July 2012
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My Review of Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love"
In short:
In slightly less short:
I mean, there were some redeeming factors—notice the surviving train structure and Jesse Eisenberg. However, Gaby and I agreed the script is one decent movie idea*, two halfway decent sketch ideas**, and a bunch of lines about how pretty scenery we don’t see is and how adultery is GREAT all tossed together with great actors just to promote Italian...
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And Adele's pregnant.
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Anonymous asked: I read your piece about being sick in the UK and wanted to note that ERs in the US can't refuse service either. Many uninsured people don't go into the dr when they have a cough bc they can't afford it and then they end up at the ER w/ pneumonia and have to be hospitalized. In most cases hospitals will only charge you a small % if you can't pay. The problem isn't a lack of...
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Health Care
When I was 22, I almost died of the flu.
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I was living abroad—alone—in London. I shared a house with about 10 other ex-pats, but very few of them spoke very good English, and the English they did speak was often used to mock and berate me. So, essentially, I kept to myself.
I spent about four days in bed. I tossed and turned. I nibbled on bread and drank hot water with...
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Someone brought their tween daughter to work and...
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Spice Girls Wiki →
This links straight to the history of the original group, Touch.
You’re welcome.
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Nora Ephron Gave Me My Dreams | Huffington Post →
I expanded upon my last post for HuffPo and now I think I’ve grieved enough. I’ll post a cat wearing a hat next.
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“My class went to college in the era when you got a masters degrees in teaching...”
– RIP Nora Ephron
And now I’m crying. She always makes me cry.
(via avcnyc)
<3
(via claireayoublaughingatthings)
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“Writing in New York that same year, Ephron described her first year in the city,...”
– Nora Ephron, 1941-2012 (via meredithbklyn)
Right now, I’m tipsy (yes! World!) from a great night of cheap food and good drink with brilliant friends and (soon-to-be) famous comedians. Until recently, there were few women who gave me concrete hope that a good girl with a sharp brain could find...
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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
– Nora Ephron
(via nononsensequeen)
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“At the age of 27, Jane Austen was unpublished and unmarried.”
– The Real Jane Austen
You and me both, bitch. You and me both.
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“Olympic-team member Justin Gatlin made the U.S. Olympic team for London over the...”
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"Anonymous--that Shakespeare film--came in...
Oh, you mean, “Anonymous—that ridiculous film that says Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare, but one of those English Lord dudes, and that he was secretly Elizabeth I’s son and lover—came in from Netflix?”
Here’s how I feel about ridiculous classist theories about the Bard and the disgusting suggestion that Gloriana Regina would sleep with her own illegitimate...
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My brother-in-law doesn't know how to spell my...
I’ve known you for a decade, bro (in-law). Ugh.
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Finally watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Don’t send help. I have a feeling I’m already saved.
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“I play JFK, she plays Jackie O. Some cool, trippy shit, some real 2015 shit....”
– A$AP Rocky on Lana del Rey’s new video.
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WatchAnna Karenina trailer. I’m so glad Vronsky’s horses made it to the trailer. I almost fell asleep reading about them on the train this morning.
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All of my emails, thoughts and messages in the...
It’s going to be a good day.
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Tuesday, June 26th
theafterlifecomedy:
Coming Out (Debutante Style) Erin’s Album Release Show
with Erin Judge
+ Jamie Lee
+ Jared Logan
+ Myq Kaplan
+ Simon Amstell
+ Nikki Glaser
hosted by Josh Gondelman
8:30pm at the Sidewalk
SIMON AMSTELL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You dudes, ugh…I love these dudes, but SIMON AMSTELL!?!?!?!?!?
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Regarding a certain interview
Every single man I admire—I mean, smart, funny, kind, hard-working, morally upright males of the human species—ardently believe women are funny. They’ll rave about Maria Bamford, give all props and respect to Tina Fey, quote Jessi Klein jokes to their friends, wax poetically about how much they love Sara Schaefer, swoon at the mention of anything Amy Poehler’s done…I...
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The Closest I'll Ever Be To Ken Cosgrove
Rolf Potts quoted my Huffington Post Girls piece in The Atlantic.
It is a proud day for a writer when your commentary about a writer’s commentary on your generation is commented upon in another writer’s commentary about commentary on commentary.
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