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SICK STYLE: ON MEDICAL ALERT BRACELETS
Lo: When my mom and I were looking for medical alert bracelets on etsy some of them were just STRAIGHT UP shrinky dinks
Me: I feel like medical teams ON ALERT would not notice your shrinky dink bracelet?
Me: Or maybe they would be alerted to the fact that YOU ARE DOWN WITH CRAFTING?
Lo: Look at this one.
Me: That looks like the Southwestern interpretation of a snowflake.
Lo: I’m alerting you to my Tex Mex sensibilities. I’m alerting you to the fact that I’m an assistant manager over at the Chili’s.
Me: I am alerting you to The Divine Secrets of the Chipotle Sisterhood.
“Voices join in sadness and joy and tell again what we already know, have always known but forget, from way back in the farthest cove, from highest on the peaks of love.”
- From Mountain Dulcimer by Robert Morgan
This city I occupy is on my mind every day, but especially today. Keep us in your thoughts, okay?
Next Kindle imprint
Why have a news feed when I can just text you the important highlights of the day?
At this point, I’m starting to suspect that Facebook has teamed up with Pinterest to test the limits of my aesthetic patience.
If there’s a media conspiracy, at least it’s a social one.
I may die in Kansas on a cloudless day—one
of those wholesome weekends
between wheat conventions and gun shows
glazed over with plenty,
I may simply buckle
beneath the gold-flecked eyes of a carhop,
grasp at the little window tray
and never rise again.
The living blue of the sky
will no longer glance off my body,
my lips assume the tinge of Welch’s grape juice,
my food grow cold.
These will bear witness to me:
twenty distracted tee-ball players
in three different makes of minivan.
Mark Cox will be dying. I will want
to utter “ambulance” as a last word on earth,
but it will sound like “ambitious.”
I will want to say “my heart”
but it will sound like “my art.”
I will not want to leave you, love.
Our son, even if grown,
will be inching up the stair rail—shin-deep
in my workboots,
he will be going up
while I am going down
and like a snapping turtle in a $2.00 butterfly net,
I will refuse the new world.
I will not want to leave my shirts emptied
over the backs of chairs,
I will not want to leave my toothbrush
leaning dry against yours,
I will have to be taken from you, love,
carried off by strong men
whose fathers sowed the grain fields around me,
it will take three of them, love,
I will remain so heavy with need for you,
so stubbornly loyal,
and even though I will be no more
than a quickly scrawled number next to the phone,
no more than a last breath not fully exhaled,
I will root myself in this earth of ours.
I will not rise through the air
nor dissolve into ground water,
I will not yearn for release
nor turn my face to the sky.
I will have to be taken on my side, love,
the way we lay together
when I was alive.
- Mark Cox
Happy Crohn’s Disease Awareness Day! It’s okay, I know you meant to get me a card.
Welcome to the first installment of Sick Style. I made you a colorboard based on a few of the little friends that keep me going everyday, minus a monthly intravenous infusion that is quite transparent.
I’ll let you know when they come up with an Ankylosing Spondylitis Awareness Day. Until then, I’m taking colorboard requests. Let’s chalk it up to art therapy. Visualize autoimmune disease.
TGIFeelings: A Mix for Friday, May 18th, 2012
The weather can’t make up it’s mind. You’re still battling that spring cold. Are you going out tonight? It stays light so late these days, doesn’t it? Ease into Friday with this mix. It pairs well with a white whine spritzer and those eyeliner decals you’ve been too afraid to try. Put down the scissors. Don’t cut your own bangs. That’s better.
Listen here. Recipe below.
White Whine Spritzer
Ingredients
- Crushed ice cubes
- Hopes and dreams
- The best years of your life
- That white wine from Trader Joe’s with the smiley face on it
- A splash of club soda
- Frozen fruit chunks from the back of the freezer
The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t want to date is a circle.
Today in smart advice from smart men for smart young women.
- George: Do you have the animal heads from West Elm?
- Me: My apartment is animal head free, but I'm going to buy one of their expensive stumps.
- George: the hippo is so cute, though!
- Me: I just feel like there are so many animal heads in this world?
- George: You'll give in, they always do.
- Me: I don't just want to be another girl with a terrarium, you know? Or just another kid with an owl collection.
- George: Owl hairballs. Owl pellets.
- Me: I don't want to be the girl with the owls. I want to be the woman with the mouse skeletons from INSIDE their pellets.
I have never had a driver’s license. I have always had two mothers. As opposed to dismissing my utter fear of driving, I like to believe that this attachment to public transit was born out of a deeper history. I began with a bus. Or rather, a fleet of them. My parents drove trolleys. It was a good way to meet girls and they got to wear uniforms while navigating the steep hills of Seattle.
I have a piece up over at The Hairpin just in time for Mother’s Day. Go read. It would make my mothers so happy.
Fine. I’m writing a piece about my lesbian mothers and I went to Montessori school and I have no idea how to spell. Okay?
- Me: We need to rectify our meat situation.
- Me: That is the dirtiest thing I've typed all day.
- Jacob: ...
After walking past broken bank windows, a paint-bombed American Apparel and police officers in riot gear on my way home this afternoon, this photo seems appropriate.
I shot it last year at Gasworks Park on a much calmer day.
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Leonard Cohen - Suzanne Oh Leonard, cheer up. It’s not that bad.47 plays
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The Tallest Man On Earth - I Want You (Bob Dylan Cover) For romance.402 plays
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First Aid Kit - Emmylou Back in 2008 I would stare wistfully out from my desk and through the open door of the office next to mine to catch a glimpse of the outside while listening to this Swedish sister-duo cover Tiger Mountain Peasant Song over and over again. I think the three of us have done quite well for ourselves since then.1165 plays
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Bill Cosby The chances of this existing and being authentic (it is) are so small that it gives me a certain kind of hope. If Bill Cosby can cover The Beatles live with such mumbling gusto then anything is possible. Anything.2152 plays
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I first heard Etta James while buckled into my aunt’s truck during a particularly cold Seattle winter. The heat blasted as I struggled to stay awake. I was 6. NPR was playing. Saturday night jazz. Her voice was beautiful, but I couldn’t understand why she was repeating “battleaxe” over and over again. The song was At Last. In 10th grade Laura Saffioti gave me Etta James’ greatest hits for Valentine’s Day. She just understands, she explained, sitting on the dirty carpet of the theater building lobby, looking out on The Wall, where the objects of our affection wore wallet chains and pushed their greasy hair out of their eyes. I moved across the country and into my first apartment after college graduation. It was essentially a barn with no kitchen, 20 foot ceilings, and no door to the bathroom. It did, however, have a blue clawfoot bathtub. I would get home from a long day of feeling entirely inadequate and put I’d Rather Go Blind on loop while sitting in the tub. She always understood.6579 plays
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[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e.e. cummingsRead by Heath LedgerWho gave this poem to every significant other? First written on notebook paper, then maybe in a long-distance email. Maybe written in Sharpie on the origami duct-taped liner notes of a playlist passed between breathless car rides, someone’s hand on someone else’s knee or maybe just behind their headrest as one backs out of a parking lot. Maybe read at the wedding of the friend who gets married in a tiara, or gets married too young, or doesn’t know how to properly lose all faith in the human race from time to time. Who needs a good cry and a solid accented flashback on Monday morning? You? Yes, I thought so. Hit play. Here’s e.e. cummings read by Heath Ledger.39447 plays
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Joe Cocker - Bye, Bye, Blackbird And with that, goodnight.30 plays
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Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. He would have been 66. I can remember him at a holiday party when I was about nine, tossing back handfuls of Gardetto’s mix and telling me about the 60’s. He loved Jefferson Airplane. He once interviewed Joan Baez. This song came before that. In 1961 he was 16 and waiting to leave home. It came on the radio last night as I was heading back to my apartment.22 plays
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Come Around - M.I.A. featuring Timbaland I casually put this on a mix two months ago and now it’s all there is as the late-summer afternoon stretches into evening and Monday looms in the distance. 2:49.30 plays
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Ballad of Bitter Honey - Eef Barzelay Awhile back my buddy Scott donated ten bucks to have Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide play and re-record a few songs for him. This was one. That was my ass you saw bouncing Next to Ludacris It was only on screen for a second But it was kinda hard to miss And all those other hoochie skanks They ain’t got shit on me And one of Nelly’s bodyguards He totally agreed. I’ve been alternating between this, Ginuwine and Frank Ocean all day. It’s a good mix.10 plays
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Animal - Javier Dunn (originally by Miike Snow) Sunday, this song is for you. Via copycats. Download over here.8281 plays
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Take Off Your Sunglasses - Ezra Furman and the Harpoons “Everybody loves everybody these days.” I made a mix for the Fourth of July. This song is holding court at number two, swimming between Empire State of Mind and Get A Move On. Katy Perry’s Firework is on there, too, but only out of obligation to the holiday, you know? (via coketalk)2438 plays
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From the Archives: Things Were Getting Dark Around Here Last August I’ll admit I discovered this cover before encountering the original Velvet Underground track. The whole thing is barely a cover, anyway. Like most of the tracks on this album, Chan Marshall launches into song intent on building you a seven layer dip comprised of nostalgia, heartache, insomnia, loss, longing, and empathy topped off with a last minute zest of instability. The citrus of manic depression just adds something to the dish. Trust me. I warmed the tortillas myself. After Chan’s pining and urging, The Velvet Underground’s original becomes the heart warmer on your iPod wedding playlist. Lou Reed is gently winking at your new father in law as you make slow turns around the room with your formerly betrothed. Cat Power is for coming home to someone on public transportation. A month or two before you have the big talk and one of you decides to leave. It’s raining and the bus smells like a recycled fart but there’s some good tv on that night and he’ll be in a rare happy mood. Nothing is certain but this is the song playing in your ear buds while the frayed cord makes everything sound like vinyl. Or perhaps this is the background track for when you’re scrawling your name in blood on his walls. It could be his blood. It could be yours. Perhaps you’ll have quesadillas for dinner. Be sure to add that hint of lime. Suggested listening: Alanis Morissette’s Your House. Thank goodness I’ve since perked myself up. Now go listen to this one and take a little nap, dear ones.333 plays
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I Want You To Want Me - Damhnait Doyle Packing the entirety of my possessions to this song is not as emotionally damaging as it seems. It meets all of my requirements for a solid cover, minus when the beat kicks in and she briefly heads towards jazzy Shania-Twain-Canadian-Casino-Days territory around 1:16. Things settle down again towards the end. Stay with it.180 plays
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This Year - The Mountain Goats My medication pushes me out of sleep every three hours or so. I’m finally used to it. Enough so that it’s comforting to wake with certainty that nearly everyone I love on this earth is either asleep or safely tucked indoors. At one, New York and New England are enjoying a few final hours before alarms start firing off morning greetings. By four, my west coast neighbors have fallen off into dreamland. We all have to rest at some point, and I’m proud of us for waking up each morning and trying again. This song is for days when you’re not so sure. I can’t keep airplanes in flight with my sleepless mind alone, but I can try.232 plays
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Graceland (Cover) - The Tallest Man On Earth As if I didn’t know my own bed.31 plays
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Dolly Parton — 9-5 This can be heard in my head each morning as I stand in the shower and the “blood starts pumping.” Today was no exception.20 plays
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Fucked Me Right Up - Sean Hayes Things that happened today: I was referred to as a “humorless Cathy comic.” I farted and coughed so loud simultaneously at my desk that I am still unsure if the cough was louder than the fart or vice versa. I finished that course of antibiotics I’ve been on to treat a mean case of pneumonia. I fantasized about packing all of my things and moving back to my old neighborhood, to a 600 square foot studio apartment above a cupcake shop. The price is astronomical, but I would live a simple, minimalist existence during the day and steal frosting at night. Dogs allowed. Things that are happening right now: My roommate/ex-boyfriend is unironically listening to the Bare Naked Ladies. So allow me to present this song: for when the day needs to be done and you might have a few tears left to shake out.12 plays
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penny and the quarters — you and me Just in case you needed a good cry.330 plays
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Regina Spektor - December240 plays
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@lackofvitaminD - this is why we cherish dear @whitneyricketts.
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While we're on the topic, I saw a "documentary" on REAL MERMAIDS on Animal Planet that really messed me up recently.
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When your boyfriend googles King Tut to see if the actual mummy travels with the show because you harbor leftover fears from 1st grade.
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Gorgeous lady! I'm sporting American Cheese nails currently. http://t.co/Lif6HEKF
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I pretend I know what I'm doing, but honestly most of this is fueled by listening to Call Me Maybe on loop.
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@maggim - I. Just. Can't. I cannot. Even. What? Auuuuugh. #feministcrisis #getthesewomentoaredtent #riotsnot50SoG
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@maggim - No! And now I can't find them. Help! I need my daily dose of private-label Twilight fan fiction.
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@maggim @whitneyricketts - The content was so intense she missed her stop! #waybetterthan50ShadesOfGrey
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@L_Hoff @whitneyricketts - COME HERE PUDDING FRIENDS.
Profile
Summary
I'm a writer, blogger and social media specialist focused on culture and design.
Experience
- Nov 2011 - PresentMarketing / Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Co.
- Oct 2002 - PresentBlogger / One More Salute to Vanitywww.onemoresalute.com
- Apr 2010 - PresentMarketing and Social Media Specialist, Writer / The Hartman GroupI write about food and culture and how the two collide. Most of the time you can find me over at HartmanSalt, the Hartman Group's food publication, dishing up the latest in all things edible and drinkable.
- Aug 2009 - PresentMarketing Coordinator / Studio SChttp://blog.studio-sc.com Studio SC is a collective of graphic designers located in the heart of Pioneer Square. We specialize in wayfinding and environmental graphic design and are interested in creating dialogues between people and their environments.
- May 2007 - PresentSocial Media Coordinator and Blogger / The Hartman Grouphttp://spark.hartman-group.com Managed branding and company presence online. Composed and managed all content for company blog. Developed interactive web application centered around shopping and social networking. Collaborated with ethnographic researchers to provide insight into consumer trends both in the field and online. Interviewed, videotaped and reported on consumer lifestyle for clients. Designed presentation materials. Created interactive slideshow presentations as well as video pieces.
- Sept 2006 - PresentEditorial Assistant, Executive Assistant / Amazon.comMember of the editing team for the Amazon Kindle at launch. Managed a variety of editorial tasks, including content editing and proofreading. Provided assistance to multiple directors.
- Sept 2005 - PresentGallery Coordinator / Smith CollegeWorked with a diverse group of artists and organizations in order to develop gallery exhibitions. Coordinated gallery openings. Curated shows. Designed advertising materials and layouts for events. Documented gallery activity. Utilized networking skills to maintain relationships with clients and encouraged the use of the gallery as a community resource.
- Sept 2002 - PresentDJ / WOZQ 91.9FMProvided bumping jams and insightful commentary to the Pioneer Valley community.
- May 2005 - PresentEvent Coordinator / Ciel EventsManaged a variety of events including weddings and corporate parties. Utilized knowledge of design to create advertising materials as well as overall event themes. Developed and maintained company blog. Designed company display for the Seattle Wedding Show.
Education
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2002 - 2006Smith CollegeEnglish Language and Literature
