All the Frills: The Stag-Themed Bowl

My life may now be complete – I have a semi-ridiculous silver bowl with stag handles, like some kind of nineteenth-century Scottish grandee decorating a country house. And that's about the best kind of grandee one can aspire to be.

Weekend Reading:

• Yeah, words have a history. And like most other facets of history, it’s often not kind to women.
  
  
• This article on street harassment (and the broader issue of the treatment of women generally in our society) is well worth a read.
  
  
• Well, aren’t the Dutch just the greatest?
  
  
• I guess the new Barbie dolls are progress...
  
  
• This movie about Nat Turner sounds amazing, right to down to its appropriated title.