Category: Pamie
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Jennifer Weiner says of Why Girls Are Weird:
“Chick lit at its most trenchant and truthful.” (read the rest of her interview here.) Thanks, Jennifer! I am a huge fan of her blog. Also, she was very nice and pretty when we went to see her read over the summer. She’s a TWoP fan, and you’d think we were the ones with the…
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Recap Up, Tummy Full
In honor of Martha starting her prison sentence, I figured I’d have an uber-woman day. I wrote a recap, swept the floors, made cookies, hung pictures using a template and a ruler, cleaned the bathroom, shopped, did laundry, made salsa and guacamole from scratch and then grilled steaks and vegetables with friends as we drank…
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distractions
The house is so smart. See, over the past week I’ve finally had some time (read: due to the fact that I’m supposed to be finishing this manuscript, and it’s much easier to say, “I really need to hang that picture.”) to get the house pulled together a bit. The screen door, which fell off…
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“…systematically gaming the system…” I’m
“…systematically gaming the system…” I’m going to need a translation on that one.
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I am at the very
I am at the very frustrating part in the manuscript where every little distraction is a welcome one. Consequently, I’m forcing myself to stay away from the hundred other things I could be doing with my computer right now (Dirty!), and sending you instead to read Andi’s wonderful essay about how she’s always been an…
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I told you: good jobs
Esquire columnist, Oprah magazine contributor, and Daily Show correspondent Stacey Grenrock-Woods I, CALIFORNIA, a memoir of being born and raised on the left coast which tackles, among others, the titillating power of Peter Frampton’s bare chest, how posing for Playboy makes you hungry, and the shame you feel when a loved one unearths your old…
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lattes of the rich and the famous…
The constant social disconnect that is Hollywood can be fun, but it can also get frustrating. I’m at a Starbucks staring at a man who is either: A) Someone I met recently and had like, a single conversation with, which means I met him at a party, or I had a meeting with him, or…
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see this show.
Catch the Beastie Boys on this tour if you can because it was seriously a lot of fun. “We go way back,” Diamond says [about this tour]. “We do some songs from ‘Toys in the Attic,’ ‘Rocks,’ ‘Dream On.’ ” Yauch chimes in: ” ‘Destroyer.’” “We also do some of our newer songs that we…
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Gilmore Girls Recap
A Room With A View: Everybody’s airing their dirty laundry as Rory’s scandal hits the streets of Stars Hollow. Lane realizes she might have a crush on her roommate. Luke spends the entire episode trying to escape the Ren Faire. Lorelai and Rory make up. Yeah, not much happens when you try to write it…