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Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way
Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet
Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so much more!!
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Things I Read That I Love #309: Like The Cone With Flowers Coming Out of it to Look Like Ice Cream
Topics include Kinfolk Magazine, the Jazz vs Thunder no-game, 24 hours as EMTS during coronavirus, the opioid crisis, chain pharmacies, Estonia, Katie Porter and so much more!
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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 #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”
Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #308: I Have Spent Many Lonely Nights Zombie-ing Around the Target on Flamingo
Topics include Katie Hill, a kickstarter backpack, amusement parks,Natasha Lyonne, Las Vegas and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #310: Eight Minutes Of Scream-Talking The Coolest Things You Can Think Of
Topics include nannies during COVID, The Chive’s “bro bait” website, Val Kilmer, Shaker Heights, Sesame Street, making adult friends, women in criminal justice films and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #304: I Want to Pretend That I’m Cooler Than Crying About The Velveteen Rabbit
It’s really hot in Phoenix, Tinder as small talk purgatory, Anna Delvey, Millennials not afraid of death, Instagram face, Hallmark Movies, racism in banking and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #299: A Nice Ass Lurks Somewhere On The Horizon, Like the Presence of God
Topics include John Updike, fraternities, ThirdLove, writing about yr life, Lilith Fair, Balloon Boy, coincidence, Heteropessimism and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #300: What Are We Doing Here, In This Short Time On This Dying Rock?
Topics include tenacious Florida women, why NBC killed their Weinstein reporting, sexual violence, checking a bag, systemic racism in Milwaukee, circuit parties, the perfect coke dealer and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #302: Cosmo Tutorials On How to Come Didn’t Make Much Of a Crack In The Bell Jar
Topics include the founding of Patreon, the founding of Poo-Pourri, the writer as influencer, housing discrimination, TurboTax, feminist performance art, disassociating, the Park Slope food co-op, the Zodiac Killer and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #303: A Discontinued Snack Emits a Strange Aura
Topics include Donald Trump’s romancing of the religious right, looking back on the 2010s, POC writing POC, graphing calculators, Cheez-Balls, finding a house in the Bay Area and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #294: Nestled Among Fake Flowers and Flourishes of Glitter
Topics include the women who are obsessed with true crime (ahem), “bad teeth,” a very bad doctor, Jia Tolentino, Mic, migrant detention centers, Mariah Carey and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #295: Put All Your Deaths, Accidents and Diseases Up Front
Topics include the consolations of the mask, who the actual “founding fathers” are, the unexpected perils of asynchronous communication, a romantic investment in bohemia, company culture as per a crisis inside Google and the tyranny of structurelessness and many other concepts of interest to me and maybe also to you!
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Things I Read That I Love #296: She is Also Tiny and Platinum Blond With a Look of Engineered Disaster About Her
Topics include my favorite TV show Are You The One?, crossword puzzles, air conditioning, an online public meltdown, dooce, swimming, How Things Are at Deadspin, pregnancy, Bumble and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #292: There Are Chocolate Chips In The Freezer
Topics include Babe dot net, The Pioneer Woman, Judge Judy, queer food, GoFundMe healthcare, clapping back, Cooking: Why?, untying the knot at her throat and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television
Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much 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 #282: A Couple of Misfit Queer Kids in Matching Black Leather Biker Jackets
Topics include Bryan Singer, toxic YA twitter, Chirstopher Pike, the tell-tale fan, Oscars for racial reconciliation fantasies, sexual assault as male bonding, Lil Tay, Soundcloud rap, sunscreen and more!
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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!