Megan Westerby

jaybushman:

Myles McNutt writes my favorite articles and analyses of each episode of Game of Thrones.  So when I saw that he wrote a long, thoughtful piece about The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - and that he even quoted something from my tumblr in it - I was floored.

And I turned to myself and said, “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.”

It feels like a lot of the clever, committed, forward-thinking, media obsessed people in my life are getting recognition for being awesome lately and I could not be happier about it. 

turnabout:

yayponies:

chanelleberlin:

In case you missed it: Today I started a blog for Retta to help her get to know the LA Kings before she live-tweets a hockey game in the coming weeks. 

Retta and the LA Kings are pretty stoked, so you probably should be too. It’s time to helparettaout.tumblr.com.

favorite development in recent internet.

I like hockey theoretically, but I feel the need to root for the Blackhawks. Regardless, this is awesome.

I love everyone in this bar. 

blurintofocus:

A worthy look at how the other side’s youth think about this. What trips me up is the belief that equal marriage somehow negates the idea of children having a father and a mother.  Biologically, they always will. Understanding the seemingly endless ways we can build a family regardless of biology is one of the things makes me love being human.

Now more than ever, family is something we make and inform and create and empower and embody. 

When Jay first described this moment to me I think I cried AND laughed. So perfect. 

sigh

factsarenothing:

maura:

Oh, hello, Maura Magazine has a new issue! A gorgeous, harrowing piece of fiction by Nick Antosca inspired the incredible cover. Plus: Maura Johnston on rock snobbery; Jess Driscoll on the need for better romance novels; and Jeremy Gordon on action heroes! 

Subscribe today! 

I’m in this issue! You should go subscribe and read because my essay is way better than the first time I wrote it. Thanks to Maura for her edits and the fastest turnaround from acceptance to publication, and thanks to Megan for telling me to submit something, even when I didn’t know what to submit.

Yay favorite people!

bronwen:

inaneenglish:

geekykristie:

A trans woman will be playing a trans woman on Elementary.

More and more I feel like Robert Doherty was at some point a hardcore Sherlock fan who became fed up and went “I SHALL MAKE MY OWN SHOW WITH WOMEN AND MINORITIES EXPLORING ADDICTION STIGMA, ALSO MYSTERIES.”

Bless him. 

Reason number a billion why I need to watch this show.

There’s so much more good stuff in store. Trust.

She speaks the truth. 

shananaomi:

lifeserial:

And we kept saying how we’d never stay in Los Angeles forever, how it’s not a forever-place. Except this morning, staring at my pants in the closet, I thought that we’d eventually just find ourselves having stayed here forever. You and me and everyone else we know in different formations or pairings, maybe, with lives that have gotten bulky or skeletal from all of the decisions and the choices and the living. We’ll be closer to the water somehow in an old house with all of the old things we’ve collected as we’ve collectively gotten older. You and me and everyone else, older and still here. Because I don’t want to wear pants, and here I can most often wear last year’s pants that I’ve hacked off above the knee, and I can most often wear some T-shirt I’ve had for so long and washed and washed till it’s gotten thin around the bones in my shoulders. And when it’s the first day of spring and it’s not snowing and it’s overcast but it’s not cold, not cold the way that other people know cold and live with cold, we will just wander out of the house in whatever with our hair saying whatever and our faces saying whatever and our mouths saying whatever. Of course there will be those times when the ground got upset and our whole houses moved on their own, but then I’ll think about how I, too, get upset—you and me and everyone else, we get upset sometimes—and so…whatever. Hollywood will still hang around the corner with a wide white smile that’s so horrific I gasp and shake my head and maybe laugh, and I’ll have to force-remember how there is a lot of everything else here too. There is a lot, and that is what has made this not a forever-place and a place we’ve found ourselves staying forever, looking at our aging faces in the mirror fifteen, twenty, thirty years later and seeing palm trees out the window behind us. Sit on the sofa, stare at the wall, walk by the ocean, run. You and me and everyone else we know, different but still holding onto some shred of the same, in tiny colored boxes, living our secret little lives.

Los Angeles was the first city I ever lived in—after Chicago, after New York, after San Francisco and then New York again—where I didn’t have one foot out the door, wondering where would be better, what was next. I just…slowed down and stayed.

Top five life decisions.

I didn’t expect to fall in love with Los Angeles but I did. And I can see myself here for the rest of my life — maybe not continuously, but certainly always returning. 

luckyshirt:

Josh Ritter - The Curse

You’ll like this.

Then you’ll like it more.

There are still tickets to tomorrow’s show at the Fonda. 

turnabout:

bronwen:

Hannah gave herself The Dudley Moore:

Okay this part sounds familiar. 

(It’s Megan, not me.)

I don’t think I ever gave myself bangs that bad. 

St. Patrick’s Day will henceforth be known as the day I learned how to crochet granny squares.

thefrogman:

“It’s 170.59 kilometers distance to Chicago, Illinois. Our petroleum reserves are at 50% capacity. We have ten cigarettes. There is no illumination. And we have on eye-wear that reduces the amount of light that enters our retinas. Which is illogical.” 

“Hit it.”

I was waiting for Elisabeth to reblog this. 

turnabout:

explodingdog:

a talking cayenne pepper.

I think this is Megan’s nightmare.

No, the nightmare is a talking bell pepper. This type I can dry, crumble, and cook.

blurintofocus:

This is what panel prep looks like. Of course Jared Leto is our competition so we has to chat and take greenroom pictures.

Real life example before the panel even starts.

Sundance’s Best Documentary: ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ - The Daily Beast

As Shana said while we were leaving, the women’s bathroom after this looked like we’d just gotten out of Les Mis: plenty of women crying. 

But in the best possible way. 

brucesterling:

Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab:

From a Wired interview:

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/

Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this:

1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

5. You want to have good compasses not maps.

6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

7. It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

8. It’s the crowd instead of experts.

9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

We’re still working on it, but that is where our thinking is headed.

Needed this today.