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May 19, 11:10 PM

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. 

May 18, 08:17 PM

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
Directions
Place in an unbreakable chalice. Sip slowly while staring into the mirror and listening to The Chain. Garnish with a fringed scarf or silken kaftan. Hit repeat. 
May 18, 12:37 AM
The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t want to date is a circle.

John Green

Today in smart advice from smart men for smart young women. 

May 14, 10:09 PM
Manic Pixie Nightmare Lady
  • 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.
May 13, 09:38 PM

Happy Mothers’ Day. 

May 11, 05:09 PM

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.  

May 10, 06:33 AM

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? 

May 10, 01:05 AM

I thought he’d never ask. 

May 03, 11:03 PM
My suicide note will read "could no longer talk about what we should do for dinner."
  • Me: We need to rectify our meat situation.
  • Me: That is the dirtiest thing I've typed all day.
  • Jacob: ...
May 03, 01:52 AM

The Tallest Man On Earth - I Want You (Bob Dylan Cover) 

For romance. 

May 01, 11:23 PM

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. 

April 27, 09:49 PM

TGIF, am I right, you guys?

April 27, 06:50 AM
But what’s needier than turning your life into one endless Sally Jesse Raphael makeover episode? What’s more helpless than carving yourself out of some dude’s janky old rib? That is the opposite of finding an actual person who might actually love you. So stop it. You are not “too” anything for anyone. Be a person. Hang out with people. Do what you want and you’ll get what you want. Giving up on other people’s expectations isn’t settling—it’s demanding what you fucking deserve.

Lindy West, as ever. 

Let’s show off our people skills and love each other, boys and girls. 

April 26, 12:12 AM

Today I turned 28. Things are pretty much the same as above. 

April 22, 02:28 AM

Postcard from Portland. Wish you were here.

April 19, 11:12 PM
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
April 17, 02:09 AM

Me: Mason jars are so over.

Nick: What are the new jars?

Me: Cupped hands are the new Mason jars. Back to basics, you know?

Nick: Pour this wine into my palm.

April 16, 05:17 AM

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. 

April 12, 03:55 PM

These nails want you to know: 

  1. That “patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate.”
  2. We have a few ideas for Google Labs. 
  3. They’re definitely looking forward to actualizing this brilliant idea in warmer weather. 
  4. My 28th year is fast approaching meaning we’ve been typing away at this blog for nearly a full decade. 
  5. You’re all invited to my birthday, okay? 
April 11, 03:53 PM

This is what a feminist looks like. 

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  • The Tallest Man On Earth - I Want You (Bob Dylan Cover) For romance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • Joe Cocker - Bye, Bye, Blackbird And with that, goodnight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • Animal - Javier Dunn (originally by Miike Snow) Sunday, this song is for you. Via copycats. Download over here.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
    230 plays
  • Graceland (Cover) - The Tallest Man On Earth As if I didn’t know my own bed.
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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.
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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.
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  • penny and the quarters — you and me Just in case you needed a good cry.
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  • Regina Spektor - December
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  • Peter Gabriel — Book of Love I appear to be collecting versions of this song. Yes, I am posting Peter Gabriel at 8pm on a Sunday night. Because this song is entirely too sad and too touching and no one understands and you’re not my mom and I’m shuffling off to my room to listen to Delilah.
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Drew Zandonella-Stannard
Marketing at Caffe Vita Roasting Co.
Marketing and Advertising | Greater Seattle Area, US

Summary

Woman about the Internet.

I'm a writer, blogger and social media specialist focused on culture and design.
Specialties: Web technologies, blogging, branding & identity, visual design.

Experience

  • Nov 2011 - Present
    Marketing / Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Co.
  • Oct 2002 - Present
    Blogger / One More Salute to Vanity
    www.onemoresalute.com
  • Apr 2010 - Present
    Marketing and Social Media Specialist, Writer / The Hartman Group
    I 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 - Present
    Marketing Coordinator / Studio SC
    http://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 - Present
    Social Media Coordinator and Blogger / The Hartman Group
    http://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 - Present
    Editorial Assistant, Executive Assistant / Amazon.com
    Member 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 - Present
    Gallery Coordinator / Smith College
    Worked 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 - Present
    DJ / WOZQ 91.9FM
    Provided bumping jams and insightful commentary to the Pioneer Valley community.
  • May 2005 - Present
    Event Coordinator / Ciel Events
    Managed 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

  • 2002 - 2006
    Smith College
    English Language and Literature

Additional Information

Websites:
My Company's Website, Personal Website, Blog
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