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Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.

Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!

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Jan 19, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #254: For That Secret Knowledge Of Which Dykes To Watch Out For

Topics include Missy Elliot, donuts, sexual harassment at the Ford plant, Valerie Solanas, Silicon Valley orgies, murder, “clean eating,” paper and so much more!

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Jan 5, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #253: Surrendering To The Trash Aesthetic

Topics include screwed millenials, America Online going offline, lana del ray / the love witch / i love dick, the reckoning, photo-editing apps, wrongly accused, Plimouth Plantation, the most hated…

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Dec 22, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #252: I Loved the Helpless People I Loved

Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!

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Dec 8, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #251: To Stand in a Shadowless Field in Three Layers of Tweed

Topics include being Midwestern, Second Life, restorative nostalgia, getting an abortion in South Dakota, Chuck E Cheese, Andrew Cunanan, Manson bloggers and so much more!

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Nov 24, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #250: Their Weirdness Gives Them Psychic Powers and Untouchable Brilliance

In addition to telling you about this app I like, this week’s TIRTL involves stories on topics including Harvey Weinstein, a thriving small town in Iowa, girls doing murder in…

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Nov 10, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #249: Ceiling Fans They Can Swing From Or Whatever.

Topics include Cher, Oxy, Mattresses, Cape Coral, Mackenzie Davis, TGI Fridays, TV finales, Tiny House Hunters and more!

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Oct 27, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.

Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!

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Oct 13, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #247: A Pit of Pink Snakes That Will Inject Me With Pink Venom

Topics include group chat, murder, Jamaica High School, Rosé, Basic Instinct, libraries, the injustice of the criminal justice system, why cops shoot and more.

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Sep 29, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable

Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer,…

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Sep 15, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise

Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!

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Sep 1, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.

Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.

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Aug 18, 2017