July 2011
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Someone Teach Elizabeth Harper How to Dress Cheap
I discovered Class Actress in a tiny Spin Magazine fashion spread that praised Elizabeth Harper, the band’s lead singer, for her Madonna gone Williamsburg look and sound.From Miami, I downloaded the band’s EP, “The Journal of Ardency,” and fell in love with the grunged up synths and simple refrains that defined the Spin description. (Sample: “Let me, let me, let me...
fodder in her wings: I don’t want to live in... →
primroseway:
I don’t want to live in Florida anymore. I want to live in some big, exciting city (preferably London or NYC) with a sugar daddy to pay my rent and buy me clothes. Then when I become a self-sufficient and moderately well-known comedic actress (or something along those lines), i’ll dump my sugar…
Why would you want a sugar daddy? Only way out is to work your way out. No other...
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Watchprimroseway:
me singing Love is a Losing Game. please don’t be too harsh! I’m not trained, just doing this as a tribute to Amy, because I love her.
This is the Alex I wrote about.
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Courtney Love Has Summed Up Amy Perfectly. After... →
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On A Friend Named Amy and A Friend Named Alex
CAPTION: Alex and I having a photo shoot outside of my Dad’s house. She’s wearing my ten year old sister’s princess costume and my Little Red Riding Hood jacket. I’m wearing a really cheap wig.
In fall of 2006 Rolling Stone published a paragraph about a little known “British superstar” who had announced the date of her first US performance, a show in...
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Could Truman Capote Have Existed Today?
By the end of this summer, I will have read all of Truman Capote’s full length works along with three of his short story collections and Gerald Clarke’s classic biography of the author, Capote. While a quintessentially a twentieth century story—the man fucking betrayed the Bouvier sisters—a description of the story of Capote sounds like a story found on any blog: a Southern...
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Cheer Up, Bibliophiles. Borders Sucked.
Borders announced liquidation yesterday. While I find the death of a bookstore chain depressing, I refuse to see their collapse as a report on the state of books, because frankly, Borders sucked.
Since I commuted to a high school in one of the worst suburbs on the planet (worst in a social sense; in an education and economic sense, Plantation rocks), I had to attend after school study sessions at...
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Things I Like #7 Literary Binges
As a liberal arts student, I create three semester long projects consisting of two twenty page papers and a novel or memoir. First semester, one project involved reading the important works, criticism, and biographies of Charles Isherwood. For the next semester, I underwent the same type of research for an essay exploring race and class in Andrew Holleran’s essays on the AIDS epidemic.
Since it’s...
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Why My Obsessions May Annoy You
I have a friend named Lauren. I pollute her wall with Miranda July and Muppets information, mainly because she’s my only friend who vaguely shares these interests; often this annoys her—I never shut up—but I have no choice, because I have an odd relationship with artists, novelists, celebrities, and movies, which I’m unable to change.
Raised in a white trash Catholic household, I attended Catholic...
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Thoughts on Illness and the Gay Club
Sick and trapped in a bed, I’ve been detached from the nightclub. Growing up in South Florida, I subconsciously knew I would one day dance in a nightclub. Nobody told me this; I just knew—hell, we all knew. We all knew because in Florida all our parents followed one life trajectory: fourth grade tragedy, such as divorce or sexual assault; binge drink during freshman year, usually...
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I Hate Being Sick, Especially When It's Summer in...
I currently have an abcess in my throat, which prevents me from eating solids. The doctor prescribed me a drag queen diet that consists of percocet and popsicles, leading me to vomit outside of the A train and invite my roommates to a “I Just Killed My Baby And Got Away With It” costume/fetish party featuring the following party events:
A.) Wear duck tape and swim in a kiddy pool
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What's More American Than the Fourth of July?...
Mothers traveling to Orlando, Florida to attend the Casey Anthony murder trial cite their “passion for Caylee…a beautiful, young child murdered by her mother,” as the reasoning behind their obsession with the “Tot Mom.” If these travelers really felt sorry for Caylee, why didn’t they visit Texas to attend the Andrea Yates trial? Were the Yates boys not “beautiful” or “young enough” to attract the...
I Am My iPhone: You Are Me, and I Am You.
A late adaptor of technology, I have criticized each gadget until I have become an obsessive user myself. To me the iPhone was the biggest distraction, the product I wanted the least. The phone would have robbed me of my ability to to unplug from the web, my ability to be alone without knowledge of everything around and away from me.
Then, once I reluctantly upgraded my phone service, I found...
Watch“I don’t know what’s stranger the fact that he’s wearing a zebra mask or asking his brother to film him strip for ‘art.’”-my brother aka the first curator.
Does anybody who likes David Bowie want to see... →
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I saw this gallery today and nearly cried. I'm... →
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So I Suffer from Depression. (Yep, I'm That...
So I suffer from depression. “Okay…” many readers say. “Now why are you uploading knowledge of your illness onto the internet? This is Tumblr, not mother fucking livejournal. Take your attention seeking elsewhere.”
To which I say, writing is all about attention. If I didn’t want someone to read what I wrote, I wouldn’t submit articles to blogs or post...
