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[N]o big break is going to make it easier to get up in the morning and write. What makes it easier is trusting your own instincts and noticing that you have giant ideas percolating in that herd-animal brain of yours, you just have to dig in and find them. After you find them, you have to write something terrible that eventually, through a lot of editing, over and over and over, becomes something great.
Ask Polly: Jesus, My Struggling Writer Friends Never Shut Up! | The Awl

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Body Party (Mawkus’ Booty Slammer Blend)

Crucial for summer

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shitty: Cellphone game incredibleText u from my pedestal Just making sure everyone is aware that Swifty is a real person who exists in this space/time Zoom Image

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Cellphone game incredible
Text u from my pedestal

Just making sure everyone is aware that Swifty is a real person who exists in this space/time

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perpetua: Ever wonder why some artists get signed to labels, and then they never get to release any music, or their record gets delayed forever? Aylin Zafar explains why this happens in this excellent, very well reported feature story. This is super good. It references Jojo AND Casie, artists who are trying to stay positive and work outside a menacing and outdated system in order to keep putting their creative projects out into the world. They are both hugely inspiring to me.  Zoom Image

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Ever wonder why some artists get signed to labels, and then they never get to release any music, or their record gets delayed forever? Aylin Zafar explains why this happens in this excellent, very well reported feature story.

This is super good. It references Jojo AND Casie, artists who are trying to stay positive and work outside a menacing and outdated system in order to keep putting their creative projects out into the world. They are both hugely inspiring to me. 

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Specific Things I Like

Off the top of my head, no particular order

  • the coconut slices? strips? whatever they are at Trader Joe’s
  • the screechy horn synth stabs in “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
  • the spoken word bridge on Van Halen’s “Unchained” (“Hey man that suit is YOU!”)
  • Driving on Memorial Drive at night, the stretch between the BU and Longfellow bridges
  • the Lion’s Tale (bourbon & St Germain) at Park in Harvard Square
  • the scene at the Halloween party with Brendon and Laura in Brick 
  • Janet Jackson’s laugh
  • Dickie Bennett saying “I ain’t afraida Frankfort!” on Justified
  • Jess, in the Parking Spot episode of New Girl: “Yes, I know nothing about men. That’s why I’m wearing a short skirt and wool tights.”
  • The celebration of the emotional component of sex (rather than (or beyond?) the mere physical) in Ciara’s “Body Party”
  • Thundercat into Kilo Kish on this mixtape by sosupersam
  • Bed

(previously)

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The Gate

I had no idea that the gate I would step through
to finally enter this world

would be the space my brother’s body made. He was
a little taller than me: a young man

but grown, himself by then,
done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet,

rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold
and running water.

This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me.
And I’d say, What?

And he’d say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich.
And I’d say, What?

And he’d say, This, sort of looking around.

—Marie Howe

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Today I wrote about Amanda Bynes & The Internet Teens saving the world with their selfies. For more good writing about selfie culture and how we treat women both online and off, read what Lily wrote on Grimes, Amanda Bynes, and Being Seen. Zoom Image

Today I wrote about Amanda Bynes & The Internet Teens saving the world with their selfies.

For more good writing about selfie culture and how we treat women both online and off, read what Lily wrote on Grimes, Amanda Bynes, and Being Seen.

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For Pierce. “selfie” vs “self portrait” vs “GPOY” Zoom Image

For Pierce. “selfie” vs “self portrait” vs “GPOY”

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excerpt from “internet comics” ($5)
debuting at TCAF probably

Probably obvious to everyone who already Liked this, but that’s my butt in the 2nd picture

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