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Things I Read That I Love #267: The Internet Can Turn a Stupid Flirtation Into The Age of Godd*mn Innocence If You Let It

Topics include tumblr, reading Joan Didion in California restaurants, Death Valley, Smarties, crime reporting, Johnny Depp, murder, murder and murder!

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Jul 6, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #266: A Wikipedia-Hole From Which I Barely Emerged Alive.

Topics include Netflix, a convenient dinner, surprisingly a lot of hockey, SKAM Austin, Queer Eye, chicken tenders, kissing, the new Mormans, Netflix, Vice, OneTaste, and more!

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Jun 22, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing

Topics include Christian films, NXivm, Caitlyn Jenner, Sesame Street, blood stain pattern analysis, XXXTentacion, The Real World, con-artist Anna Delvey, plus-size clothing and so much more!

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Jun 8, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #264: Your Body Was Just Goofing Off and Drinking Sugar

Topics include journalism, Gloria Allred, Joan Didion, Ryan Murphy, MURDER, We Rate Dogs, Reading Rainbow, Raffi, movies about qpoc, internet writing, Action Park and more!

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May 25, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #263: Spindly and Unkempt as a Manson Girl

Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!

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May 11, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #262: Blue Is In Fashion This Year

Topics include weight loss surgery, murder, writer’s block, algorithms for style, David Foster Wallace, The Grenfell Tower fire, how bad Troy sucks in “Reality Bites,” deaf culture and so much…

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Apr 27, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #261: There’s Some Stuff They’d Just Never Do In Their Hometown

Topics include a gun owner thinking twice, bachelorette parties in Nashville, sex in the ’90s, John Hughes, fighting aging with skincare, childhood sexual abuse, Joan Didion, Cardi B and more!

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Apr 13, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #260: “Fuck” Can Hammer Home A Feeling

Topics include Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, swear words in poetry, pain patients suffering due to crackdowns against opioid addicts, Disney/MGM Studios Backlot Tour, Cambridge Analytica, Hollywood child molesters, why the…

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Mar 30, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #259: The Chardonnay Wedged Between the Orange Juice and the Mayonnaise.

Topics include Chili’s, writing after/through recovery, Andrew Lloyd Weber, alcoholism, “the male glance,” Trump’s Miss Universe gambit, co-living and so much more!

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Mar 16, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #258: I Have A Date Tonight Would You Like To Go Shopping

Topics include malls, possible murder, the kids of Ferguson, the NRA in Florida, Barbie v Bratz, farming through the California drought, the worst roommate ever, Black Panther and more!

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Mar 2, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #257: Icarus Falls From The Sky While Someone Else Swipes Right

Topics include campus sexual assault, behind-the-scenes footage, Black Panther, vintage sexual harassment, breakups & heartbreak & museums, murder, picky eaters, why are millennials so into astrology and more!

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Feb 16, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #256: Wearing Uniqlo Longjohns As Outside People Clothes

Topics include Dawson’s Creek, The Awl, Soulcycle, Negroni Season, Justin Timberlake in the woods, health care, “Rude,” The New York Times’ Style Section, RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more!

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Feb 2, 2018