April 2012
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This week in BuzzFeed FWD: Halp! - "liking"... →
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The 31 Male Republican Senators Who Voted Against...
John Barrasso (R-WY)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Mike Johanns (R-NE)
Tim Johnson (R-WI)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Dick Lugar...
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Things My Best Friend Has Said to Me in the Past...
“No one can see a private blog post, right?”
“Would it work if I pulled my dress down BELOW my bra, if I button my jean jacket over it?”
“I have a weird song in my head. ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,’ from Lion King.”
“I thought you were going to just come chat with me after class, like girlfriends do.”
“We both...
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This week's BuzzFeed advice column involves me... →
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Reassurance
K: I am never ever ever going to make any money, ever.
R: Some people have to wait years and years and years before they sell books. Even Mindy Kaling, when she had to just go out to L.A ...
K: New York.
R: ... New York, and ... do whatever! She made it.
K: You have no idea what you're talking about.
R: I'm just saying that sometimes things become worth way more money after the person who made them has died.
K: So I should just wait until I'm dead.
R: No! I mean probably later on in life, J.K. Rowling is going to find your book in your desk, and she'll be like "what?? how isn't this sold??" and then she'll help you sell it. When you're 80.
K: Why is she going through my things? How old will she be then?
R: I don't know. She's ageless. And then you'll make a fortune, and give half of it to me, and I'll become a model.
K: At 80.
R: Times will be different then.
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The Ministry for Boyfriend Review →
Chiara Atik and I made friends because of The Hairpin and we wrote this quiz up together because we found out that we both self-identify as Judgmental Best Friends. Take it!
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So after ranting and raving about "Girls" all day... →
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I AM SORT OF SICK
of TV shows where the ENTIRE COMEDY of the thing revolves around the female character (or the female characters) being regularly humiliated, or having to have bad sex with her asshole boyfriend whom she stays with for no goddamn reason, or being nasty to her female friends at every turn, or being socially inappropriate, or being clumsy, or eating a lot (LOL), or being wildly irresponsible with her...
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“The Republican-American of Waterbury reports that a person driving in Litchfield...”
– Mystery object seen in sky revealed
So many things to love about this quote and this story! 1) The inclusion of his political affiliation! 2) The use of a whale for comparison size! (What TYPE of whale, though??) 3) The fact that the article reports that this was “a meteor shower.”
I...
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Our Emoticons, Ourselves: An Interview With The... →
I am really excited about this thing that I wrote for BuzzFeed, just posted today! I was writing a piece for them about emoticons and so I just decided to email the inventor of the Internet smiley with some questions, and he responded right away with amazing answers! It was like a proper interview! Most important of all: he agrees with me that you should never use equal signs for your emoticon...
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Cougar Town Recap: A Severed Toe is Always the... →
Cougar Town came back last night and I was like: “eh.” Is there anything worse than feeling unable to love a show that you once loved a whole lot? I mean, yes, obviously. But only barely.
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WatchI can’t stand Sofia Vergara’s whole “I’m just pretty and dumb!!” thing (and girl couldn’t be in any more commercials if she tried), BUT this weekend’s SNL sketch featuring her is pretty good, mostly thanks to Kate McKinnon’s excellent Penelope Cruz impression. Yay! She’s great already!
Side note: how do people do voices like that?? There...
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This week's BuzzFeed advice column talks about... →
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We're apartment hunting
…and so far it is not going great!
Our choices seem to be: small hole WITH cat fur and small hole WITHOUT cat fur.
So! I’m going to take the advice of The Secret (which I’ve never read but whose message I understand to be “ask for something and you get to have it”) and list everything I want for our new place, in the hopes that that place will manifest itself to...
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K: Do you have any questions for my advice column?
R: Ummm.
K: Just anything to do with technology, really.
R: How do you know what's safe to put in the microwave?
K: HAHA WHAT???
R: What?
K: By "technology" I meant, like, the internet. And also, how would that need "advice" ?
R: I don't know, just tell us!
(IN CONCLUSION: Send me your digital etiquette and/or microwave inquiries at katie.fwd@gmail.com.)
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“The Hairpin, the upmarket, intellectual, hipster version of Jezebel, is...”
– Diana Clark, “Growing Up Slowly: Ladyblogs, Womanhood, and Extended Adolescence in the Internet Age.
I like this piece! I especially like this paragraph (except, tiny thing, for the inclusion of the word “hipster,” agh), for obvious reasons. To see my text series included there...
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Makeup is Ruining My Life
Last Friday I went with my mom to this makeup demonstration class thing (that’s its official name) at Nordstrom because her favorite saleslady invited her and told her she could bring me. The class was “free” in that they do not charge you to attend, but it was “not free” in that you do not leave that room without buying makeup.
I knew I was in trouble because the...
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