ff (galentines edition)

man oh man! what a week. the ups! the downs! both in my moods and in the OLYMPICS! but pretty great, mostly, except for not bringing my bathing suit to diving. that was not so good.

PALENTINES! GALENTINES! there's been a lot of pushback from my buds, this year, against the ick-valentinesness of today. for all kinds of great reasons like the whole 'your girlfriend is crazy and also you don't know her at all so: FLOWERS! then she won't hate you, you idiot.' or the classic 'i'm single and therefore i must be SO SAD, CRY CRY VALENTINES DAY!'. and so on.

last year i had a pretty great valentines because actually what i had was palentines. eug invited over a few choice buds, and we ate a fantastic dinner and enjoyed the wonderful thing that was our friendship. because friendship is love too, yo! of course it is! and this year a bunch of my rockingest lady-friends are celebrating galentines. similar to palentines, it celebrates the supremely amazingness that is your lady-friends! and if i may say so, i've got me some real real high caliber galentines who are worthy of all the flowers in all the toronto. remember when we were kids and valentines was about all your friends, and also about all the kids in the class? that was good times. because yes, YES, yes, romantic love and partnership is brilliant, wonderful, worthy of holding up proudly and saying 'I LOVE THIS!' but so are the other relationships. a few of these galentines? i cry just thinking a little about how much they do for me, how often they are there to catch me, how much i want to do right by them, how smart, kind, generous, fierce, hilarious, joyous they are. so a happiest gal-pal-val-entinesday to everyone. i put a whole explosion of pink and red on my tumblr. if you're in the spirit.

meeeaaaaanwhile. just cause it is a joyful pinkandred day doesn't mean you get away sans feminism. sorry. nope. but. i have a funny video for you! haha! ha... hmmm. hrrrmmmm.

great advice that you should always follow so to not be raped:



(i like this very much, this video. and it reminds me of this dieting article which is also super smart and full of wisdom on how to not be a fatty-fat-fat.)

i had more to post today, but you know what? i'm gonna save it. keep today on the up and up and not get into the heavy shiiiizzzzzz.

happy friday, pal-gal-val-entines!

sleepstyle is my sport

{canada's dara howell, photo by cameron spencer for getty images by way of canada.com}

OLYMPICSOLYMPICS! i always go in thinking i love them the most, and then i realize i have vastly underestimated that love, i love them more than most, more more more. OLYMPICS I LOVE YOU! i know my wussy joints would never have survived it, but man i wish i'd known about ski slopestyle as a youngster...

here's your daily gay!



* 2012 british women's soccer captain and arsenal ladies defensive player casey stone comes out

* lesbian e-cards for valentines!

* best lgbt films of all time (of which i have seen way fewer than i hoped. something to work on.)

* fit for a femme (cuz you know i love a style blog)

go forth and olymp, friends! that is a verb i just made.