January 2012
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I found a small audience for the things that I love to do — writing and drawing. I moved in with my boyfriend and my little apartment feels more like a home every day. I listened pretty much exclusively to R&B made 50 years ago and Kanye West. Animal Planet had a whole show on sloths. Today, I am sick and so we saw “Young Adult” and bought a new router and now we’re...
December 2011
22 posts
Today in Summer Anne
1. Mario Mendoza Hit Four Home Runs on Notgraphs.
In which I risk my rep by not being funny at all.
2. Your New Old Favorite Christmas Party Songs on The Hairpin.
In which the phrase “de-sweatering” is evoked.
WatchIrwin is a relaxation expert.
By and by, my answer to that question...
is undoubtedly Cheers — the less popular response among other people my age, I discovered. I think Seinfeld is brilliant humor-wise, but it’s missing the feelings part of the equation, which I’ve discovered I need in a TV show (see also: my disinterest in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia).
The creator of my current favorite sitcom (Michael Schur of Parks and Rec,...
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My Favorite Things Written For The Internets, 2011
Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst! by Ben Dolnick
“And yet: there’s no musician I love more “A Line Allows Progress…” is the kind of song that Macaulay Culkin might sing if The Good Son were ever turned into a Broadway musical, but that part at 1:05 when his voice wobbles on “stumble ‘round the neighborhood…” has been, on dozens of cold afternoons when...
Female Pop Stars, Baseballed →
I wrote this thing for Notgraphs about Britney, Beyoncé, and the rest of the gang.
It’s like the scouts who recruited her just forgot to ask whether she could dance before signing her to a fat contract. It’d be nice if she could go to an American League team and just stop trying to perform altogether, but there has been a stubborn insistence that such talents can be “learned.” Luckily for her...
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Hit Points 001! →
The debut of my sports editorial comic for The Classical. Yay!
Hot Rookies, '89-'90, A-G →
I, uh, curated this for Notgraphs today. Milt Cuyler is not strictly equal to Thom Yorke.
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