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Who are you?

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Who are you?Books

by Jodi on 06.Feb.13 with 4 comments

After listening to all seventeen hours and fifty-six minutes of Pete Townshend’s autobiography I felt as though I deserved some kind of merit badge. Or a cookie. A reward was definitely in order because, man, this was one long-ass listen (the hardcover weighs in at 544 pages). I’m not sure what kind of fan of …

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Knocked Up

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Knocked UpBooks

by Jodi on 21.Jun.12 with 2 comments

One of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live moments is a Debbie Downer sketch where Rachel Dratch biffs a line and the rest of the people in the sketch — Amy Poehler, Lindsay Lohan, Horatio Sanz, and Jimmy Fallon — lose their shit. At one point Horatio Sanz is laughing so hard he has to …

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Badass

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BadassBooks

by Jodi on 02.May.12 with 2 comments

Sunday as I finished Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail I kind of sighed sadly and wished this book had been around when I was a young twentysomething woman. While the story is uniquely Strayed’s the meaning, the lesson, the whathaveyou feels universal. Mostly it’s this: you are …

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The Book of DrugsBooks, Music

by Jodi on 08.Feb.12 with 1 comments

I’m a big believer in that adage about not meeting your heroes because they’ll just disappoint you. The same can probably be said about reading memoirs by your heroes. Ignorance really is bliss, people. What we need here is a word for being compelled to do something you know is going to break your heart. …

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