Lauren Elizabits
My name is Mona Mour, and I've been playing roller derby since 2007. I'm currently a member of the Boston Derby Dames, Boston’s first and only all-female, DIY, skater-owned and -operated flat track roller derby league. I skate for the Wicked Pissahs, manage the Boston Massacre, and am a member of the BDD Executive Board. BDD is a proud member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), and I serve as a skater rep to the organization. I also run WFTDA's Tumblr. I got my start in derby as a Bleeding Heartland Rollergirl (Bloomington, IN). When I'm not skating, I also write books. This blog used to be all about roller derby, but these days it's about other things, too.
Dinner tomorrow? I think so
(via againsttheflub)
Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)
This is absolutely true. Unless you have no disposable income at all, I think most people would pay for the TV shows and movies they love — particularly fannish audiences who would treat payment as a kind of “vote” to keep the show on air. If Game of Thrones, Elementary, sci-fi shows like Agents of SHIELD, etc were available for legal streaming/download and didn’t have differing international release dates, piracy levels would plummet.
N.B. Season 3 Teen Wolf will be available internationally on iTunes, right…??
(via hellotailor)
YES! I would love to pay HBO per episode as they air (like Mad Men does on iTunes), but instead they withhold until months after the season ends, and as a result
I’d also pay to subscribe to HBOGo, but I don’t have cable at all so I can’t.
Let me pay you! Please!
(via rainbowrowell)
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout (NYT)
The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.
Yeah, I’m totally gonna give this a whirl…
She’s not just called “Anna WrecksYa” for show, y’know.
And she probably giggled right after that hit … I love BFFAnna
“A virus can lie dormant in your body for so long that you can forget you were ever infected. Then something happens that weakens your immune system and the virus seizes its opportunity. For more than two decades the Catholicism I’d contracted at St. Ignatius had lain dormant, manifesting itself only in airplanes and passing lanes. But the seeming immunity I’d long enjoyed was weakened by my mother’s death. Because after that sunny, awful day in Tucson, Arizona, when my mother’s life ended, I started slipping into Catholic churches.”
-Dan Savage, American Savage on-sale 5/28.
I love Dan Savage, but I’ll be honest, I’m reblogging this mostly because of the IU shirt
Try not to worry so much about what you are going to do with your life. You are already doing what you are going to do with your life, and judging by your gownedness, you’re doing all right.
On that topic, there are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told College Me that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would’ve been like, “That is not a word, and it never should be.”
This is one of the most creative pieces of literary criticism EVER. And also? Hysterical.
John Dickerson, on the Slate Political Gabfest this week
BTW, if you love podcasts and need new ones, I recommend all the Slate Podcasts, but especially the Political Gabfest, the Cultural Gabfest, the XX Gabfest, and Hang up and Listen (the sports podcast with Mike Pesca)
Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)
Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog
EXCELLENT
From @EARNEST_CYBORG9
Fucking beautiful
