By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 12 years ago

Q: What’s making you happy today? A: Clem Snide’s “Find Love”

The idea for this post, which I hope will become something of a series, is lovingly ripped off from NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. PCHH runs a segment on every show called “What’s Making You Happy This Week?”

“Don’t let hurricanes hold you back, raging rivers or heart attack.”

This is the only song I know that has lyrics about wrestling bears and killer bees, and that’s reason enough to be fond of it. But on a grey, rainy day like today, this song feels like the aural equivalent of snuggling under a warm blanket, or sipping a mug of hot tea.

Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Previously making me happy:
Australian Marriage Equality’s new PSA
Women popstars with giant, real voices
Haka flashmobs

New York, NY

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

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