C'mon—nobody remember's Queen Latifah and Monie Love's 'Ladies First'? It's only one of the most important songs of the Native Tongues ascendency:

Confession: I have often experienced guilt over allowing my gaze to linger too long on images of Corin Tucker from Sleater Kinney.

Not to mention it's 'This Woman's Work" for what it's worth

I don't think anyone inferred a Feminist message from 'Natural Woman' until Carole King released her version of it on 'Tapestry' in the crunchy pit of the singer/songwriter era. At that time you had real and challenging Feminist lyricists like Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro out there, and so King repurposed that and…

I was not aware that Avril Lavigne was still a "hot topic" as it were. Acts like that have a very narrow window of viability. By the time their core audience has outgrown them after a couple of years (an adolescent eternity, by the way) the next big thing will have already arrived.

Rock does not hold up well to this kind of scrutiny—I'm a fan of that Nuggets era Garage Rock that's so influential on Punk, but the overwhelming majority of those songs are lyrically devoted to bitter spite and anger directed at some woman for some imagined slight. This is not surprising, given that the age of most…

So Manwich, to clarify, you do mean that bell hooks' rage won't kill now that she's a Buddhist and not that she couldn't still outsmart Ukridge, right? Because her Buddhism is certainly a strength.

I am a man and I am a Feminist and I am a Liberal and a Democratic Socialist and I refuse to allow the press, pundits or the right wing to steal away or dilute the meaning of those terms, or to make me feel like I should hide or apologize for what I believe. The question is not whether Men and Women are different in…

Also, semi-facetiously
What about 'Baby Got Back'? I know a lot of Feminists who rallied around that one back in college.

'Stand By Your Man'
So what's the greatest Feminist anthem of all time? While I am tempted to do a search for lyrics to some awesome Au Pairs song (or perhaps Talking Heads 'The Great Curve'), I have to conclude that the win goes to Tammy Wynette's performance of 'Stand By Your Man'—not because of the text but because…

'Kate and Allie'

Yeah, Whatever…
Seen 'House of Wax' already—wake me when they finally invent "feelies".

I've never seen 'Amelie' but are you saying you've never had creme brulee? Because a good creme brulee is A. How I first wooed my exwife and B. What dreams are made of.

What's inadvertently funny about that scene is that there is an episode of 'Cheers' where Woody talks about how great Snowballs are. If it were intentional I could excuse it as a really obscure inside joke, but I don't think it was. Regardless, I think 'Zombieland' is a pretty decent Horror comedy. I think the…

Woah, is that ever a callback—Let me try to remember…

The schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries! When I was a kid I always wanted lickable wallpaper.

The main reason I used to drink G&T's when clubbing was because it's an easy drink to make well and a nearly impossible drink to fuck up.

YES! Blood oranges.

fun fact 3: Mel Blanc was my grandfather's cousin or something. I met him once when I was about 5 or 6.

Sweet potato pies are also the easiest thing in the world to make. You open a can and you're halfway there. And NOI sweet potato pies are awesome—I love that you can get them on street corners from guys who otherwise eye you suspiciously. But I have to add that if you haven't had a NOI BEAN pie you have not lived.