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I was recently cast in GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, an evening of comic shorts exploring love, sex, truth, money, and justice, from the Tony Award-winning creator of Urinetown, Greg Kotis. The world premiere of the show is this Thursday and it will run for the...
This is a thing I'm definitely going to.
Inspirational Quote from Yesterday
"I want us to go online and figure out the proper way to do it and then you will give me a breast exam in a purely platonic way but keeping in mind all the other boobs you've ever felt so I know if mine are normal."
-Something I said to a friend, that I can never unhear myself say, because I am literally always afraid I have breast cancer, because I don't know what boobs are supposed to feel like, and I'm a hands on learner and I just don't trust myself.
New Name, New Thing?
This blog has been called Sharks, Hippos, Foxes for a long time, and during that time, a whole lot of people NEVER asked me why I named it that because they didn't care.
They are my 3 favorite animals. Â THAT'S WHY.
Also, I hardly ever write anything here because for the past uh... months? I have been pretty dedicated to my other blog, Pop Goes Queens... and uh... now I'm not.
I'm absolutely 100 percent positive that anybody who blogs consistently knows what happens when you "take a break" from your blog. Â The fact that you could take a break from it at all means you are not as into it as you once were, AND maybe it wasn't what you wanted it to be, AND if you did not effing love the hell out of that blog toward the end and you were just scrambling to produce content by deadline and the social media promotion of that shit was just driving you up a boring shitty unsuccessful wall, that when your self-imposed "break" was over and you were still not really getting it done the way you want because you lost all inspiration to do it, well... at some point you had to face yourself and admit that you were not just procrastinating or waiting for inspiration or slowing down. You were just not blogging and the question you must have asked was... "Am I ever going to post on this blog again?"
I don't know. Â Pop Goes Queens was a part of my life that I was devoted to and loved for several months but the truth is that I think it was an unsustainable endeavor, and when I think about writing or blogging or stories or ideas or podcasts or web series or any of a bajillion different projects I'm inspired to work on right now, Pop Goes Queens is kind of dangling down at the bottom of the list feeling rejected and acting out defensively calling me names like "lazy ass spinster jerk why have you just ABANDONED ME?" or something like that.
The main problem is that I write this blog as a character, named Coco Beautiful, WHO IS A MADE-UP PERSON THAT I ADORE WITH MY WHOLE SOUL AND WHO I AM ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH, but also she is somebody I am not and I am growing tired of being two people.
I could feel her stretching out inside me toward the end like she was settling down for a long hibernation. Â She was either going to grow bigger than my energy supply to support her or she was going to slowly turn into me and neither one of those things is Coco and neither one of those things is helping me as a writer.
The other problem is that Coco had NEEDS from me that were getting pretty demanding and distracting from the point, which was writing in her voice. Â I had to take pictures of her, which means, I had to schedule, style, prep, and direct dozens of photo shoots of myself, which means I had to take or have taken, literally thousands of photos of myself, dressed as Coco, and that process was truly exhausting.
If nobody ever takes another picture of me again, I can die happy.
BUT I LOVE HER, and I'm proud of her, so I can't say that my days with Coco are totally over, I just don't know what they are anymore.
I do recognize the need to write, to blog, to do something productive with my free time, and because of my new job, I get a little window of creativity nearly every day that allows me the freedom to do that.
I take care of a baby. Â He is the cutest rolliest polliest little fuzzy butterball turkey and he sleeps 3-4 hours a day. Â Aside from my responsibilities, like feeding him, cuddling him to a smothering and selfish degree, washing dishes and folding laundry, etc... nap time is primo post-coffee mid morning blogging time, and I'm delighted at the opportunity to do it... I'm just not going to be orchestrating giant photo shoots during it, so it should be a bit easier/ more fulfilling.
I don't know what I'm going to write about. Â Probably WHATEVER THE F I WANT TO, but I'd like to be telling some stories, making some points, and expressing myself. Â It is quite literally, the least I can do. Â So that's why the name change (prepare your insults Samantha Tucker Iacovetto) and if Coco decides to do anything differently, I'll give you guys a heads up.
Enchanted Apple is an evening of magically short romantic comedies by Leslie Moniot. Tonight at 9:30pm! After an enchanted forest thatâs been hidden for centuries is discovered on the outskirts of New York City, strange and fantastic creatures have come out of hiding for the first time in their lives and mixing with the citizens of the city. Their stories are told in four short, romantic comedies about love, relationships, and what can happen under the sprinkle of a little pixie dust.
Enchanted Apple answers the questions: What happens when you run into a unicorn ⌠with your car? What happens when your boyfriend, who happens to be a tooth-fairy, is leading a secret life? What if you find out your crush is dating somebody else ⌠and this damn fairy king wonât stop eavesdropping? Or what if you were a little girl and your favorite dolls could suddenly talk ⌠and make out?
Come find out at Enchanted Apple!Â
A Picture of My Boobs (and a heartfelt request)
(The picture above is me on my 29th birthday, deciding to take my life into my own hands... and showing off too much boob.)
When I turned 29 last June, all the things I'd said I was going to do, and had not yet done, looked me in the eye, shoved me against the wall, Â bitch-slapped me in the face, and said, "YOU'RE GONNA BE THIRTY. Yes, we know, it's an arbitrary deadline that means nothing in the scope of things (WHAT IS TIME?), but for whatever reason, childhood trauma, nagging back pain, denial of death, middle-school bullying, whatever... you've decided to place some doomsday sort of meaning on to your next birthday so unless you want to feel like a big fucking slacker who never accomplished anything, you better try and do something about us. Â We are the best ideas you've got, so sack up and get to work."
Then I was like, woah... okay, I'll give it a shot. Â Chill out guys.
Then I was like, they have a point. Â So I've spent the last year trying to accomplish 3 "career" goals of mine. (I say "career" lightly, as I have made hardly any money doing them.)
The first one was to get paid for something I wrote. Â Anything, and any amount of money. Â So I started going out on assignments a little more often for this cool small entertainment site that I sometimes write free stuff for (usually in exchange for free dinners/concerts/drinks/celeb sightings) and eventually that paid off and I got paid exactly $20 for an article I wrote. Â It was about this weird couple.
This is the article.
The second goal was to start a blog that I'm proud of. Â That blog turned out to be a pretend fashion blog I write as a character called Coco Beautiful. Â Coco still has only a few followers, but she gets bigger every week, and I'm insanely proud of the stuff that she does. Â This is Coco at her finest-
This is that blog.
Finally, my last goal was to "see some actors read some words that I wrote on a stage here in New York." Â (I know it sounds like I'm trying to be funny by saying it that way, but that is literally what I wrote in my diary.) Â This has been by far the biggest, most challenging and uh... labor intensive goal so far, BUT, on May 7 at 9:30 pm, in The People's Improv Theater, you can come see my show Enchanted Apple, a collection of four short romantic comedies that I wrote, being performed by some of the funniest people I've ever met.
I'm getting this one in just under the wire, as I will actually turn 30 next month, but I can proudly say... that I accomplished all 3 of these goals and as I get closer to actually seeing this big final one I am having a SURGE of ideas for next year. Â I have done a lot of other cool stuff to be proud of over the last year, and I can happily say that 29 has been one of the best years of my life.
It would mean EVERYTHING to me to see you at this show on Tuesday Night. Â Only $5 Â That and a two-slice+soda combo are the best deals in New York. Â Did I mention it's funny?
You can buy tickets here.
You can join the facebook event here.
Nearly everything my mother was afraid of about me moving to New York City becomes what I love most about it. This shady ass van parked in front of my apartment is a great example. But really, how lucky that it parked there! What could possibly better compliment this orange sherbet colored...
Some tips for guys on OkCupid.
This is a message I recently sent to a "suitor" on the greatest, most wonderfully terrible dating site ever. Â He was very cute, and his profile was ok, but with a lot of red flags. Â The guy sent me a message at 3:18 am, and in the message, complained about how he never gets any responses, and how he's only messaging me because he's taking a shot at life.
I told him I'd willingly get coffee with him and would he mind some friendly tips on OkCupid dating? Â He said he welcomed any tips, so I responded with this.
"1. Message as many people as possible. Somebody will respond, but girls rarely send messages, as I've learned from my anthropological research here. ;)
2. Just ask them out and be quick about it. Meeting people in person is the only way to go. They'll always surprise you when you see the differences between them and their profile, but sometimes it's a good surprise.
3. Pick the time and place yourself. Girls do NOT like doing this, whatever they say.
4. Don't make it all about you. In your message to me, you didn't mention a single reason you wanted to meet that had anything to do with me. It was all about you.
5. You seem cute, and your profile is ok, but you mention musical theater too much. It's ok to mention it and it's ok to love it, but it seems to take up your whole personality and your whole profile, and any interest that does that is a giant red flag.
6. Be open and kind. Attract the person you want instead of warning against the person you don't want. Be discerning about that on your own, but publicly, be welcoming.
7. Be clear about what you're here for.
8. Finally, don't send messages between midnight and 8 am. Those are the creep hours."
Living in New York can be difficult sometimes. Between the crowds of pushy business people (late to work), the subway panhandlers, the bitter cold, the insane rent costs, and the occasional piece of garbage that flies into your face⌠itâs enough to make you crazy. Itâs enough to make you...
My BFF writes a happiness blog and I could NOT agree more with her blog on "happy places." Â My happy places are Central Park (anytime but especially right after sunset), The spotless marble bathroom at my work, a table to myself in Barnes and Noble with a stack of magazines, and lots and lots more.
Seen on the Lower East Side
I'm gonna try to make out with all these dudes in like 5 years when I have my mid-thirties cat lady crisis.
Hi! Iâm Coco Beautiful and I love crazy people. I also love movies. Put the two together, and youâve got something incredible. This Mondayâs post is all about the fashion of my favorite crazy on-screen couples. In this first look, Coco Beautiful transforms into Good Jill Hunting⌠math genius...
As we spring forward through March, Iâve been in a state of transformation lately, and Iâve been wanting to celebrate the oncoming beauty thatâs headed our way. As daffodil shoots are reaching up from within the ground, fuzzy buds are forming on the branches of blossoming trees, the sunlight...
shark week: the musical
SAVE THE DATE MARCH 20 at 7pm
For the next REAL CHARACTERS show with a super special guest host. Whaaa? Guest host? Thatâs right! And, itâs going to be a blast. Featuring humor readings and storytelling by: Bob Powers (Shouts & Murmurs, author of Happy Cruelty Day) Bob Kulhan (Baby Wants Candy, The Second City) Cammi Climaco (Ask Me: Storytelling) and Ted Travelstead (author of the humor book The Petraeus Files) Hosted by Alex Gallafent (The P.I.T., BBCâs The World)
REAL CHARACTERS - Comedy & Storytelling Wednesday, March 20 at 7pm McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince Street, NYC Free
My AWESOME friend Alex Gallafent is guest-hosting this super wildly popular storytelling show. Â You must go (and seriously show up early- this place fills up fast.)
Did this photo shoot specifically because of you Body Posi Bikini Babes.  I admit it wasnât easy for me to find the confidence, but my best friend and biggest supporter offered to do it with me, and I think it ended up incredible.  The whole post is at my blog popgoesqueens.tumblr.com with lots more pics.  Itâs not my primary tumblr on my account so this is being submitted by Sharks Hippos Foxes, but Pop Goes Queens is my actual fashion blog where I did the original post.  Also I tried to set a âclick-through linkâ but it kept hiding the submit button.  Maybe my browser is weird.  Anyway THIS is the link to the original post.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS UP BODY POSI BIKINI BABES!!! I'm so happy and proud!
As you know, occasionally, the mega-stylish Olivia La Vida Loca, my bff, makes modeling appearances on this blog. During a recent photo shoot (which youâll see next week) OLVL agreed to be my photographer, but I couldnât help turning the camera around on her. Her outfit was just toooooo...
Ready For A Swim?
OMG lovers! Â Olivia La Vida Loca and I came down here to Astoria Park & Pool to take some rad pictures of ourselves in our outrageous swimwear, but OMG did you know? The pool was CLOSED! I mean, I know itâs winter and all, but donât they know how cute we look?
A lot of magazines will offer you tips this time of year on how to get âbikini readyâ or âbeach ready.â Â Guess what? Â Iâm ready.
WELL GUESS WHAT WE DIDNâT LET THAT EMPTY POOL STOP US!
I donât have to say a lot because these pictures are worth a thousand words.
Proud of it!
Booty bump!
Best friends forever.
Heroes
See you at the pool this summer!
Love you lovers!
Coco Beautiful
p.s. Â The pool might be closed but my facebook, twitter, and pinterest are always open.
What Iâm Wearing: Swimsuit- Target; Shoes- borrowed; pearls- borrowed; bracelets, earrings- gifts; Coat- Marshallâs
What Oliviaâs Wearing: Swimsuit- Vintage; Boots- Vintage; Necklace- Forever 21; Coat- Thrifted
Some important information about this photo shoot from the bloggerâŚÂ
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Did you miss me? No sweat, lovers. Iâm back. Iâd like to introduce you to a new friend of mine. Her name is Lola Trinity, and sheâs my personal trainer.
I have a little bit of a girl crush on her, even though she makes me do these crazy sit-ups called hammer abs.
Iâm sure you can...
