet … No one needs a campaign to stomp on legislation that doesn’t hurt anyone.”
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So Much Drama! – Top Ten Lesbionic Theatrical Experiences
We thought this would be easier — the hardest part, we imagined, would be coming up with just ten. Surely if we thought really hard, wikipedia’ed (we expected a “lesbian characters in plays” list of some sort to appear … it did not), checked out the glbtq encyclopedia and googled some shit, we’d be rushing to narrow down the contenders by Sunday afternoon. I mean, there’s Maureen & Joanne from RENT, to start with. And then … um.
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Daily Fix – Models Pose for Pics, IFC’s Last Kicks, Oprah Gets in the Mix
Too easy, Miss California. Just too. f*cking. easy. And down you go with your nude photos, ten toy soldiers all in a row. I can’t wait to see what Gallagher’s got up her Wal-Mart blazered sleeve. Hopefully Spanx.
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Daily Fix: It’s Raining Gays!
Miss California stands by her answer, even though it cost her the crown. L Word webisodes are still happening? Plus Jane Lynch in something new.
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Daily Fix – The One Where Everyone Defies Expectations, e.g., Stargate Universe & Gay Bloggers
Queerty decides to throw the biggots a bone with ten reasons against gay marriage. Stargate Universe gets a lez. And for once, the media is paying attention to the death of a troubled teen who isn’t white.
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Weekly TV Time with Carlytron: All Kinds of Twisty Surprises
Wanda Sykes has a show you guys! Also crazy stuff happens on Gossip Girl and Heroes, and per ushe, we love Portia.
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Thursday Televisionary: She’s GAY NOW. GAAAAY!
“Back in high school when I was figuring everything out, I was hyper-aware of every lesbo storyline on TV and would record them all on one VHS tape and then I took it to college with me and now I’m a giant lesbian.”
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Autostraddle Roundtable: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Because we’ve been serious at the Roundtable for the last two weeks, we went easy on ourselves this week and asked what song makes you jump up and scream OMG THIS IS MY JAM! at the club? You know, the club? Where all the girls go to get down?
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RECAP of the new L Word Teaser “STREET TALK.”
“Street Talk” is, without a doubt, on my personal Top Ten of monumental, earth-shattering, all-time life-changing television events. It’s right up there with Jordan Catalano & Angela Chase holding hands, Dana & Alice makin’ sweet love for the first time, Obama’s victory speech and that man-on-the-moon thing.
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55 Reasons Why Recapping Episode 608 of The L Word is Driving Me Crazy
Because every single scene is so jam-packed with these nitpickable problems, technical errors, logistical disasters and blatant inconsistencies — ignoring them is maddening … and writing about them is exhausting. It’s making me crazier than Jenny could ever be … and so I must vent.
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The Autostraddle Roundtable: Adam Lambert – First Gay American Idol?
Team Autostraddle continues to read your mind and discuss the most important gay issues ever.
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Our Private Autostraddle L Word 601 Premiere Party with photos, screenshots & The Best of the First Five Seasons
We had a special visitor from Australia (Oz, co-leader of The L Word Online ) and creator, head writer, director and executive producer of AfterEllen’s hit series Alexi’s Closet, Alexi Melvin. Because the “Fly Riese to LA and/or Haviland to NYC so they can vlog and watch The L Word together” fund is very empty (TIP JAR PEOPLE!), she obvs won’t be watching, but I did get everyone else to come, and this little post will end with all of Team Autostraddle telling YOU what they’ve liked best, and loathed, about The L Word thus far.
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Daily Fix – 3.20.2009 – Best. Friday. Ever.
Oprah’s “O” magazine discovers lesbians, gay mayoral candidate to run in Mexico, the Nerve Date with Jen & Lexi is super great, and Riese is mad at Ilene Chaiken.