Toast Retrospective: Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Here is your Toast Retrospective for Wednesday, March 5, 2014, delicious Toasties! (All Retrospectives.)

• Link Roundup! by Nicole Cliffe
• Taking Boudoir Photos With My Mom: A Fortunate Accident by Elis Bradshaw in Family: “Who among us hasn’t fallen prey to the siren song of a group-coupon website? You, in the back, put your hand down, we’re being honest here. For my part, Living Social has introduced me to a few great and several adequate restaurants, a ton of new workout programs, and even a cooking class that my dad and I took together for Father’s Day one year, all of which provided the service I expected, and cost…”
• Odds and Omens: Superstition and IVF by Teri Vlassopoulos in Family: “On the first day of our IVF cycle, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize. I was up early for a routine blood test and ultrasound appointment and found out as soon as the news broke. On my way out the door I saw one of her books on the bookshelf, a best-of collection I’d bought at an airport while waiting out a delay. At the time, I’d found the thickness of the collection comforting, reassuring.”
• Historical Inaccuracies in Pompeii 3D by Mallory Ortberg in Movies: “Keifer Sutherland as Senator Corvus provided the film with a villain; however, in real life Mt. Vesuvius did not serve as a member of the Roman Republic and certainly never tried to marry a 19-year-old girl. In one scene, the young Roman noblewoman Cassia exits her litter in order to speak alone with a male slave; this is inaccurate as women of that era did not have legs and would have been unable to walk…”
• Top 20 Bubble Butts Throughout Art History by Johannah King-Slutzky in History: “Presented without comment. 1. It Looks Like A Landscape, Liu Wei (2004)”
• The Case For Making Columbo America’s Doctor Who by Mallory Ortberg in Heroes
• Forget Stanley Kubrick, Here’s A Truck Movie by Lilly G in Movies: “‘A lot of people have directed Stephen King novels and stories, and I finally decided if you want something done right, you oughtta do it yourself.’ (Stephen King in the trailer for Maximum Overdrive, 1986) The cultural cachet of The Shining (1980) is familiar to everyone who has had fleeting exposure to American television, books or movies in the past century. The Simpsons referenced it, your mom loves it, and it’s the movie you put…”
• Looking for Ruth: A Family Story by Emily Ruth Verona: “When my mother was thirty-nine, her parents sat her down. It’s difficult for me to imagine her being seated like a child before her parents on a sunny afternoon, shifting uncertainly on an old sofa. Waiting, wondering; having not a clue what it was all about, not knowing how her concept of her history was about to experience irrevocable change.”

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Submitted March 08, 2017 at 09:11AM by katenepveu http://ift.tt/2m2lewS