Violet Skies, “Power” (Kanye West Cover)

When the Going Gets Hot, The Sea Turtles Go All-Female

Royksopp & Robyn, “Do It Again (Moullinex Remix)”

“I have decided to override her refusal to have a C-section”

Goodbye West Antarctica, It’s Been Real

Petition to Let Cinderella Wear Flats

Happy 50th Birthday, Nutella

Marlene ∞, “Indian Summer”

Friday Open Thread

Cam’ron & A-Trak, “Dipshits”

“By 1850, doctors were beginning to encourage men to wear beards as a means of warding off illness”

Polls, Like Everything, Are Infected With Mansplaining

The “Right to Be Forgotten”

Noosa, “Clocktower”

The Miseducation of Marie Antoinette

A Beekeeper’s Funeral When the Mourners Included the Bees

Polica, “Raw Exit”

Talking to Molly Caro May About Moving to Montana to Live in a Yurt She Built Herself

In Praise of Tori Amos

John Jeremiah Sullivan on What We Can Preserve