Feb. 19th, 2011

  • Rachel Maddow's 2010 Commencement Address at Smith College. Though I quibble somewhat with her definition of "personal triumph."


  • The Wikipedia entries for William Moulton Marston and his legal wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, co-inventors of Wonder Woman and kind-of-sort-of of the polygraph test. Their lover/non-legal wife Olive Byrne unfortunately doesn't have a page of her own.


  • Lady Nijō's Wikipedia entry is not actually particularly interesting, but I'd forgotten that Heian-era aristocratic women were often called by place-names symbolic of their social status. Like, fictional Cinderella-figure Lady Ochikubo's name meant basically "Lady Basement Room With A Moisture Problem." (Don't read the Ochikubo monogatari, by the way, it's not very good.)

    Anyway, I've just spent a while trying to decide what Lady Ni-chōme's memoirs would've been like. (Anachronisms are those things that happen whenever Sei Shōnagon updates her blog, right?)

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