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Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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ONE OF THE GOOD ONES (opens the original)
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I don’t think you’re supposed to see the Indigo Girls indoors, but that was the only way I could go. I had the Mississippi Book festival on Saturday. So it was the Majestic Theater in Dallas, or bust. Which means I just watched a room full of Republicans belt out Shame on You without any sense of irony whatsoever. And this morning, I kept getting fed those adorable ONE OF THE GOOD ONES™ guys on socials. You’ve seen them. They find an incel saying some incel shit in the comments, they set up the
The Ripples (opens the original)
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I’m in Chicago for the book festival tomorrow, listening to sirens and remembering that I forgot my earplugs and my mind will not shut up. This morning, Roxane put my Dolly story in The Rumpus. So that felt pretty cool. Then I got to the airport. The rest is paywalled for my subscribers. Read more
Dolly. (opens the original)
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I’m sorry. I’ve been trying to find the words but I think I just want to listen to her a little while. So I’m going to repost this. She was everything good in the world and we all knew it was coming but I still cannot believe that she’s gone. Read more
Baby Bears (opens the original)
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I was planning to log in here and yell a little bit about AI. But everyone’s yelling about AI, and I’m just bored of the subject. I’m bored of seeing it. Bored of the emails I get where someone claims to be a huge fan before they ask for something, but they clearly used AI to research me. Bored of “books” random people I used to know send me. One way to answer that “why didn’t we keep in touch” question. I guess. It’s all too much. So I’m just gonna tell you what I’m up to.First things first: Ne
Thoughts While Assembling IKEA Furniture (opens the original)
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Thoughts while assembling IKEA furniture:<img alt="screw lot on paper" class="sizing-normal" height="3589" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1567712176243-5d8e90fba89b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MH
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