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Completely Normal Rednecks
People in New York always find it so weird that I talk about how into my own sister I’d be if I was a lesbian, but according to this note that my Best Friend 4-Eva + 4-Lyfe, Tracey, saved from our...
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Nostalgia About the Early Days of the Internet
Remember how much more important the Internet seemed in its youth? How we didn’t rely on it for everything and didn’t entirely take it for granted? I don’t remember how I knew what it was exactly, but...
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What’s so hipster about being literate?
Look at this fucking hipster is basically photos of all my neighbors in Brooklyn wearing their stupid 80s clothes and not brushing their stupid unwashed hair. As much as I love being a voyeur of it,...
View ArticleShoes Like Papier-Mâché
I bought my first pair of Converse Chuck Taylor low-tops my sophomore year of college and wore them for the next six years. They were probably two sizes too big for me, because I was somehow under the...
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Geocities is Dead! Long Live WordPress!
Sunday night around 7 p.m., Kamran just happened to be napping, and I just happened to be wasting time with my Google Reader when I happened upon this article from “Huffington Post” about Geocities...
View ArticleAn Education, and Why I’m Sad to Be a Grownup
Maybe it’s inappropriate to start off the new year with ruminations on pedophilia, but while I was in Ohio for Christmas, my best friend, Tracey, and her friend Kim were in the midst of seeing all of...
View ArticleI’ve Never Even Had Sideswept Hair
Remember when Modest Mouse was so cool? When they were really emo, and no one you would consider “normal” listened to them, and not even your friends knew who they were? And you had all of their albums...
View ArticleThe Best Thing About “Eclipse” (and the Most Annoying)
I was surprised to learn, upon reading them, that though the writing is as awful as I would’ve imagined, the plot of the Twilight series is actually pretty clever. Unlike, say, “Lost”, all of the loose...
View ArticleThe Only Reason to Ever Listen to Justin Bieber
Most exciting things in my relationship with Kamran happen between 8:30 a.m., when we should be leaving the house for work, and 8:45 a.m., when we actually leave. Yesterday morning at 8:30, he loaded a...
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Music and the Early Days of the Internet
This morning, my best friend, Tracey, sent me this: click to enlarge Can you imagine all the sob stories we’ll tell our children when it comes to music pre-Internet? Like how for years, I thought the...
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Those Happy Golden Years
Remember the days before Kamran actually cared about law school and before he was studying for the bar exam when we used to leave the house on a whim to do things like go to the novelty Dave &...
View ArticleThe Strange Places Your Favourite 1998 Rockstar Shows Up
Kamran’s DVR has been 97% full for weeks now thanks to all of the “Criminal Minds” I’ve been recording from multiple channels, so I try to knock an episode or two or five out whenever I can. This...
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Damien Jurado and the Greatness of Growing Up
It’s funny, growing up. When I was a wee lass of 18 at college in Columbus, freshly released from my dad’s worries about my venturing into strange neighborhoods in the big city, I’d buy show tickets...
View ArticleEight Years in NYC
I was reading my old LiveJournal last night at 3 a.m. (narcissism!) and found this post from the end of my first year living here, when the boyfriend I had followed here from Ohio was moving back home...
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