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Cupcakes – Creativity’s Antagonist
“Is there anything more blandly sweet, less evocative of this great city, and more goyish than any other baked good with the possible exception of Eucharist wafers than a cupcake?” – David Rakoff...
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‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel’ by David Rakoff
I wish I could buy everyone David Rakoff‘s latest (and sadly last) book: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel. Those of you familiar with David Rakoff’s writing know that for the...
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Happy 132nd Birthday Maurice Utrillo
Today is the 132nd birthday of the French artist Maurice Utrillo. His art is most widely recognized due to the reproductions into post cards of the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The paintings are...
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Happy 84th Birthday Anthony Perkins
Today is the 84th birthday of the actor/director/singer Anthony Perkins. You’ve obviously seen Psycho, but have you seen Pretty Poison or Murder on the Orient Express? Those films will give you a...
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Happy 83rd Birthday Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld turns 83 in human earth years today. History has shown us that you can be a genius and a monster at the same time. We have examples of the various perversions and mutations of the...
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Happy 52nd Birthday David Rakoff
Today is David Rakoff‘s 52nd birthday. He is quite possibly the wittiest writer we have seen this century. The 2oth century had Dorothy Parker and the 21st had David Rakoff. He has also had the...
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‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel’ by David Rakoff
I wish I could buy everyone David Rakoff‘s latest (and sadly last) book: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel. Those of you familiar with David Rakoff’s writing know that for the...
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Happy 133rd Birthday Maurice Utrillo
Today is the 133rd birthday of the French artist Maurice Utrillo. His art is most widely recognized due to the reproductions into post cards of the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The paintings are...
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47 Questions Answered
This year, I am answering 47 questions that I found on the internet by googling “questions to ask” and pulling them from a bunch of different sites. I have put them in a random order on purpose...
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Happy 79th Birthday Peter Hill Beard
Today is the 79th birthday of the artist Peter Hill Beard. His art is beautiful and has served a dual purpose as a call to African wildlife conservation. He is a life-long journal writer and his...
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Happy 85th Birthday Anthony Perkins
Today is the 54th birthday of the actor/director/singer Anthony Perkins. You’ve obviously seen Psycho, but have you seen Pretty Poison or Murder on the Orient Express? Those films will give you a...
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Happy 53rd Birthday David Rakoff
Today is David Rakoff‘s 53rd birthday. He is quite possibly the wittiest writer we have seen this century. The 2oth century had Dorothy Parker and the 21st had David Rakoff. He has also had the...
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Happy 134th Birthday Maurice Utrillo
Today is the 134th birthday of the French artist Maurice Utrillo. His art is most widely recognized due to the reproductions into post cards of the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The paintings are...
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48 Questions Answered
This year, I am answering 48 questions(I re-answered and added one from last year’s list) that I found on the internet by googling “questions to ask” and pulling them from a bunch of different sites....
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Happy 80th Birthday Peter Hill Beard
Today is the 80th birthday of the artist Peter Hill Beard. His art is beautiful and has served a dual purpose as a call to African wildlife conservation. He is a life-long journal writer and his...
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Happy 86th Birthday Anthony Perkins
Today is the 86th birthday of the actor/director/singer Anthony Perkins. You’ve obviously seen Psycho, but have you seen Pretty Poison or Murder on the Orient Express? Those films will give you a...
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Barbara Bush – Humanity’s Antagonist
[Editor’s Note I get it, when people die, we rewrite their history, see them as brave heroes and whatnot. But is that the case? Is that fair? Barbara Bush suffered from an extreme level of detached...
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Happy 54th Birthday David Rakoff
Today is David Rakoff‘s 54th birthday. He is quite possibly the wittiest writer we have seen this century. The 2oth century had Dorothy Parker and the 21st had David Rakoff. He has also had the...
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“Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel” by David Rakoff
Have you ever had a book that became such a part of your existence that you cherish it like a very good life-long friend? One of mine is David Rakoff’s last book Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish,...
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David Rakoff – Words To Live By
If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories. – David Rakoff
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