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Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day
Topics include the case for reparations as explained by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AM Homes, a Vine romance gone wrong, how to be a writer, turning 30 and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing
Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly a whole lot more! Like a lot. Sorry it’s been a minute.
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Things I Read That I Love #301: A Truly Raunchy Line Involving a Sandwich Bun and a Hairdresser
Topics include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an Air BnB scam, tourism in Iceland, what even is Newsweek anymore, some deportations of history and more! Like an excerpt from Carmen Maria Machado’s new book!
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Things I Read That I Love #291: Through a Dazzlingly Quick Intimacy To Violent Disagreement, Then Silence
Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion and Grease.
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Things I Read That I Love #288: They Emerged To Twist Thirst From A Cloying Wish Into Full-Bodied Desire
Topics include Ramona Quimby, female thirst, dentistry, Christian Moms who make money selling printables on their blogs, murderabilia, women outside, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #283: Wasted Again in the Dark Glow of Post-Breakup Tragic Freedom
Topics include stadium bathrooms, murder, “sportswriting’s filthiest fuck-up,” Heaven’s Gate fashion, handheld gaming, everyone else but you having money, the queer art of f*cking your friends and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome
Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #260: “Fuck” Can Hammer Home A Feeling
Topics include Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, swear words in poetry, pain patients suffering due to crackdowns against opioid addicts, Disney/MGM Studios Backlot Tour, Cambridge Analytica, Hollywood child molesters, why the subway is late and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #249: Ceiling Fans They Can Swing From Or Whatever.
Topics include Cher, Oxy, Mattresses, Cape Coral, Mackenzie Davis, TGI Fridays, TV finales, Tiny House Hunters and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State
Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit and so much more.
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Things I Read That I Love #219: We Were Good As Married In My Mind
Topics include ’90s nerd masculinity, One Day At A Time, a grandmother who liked poison, Backpage, the Gawker lawsuit, Donald Trump in 1999, John Waters’ childhood home, corporate vet clinics, puppy mills and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #217: Outcasts, Weirdos, Dweebs, Punks, Shy Kids, Cartoon Fanatics, and Serial Fidgeters
Topics include sleep, “my president was Black,” farm-to-table restaurants, Betsy DeVos, Pee Wee Herman, Journey into the Imagination, Chicago State University and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #200: Humour Can Be a Callous Protection Against The Terrible
Topics include Tonya / Marcia / Monica / Anita, true crime TV, sugar, marijuana, Ben & Jerrys, rape culture, identity clickbait, Lifetime and more!
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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
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Things That I Read That I Love #186: As If They Had Just Been Waiting For Us To Ask
Topics include not having children, Nicki Minaj, the black family in the age of mass incarceration, Bernie Sanders, Ina Garten, the Tonys, a gay commune and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #183: Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Is A Very Effective Way To Be A Human
Topics include needing diverse books, prison food, Tinder As Video Game, the scam of the Art Academy of San Francisco, a triple murder in Florida, sorority life and so much more.
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Things I Read That I Love #184: It Seemed Everyone, Even The Moon, Was Laughing and Drunk.
Topics include working at Disney, the real lives of Sugar Daddies, Michael Derrick Hudson in context, the ghost town of Bodie, Live Aid, an essay that made me cry and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #182: In The Morning, I Was Eating Peanuts, I Saw A Light
Topics include Issa Rae, mistreatment of workers on H-2 visas, the disaster rescue business, Nevada, Tinder, Hiroshima, the women assaulted by Bill Cosby and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #180: It’s Never Not My Fault That I Knocked You Off The Chair
Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.
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Things I Read That I Love #172: A Life Not Quite Mine
Topics include The Bachelor, supermax prisons, Robert Durst’s futon, Brittney Spears, being a black cop, working at Hardee’s, Comcast, murder, Flawless and moar!