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if i could see all my friends tonight

Posted by lyn | Jan 27, 2011 | everyday life | 34

It was long past midnight on New Year’s, and I was slumped over on a chair, legs dangling...

in which i curse my overactive imagination

Posted by lyn | Jan 27, 2011 | true story | 8

So this morning while I was getting ready for work I started thinking about the T.V. show Intervention, and I started replaying the end of this one episode in my head where the sister and brother and father read their heartfelt...

the wrong way

Posted by lyn | Jan 26, 2011 | rant | 4

I was reading the latest Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone at the gym this morning when these three paragraphs hit me square in the chest [bolded emphasis mine]: Another Ohio Democrat, Steve Driehaus, clashed repeatedly with...

firsts

Posted by lyn | Jan 25, 2011 | favorites, true story | 8

I was on my seventh circuit around the kitchen table. Past the rotary telephone mounted on the...

fuck yeah, fist pump, high five

Posted by lyn | Jan 24, 2011 | jokes | 16

“Did she just say she wants a juicehead gorilla?” the beau asked, in reference to...

mixtape 11: 1992

Posted by lyn | Jan 21, 2011 | mixtape masters | 5

The summer between sixth and seventh grade, my mom and I moved down south to join my dad, who had already settled into his new assignment ahead of us. I saw the move as my chance at reinvention. An opportunity to shed my...

just wait’ll you see my fair market value

Posted by lyn | Jan 20, 2011 | rant | 29

Once you are married, your uterus — which all your single life has been a privately held company — goes public. Suddenly everyone fancies themselves shareholders and has ideas to pitch on the future of the, uh,...

what i should have said

Posted by lyn | Jan 18, 2011 | true story | 19

SCENE Fifth grade. I am standing in a courtyard between buildings. I am wearing glasses, a white and red t-shirt printed with illustrated dalmatian puppies and hearts, and pink cotton leggings tucked into purposefully mismatched...

inside out

Posted by lyn | Jan 17, 2011 | musings | 6

When you travel by train, you see everything cars don’t. You see what people try to hide, like...

mixtape 10: americanos

Posted by lyn | Jan 14, 2011 | mixtape masters | 5

Speaking of America… Bad Religion — American DreamTom Petty — American GirlTrisha Yearwood — An American Girl (Xs and Os)Wilco — Ashes of American FlagsGogol Bordello — American WeddingLos...

soulless

Posted by lyn | Jan 13, 2011 | musings | 5

Yesterday the link to this site was getting passed around the intertubes like some kind of virtual...

going to america

Posted by lyn | Jan 12, 2011 | true story | 22

When I was six, my parents and I moved back to the U.S. after being stationed in Germany for three years. What followed was a sincere attempt on the part of our extended family to reassimilate us into American pop culture,...

Year: 2011