March 2012
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Why Draw Something Makes Me Kinda Nervous
- I don’t really know the implicit social rules of Draw Something yet. How many minutes per day is it normal to play Draw Something with your boss’s wife?
-Things that involve taking turns … kind of a drag.
-Feel a weird pressure to have quirky/oddball memorable drawing via being someone who draws in real life.
Anyway, here’s how Sarah chose to draw “New...
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How to order a beverage, Dawn Lang style
Waitress: Would you like something to drink?
Mom, every time: Yes, do you have any tea without calories?
On this whole "Esquire writer says women are soooo...
Of course when I got Esquire’s sex issue I immediately read the sex parts cuz they were pretty and full of infographics and about sex.
I glazed over Chris Jones’ article “Ladies: You Are Not as Good As You Think” with a little chuckle, cuz there are fer sure thousands of chicks out there who will literally talk about how good they are at sex and fashion themselves as sex...
There Need to Be More Nonwhite Protagonists →
On TV too.
drawology:
“It is often difficult for me to go into the young adult section of a book store. It should be easy. I have about 2 million books for young people in print.
But I know before I turn up the aisle what I will find — shelves of books about young people who look nothing like the ones I write about. The kids on the covers will have great adventures, solve mysteries, wrestle...
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boring things about me
1. i have one thing at every restaurant that i get every time. for example, at subway i always get the teriyaki chicken sub. this works for me.
2. i don’t have any tattoos and probably never will. i like how my skin is just my skin or something.
3. i don’t really do drugs because i am afraid i will trigger latent schizophrenia because my aunt is schizophrenic.
4. i am a serial...
the importance of conflict
the other day my boyfriend and i went to redbox the muppets. i was not particularly excited because muppets creep me out, but he had been counting down the days till we could get it. when we got to the redbox, it was out. i had not realized that redboxes can just be “out” of a movie. i thought they had infinite reserves, or could just burn another copy or something.
using an iPhone...
5 Lists
Since I’m a fan of Nick Hornby, John Cusak and High Fidelity, here are a couple of my 5 lists.
Movies
1. Clockwork Orange
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Synechdoche New York
4. Austin Powers
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
TV Shows
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Top Model
3. 30 Rock
4. Arrested Development
5. Skins
Books
1. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
2. White Teeth
3. Middlesex
4....
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i think i love tyra banks unconditionally by now
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Love You Netflix
“Netflix has not purchased and does not purchase advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. ”
How to be sneaky, according to my 3-year-old niece
1. Go into mom’s purse.
“should you be quiet while you do it?”
2. Yeah, be real quiet.
“should you walk on tip-toes?”
3. Yeah, walk on tip-toes.
4. Steal the gum and put it in your mouth.
5. Don’t swallow the gum, or you will get a tummy ache.
The object of all sneakery, in her world view, is obtaining gum and enjoying it without getting a tummyache.
how to have a becky night
1. stay home on a friday cuz you feel like it.
2. nap after work.
3. wake up and eat a lean cuisine.
4. watch top model or something.
5. have a couple drinks alone.
6. go to bed.
