Charitini

How I Got From The Superbowl To Showtunes In 5 Easy Steps

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:22:47 -0500

…and this was BEFORE “Brotherhood of Man!” Since I have oft-emphasized the secret link between sports and showtunes, I found this amusing. It all started by clicking a link on the SportsGrid newsletter…

1. Here’s How To Fake It Through Your Super Bowl Party - SportsGrid. On the top of the page I noticed something more apropos to my interests…

2. This Super Bowl Ad Is Already Facing Sexism Accusations - SportsGrid. It linked to a few other accounts, one which I duly clicked upon, like so…

3. Watch Telaflora’s Super Sexist Super Bowl Ad - Jezebel, which had as a link on the side that caught my attention…

4. Octavia Spencer Fires Back Against the Media Who Won’t Shut Up About Her Weight - turns out this was a collection of news nuggets, which I faithfully read down through bits on Blake Lively, Brad Pitt, Katherine Heigel (OH I’M HUMAN CUT ME SOME SLACK), Michael Fassbender (see? To get to Fassbender, you must weather the Heigl), Demi Moore, Jami Lynn Spears until…until…

5. Taylor Swift Out As Eponine - Crazy Days & Nights, which was linked to in Jezebel’s roundup. They suggested I watch new-movie-Eponined Samantha Banks’ version for the 25th anniversary concert, which I happily did. Kid can sing.

Just wanted to memorialize this before I forgot. Smash reminded me. That was one helluva baseball number. Wow.

“It’s like Pandora for cats.” So many gems....

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:06:09 -0500

“It’s like Pandora for cats.”

So many gems. Awesome from husbo-wife team Kate Imbach & Tom Conrad.

fauxlaroids: Rachel Sklar at Key Foods. Just saw this! Wow...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:52:40 -0500

fauxlaroids:

Rachel Sklar at Key Foods.

Just saw this! Wow this was ages ago. Hi Nikola!

maura: Liza. Pet Shop Boys. Follies. Aaaaaaaaaaaa Um WOW

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:47:21 -0500

maura:

Liza. Pet Shop Boys. Follies.

Aaaaaaaaaaaa

Um WOW

"What is real? What is fake? What is Kardashian? I think 2012 will demand that we say so up front."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:11:27 -0500

"What is real? What is fake? What is Kardashian? I think 2012 will demand that we say so up front.":

Predictin’.

Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 [Nieman Lab]

changetheratio: Last-minute charity top-off? 115 donors helped...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:51:34 -0500

changetheratio:

Last-minute charity top-off? 115 donors helped 2,856 kids - now that’s a ratio I can get behind! BONUS: Used the old-skool Gotham filter, for kicks. Pretty please & THANKS: bit.ly/LizzieRach

(Taken with instagram)

2011 end-of-year karma!

My Email Signature, Explained

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:51:00 -0500

In 2011, in some capacity, I am and/or have been an adviser to or otherwise highly involved with these companies:

lover.ly
dailymu.se

siftee.com

hashable.com

sbnation.com
honestlynow.com
kapost.com

mediaite.com

citypockets.com
techstars.org
teachAIDS.org

(I’m a proud mentor with TechStars; have been editor-at-large at Mediaite since we founded it, in a title chosen specifically for its flexibility, since I am no longer involved as I once was, by a long shot; worked for Hashable in varying capacities over the past year; I guess I should change “SBNation” to “Vox Media” now that they’re all fancy n’ blowing up n’ stuff; and if I can do even any small thing to help TeachAIDS make the world a better place then wow, am I honored. Oh and, of course, Change The Ratio - I’m the co-founder and I clearly live & breathe it every day. what can I say? I love the ladies.)

THIS: Rick Webb on SOPA

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:31:26 -0500

THIS: Rick Webb on SOPA:

rickwebb:

As a major donor to Obama’s last campaign, I get my regularly-scheduled call of them trying to get me to be a bundler. For the last couple months, whenever they call, I tell them that SOPA is a very big deal to me, and I will not donate until he takes a position against it, as written now.

“I…

Two fun things: (1) I attended a fantastic weekend event at the...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:18:08 -0500

Two fun things: (1) I attended a fantastic weekend event at the Ace Palm Springs wherein a bunch of Jews celebrated Chanukah, and (2) what amounts to my parents’ winter hometown newspaper, The Desert Sun, wrote about it and quoted me.

On Sunday, Rachel Sklar of Los Angeles recapped the weekend by singing a parody of Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song.”“This was just a great weekend,” Sklar said.

(I am not of Los Angeles and I definitely said more than that, but why quibble.)

The adorable little moppet pictured above is Odessa, 5-year-old daughter of my friends (and fellow Rebooters) Craig & Rebecca. Related: She’s also my new style icon. Girl can rock a jeanjacket, striped stockings and hipster skirt like a champ.

Also there was hilarious comedy from Jason Nash, Moshe Kashen & Morgan Murphy, music from Brian Joseph & Terra Naomi (and my fab accompaniest, Adam Stern), and just a gret time with great people. Huge kudos to Jill Soloway, Julie Hermelin & Rebecca Odes for putting together an amazing weekend. I love Reboot.

Jews in Coachella Valley Gather for Hanukkah [The Desert Sun]

Also: Slideshow!

Trailer for Episode 15 of “The Salon” on The Jewish...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:57:52 -0500

Trailer for Episode 15 of “The Salon” on The Jewish Channel, which I co-host with the wonderful Forward editor Jane Eisner (I am Andy Richter to her Conan). Good show, incl. #Occupy Judaism, sex-segregated buses…in NYC, how hard it is for some Jewish women to get a Get (Jewish divorce, the specialty of “Women Unchained” director Beverly Siegel), Herman Cain & Steve Jobs (feat. awesome Verge gadget guru Joanna Stern). Also with the very cool Jo-Ann Mort. I do love doing this show.

Charitini's back!

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:37:51 -0500

Charitini’s back after! One person noticed - my mom. Backstory: For the past week, Charitini.com has annoyingly pointed to something called Accel Studios. The dude from Accel had no idea what happened, and his claim that he did not hack my wildly popular secondary tumblr was substantiated by the fact that his own website is itself defunct. My pal & helpmate Phil Bump fixed it for me. Something happened on Dec. 11th and either I was hacked or I clicked some weird link. In any case, going back over my browser history for Dec. 11th was harrowing. Do I really spend that much time on the Internet?!? Geesh.

Anyway, Ma, here is Charitini, for when you are bored of my Twitter.

#LAExodus (and my song) makes The Desert Sun, my parents’ winter...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500

#LAExodus (and my song) makes The Desert Sun, my parents’ winter hometown paper. They are proud. You can just make out “Rachel Sklar of Los Angeles” in the 5th para. Yay factchecking! (Taken with instagram)

Um, something weird is going on with my tumblr.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:53:01 -0500

So this is a test.

Validation: Being written about in your university magazine. My...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:34:16 -0500

Validation: Being written about in your university magazine. My time at U of T was such a petri dish of awesome.

"Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a..."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:32:12 -0500

“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a President for an adulterous affair with a White House aide twenty-six years his junior while he himself is conducting an adulterous affair with a congressional aide twenty-two years his junior, having earlier left the first of his three wives while she was hospitalized with cancer. Imagine a man who attributes these behaviors to “how passionately I felt about this country.” Imagine a man who, told he can’t sit in a front section of Air Force One, shuts down the government. Imagine a man who becomes the only House Speaker ever to be disciplined for ethics violations. Imagine a man who, in a country just staggering out of the worst recession of the past fifty years and facing the threat of worldwide economic collapse, proposes to hire small children to work as janitors, mopping floors and cleaning toilets in their schools (or their orphanages, perhaps). Imagine that man as Commander-in-Chief.”

- Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)

I want this read out loud at the top of every newscast in the country.

So This Is Goodbye

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:55:37 -0500

So This Is Goodbye:

mattchew03:

It’s my last night at Gawker, so I wrote a little goodbye post instead of clipping Jon Stewart.

What a lovely, lovely farewell post. Matt Cherette is a class act, and so damn talented, too.

changetheratio: THIS. cc @peretti @benpolitico @glynnmacn...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:53:05 -0500

changetheratio:

THIS. cc @peretti @benpolitico @glynnmacn @brianstelter @chanders @laurenleto (Taken with instagram)

Was on Reliable Sources today.

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:58:43 -0500

Was on Reliable Sources today.

peterfeld: ♫ It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich ♫...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:14:58 -0500

peterfeld:

♫ It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich ♫

someone actually made a video

changetheratio: Related:Siri Doesn’t Know About Your Lady...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:58:33 -0500

changetheratio:

Related:
Siri Doesn’t Know About Your Lady Stuff
Siri And The High-Tech Gender Gap

Oh, Siri.