January 2011
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rock camp for girls offering affordable music... →
Clinton Hill-based Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls lets kids form a rad band and play a Brooklyn venue. It’s now offering a sliding tuition scale and free instrument loans. Who wants to go to ladies rock camp with me? I aspire to become a combination of Marissa Paternoster and Ali Koehler. Classes start at the Co-op school THIS WEEK.
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Lake’s You Are Alone/ Higher Than Merry...
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a personal history
chapter 1: placenta
chapter 2: rilo kiley
chapter 3: boys suck
chapter 4-24: etc etc etc
chapter 25: fuck everything, I’m just going to bake and drink wine forever
chapter 25 was written by my friend with the yellow earrings.
brokelyn jams: d.b.a and gardening
Think spring. Our four-part indoor growing guides helped me escape a lifetime fear of gardening. Follow these tips to transform your window into a mini-veggie patch. Or an aloe jungle.
d.b.a is one of my favorite bars, not only in Williamsburg, but in the universe. check out why we love this bar on Brokelyn’s “Bar of the Week.”
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goals shmoals: categorized and 2 weeks late
brains: Read 1 new book per month. Re-reads and heady lit mags don’t count.
wellness: Start my dream garden. Get off the window sill and into the dirt.
labor: Pitch 1 piece per week for the month of January, then subsequently 1 per month for the rest of the year. Pitches must be fresh and at a different publication each time.
narcissism: Create at least 1 self-indulgent high-res photo-heavy outfit...
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Based on scientific fact, I maintain that...
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I got sick.
“I got sick, and I was so sick that I couldn’t do anything else besides just be as sick as I was. Every little distraction I tried to offer myself just seemed to result in a backslide into feeling even more ill. It felt like a real blow, because if I wasn’t going to be able to get any work done, shouldn’t I be able to watch as many movies as I wanted to? The answer was no; I was allowed to...
And no amount of talking Is going to soften the...