You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Yes, women are still often underpaid, discriminated against and generally have not yet reached the perfect equality with men we strive for. That doesn't mean we haven't come a long way! Case in point? This 1943 hiring guide for women, via Claire (or Qlayre, if you're using her reality TV pseudonym).

If the promise of truly hilarious (and yet terrible) sexist employment guidelines doesn't lure you to take a peek, here's a preview:

3. General experience indicates that "husky" girls - those that are just a
little on the heavy side - are more even tempered and efficient than their
underweight sisters.

Oooooh yeah. It's that good.

Things I Listen To and Where They Came From

For no rason other than I am at work, need to pass the time and haven't had quite enough caffeine to begin slogging through more Shakespeare annotations, I will now record for your reading pleasure a random list of the music I rock out to and where said music was discovered:

1. A Fine Frenzy
Sound: laid back female piano rock
Found: in the September issue of Vogue
Key Track: 'Almost Lover'

2. The Weepies
Sound: pretty, layered chill out music; good for driving home at night in a quiet mood
Found: JC Penny Christmas commercial
Key Tracks: 'All That I Want,' 'Slow Pony Home,' 'The World Spins Madly On'

3. Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit
Sound: British traditional meets American twang
Found: in the program notes of a production JF was acting in
Key Tracks: 'Brown Trout Blues,' 'The Wrote and the Writ'

4. Frank Turner
Sound: guy-and-a-guitar but with a harder edge and more profanity
Found: by listening to Radio Caroline, a British station broadcast off a boat
Key Tracks: 'St. Christopher is Coming Home,' 'Photosynthesis,' 'Long Live the Queen'

5. Noah and the Whale
Sound: peppy songs of heartbreak with a kind of electronic filter vibe
Found: opening for JF&tSW at the Lock Tavern
Key Track: '2 Atoms in a Molecule'

6. Bob Dylan
Sound: oh, you know
Found: everywhere, but most recently rediscovered on an episode of 'Mad Men'
Key Tracks: 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright,' 'It Ain't Me, Babe,' 'Simple Twist of Fate'

7. Ingrid Michaelson
Sound: female singer/songwriter; more talented than Jewel, warmer than Ani
Found: opening for Matt Nathanson in CT
Key Tracks: 'The Chain,' 'The Hat,' 'You and I'

8. Jack's Mannequin
Sound: Something Corporate changes it's name and rocks a wee bit harder
Found: through SoCo, which is turn was found through mix cds my friends made me in high school
Key Tracks: 'I'm Ready,' 'Hammers and Strings (A Lullaby),' 'Into the Airwaves'

9. The New Amsterdams
Sound: The Get Up Kids' more melodic and less electronic side project
Found: Vagrant records sampler purchased during my Hot Topic glory days
Key Tracks: 'All our Vice,' 'Spoils of the Spoiled,' 'Turn Out the Light,' 'Idaho'

There should be 10, because that would make it a nice, rounded list. But you know what? Life isn't like that. That, and I'm indecisive.

Coffee has kicked in. Illyria, here I come.