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Just in time for tonight’s Community…

25 Apr

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…it’s LAST week’s Community! And the Community before that!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I am the WORST. But admit it, you like the excitement of not knowing when I’ll post a recap (in yo’ ass), right? We’re living on the edge here, people.

Truthfully, I hate living on the edge. I was just thinking, actually, about how chaotic, unpredictable people are my least-favorite kind. I was thinking about it in the context of The Bling Ring, which I am OBSESSED with seeing. The kind of people in it are the kind who have always made me feel unsafe (and not just because they might rob me), but because they seem so…unstable and OMG WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NEXT??? They also seem kind of trouble-for-trouble’s-sakey. Every once in a while growing up someone like that would materialize, and though they were kind of seductive at first, I eventually realized that they BUGGED me OUT.

Wow, that was a super tangenty tangent. Anyway, enjoy these recaps, y’all! I’ll be back AT SOME POINT with another one!

Last night’s Community was the greatest since the Holocaust!

5 Apr

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You guys, that headline was total linkbait. What I mean, of course, is that last night’s episode was the best one this season since the episode wherein Greendale was turned into a concentration camp (or wasn’t, if you’re one of the many Holocaust-episode deniers out there, and if you are one of those, then you, my friend, are a jerk and also, you don’t understand metaphors or television). I just loved it. Funny and sweet and ultra-super-high-jinksy. If you haven’t watched it yet, do. And then head over to Laughspin.com to check out my recap.

PS: That’s the dean dressed as what I thought was Donna Reed in The Warriors but (thanks to my Laughspin editor and friend Dylan) I now know is actually Donna Reed in black and white. Makes more sense.

I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you READ MY BLOG POST.

21 Dec

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Hi, everyone! Congrats on surviving the apocalypse! (Unless you didn’t, in which case, I’M SORRY. I hope my blog provides you much comfort and diversion in the post-apocalyptic world, and I hope the real-life version of things isn’t anything like Cormac McCarthy’s.)

I wrote this little thingy for Gizmodo about losing stuff (see: self-deprecating red-herring blog title up top). Thanks to my dear friend Megan Gilbert, Gawker copy writer extraordinaire, for inviting me to participate. Check out my  pal Dylan Gadino, EIC of Laughspin.com, my musician-writer friend Rebecca Keith and gobs of other talented folks as we tell our tales of loserdom.

The Day My Shrink Told Me to Change My Personality

27 Aug

Hi, you guys! I have once again been derelict in my blogging duties (blame summer, work, laziness and a DVR queue of Law & Order: SVU I don’t think I’ll ever make my way through). Today I’m excited to share my latest essay for The Hairpin, about the day my therapist *politely* suggested I try to be a *tad* less sarcastic with blokes I’m trying to snag. Not the worst advice I’ve ever gotten. Witness me mulling it over here. I adore The Hairpin (and was lucky enough to have its brother site The Awl pick it up, too), so I’m thrilled! Hopefully you will be, too. (And if you’re not, there’s a comments section for that. Step into it, if you dare.)

Family Guy’s Bid for Bloated Brentwood Jews.

31 May

Hey, y’all. Please check out my latest piece in Heeb magazine, on Seth Macfarlane’s questionable Emmy ad.

Nicki is an N-word, but not that one.

24 May

Hey, guys! Please check out my latest piece, on the egregious bleeping of Nicki Minaj’s “Starships,” in Heeb magazine. Thanks for reading!

The Hairpin!

22 May

Hi, guys! I’m coming to you live from St. Bart’s, where an incredible vacation got even better today, with my essay “Absolute Transparency, or Love in the Time of Google,” being published on The Hairpin, a super-cool site I could gush about all day. I’d love it if you’d mosey on over there to check it out–and poke around the site while you’re there. You won’t be disappointed!

xo c.

Annnnnd…scene!

21 May

Thursday night was Community‘s epic three-episode season finale—and I recapped it in all my cracked-out, exhausted, had-t0-be-up-at-3:30-for-a-flight glory. It was really fun! Check out the result on Laughspin.com, won’t you?

And see you in the fall, Human Beings!

xo c.

I ruin the hell out of Shutter Island in my recap this week

14 May

I wanted to warn you because I already effectively spoiled that movie for one friend tonight (sorry, Dylan), and I wanted you to read cautiously before I give it away that LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS TOTALLY DEAD IN SHUTTER ISLAND!!! Hahaha, JK. That’s Sixth Sense, you guys. Fuck. Anybody not seen Sixth Sense yet? I mean, it’s like a decade old, people. What the hell are you waiting for?

ANYWAY, head on over to Laughspin.com to check out my recap of the latest episode of Community, won’t you?

Only three more eps this season, you guys, which means I’m going to have to find less organic ways to ruin movies for you.

xo c.

Just in time for this week’s Community recap…

12 May

it’s LAST week’s Community recap! Enjoy!

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