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A new story about Amanda Bynes and S4 of Arrested Development and The Celebrity Machine and social media and Apple iOS and clickbait titles and health care reform and rape culture and the new Daft Punk and  Zoom Image

A new story about Amanda Bynes and S4 of Arrested Development and The Celebrity Machine and social media and Apple iOS and clickbait titles and health care reform and rape culture and the new Daft Punk and 

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Posted 1 month ago

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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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Posted 2 months ago
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maura: Issue 13 is live!  Featuring the TRIUMPHANT RETURN of Kevin Fanning to beverage reviewing; Michele Catalano on Nassau Coliseum; Jessica Furseth on the demise of Google Reader and the shakiness of the internet; and me on tampons, memoirs, and Buzz Bissinger. Plus another gorgeous cover by the amazingly talented Tim Moore.  Subscribe today! And listen to some music!  Current internal debate: does the extent to which my mom would be proud to see my name on the cover of something outweigh the sheer horror she would experience reading my Kool-Aid Guy nylon fetish fanfic Zoom Image

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Issue 13 is live!  Featuring the TRIUMPHANT RETURN of Kevin Fanning to beverage reviewing; Michele Catalano on Nassau Coliseum; Jessica Furseth on the demise of Google Reader and the shakiness of the internet; and me on tampons, memoirs, and Buzz Bissinger. Plus another gorgeous cover by the amazingly talented Tim Moore. 

Subscribe today! And listen to some music! 

Current internal debate: does the extent to which my mom would be proud to see my name on the cover of something outweigh the sheer horror she would experience reading my Kool-Aid Guy nylon fetish fanfic

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Posted 2 months ago

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This is me, reading “The Person Who Lives” from Touch Anything Except Me.

Works best with headphones, I still haven’t figured out how to record vocals like a normal human.

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Posted 2 months ago
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The celebrity breakup is like a baby, born from the celebrity romance. The celebrities maintain joint custody of the baby, and they shuttle it back and forth to each other, with nasty little notes pinned to its bib.

This is the opposite of how relationships work for regular humans. For us it’s the waiting to be with that person, the hoping they will return our affection, the wondering if they are ever going to fucking notice how many of their tweets we are faving, that lasts forever. The breakup is the part we just want to be on the other side of as quickly as possible.

Kevin Fanning, “How We Break Up.”

I want to wave this piece in the face of every single person who’s told me it’s vapid and pointless to write about pop culture. In other words, a lot of people.

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HEY I wrote this thing about celebrity relationships vs real human relationships. Between you and me and tumblr, the idea of female celebrities taking media offensives against the dudes who wronged them is really interesting and I wish I’d dug into What It Means a little more. Maybe later.

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Posted 3 months ago

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Kevin Fanning | Sundog Lit

I have a story called “The Pictures of Our Children” in Sundog Lit today. The assignment was to write something related to or inspired by the cover of Matthew Salesses’s new book, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying. 

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It’s sort of like being the literary Jason Bourne, if you think about it. A certain kind of job requires a certain kind of person. Publishers look deep into my icy eyes and see that I have the training and the willingness to perform the task at hand, no questions asked. I show up, I do what needs to be done, maybe a few people die but hey, books get sold, everyone’s happy. I disappear and await my next assignment. 

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Posted 4 months ago

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A Small, Alive Thing

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This is me, reading “A Small Alive Thing” from How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away. 

Chels said she wanted a recording of this story and I’ve been meaning to experiment more with audio stuff and so anyways this is my first attempt. There are problems with it but we shouldn’t focus on the problems, should we. We should just focus on what worked. 

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The music is “The End of the Cyclone” by Biosphere.

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Posted 4 months ago

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Perfect birthday card, from Nora Today in The Morning News I explained how to a) build a Ryan Reynolds out of ordinary household objects, and b) how to get celebrities to fall in love with you on Twitter.

Perfect birthday card, from Nora

Today in The Morning News I explained how to a) build a Ryan Reynolds out of ordinary household objects, and b) how to get celebrities to fall in love with you on Twitter.

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Posted 4 months ago
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Are our modern news cycle so short, so disconnected, that we have already forgotten the tale of Ashlee Simpson performing on Saturday Night Live? 2004? “Pieces of Me?” A sudden swirling vortex on the stage as Aeshma the Forfeited appeared and laid waste to everyone in the first three rows with one stroke of his bloodmace? Is this not ringing any bells?

Kevin Fanning is writing a new series on celebrities for TMN and it’s as wonderful as you would expect. (via erikonymous)

Hey I have a new thing in The Morning News Today, it’s about Beyoncé and the Super Bowl and the dark magick of lip-syncing

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Posted 4 months ago
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. We had no investment in them. Who even cared that they were dating in the first place? Who even cared about their story? Yeah, we met as a couple of no-names moping around the set of a movie where vampires play baseball. Awesome? My parents met on a blind date at an aquarium. They’re not celebrities but at least they were attempting to create an interesting mythology around their relationship. Anyway they divorced as soon as I moved out, I don’t want to talk about it.

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Also this week’s thing for The Morning News was about celebrity break-ups 

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