It was my birthday last week, so in the spirit of Treat Yo'Self, I splurged on makeup and really like all of it! It's a gamble with samples and stuff sometimes so I'm happy.

I might use "this is america what the hell you loser" in place of "thanks, Obama".

Husker Du - Whatever
Beach House - Space Song
Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing
David Bowie - Soul Love
The Clash - Lover's Rock
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
At the Drive-In - Porfirio Diaz
Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape…
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'

Got frustrated with a lack of responses to submissions (minus one rejection), so edited a couple of stories and sent out more!

I have run past cautiously optimistic and have chosen to be full-on stoked about this album.

I had Lohan's "Rumors" in my head all day today! Coincidence?! Yes. Torturous? Also yes.

I agree with all of this.The WEMEN people were awful but I think Shoshanna totally believes their hype and has always wanted to be part of that culture. The character, from the very first season, has bought into these kinds of tropes of being a career-oriented woman and has never had those goals in common with this…

Yeah, Jessa treats tactlessness and bluntness as an inherent virtue and covers it in snark and charm to get away with it. It's so performative and shitty, but very easy for others to confuse with authenticity at first. Hannah does the same thing, but covers it in quirkiness and 'outrageousness'; it at least seems like…

And experimentation, awareness of the history of the form, etc. They should really just have Hannah writing for Vice or Broadly or something. I'd believe that before the New York Times' Modern Love section (because who cares about her banal situation with Jessa and Adam, but also because I believe it's possible to…

THANK YOU. Their repeated mispronunciation of Hermès was driving me insane.

I mean, I was sixteen in 2001 and would have jumped at the chance to watch Rebel Without A Cause at the drive-in. Instead I rented it from Blockbuster on VHS. Wild times, man.

The scene with the nun painting was one of the scariest I've seen in a horror movie in a long time. Which means of course they're going to make an entire movie based on it, but must they? It's almost definitely not going to be as scary in its entirety as that one scene was in the movie.

I wish Breakfast at Tiffany's didn't have Mickey Rooney in yellowface because otherwise it's a beautiful film about flawed, commitment-phobic people learning to be authentic and vulnerable. The ending leaves me sobbing every time.

One might think camp cancels romance but one would be wrong!

It really is just a sweet movie. I was never 100% sold on their chemistry, but the movie's charm sells it.

I think it's perfect because it's so specifically intimate that it becomes universal (not that universality is an inherent mark of quality, but it does make it a pretty profound statement about love and romantic relationships). It's also that neither Joel nor Clementine have over-the-top or tropey personality flaws…

And here I was wondering if I was crazy because it's my favorite romantic movie.

Especially with writing/freelancing, where it can take forever between acceptances, finding places to pitch, doing assignments, hitting deadlines, and the next opportunity. Many seasoned writers with full publications/novels/poetry books/memoirs etc also have day jobs.

I literally said, on seeing that scene, "Yeah, Lena Dunham, the fictionalized version of myself has also been published by the NYT."

This! Every individual body is different and there are many contributing factors to why people's bodies are the shapes they are and it's really strange how prevalent it is to give a shit about what other people's bodies are like and why they're like that.