May 2013
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 14th
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May 12th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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I Didn’t Think Art Could Make Me Rich, But I... →
[byline] After graduating college, I pulled together a poetry tour of the East Coast with three friends. We couch-surfed and split small sums from homemade boo Something I’ve thought of for years is what kind of advice I would give my fellow English majors. I was told constantly as an English major that I would never get a job/what was I thinking/the list goes on. I bucked the trend and got...
May 8th
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April 2013
35 posts
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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“So the desire to make a living as a writer is a true perversion in this culture...”
– Eileen Myles 
Apr 27th
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How To Discover Your Life's Path -- And Achieve... →
You end up choosing a career that does not really suit you. Your desire and interest slowly wane and your work suffers for it. You come to see pleasure and fulfillment as something that comes from …
Apr 26th
Apr 26th
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“What do we think the setup is here? I’m guessing unexpected pregnancy, affair...”
– Check out my Mad Men recap for last week’s episode, and place your bets on what’s next.
Apr 26th
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How I Did Research For 3 New York Times... →
I’m going to talk about research. No, research is not very fun, and it’s never glamorous, but it matters.
Apr 26th
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“We need music criticism because people like writing it and people like reading...”
– Author Devon Powers makes a case for music writing in her conversation with Eric Harvey about her book Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism. (via pitchfork)
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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A Mixtape for Fireflies and Summer Storms  →
The East Coast is alive and well in San Francisco. At a birthday party Saturday night, I compared notes with my side of a long table and three of us went to high schools so close together we could’…
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 16th
tarzanekingoffemales: Do NOT drive through Boston or take the subway right now. The emergency radio is buzzing with more possible bombs. Please spread this everywhere you can to let your friends and family members know. It could save a life.
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Mad Men, Episode 2: Mortality is a Many-Splendored... →
Is it in complete opposition to that last post to post this? Here’s something I wrote about the second hour of Mad Men and a little bit about my childhood and bad college relationships and hats. Click the link to read it—-would love to know what everyone else thought of hour 2.  
Apr 13th
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what if I
stopped looking at stats stopped doing social media promotional nonsense stopped waiting for comments, likes, RTs, etc. and just wrote and posted and hoped for the best, because really, what can I control here? just what I put online, or on a page, and barely that. 
Apr 13th
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mantra?
“I wanna be cool, tall, vulnerable, and luscious.” -Liz Phair
Apr 8th
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“It’s hard to take your eyes off of Jon Hamm, beautiful and skillful at silences...”
– “WHO CARES ABOUT DON DRAPER?” on The Spleen
Apr 5th
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Who wants to go to the movies?
I have some film/ movie candy options to retry (namely, horror movies and Twizzlers). In the meantime, check out my April playlist on Charm City Jukebox. It’s playful and Spring-y and you can see my Owl engagement ring. xoxo
Apr 5th
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“Numerous studies and much accepted wisdom suggest that time spent doing nothing,...”
– Brian S. Hall, The iPhone Killed My Creativity 
Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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March 2013
14 posts
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“What is the “this” in Live Through This? For me, it was adolescence. How to...”
– Amy Berkowitz, from “Hole’s Live Through This Helped Me Live Through This” 
Mar 28th
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“Remember when you first fell in love with music? You scribbled song lyrics in...”
– **one ridiculous evening in Tokyo, at the Bang-a-Gong bar**
Mar 25th
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lazy lip scrub
I’ve been walking around with a hyper cracked sand papery upper lip. It’s very attractive and so chapped it looks practically golden, in a scary moldy sort of way. The laziest DIY beauty solution in the world is the most luxurious: Combine dark brown sugar and olive oil in a bowl and smear it all over your terribly chapped lips. Scrub and smush and scrape off all the leathery cut up...
Mar 21st
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A Snake?! Lawmaker's Inappropriate Comment to Teen... →
Disgusting: State Representative Ernest Hewitt sexually harassed a high school student while she was testifying at a hearing. Have you ever been sexually harassed by a legislator or someone in power? I have—-and I share my story here. Check out my new blog on Huffington Post.
Mar 8th
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A Snake?! Lawmaker Sexually Harasses Teen at a... →
Mar 5th