May 2012
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I found some good YA books for the summer!: →
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The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.: It Happens... →
A private conversation about street harassment, made public.
By: Jamia, Jamie, Anaheed, Amy Rose, Naomi, Emma Dajska, Leanna, Hannah, Tavi, Emily Condon, Jenny, Eleanor, Hazel, and Stephanie hollaback, street harassment, the male…
I remember when I wrote an article about street harassment several months ago, working on it started to wear me down. At first hearing people talk openly...
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pe teacher: you got a horrible time on the mile
me: it does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
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kouw replied to your photo<span >: <em >My book White Elephants is now available for…
I GOT THIS IN MY MICROCOSM PACK!!! and i cannot wait to get started on it! Seriously completely psyched now.
Oh how cool, thank you for telling me. I hope you’ll enjoy it!
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Neato, zines at the American Library Association... →
sending them some stuff for sure
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johnisdead:
cornonmacabre replied to your post: isn’t every book a ‘page turner’? that’s how they work right?
i always wonder if there’s a bitter girl out there named paige turner.
and she’s like totally not into reading
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Why We're Not Digitizing Zines →
Yeah this is interesting. I’m not a librarian but issues like this interest me because I make zines (and so do many of my friends) and also because I have a hobbyist interest in making collections and archives and such. Kelly Wooten’s sensitivity to privacy is nice and I think probably the most important issue discussed here. At least it’s the most important one to me. Zines are...
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Guys my mom reads this British magazine called Best and I love it so much. It’s trashy and friendly in a way American magazines never are — they have celebrity stuff in there but it’s not worshipful or anxiety-producing; reminds me of the way Star magazine used to be years ago, before it became just like Us Weekly and those other stalkerazzi magazines. They also have fashion ideas that...
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Haha, I googled “ugly sandals” to try to get a feel for how acceptable my hideous (yet stylish?) rummage sale Aerosoles might be for the coming hot season, and I found this little report from the Early Show. Come on Ruthie Friedlander, it’s like you don’t even know what the word ugly means. It means this:
I don’t care, I really like them. With tight black jeans...
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You guys need to read this comic book about... →
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White Elephants giveaway →
Helen Entwisle, my dear pal and the woman who made the beautiful illustrations in (and on) my book, has written a blog post about searching for secondhand treasures, and she’s inviting people to write in and describe their own favorite finds. You should do it! Because she’ll choose one entry at random and give that person a copy of the book along with some of her own lovely handmade...
who the hell has my Paul’s Boutique CD
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April 2012
23 posts
15-minute follow-up:
Holy Christ, I wrote a book. It took so long and was so much work, and not just for me, but also for the publisher/editor Joe Biel, who helped me shape these pieces of writing into a cohesive narrative (which — seriously — sucked, it was the hardest work I’ve ever done); the artist Helen Entwisle who made all the good drawings in it; the writers Tama Janowitz and Ariel Gore (!!!) who were...
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World's Longest Invoice →
This thing’s cool. I bet there’s not a “freelancer” around who hasn’t been stiffed at least once. As for me, I wrote for a newspaper in Pittsburgh several times with no trouble, but at some point they owed me money and then disappeared, making themselves impossible to reach. Add your grievance to the invoice!
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booyahgrandmere replied to your photo<span >: <em >You guys! I tabled at the Brooklyn Zine Fest on…
uggh we were so close to meeting IRL
What! Were you there? I would have gotten shy and giggly and been like, Oh my word, you’re booyahgrandmere (who I sometimes still think of as booyahgrandma)! Someday. … I love my internet pals.
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“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from...”
– — Delalorm Semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (x)
Yes, it is! Have you all seen these Merriam-Webster “Ask the Editor” videos? They’re really good. A sweet pen-pal friend of mine told me about them and I watched a few last night. In this one Emily Brewster takes the fun out of being...
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forthelustres:
“Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.”
—Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning.” St. 1.
Sounds right to me.
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ihopericksantorum:
i hope rick santorum has a snack because he’s a little hungry, but the snack makes him very hungry.
ihopericksantorum:
I hope Rick Santorum has multiple tabs open and on one of them an ad starts playing and it scares the hell out of him and he doesn’t know where it’s coming from.
ihopericksantorum:
I hope Rick Santorum is trying to write a paper on Word and it keeps auto-formatting his margins/indentation and he can’t figure out how to make it stop.
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: BALTIMORE... →
loneberry:
Chelsey and I made a blog for the reading group!
You can check out our communiques or download pdfs of some of our past readings. Hopefully we’ll be able upload a pdf of our reader soon, and some more juicy content.
Here are some of the PDFs:
Kimbele Crenshaw – Intersectionality
Note to self: feminist reading list. I wish I could be in this book group!
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This is not bragging, okay, but a registry of happy feelings with the purpose of creating some kind of balance to all the complaining I do every day. Today has been full of satisfying little things. I am terrible with a sewing machine but I managed to make these outrageous flowered pants I own into skinny jeans-pants things! I think I’ll get some real wear out of them now. Later, with the...
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Free books!
Hey friends! I’m sorting through things and tidying up, and I have a bunch of books to give away. I thought I’d offer them on here, and anyone who wants one can send me a note claiming it. (If you see two that you want that’s cool but maybe don’t try to get all of them for yourself.) These are all graphic novels, really beautiful books that are like new. You can just pay me...
Monday morning updates. Just had a horrible phone conversation with an over-validated dope of a man who doesn’t deserve the job he has who refused to be gracious or even civil toward me because I wasn’t giving him the business he wanted, and b/c I’m a woman, so he thought he was smarter than me. Nearly put my fist through a wall.
Also though, can’t believe I forgot to tell...
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Mark your calendar, do it now.
I’m excited to be participating in this event on April 28 at the landmark Moonstone Art Center in Philadelphia, along with a few writers whose work I really admire. I’ll be reading from my memoir White Elephants, which comes out just a few days after the reading on the first of May. Come out for a sneak peak of my book, and bring your friends! I promise to wear something absurd.
March 2012
22 posts
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New favorite Netflix review (an extract):
“Laughter was scares”
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landmines replied to your post: Best Netflix review I’ve seen in a while (and I…
ahahaha, what movie was that for?
It was for this indie movie called Tiny Furniture that I actually liked. It’s one of those quiet, kind of pretentious things about smarty-pants Manhattanites where nothing much happens and there’s a lot of talking, which I happen to always enjoy watching but...
Best Netflix review I've seen in a while (and I...
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? WHY IN THE F DID I WATCH THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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baby-sitters girl gang: Adrienne Rich was eight... →
hysteriarama:
Adrienne Rich: “The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”
I want to curl up in the arms of a woman who’s been there, done it all, who wants my survival like she...
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Just finished reading and listening to this guy’s comic about an alien abduction that took place in 1967. Listening to, you say? Uh-huh, the book comes with a CD that you’re supposed to play as you read: The comic is a straight transcription of the account this man Herbert Schirmer gave at a UFO conference in the 70s about the night in Nebraska that he was beamed up into an alien...