May 2012
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“Vera said: ‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a...”
– Nora Ephron, Heartburn
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15 Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions Every... →
5. Jane Austen was one of the first authors to examine the effects of socioeconomic pressure on personal relationships. What kind of grown woman brings Yellowtail to a book club comprised of professional women? We’re all trying to save money, but what are we, 17-year-olds in a suburban basement?
9. Compare and contrast the different relationships between the main characters and their...
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Finished 'Fifty Shades' last night
…and my thoughts beyond the initial ‘God, can I please have those few hours back?’ and ‘God, I’m sorry you had to see me Google that one thing’ are that I never want to hear the following words ever again:
double crap
holy cow
murmur
inner goddess
sex (as a body part)
grey/gray
flush/scarlet
twitchy palms
oh jeez
red room of pain
If you...
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The Edge of Rebellion
She felt like she was on the edge of a rebellious phase. She could feel it in her bones, that anticipation, the possibilities… her thoughts were tangled up in the kinds of trouble she could get into now that she had no one to worry about and no one to worry about her. She liked being with him, coming home to him, but she liked coming home to no one too, having secrets, making foolish...
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Dissecting the Allure of NYC →
To live in New York is, of course, to remain a curiosity to many of the people who don’t. … New York attracts and incubates those who aspire to power, but it is the power the city exerts over the millions of others it draws and keeps here … that has always been more difficult to explain.
“The writer is the one busily jotting in her notebook while other people are...”
– The New York Review of Books
I refuse to accept this.
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“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– Barack Obama
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A Bachelorette Story
On Saturday, we began Emma’s ‘last hours’ (not true) as a single lady at Alice’s Tea Cup on 64th street, where we sipped tea and ate scones and obviously discussed inappropriate things within several feet of children. We turned the last half of ‘tea time’ into a lingerie brunch (as gifts, not required attire) and we watched Emma whip out lacy and naughty...
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“You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily...”
– Maurice Sendak
Re-watching the Colbert/Sendak interviews all day + giggling like a crazyperson.
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Love, love, love.
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Don't Ask Me About My Break-Up
The past few days have been tough. And if we’re being honest here, so have the last few months. Sunday evening was spent in a dark living room, denying and delaying the inevitable, answering the why and the how and the what next, with blood-shot, puffy eyes as bitter evidence Monday morning.
So much of what we were was solid and pure and unconditional. We were in love, we were making sacrifices,...
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April 2012
“I don’t understand politicians who are against gay marriage. I don’t...”
– Jimmy Kimmel @ The 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner [vid]
