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ON VULNERABILITY
Hello and welcome to my flirty girlish blog! I’m a screenwriter in LA and all my life I’ve struggled with the art of vulnerability. Tragically, I realized honesty and authenticity are essential to good...
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Protected: MY LIFE AS AN AGENCY DRONE: THE LOST YEARS
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WHAT IT IS TO BE NORMAL (OR: THOUGHTS ON NORMCORE)
I woke up like this. FOR a long time now, I’ve been feeling overwhelmed by all the understated cool in LA. Particularly when strolling down the interior design portion of Beverly Blvd, or those...
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LA vs. NY | WRITING IN LA | 25 FILMS THAT DEFINE LA
bWahahahahahYASSS… je suis arrivée… a le city of dreamZ!!!1!!! When I first moved to LA, I hated it. Or perhaps I should say, I didn’t get it. Upon first glance, LA seems decidedly unglamorous, a...
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WHAT IS ART?! (Per Hollywood + Tolstoy)
So fucking future. Why, bonjour et konichiwaH, my busy modern reader… Sometimes, here in Hooly-wood where nobody reads (except the interns writing coverage* before they eventually sue and end their...
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A LOOK BACK AT JOAN + JOHNNY (RIP)
Joan Rivers: Why Johnny Carson “Never Ever Spoke to Me Again” ↑↑ Always loved this piece… Clickey-moi for a most wonderful, insightful article on femininity, sexuality, and comedy. Cat got a case of...
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THE FEAR BEHIND THE THINGS WE HATE
At some point in the last few years, I started waking up with the wrong attitude. This internal dialogue of nagging discouragement had set up shop in my head – This shifty siege mentality that wasn’t...
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IN OTHER MEN
In other men, most of their life is repressed by the bourgeois structure, their professional, social, and community mores. The artist retains his sensibility; it is the element he needs for his...
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FRAN LEBOWITZ & HER WRITER’S BLOCKADE
#1 Cat Friend Fran on her decade of writer’s block. Interview excerpts below, from this amazing Paris Review. Some years ago, Lebowitz sold a proposal of a novel entitled “Exterior Signs of Wealth,”...
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JOAN DIDION & THE PEOPLE WE USED TO BE
Miau I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come...
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THE RISK IT TOOK
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin
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THOSE I ONCE SO DESPERATELY WISHED TO BE
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these...
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SO THAT YOU MAY BE VIOLENT AND ORIGINAL
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert
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