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One Size Fits All
http://inthemainstream.wordpress.com
An experiment in trying on mainstream popular culture.
- Added on: Jun 30th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Amy
- Listed in: Pop Culture Writing
- Tags: music movies TV fashion magazines pop culture
Recent Posts
To push myself back into this
Last-ish month, Glenn Close wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on speaking out about mental illness. In it, she discusses her relationship to mental illness, both within the people in her life and the rolls that she’s played. Close is concer...
Not proud moments
In less than forty-eight hours, the holiday eating season will have begun. I’m on the ball already, stockpiling mint M&Ms, making the treacherously emotional transition from pumpkin spice latte to peppermint white mocha, wondering which of my...
Friends to wish you well
The last part of my Cambridge journey was, of course, the ride home. Saturday morning at Cat’s house was quiet, as some people left in the middle of the night, some stayed elsewhere, and the remainders slept in the joy of a night well spent. Ofte...
Xanadu in pearls
(Assed out in Cat’s living room.) Two years ago, I got a phone call from Mary. When we talk on the phone, we talk on the phone, a multi-hour adventure. This time I was sprawled across my bed, probably avoiding my roommate, when Mary said, “I ...
Building
Sometimes Pittsburgh is stagnancy, is a three-year exercise in treading water. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but there’s something missing, like when you date someone you explicitly know isn’t The One. Pittsburgh and I go on weekly date...
We’ll never get out of Connecticut
Once upon a time, I used to regularly get in my car in Farmville and drive the six hours to Philly, go to a concert, and drive another six hours back that night. Somewhere around Fredericksburg, Richmond, I’d be buzzed out, my grip tight on the w...
