December 2011
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“It’s amazing. It’s like landing on the moon.”
– My father, re: Netflix Instant.
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“My old boss used to compare me to Lisbeth Salander. My old boss never understood...”
– “Eleven Thoughts About Lisbeth Salander,” by The Rejectionist
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Year in Review
It’s a Tuesday. It’s raining. I feel like I haven’t stopped moving or eating since last Tuesday morning. Kevin just left. He set up my mom’s new Wii; he gave my parents six free months of Netflix for Christmas. Sometimes I’m like, is this my boyfriend? Or just a cyborg sent to dramatically heighten my expectations of the human race. I’m not hungry but I’m...
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I Did This on Purpose: "Undercover Christmas"
Last night my friend Amy and I watched a 2003 Lifetime Original Christmas Movie called Undercover Christmas, starring Jami Gertz (and featuring Tyne Daly!) and it was so good, you guys. Jami Gertz plays a cocktail waitress who is going to testify against her Bernie Madoff son-esque boyfriend (although I just realized that this movie actually precedes Bernie Madoff as a news story, so way to be...
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“We stepped out onto Madison Avenue, dizzy with desire, overcome by that...”
– “Winona Ryder’s Forever Sweater,” by Sarah Miller.
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Well, I've written (a draft of) a book.
My MFA manscript features:
a plane crash
a floating girl
a superhero
a dead bird
a verbally abusive wax figurine of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
a sphinx
the ghost of Katharine Hepburn
dream sequences
witches
Also!:
typos (presumed)
puns (too many)
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“But above all, as the department’s rallying around Leslie showed, it shares a...”
– James Poniewozik on my favorite show (at least until Doctor Who comes back next year and hopefully makes River Song less pathetic [I have a lot of feelings]) Parks and Recreation, and its ties to Friday Night Lights (which I have never seen [I know]) and Frank Capra (at the end of this episode I...
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Here's a Post About Me Getting In Touch With My...
So I met with my manuscript committee chair on Monday to talk about the first fifty pages of my manuscript, and she was kind of like, “These stories are good but also not good,” and I was like, “Ugh, I know.” She said what everyone’s always said, which is that she doesn’t know what’s at the heart of them. I told her the thing one of her former colleagues...