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A Tale of Two Fyre Fest Docs
Unless you’ve been living on a deserted island in the Bahamas, in a former FEMA tent, subsisting on cheese sandwiches, you’re aware — aware that there are TWO competing documentaries about Fyre Festival for you to enjoy. Some news outlets will pit the two against each other. Some will debate the merits of…
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Did I Solve The EARONS / Golden State Killer Case? MAYBE!!!
First things first, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite true crime podcast: Casefile. I have listened to every. single. episode. I’m obsessed. I devoured the entire back catalog of episodes (around 70 at the time I started listening) at work, often when I was alone in the adjacent spare studio room for hours…
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The Angriest L Train Interaction I Have Ever Seen
With the possibility that the L train WON’T be shutting down, it’s got me thinking. A lot of people are happy. A lot of people are angry. A lot of people are ambivalent. There’s a lot of people in New York City, and they all have feelings! Most of them —which is a lot of a lot of people — have…
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Have You Seen The Premiere Of The Bachelor Yet? Because I’m Not So Sure I Have
Have you seen the season premiere of The Bachelor? It aired on Monday. It was a 3-hour live television event! Or was it? For years, Chris Harrison has been screaming at us that we can expect THE MOST DRAMATIC SEASON YET but I’ve got a funny feeling that this time, we won’t. We won’t be…
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My Very First Visit To TIMES SQUARE
Ok so FIRST OF ALL, this story takes place a looooong time ago. Like, 2005, probably. 14 years ago. That’s one entire Tweenage Disney Channel Sitcom Star ago. My first boyfriend — in college — because Late Bloomers Gonna Bloom Late — grew up in New York City. My first time happened when I was…
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* ~ * Adult Fantasies * ~ *
stomach growling, I slink my way to the kitchen and open the fridge. It’s full of food, and some of this food comes together to make a satisfying meal, which I sensuously eat. my phone chimes with a text — it’s my pharmacy. They inform me that my prescriptions are due for renewal. Would I life them…
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The L Train Is SAVED!! Maybe.
We’ve been dreading it. Planning around it. Making forced gallows-humor jokes about it. And now… Well, in a bizarrely unilateral move, Gov. (ptooey!) Cuomo announced that there would be no L train shutdown. Couldn’t have said it any better myself, cryptically ominous subway tile graffiti. In a totally “everything means nothing” move, that bitter pill that we’ve been gagging on…
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Currently… in January 2019
FEELING: Ahem, WordPress. Annoyed at this weird change? I legiterally have no idea what I’m doing, I just pray to sweet Satan that this post makes it out of the gates in readable format. Um, I’m okay. Feeling my grip on sanity loosen ever-so-slightly now that I’m not working regularly, and I’ve come back from a…
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I Need Your *Advice*
image source: Wikimedia Commons Dear Reader: I need your help. I’m addicted… TO ADVICE COLUMNS! Ever since I was old enough to reach for the coveted “Lifestyles” section of the local newspaper. That’d be the Press & Sun Bulletin, FYI. The “Lifestyles” section back then had everything I needed to know: the funnies the horoscopes the advice columns Barely old…
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Stop Making Me Cry!
‘Tis the season for RAMPANT HIGH EMOTIONS! Sure, you can *try* to avoid the Christmas Cry-ies by not tuning into those schlocky Hallmark movies where Flannel Clad Single Dad teaches High-Powered High-Maintenance City Woman the *True*Meaning*Of*Christmas. You can avoid listening to “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” or any of the Peanuts Christmas music…
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Bye Bye “BDE,” 2018 was *REALLY the year of…
Do You Remember back in early 2018? When we all thought that Big Dick Energy — or BDE — was the “Big Mood” of the year? BDE symbolized everything that we wanted to project into the world … or so we thought! Early 2018, we were all younger than we are now, and we…
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Currently… in December 2018
FEELING: Must I say it? “INCREDULOUS that the year is already over!!!” November was a hard one. Tours and work busy, then slow, then TOO BUSY. I mean, this post is 7 days late because I simply haven’t had the time, and I don’t think I took any selfies this past month aside from this…
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Dream Journal Ultimate
Every so often, I discover an app that totally changes my life. DREAM JOURNAL ULTIMATE is such an app! I’m been using this app for the past four months, and I’ve logged well over a hundred dreams on it! I’ve always *wanted* to keep a dream journal, but never *really* been able to…
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Can’t-Miss Podcast: Bear Brook
photo via the Bear Brook website Bear Brook, a podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio, is my latest obsession! I don’t even know how I heard of it, but damn, I’m glad I did! Consider this your *nudge* to check it out. I listened to almost every episode while working late this week, and quickly devoured…
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Broadway Musicals To Spice Up The Great (Stale) White Way!
What percentage of Broadway these days is original content? Take away the musical (or staged play) versions of popular movies and you’ve got what left. Hamilton. Basically, only Hamilton. Look, we can’t all be the next Hamilton. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be creative!! I’m sure, if we tried thinking OUTSIDE the Disney box, we could come…
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The “Name Shame” Game
One of my biggest pet peeves — and one of yours, too, probably — is when people make fun of other peoples’ names. Consider this blog post the antithesis of all the blog posts like this one out there that, I guess, just want to rain on parents’ parades for naming their offspring whatever they chose…
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Making A Breakup
You know how people talk about “food & wine pairings”?? Well, I think I’ve accidentally hit on an excellent “Netflix & Internet time waster” pairing. Netflix’s Making A Murderer, and The Cut’s “Both Sides of a Breakup” series. After being beyond busy for months, I’ve finally found time to sit down and watch the second season of Making…
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I Honestly Believe That Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” Is A Magical Spell
In a world that seems to make no sense anymore, I’ve been viewing things through a lens of magical realism. “Magical thinking,” bordering on delusion, is key to becoming a powerful sorcerer, which I am rather keen on. I guess I …do believe in magic. Why not? Sometimes there’s almost no other way to explain…
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My Favorite True Crime Documentaries
True Crime Documentaries are all the rage! I don’t need to tell you that the genre has become increasingly popular, but not all true crime documentaries are created equal. I’ve watched COUNTLESS documentaries (all for you!) and I’ve determined that the best true crime documentaries are those that keep feeding you a steady stream of shocking details,…
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Currently… in November 2018
FEELING: Incredulous that it’s almost the end of the year. I mean, it’s NOVEMBER! 2019 is right around the corner! Is it just me, or do the years go by faster now than they ever did before? Work has been SO BUSY the past two months! . WATCHING: I feel like I always find a new trash reality show every…