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My favorite place is growing up.

July 25, 2011

This post is almost two months old and has been sitting in my drafts, completed with the exception of a picture I didn’t have on hand when I wrote it. I forgot about it, it became dated, and it has sat in my drafts feeling sad and lonely. I made some minor changes to fix [...]

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Shitty Movie Awareness Club returns with animated movies

June 8, 2011

I have been on vacation for the last several days, but I am now at home in bed with some obscure disease, by which I mean I just have a ferocious cold and my body is producing world record amounts of snot. Glad I shared, right? Right. Anyway, the Shitty Movie Awareness Club became a [...]

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Coachella 2011

April 27, 2011

I had this idea in my head that I could somehow formulate a cohesive post to explain this year’s Coachella experience, but when 75,000 people gather in the desert for three days with over a hundred musical acts and a shit ton of weird art, that idea is absurd. So instead this is just going [...]

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April Adventures, Part 4: a ferris wheel in the desert

April 19, 2011

In the days following Coachella each year, I am mostly just confused as to why I am not running around the festival sweating and dancing and smiling. I now get to spend this week wandering around LA (or mostly just the valley). I of course have endless feelings about all things Coachella (favorite place! favorite [...]

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Guest Post: Shitty Movie Blog Ring, Nicolas Cage Edition

April 2, 2011

It is once again time for the shitty movie blog ring! This month’s theme is shitty Nicolas Cage movies. I realized when selecting a movie at the very last minute under the influence of a good deal of wine that my ovaries and I clearly had no say in this theme selection because fuck you [...]

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Guest Post: Shitty Movie Awareness Club. Teen Wolf. Snickerdoodles. Awesome.

March 2, 2011

Today’s blog post is brought to you by Meaghan Luby of My Scribbled Notebook and Clutzy Cooking, courtesy of the Shitty Movie Blog Ring. To the best of my knowledge, the ring is still untitled, though I am partial to the Bad Movie Awareness Society (which I think I got from Coyote Rose). This month’s [...]

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Desert days ahead.

January 19, 2011

I have a post brewing all about snow and what an evil hedonistic bitch she is and how she is out to ruin me by closing my places of employment and killing me on my drive home, all the while being pretty and convincing everyone else that she is lovely and that I am in [...]

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Concert seat upgrades: success and failure and how (little) I have progressed as a person

October 2, 2010

Over the summer I had big plans to get a job in LA and finally come “home” after eight years of obsessing over my big tragic middle-class displacement. The abysmal economy and my complete ineptitude when it comes to the process of job hunting colluded to create a rather different outcome. Instead of living on [...]

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As long as I maintain an unhealthy relationship with television, I never have to be a real person.

September 13, 2010

I think I might be turning into a real person. I find the lack of long-term stability in my “jobs” comforting enough that I can still consider myself only vaguely employed. But this week, for example, I’m working over 40 hours between my mall-job and my job telling kids to stay away from drugs and [...]

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POGS, or “Remember the million times we almost broke the glass table?”

September 3, 2010

A week ago I was on 20sb and someone mentioned “the slammer.” My first thought when I hear that word is: Pogs. You remember pogs, right? They were one of the more brilliant ways we were manipulated into begging our parents to spend money on absolutely useless crap. Pogs were little 2 inch circles of [...]

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