What Would Crow Friend Do?
I am currently listening to Chatter by Ethan Kross, a book about managing one's own internal voice and self-talk. I haven't finished it yet, but I wanted to write a little entry about an important technique that's already come up in the book. According to research done by Kross and…
Siamese “Cats”
When one is trapped in self-quarantine, I find that one's TV watching tastes tend to veer toward the stupid. Ozark and Killing Eve are great shows, but every time I sit down down to watch them, they just feel so heavy. I've decided to just go with this feeling, so…
Consumer Reports: Native Deodorant
I live in the south, I am a sweaty bitch, and I really, really hate it when I can smell my own pits. Because of these things, I took to wearing Old Spice soft solid in "Steel Courage" scent, a scent that once prompted my mom to stop in her…
Thank You, Red Ball
Saturday, I awoke to a phone full of tornado watch alerts, wondering if it would be wise to try to drive to the first day of my "improv for anxiety" class. This was the first joke of the day, the universe daring a bunch of anxious people to drive in…
Attention Whoring
I once knew someone who thought that anything anyone posted on social media was just "attention whoring." Pictures of a baby? Fishing for likes. Pictures of a cat? Fishing for likes, and also why cats. And let's not even get into selfies or Instagram or people who have YouTube channels.…
Social Media Detox
I recently read Cal Newport's book, Digital Minimalism, and this (and roughly a million other factors) have pointed me in the direction of making January a time for a social media detox. I'm making up my own rules for this, but here's what this means so far: No Facebook, including…
Internet K-Hole: Classic Hip-Hop
Friend: Have you tried the Cheetos cheese puffs?Me: Yes! I like the OG Cheetos better, but they're both tasty.Friend: All these years I've been like what is OG. And that's how I ended up spending the next hour or two bombarding her with classic hip-hop videos, reliving the days when…
Shut Up, Little Voice.
"So, what have you been up to?" my friend asks from behind her plate of pad thai. This is the first time I've seen her since over a month ago, a symptom of everybody being grown up now and time slipping through our fingers until one day we look up…
Publish
I am writing this on my personal laptop, which hasn't been turned on since spring of 2016. Even then it was only used as my TV, living its entire life on a shelf in my bedroom closet, with an HDMI cable connecting it to the wall-mounted TV. The bedroom closet…
Hulu Commercials I Love To Hate
In these troubling times, I find it to be a real palate cleanser to watch old episodes of America's Next Top Model. 2002 was a different time! even haute couture looked kind of shiny and cheap, people wore white eye shadow without a shred of irony, and models refused to…