“If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve—”
What have I been up to this month? Good question. As with any response that could easily be said in a few words, I think I’ll start with a quote from the one and only bell hooks: “When we’re talking about race or class or gender, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s where …
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Thank goodness for the Internet's latest slew of articles on fashion, which are titled some variation of X Fashion Trends Men Hate. Talk about useful information! Skinny jeans may be the most commonly worn type of jeans amongst young women, but evidently, "men want to leave something to the imagination" and skinny jeans put "your entire body" on …
I planned to wait until warmer weather to drive to a bookstore and buy Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, but as it happens, I had already dusted the snow off of my car at 7:30 a.m. in -27 degree windchill (in Fahrenheit) and then survived a whole day at work on what is surely the …
In case you've failed to look outside your window today, I'll update you: snow. If you live in the Northern hemisphere, there's a 96% chance that there is currently snow on the ground. (Sure I made that statistic up on the spot, but this is the Internet. I'm allowed to.) I've heard that there are some …
Remember when Kanye West said, "[We] brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said ‘no.’ How many motherf*ckers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?” in an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC1? And then Jimmy Kimmel thought he'd strike his late night humor chops by recreating the scene with a …
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Hello October 21, Hello Blog, Hello Readers. It's been far too long since I have written for you, I know, but you'll just have to forgive me. The process of applying to grad schools means quarantining myself off from humanity to study for the GRE and write application essays. You understand. I hope I didn't …
