May 2012
22 posts
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The Most Untrue Phrase
“A really interesting discussion on Metafilter”
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Things that Will Never Happen So You Can Do Them...
Write a YA novel about a girl named Winona who has serious 90s nostalgia and Judy Blume-esque issues and call it Winona Forever. Totally a best seller.
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My favorite thing
Is when people who work in “creative placemaking” and arts-oriented groups, whose goals are to get artists paid and working sustainably, link to the Huffington Post.
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Will pointed out that the new Rufus Wainwright...
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Movies I Will Talk About This Year
In Order of Most Interested to Least Interested:
Prometheus
The Master
The Amazing Spider-Man (chosen solely on the strength of its most recent trailer and hopes that Jesse Eisenberg plays Venom, uncredited)
Men In Black III
Rock of Ages
Brave
Moonrise Kingdom
The Bourne Legacy
Les Miserables
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit
The Dark Knight Rises
Snow White & The Huntsman
That’s...
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Lunchbreak Thoughts on Commas
I am glad that the NYT’s most emailed article right now is on how people don’t know how to use commas. They don’t, it’s true, and I think I clicked on that link last week and it explained the reason why you write “my friend Jennifer” and “my mother, Laura.” You can find it, I’m sure. I’m not going to bother linking. Worst practices.
I...
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Travelslag →
This year I’m travelling a lot for work and for weddings. Since maybe I’d like to do some travel writing one day, here’s a new blog exclusively for my thoughts on the places I’ve been. Only one post so far, and I imagine I will try different styles of posts in different places, but for now, there is one on my recent trip to Chicago.
Read, follow. First new non-work blog in...
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The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For
Last night because I am staying in a hotel room I watched the fifth episode of Girls, which was the first episode of Girls that I ever watched. Generally, my reaction to others’ reactions of that show and other shows on HBO is as following: “Wait, you’re a freelance writer. How can you afford HBO? Oh, you download episodes through torrents! Don’t you aspire to be a cultural...
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The only good thing about getting a manicure is...
Things I don’t believe in, May 2012: manicures for women with tiny fingernails, fingernail polish in general, coloring your own hair, people who write badly and for free, adult prom, urban chicken farming, Joss Whedon, Best Coast.
Things I believe in: treat yoself, pedicures, getting your hair did, Pinterest, any dance night where there is a chance “Lust For Life” will be...
The Backlash Backlash
I never want to read the word “backlash” again.
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Jesus sandwich
Baguette and Barramundi fillet, leftover from dinner. Sriracha and mayo, avocado, amazing tomato, spinach. Asparagus on side.
There’s no photo because I ate it. Oh God it was good.
Last week I celebrated my fourth blogaversary eating whitefish in Chicago, with pistachio puree. Not much to report; I vacillate between Beef and Ray these days.
