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You can get this issue for FREE by clicking here. Happy New Year! Let’s make it a good one.

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PSA.

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A LIST! mental_floss magazine's 2014 must-read longreads

Oh hi. It's a slushy Saturday so I made a list of my favorite stories published in mental_floss magazine in 2014.* 

How Moby Dick (and a bromance gone bad) wrecked Herman Melville's life

A pretty amazing gun-toting bike-riding rock-studying First Lady

What's really going on underground at a forensic "body farm"?

The woman who mapped the Atlantic ocean

The time HP Lovecraft was a total weirdo

A Brief History of Jeopardy!

The single mom who turned Tupperware into an empire

John Cage's best zen-dada rant against Muzak

The Twilight Zone was actually a political manifesto 

The psychic vision that unearthed the bones of Richard III

How a chicken farmer turned spy helped the Allies win WWII

An architect invented the Air Jordan

25 Years of Do The Right Thing

What scientists will do to save the whooping crane

Patricia Highsmith was such a badass

Daniel Radcliffe is so cute

* Better late than never, right? It was a busy year. This is my first tumbl in 11 months. Hi.

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Awesome as the internet may be, you still can't use it as a coaster.

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Carrie Brownstein Rules at Everything

Our conversation with the indie rocker turned Portlandia star, who’s working on a new album and really good at ping-pong.

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"I started extemporizing slam poems in jest and then started to get pretty good at them.” 

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Just Think

Maxing poolside in her retirement community, your grandma could be talking shit about your wedding right now.

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Volume 1, Issue 1: See the Very First Issue of 19 Popular Magazines

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Small Talk

Some guy, age 43, told some girl, age 33, that she looked like she was 23, and this is what suffices for small talk.

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but how does ollie feel about mark harmon??

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When did I become someone who expects people to show me their tits for a pint of raw ice cream, I wondered, who would stand by silent while others are in danger of UNKNOWINGLY CONSUMING DOG SALIVA?

The Morning News has an excerpt from my new e-book How to Be a Playgirl. 

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Print heds 4ever.

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Did I ever tell you about the time I worked at Playgirl? 

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Yes, this is my new Stevie Nicks sailor tattoo.

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And they say the youth of today are the indulged ones.

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Ok I can retire now.

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HI! (We’re still here!) And we’re going to be HERE, at the Brooklyn ZIne Fest, this Sunday. Come say HI! 

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Sometimes you forget all about Tumblr, and sometimes Tumblr forgets all about you.

mundane modern maxims

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In three words—Love's Baby Soft—you can say a lot about "youth," and also, importantly, viscerally: "my youth!" You can capture something of "late-century America" and a little bit of wistful "hope." Innocence and exploitation? Sure. But the most important thing there was, then, in that bottle was the extraordinary capacity for the cultivation of self.

On sexy babies, the 70s, and Britney Spears, among other things.