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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Garlic Chipotle Salsa
Trader Joe’s Garlic Chipotle Salsa Tastes Like: tangy, peppery, garlicky salsa; thin with small chunks (perfect for scooping!). Great With: the usual suspects: chips, carrots, mushrooms. But you’d never guess – it’s amazing for dipping with raw broccoli! The broccoli “hair” catches all the spicy juice and the seasonings offset each other amazingly well! Perfect…
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Fake Geeks on the Internet
First, they came for the Fake Geek Girls. A crazy uproar on the internet about girls “pretending” to like “geeky things” “for the attention.” So many air-quotes, I may have accidentally rerouted planes from JFK. And that’s because I have so many ragey feelings on the matter that I can’t keep my fingers still. Then,…
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Batman: The Black Mirror
You guys you guys you guys! This has been MY FAVOURITE Batman arc yet! Several things make it very unique: SPOILERS AHEAD! 1. Dick Grayson is Batman (not your usual Bruce Wayne) 2. There are several narrators: Dick, Commissioner Gordon, even Harvey Bullock (for a couple of pages) 3. The story covers a few different…
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Drinking at the Movies
In the introduction to her book Drinking at the Movies, cartoonist Julia Wertz asserts that “the last thing New York needs is yet another ‘idealistic young’un moves to the big city and really gets put through the ringer before she beats the odds and makes it big!’ story.” WRONG. Drinking at the Movies is the…
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Poppin' Tags
I first discovered the local Salvation Army in high school. I found this red dress for $16 and I was hooked. Back then, money was incredibly tight, as was my personal style. I stuck rigidly to the tomboy persona I wanted to portray and desperately tried to disappear into my surroundings. I coveted faded, neutral…
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New Things
So this isn’t so much all NEW things. I would call this list “Something old, something new, something borrowed” because the something blue is ME! Winter keeps dragging on with no end in sight and I am SICK OF IT. So here’s what I’m using to get through: SOMETHING OLD: I have become re-addicted to…
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Batman: Death of the Family
AAAAHHHHH the infamous Batman: Death of the Family !!! As you can see from the cover of this hardbound collection, this is one intense and disgusting ride. It has a dust-cover of a mask of the Joker’s face, covering the actual cover revealing all the viscera because, in case you didn’t know, the Joker has…
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Black Hole
Since it is currently Will Eisner Week, I thought I’d let you guys in on a graphic novel that I just read that absolutely broke my heart: Set in the ’70s in suburban Seattle, Black Hole follows a group of teenagers navigating the tricky nuances of young love and romance during an outbreak of an…
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My Friend Dahmer
OVER the weekend, I devoured Derf Backderf’s My Friend Dahmer – almost quicker than I would have liked! This intimate portrait of the young serial killer is at once sympathetic to his unfortunate circumstances and condemning of his actions. TO be totally honest, I have been having dreams about high school for days since I finished…
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Get Lucky
During my second tattoo session last summer, I was starting to go loopy from the pain. I looked up at a statue of the lucky waving cats hovering over me like a watchful angel and mused: “I wonder what they’re called…” “It’s a maneki-neko.” my artist replied. “Maneki-neko?” I repeated. Over and over. Trust me…
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I Give Good Bedhead
Sleep troubles over! I have been sleeping through the night! And as a reward: Epic bedhead. It’s almost as if all of my subconscious worries are exiting my brain through the roots of my hair, like the snakes off Medusa’s head. Or maybe I’m trying to be super metal.
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Things I Love Thursday: Jack Kirby
If I asked you to name three famous superheroes off the top of your head… Chances are, none of those would be Jack Kirby creations. But, if I asked you to name three more, and three more, and three more…we could go on and on naming the famous faces Jack Kirby has added to the…
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Bo Knows Comedy
Bo Burnham is not only adorable. He’s also hysterical. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVnS5cI0a00?rel=0] Bo Burnham’s standup special “what.” is available to stream instantly on The Netflix. It’s also on YouTube if you’re a Luddite and don’t believe in Netflix, but I don’t want to spoil anything for you. Basically, it’s avant-garde, hilarious, and probably incredibly offensive. But…
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We Need To Have A Conversation
HAPPY VALENTIMES DAY! I love Valentine’s Day SO MUCH. It might be my favourite holiday, after Halloween, of course! Both holidays having strong associations to candy…hmm… And speaking of CANDY, it just wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without those chalky little hearts with tacky sayings on them! Oh, everyone loves to hate on Conversation Hearts, just…
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Things I Love Thursday: Coffee vs. Tea
With tomorrow being Valentime’s Day and all, today’s battle for beverage supremacy is near and dear to my heart. Coffee will always be my first love. When I wake up, my first act of consciousness is to start the percolation of a pot of coffee. That first warm, dark sip restores my humanity. Any reluctance…
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The Epic Shrug / Bolero / Shawl
Fee fi fo fum, Yes, I’m a Pinterest troll. While trolling the Pinterest, I saw this beautiful multi-way shawl / shrug / bolero thing in denizgunes’s Etsy shop : And it looked easy enough. ^ and those were her famous last words. But, having a shit-ton of time on my hands and with the weather…
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“Net” Your Average Love Story
Has anyone noticed that Netflix seems…a little different these days? That all of our standby romantic comedies of the Meg Ryan ouevre are suddenly missing? With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, what are we supposed to watch, swaddled in flannel and spooning Ben & Jerry’s listlessly into our kissless lips? Here are some suggestions…
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Not For Typical Girls
If you have an hour and a half to kill watching some amazing rock and roll documentary, may I suggest this one? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEsta-GPso?rel=0] Last year, it seemed as though punk was all the rage, with the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibit at the Met, and all the imitators. What I love about punk is…
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Things I Love Thursday: Robots vs. Unicorns
So I realized I haven’t done a “Things I Love Thursday” post in quite a while and immediately I knew what I had to write about: unicorns. Is there anything more sweet and girly besides unicorns? Um, probably. But while most of that junk makes me want to yak, unicorns just always make me happy! …
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Gadgets and Gizmos
I am a total Luddite. I’ve been using iOS 5 for like, three years! Because of, you know, Cylon threat, and all that. But lately I’ve been – dare I say? – embracing technology? And I’ve discovered some great stuff: My Dynex External Battery is my favourite toy ever. I never run out of battery…