Blogelstein!
I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
“It was good to be greeted, to be embraced. I’ve missed you, Alastair once said, and my heart jumped at the pleasure of existing in someone else’s life.”
Places Where Single Women Are Encouraged to Seek "The One," and to Which I've Gone, Dutifully, to Befriend No One But Likeminded Women
(Source: thegist)
“There’s something very nice in feeling like you can be understood by people from lots of different places, because you can speak to them, not at them.”
— I wrote a post in response to Tim Parks’ Learning to Speak American.
Cartoon by Harry Bliss. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/RlF99m
Animal welfare experts in New Zealand have taught dogs how to drive cars. They're calling the training course "Mitt Romney's Worst Nightmare."
“A dog driving a car. That’s not something you see every day.”
(Source: inothernews)
OHAI, guess what?
The Next SoundCloud just became simply SoundCloud, a SoundCloud for everyone.
I am really delighted to have had the opportunity to work on this.
“I read Heartburn for the first time about six months ago, and ever since then friends have been remarking on how my writing seems different. That’s thanks to Nora Ephron: when those disapproving ghosts hover, I ask myself, What would Nora do? And I know she would say, ‘I think they’re full of shit.’”
— I wrote a post for Hila Shachar’s wonderful blog, about my favourite book.
If you’re in London and you are interested in photography and jumpers, you should go to this next Friday!
I guess it’s my fault for assuming I was anything more than a glorified dipping sauce to you people….
Shouts & Murmurs - The Cranberry Sauce has Something to Say: http://nyr.kr/UeICn5
Photograph by Lew Robertson/Getty.
On a redesign!
After nearly exactly five years of Tumbling, I’ve taken the plunge and commissioned a proper website: www.jeanhannahedelstein.com. I’ll post links to relevant posts on Tumblr.
Facebook wants to organise our relationships. What's not to like?
It will be great when the man with whom I share a profound connection and I move from “In a relationship” to “Engaged”, because we’ll be able to share the album from our engagement photoshoot. We’ll pose in a motif that is at once edgy and yet representative of our unique relationship, maybe standing in the parking lot of our favourite supermarket or cavorting in a field with puppies.
