May 2010
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Just so you know:
There is a major motion picture currently in theaters that includes the pun “Lawrence of my labia.” It’s not Robin Hood, if that’s what you were expecting.
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“When I think of rhubarb I think of those old Looney Tunes episodes where a woman...”
– Everyone’s following Erin already, right? And everyone is receiving her incredible zine “You Taste Like Nachos!” in their mailboxes already, right? I’m just checking.
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Robin Hood: A Movie Review
Does the world need another Robin Hood movie? Or does the world actually need a movie centered on an unapologetically badass Maid Marian? I don’t know the answer to the first question (although I lean towards no, knowing as I do that this exists), but my answer to the second is an unqualified yes. At times, it feels as if the filmmakers felt that way too, because we keep getting wonderful...
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“Interspersed among the fiction, the new collection includes also a few of the...”
– Shirley Jackson was, technically, a stay-at-home mom.
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Best Use of the Word "Bedouin" in an E-mail I...
“I will not be bringing my sequin dress; I plan instead to see Sex and the City 2 dressed like a bedouin.”
—Alice
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“Meaning, I think, comes from doing a full accounting of your limitations and...”
– Jessa Crispin
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Step One
For the last two weeks, I’ve been writing a rambling and ridiculous plot summary of the first three chapters of this novel I am writing (it’s mostly me asking myself “Does this make sense?” all the time and noting actors who can play key characters in the inevitable movie adaptation in my head [Jon Hamm, Helen Mirren]). I’m starting to realize that I’m having...
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“The King had a daughter who was very beautiful, but she was also very strange....”
– “The Three Snake-Leaves,” Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (via thebooksimreading)
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This weekend, I was given the remarkable opportunity to hear a man with a heavy Boston accent pronounce the word “smorgasbord.”
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Two Important Coyle Family Text Messages, Received...
Patrick (because I’d texted him the message “I have a bomb”): “I AM the bomb.”
Dad: “Kate I’m learning to text!”
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Why do I spend so much time wallowing in insecurity about my book-in-progress (i.e., does this sound too much like X-Men? Does the protagonist’s name have too many syllables?), when I should be basking in the irrefutable fact of my unwritten novel’s superiority over Tyra Banks’s unwritten Modelland?
It’s enough that I just wrote “WHATEVER YOU WRITE WILL BE...
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Justin Bieber-Related Movie Titles I Just Came Up...
The Bieberous Case of Biebermin Bieber
The Imagibieberum of Doctor Bienassberus
I’m Gonna Git You Bieba
Bieberjuice
It’s Complibieber
Raging Bieber
He’s Justin Not That Into Bieber
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Tyra Banks Lands Book Deal for YA Series... →
Model and television host Tyra Banks…has followed a new celebrity trend, landing a three-book deal with Delacorte Press for a YA fantasy series entitled Modelland.
According to Variety, the deal was negotiated by Bankable Enterprises, the company behind Banks’ popular show, America’s Next Top Model. The book is scheduled for a summer 2011 release. In recent months, everybody...
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Tip For Aspiring Writers →
All aspiring writers should read Stephenie Meyer’s Wikipedia page weekly. It is filled with precious gems of wisdom and insight.
She also says that her writing is strongly influenced by music, and she posts “playlists” (from Playlist.com) on her website of songs which specifically inspired her books. Bands included most often in her playlists are Muse, Blue October, My Chemical...
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Iron Man 2: A Movie Review
Sam Rockwell should be cast in every movie, ever, because I have never seen him give a bad performance, not even in whichever Charlie’s Angels movie he’s in, and I thought he was particularly good in Iron Man 2, like, why even bother with Mickey Rourke, you know? Not really, but seriously, Hollywood, Sam Rockwell. You’ve got something really good on your hands with that guy. ...
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Kevin wants to rid the US currency of its pennies and call it a pennicide.
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“Underneath that angry young woman exterior is a slightly less angry young woman,...”
– Veronica Mars, Season One, Episode 1.
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“But it’s come to the point where the only reliable person I can depend on...”
– Beautiful post by 17-year-old Julie Zeilinger on Jezebel.
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“Don’t use wit as a way to keep the reader at arm’s length.”
– This is some advice that my professor, Cathy Day, gave me on my last story, but which I really wish someone had given me in general at the age of, oh, say, 12. But having replaced “the reader” with “the rest of humanity” first.
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I don’t know quite how to express in words...
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"All the Characters on Mad Men are Assholes": A...
Has a secret life which he hides in a box in a locked drawer. Asshole.
One time she stuffed her daughter in a closet.
Really mean to Peggy all the time.
Totally over this chick.
Joan’s husband is such an asshole that I feel bad about calling Joan an asshole. He is the worst. He is a wife-rapist and he deserves every vase-in-the-head that he gets. Clearly he is going to die...
