Recommended Reads through February 5th

What you should read since I’m not writing:

• Cat Fight! – This made my day.
• subversive cross stitch valentines by Natalie Dee! –
• Etsy :: Because birds are cool. – I’m dying for some of these prints. Our yard is overrun with bluebirds and cardinals and I’ve developed a real affection for them. LOVE these prints.
• Etsy :: Yellow Bird on Cherry Blossom Pillow – I love bird designs.
• How to alter a wool sweater – So that it actually fits.
• Everybody wang chung tonight – “Odd, isn’t it, that the allegedly overrated contemporary writer is always black? And if people don’t want to make an issue of this, then they shouldn’t complain about the attention being paid to writers like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe…”
• Molly’s Sketchbook: Handmade Valentines –
• Another Juno Review – “My new blogging angle is that I’m going to write about every pole that I’ve ever smoked. Yep. It’s going to be blowjobs 24/7 here at ‘Dante and the Lobster.’ All cock gobbling, all the time.”
• The Unapologetic Mexican: In Which Nezua Talks Shit About the FCC – “I mean, nevermind wars of aggression and greed and the rape of the constitution and secret prisons and water torture. Our children can see this and know we approve and won’t fight it because IMPEACHMENT IS OFF THE TABLE or something, but show me your tits…”
• Your Own Special Victory Garden – …it occurred to me that if Roe v. Wade were ever overturned, those of us who think it’s imperative that abortion remain a choice could plant our own version of a Victory Garden – the Herbal Abortion Garden.
• Gone Baby Gone – The heroines of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” don’t get to play pregnancy indie-cute.
• Who or what is the middle class? – Economic data can’t fully explain why so many feel financially squeezed.