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Graveyard of Dead Blogger Cliches
Hang around the blogging community long enough and you will become familiar with its clichés. Like, remember that year we were all obsessed with chevron? EVERYTHING had to be chevron – blog banners, blog backgrounds, EXPECIALLY blog buttons! Why, you just weren’t a serious blogger if you sported plain horizontal stripes – they had to…
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Winter Is Coming!
So I’m looking at that exclamation point thinking, “maybe that looks just a little too happy.” But this picture pretty much communicates how I truly feel about this weather lately. I want to point out that this picture was taken in the doorway of my building on Thursday, and I went out to Happy Hour…
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5 Fandom Friday: Characters I Want To Dress Up As For Halloween
Comic Con has come and gone, and Halloween is near! Here are the costumes I would be wearing on Halloween *if* I didn’t have to work that night and *if* I had the energy and funds to pull them off! 1. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation oh, of course I would fall for the…
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Let’s Talk About Periods, Okay?
Halloween is just around the corner, and everyone is abuzz talking about horror movies, so why not talk about my favourite horror of all time? Yes, I just equated periods to horror movies. They are kind of the same, aren’t they? You like the idea of them, but still get grossed out by all the…
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Five Clothing Items to Survive Winter in NYC
I always say, it’s summer in New York until THE SECOND it becomes winter and then it’s winter until THE SECOND it becomes summer. When did winter happen, you ask? Winter happened overnight on October 1st. Which is cool! I can appreciate you, winter, for being organized and arriving on your own schedule! And hey,…
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Keepsake
A post-it note. A cork. An empty perfume bottle. Why do I feel the need to keep things? Do I keep things just for the sake of keeping things? The trend lately is on simplifying. Cleaning out, decluttering, weeding through your personal items to claim only the most necessary to keep. Marie Kondo, and other…
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Guilty Pleasure Wedding Reality Show
VO: This week on Guilty Pleasure Wedding Show, a natural blonde in her early-mid-twenties plans the wedding of her dreams to her 5%-less-attractive-than-her-but-inexplicably-wealthy-despite-working-for-his-father fiancee. We’ll watch as they drama unfolds while she attempts to live out a princess fantasy for some reason and he counters her at every turn by picking a fight. Abandon your…
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VLOG!!! “What’s Wrong With Telling Women To Smile?”
I will never stop being amazed at people who don’t understand why it’s not okay to tell women to smile. So, I decided to take it to the video, and break it down for you! And them! And the world! Ooooooh-kay, so you’re probably asking yourself, “What IS wrong with telling women to smile?” I…
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5 Fandom Friday: Halloween Traditions
Traditions are very important. Halloween is my favourite holiday. Therefore, TAKE NOTE: Halloween traditions are THE MOST IMPORTANT. 1. Mellocreme Pumpkins It’s not really Halloween until my first Mellocreme Pumpkin! Confession: I bought a bag of these beauties in Reno, literally just hours after leaving Burning Man. Saw them in a store in early September,…
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Had A Dream About You, Baby
Yeah, this post steals it’s title from a Bob Dylan song, but no, it’s not about Bob Dylan, but it is about something that makes my skin crawl. The other night I had a dream that I had a baby. Don’t worry, I’m not about to describe some horrible gory nightmare birth, this isn’t the…
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Background
So, I posted here that a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to perform as “background” on a pilot that was shooting in NYC! Here’s what I learned: CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve been cast as WOMAN AT BAR in the exciting pilot production of UNTITLED PILOT TBA !!! You’ve got a call time just after dawn,…
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My Turn-Ons Include…
So the BIG NEWS this week is that Playboy won’t be printing images of naked women in their magazine anymore!! I’ll give you a minute to digest that news (and to read the article behind the link) because I know that it is JUST SO SHOCKING you’ll need a second. Are we all up to…
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Subway Report Card
Every year, the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign evaluate every line of the NYC Subway according to their criteria and rank it from BEST to WORST, publishing a “Subway Report Card” to help us know which lines to avoid. How do they determine which subways are up to snuff and which can suck it? By asking themselves,…
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How to Ruin Comic Con
So many helpful articles on the Internet already exist to tell you how to SURVIVE a comic convention, how to GET THE MOST OUT OF a comic convention, blah blah blah. I was going to write that article but damn, it’s already been done did-ed already! So instead, in the interest of humor, let’s take…
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5 Fandom Friday: Hey Teacher…
This topic is near and dear to my heart, since I worked in a school for a year and definitely had delusions of wanting to be a teacher (!!!) for a while, and though that didn’t really pan out, I do have massive respect for these fictional teachers for actually doing it! 1. Miss Mason,…
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Me? Unfriendly?
I did something I never thought I’d do the other day. Something I always said I’d never do*. For the first time, I unfriended someone on Facebook because I was offended. *Let me be clear: this is not the first time I’ve unfriended someone on Facebook, and I’m not against unfriending people who have stalked…
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15 Minutes of Fame and Frappuccino
It’s finally happened, guys. When I started this blog over six years ago, I wanted to be a serious blogger. With hundreds of followers, daily comments, and a community of readers following my every word and it. has. finally. happened. WOW! This is what it feels like! THE BIG TIME! I never dreamed of getting…
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School Shooting Curriculum
Since school shootings are just commonplace now, with no end in sight, and “safety drills” aren’t effectively saving any lives, we must now resign ourselves to the fact that sending a child into the classroom to learn is in reality, sending them up before a firing squad. School used to prepare kids for the future: …
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“That’s All”
Trying to make people like you is really hard. Trying to be funny, or outgoing, or smart, or whatever, it can be so much work. Trying, trying, always trying to be perfect, and then to be better than perfect, is exhausting. No wonder most days I’d rather keep to myself, phone it in, stay in…
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5 Fandom Friday: Apocalypse NO
The apocalypse is no fun, people. Shit goes down, you gotta have a seriously good crew. This week, we have the opportunity to assemble our apocalypse-proof posse to help us through these trying times. 1. Buffy Summers has survived how many apocalypses now? She’s basically a pro at this. I would have Buffy as my…