While attending a concert at a downtown arena, my then-boyfriend and I thought ourselves clever to have found a parking space on the street and thus avoid paying through the nose for garage parking. Prior to leaving his apartment, we put all our stuff in the trunk of his late-’80s Toyota Corolla, planning on continuing [...]
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The War on Easter
Warning: The following post is an expletive-laced, un-Christian, anti-Easter tirade that may strike some sensitive readers as blasphemous and mean. Read at your own risk. Hey yo, f*ck Easter! I freakin’ hate Easter. It’s the worst sort of “holiday” ever created. I’ve never liked it, never enjoyed it, and never will. I hate Easter — [...]
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Jeremy — In many respects, this is a strong essay. Not only is your writing here effectively organized and thoroughly edited, your ideas are also well developed and supported by a number of detailed descriptions and examples, leading up to some rather revealing and provocative insights. However, while this is certainly high-caliber writing, unfortunately I [...]
Dispatch from Sundance (2007)
Movies! Celebrities! Glamour! This year’s Sundance Film Festival contains all that and much more. In this post, I’ll be reviewing this year’s festival, as well as a few movies that I saw. First off, I’m amazed at how much the festival stays the same. I recognize the same faces (even on my flight from NYC [...]
Strip maul
Once upon a time last week, five TGW writers from different regions of the country (who would all prefer not to be “outed,” you commenters who know us, for professional reasons) had a big night out. It started with cocktails and music and chatting, moved on to copious amounts of sushi and sake, and ended [...]
In the same danger with himselfe
It’s a subject that makes even my friends nervous. I’ve learned not to talk about it in polite company, never sure someone won’t react badly — and fairly sure most people whose circles I run in will lose respect for me, maybe even think I’m a bit nuts. I want a gun. Actually, two guns: [...]
Senseless
Someone very close to me recently learned that the child she is carrying has a condition called trisomy 13, otherwise known as Patau syndrome. It’s a chromosomal disorder that results in severe developmental defects, and isn’t as rare as you might think. Most people probably haven’t heard of it (unlike trisomy 21, otherwise known as [...]
