February 2012
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You: I was just calling because, um, I think it’s time we had the talk.
Your Girlfriend: But we just talked like an hour ago.
Y: No, I mean, like, “The Talk.” It’s time we had the talk.
YG: What talk?
Y: “The Talk.”
YG: Huh?
Y: You know, the talk where I tell you that I’m cheating on you.
(beat)
YG: Wait, what?
Y: Yeah. So, the first thing I want to say is — and please listen to me very...
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“Pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (via writingaces)
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I passed this along to Olivia — who, I should add, was extremely gracious about the awkwardness of getting a random book thrust at her even though we did not know each other at all and I probably came off as the creepiest of...
On the blog: chicken-roasting failure in the first... →
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“Call it chick nonfiction, if you will.”
– Douglas Brinkley, in his review of Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas.
Because it doesn’t matter if it’s a serious portrait of the first family, by a veteran political journalist, who writes for the most prestigious paper in America: if it’s written by a woman, it cannot be talked...
Anonymous asked: Can you please explain your first ever Sparklife post?
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Wes Bentley read something I wrote and thought it... →
And you thought YOU had a good day.
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“[A]ll parties agree that Proposition 8 had one effect only. It stripped same sex...”
– Judge Reinhardt, finding Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Fist pumps at my desk, you guys. Read the whole opinion here.
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OK, I feel a little better about America now.
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