I’ve been spending a lot of my residency this week not only workshopping puns, as per, but also face deep in apocalypse porn, which is to say, articles and movies about what the end of …
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the purrpose of Cats
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Back, from the Future
Not that I believe in time travel / parallel universes / time is a line that can be wrinkled and jumped across theories, but I’m FAIRLY CERTAIN that I was just visited by myself from …
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so and so fights tears
I’ve been watching a bunch of TV lately in which characters are constantly waging small to epic battles against their own tears. After a few episodes of this, the tears lose their impact, and the …
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Input / Output
Here’s a thing about being a writer that I am constantly forgetting and remembering and forgetting all over again: with no input, there is no output. If you’ve recently done a massive purge of feelings …
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Acquisitions
When I start to want something, I start to see it everywhere, note its qualities. First it was boys and whether or not they were wearing wedding rings, then it was cars and whether or …
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The Skimm
I’ve been trying this app called The Skimm and I can’t tell if it’s brilliant or giving me a brain tumor. It’s basically Local and World news for the Busy and also Social Media Savy …
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Wisdom.
I had a hilarious but also profound moment the other night. I was sitting in my parents’ kitchen, responding to emails, stressing over 900 decisions and worries both large and small. Seated next to me: …
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Makeup.
Dear esteemed makeup person who will be doing my wedding makeup: I don’t know a lot about make up. I find that when I put it on my face, it just kind of comes off, …
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Jacob’s Ladder!
I’ve been using this workout machine thing, Jacob’s Ladder, in which you strap yourself in and mountain goat yourself til you basically die. It’s pretty awesome, especially if you spend the whole time pretending like …
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Everything is Copy
As revealed in the VERY FANTASTIC GO WATCH IT THIS SECOND new HBO documentary on Nora Ephron, Nora’s mother used to tell her that everything is copy. Meaning: everything that happens to you, no matter how …