About Becky Lang
Becky does a lot of copywriting at a creative agency called Zeus Jones, which occasionally causes her to have dreams about presenting pet food one-liners. She spends almost all of her spare time writing, editing, CSS-ing, PHP-ing and scouting/drinking for this site. She is looking for PHP that will remove the word "drinking" from this paragraph should her mom read it, so DM her on Twitter if you know how - @leckybang.
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-Your hot graphic designer friend who sometimes misappropriates Native American headdresses for fashion reasons saying she’s getting married to a 60-year-old intellectual property lawyer who still uses Proactiv. or -Liz Lemon marrying the beeper king -Avril Lavigne marrying the dude from Nickelback -Your mom suddenly deciding to become a Zumba instructor and somehow in the process ruining Zumba for everyone -Comcast buying Apple 10 years after Netflix has marginalized Comcast -Your most inspiring high school English teacher who smoked pot...
When I got to the screening of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby, I had one of those moments where I realized I’d fallen out of touch with “what teens like.” People were lined up around the whole building, holding flimsy fliers and emails probably given out from radio stations to lucky winners. For some reason, I hadn’t been expecting that, although I had when I went to the screening of Spring Breakers. It was like when I asked the kids at a daycare what...
Let me start by saying that my opinion here is coming from a perspective that is 1/3 someone who has been behind closed doors at a magazine office, 1/3 adamant, life-long magazine lover, 1/3 someone who works in advertising. Meaning I’m putting bits together to create an assumption, however imperfect that assumption might be. Here’s what I think. Magazines are failing for many reasons, but what ends up being the silent, invisible nail in the coffin is when they attempt to save themselves by writing exclusively...
I never thought much about vegetarianism growing up. I tried to become a vegetarian for a week at age 12, simply because I thought I “didn’t like meat,” and it did not last. I was very addicted to chicken nugget Happy Meals. I still do not think I could say goodbye to them. Like many humans, I have a gift for dissociating what I eat with where it came from, and a certain level of comfort with being at the top of the food chain. I often...
What’s the process of translating a blog to a book like? What was hard? What was surprising? C: It’s very fun for people like us who like to think about meta stuff. I always knew there was an underlying narrative to our blog so it was fun to lay that out. We pasted all of our favorite articles into a Word document, it ended up being 125,000 words that we chiseled down to around 25,000 over four weeks. S: What was surprising for me was...
Doug = Shia Labeouf Patty Mayonnaise = Carey Mulligan Roger = Chris Owen Judy = Emma Stone Skeeter = Maulik Pancholy Mr. Dink = Philip Seymour Hoffman Porkchop = Seth Rogen -Becky Lang, Grant Wilson, Stephanie O’Donnell, Brent Radeke
I grew up in a fairly non-traditional family when it comes to media consumption. For example, my parents did not go to great lengths to censor what I read or watched. I have memories of my mom explaining what LSD was to me when we watched Hair and answering “Mom, what does ‘horny’ mean?” after I had watched Austin Powers. “It means you feel like having sex,” she said. To her, books and movies were important stories that, if I can speculate, helped her explain the world...
Do you think bloody maries are disgusting because they are salty, bitter and strange? You’re not alone. Lots of people hate bloody maries. But not me. I drink them all the time – and I will help you understand what it is we ‘taste’ in them and where we are coming from. Here’s what you need to know: 1. We don’t judge you for not liking bloody maries. We get that bloody maries are like drinking cold tomato soup with vodka in it, or like...
I have read all the articles and I have these requests: • Stop talking about how my generation is pathetic because some of us live at home after college. The economy crashed because generations before us were greedy and irresponsible with money, not because we spent too much time as teenagers watching Internet porn. (Also, some millennials live at home after college because boomer parents are so fucking rich that kids don’t have any incentive to move into crappy apartments with 5 roommates when they can...
Girl, you’re like Skinny Girl margarita mix. Bitches on reality TV get so jealous of your jelly they want to put you in a blender. Your body is like the opposite of crack, in that I have never done crack but I have done you in my marital bed. When I smell your hair it’s like doing poppers. My butthole gets loose and I get a headache for 3 days. You’re like Ambien baby, you cause me to eat cookie dough in the middle of...
The most awkward part of starting life with a Jawbone Up activity tracking band was the first night sleeping together. Does it know when I’m up to pee? Does it know when I’m flipping my pillow around over and over again? Does it know when I’m tricking it by keeping my arm really still while – guess what – I’m wide awake? I started to personify it as a mom/doctor-like hybrid judging my every move. But in the morning I was hooked. I plugged the...
Netflix has been pretty transparent about the fact that their new series House of Cards was created by using their own data to target a certain type of viewer, understand what they watch, what actors they like and what directors they prefer and mash those things together. They saw that a certain type of viewer prefers the old British series House of Cards, David Fincher and Kevin Spacey and voila, mashed they are. This has spawned a lot of dialog around just how much people can tolerate...
Ten Kinds of Book People It’s Impossible to Have a Conversation With
May 20, 2013
Things that Yahoo! Buying Tumblr Feels Like
May 19, 2013
Live-Blogging the Overnight Security Shift at the St. Mark’s Parish Festival II: The Year the Rains Came
May 16, 2013
“Star Trek: Into Darkness” Is Fine, But It’s Still No “Galaxy Quest”
May 16, 2013
What It Means To Be a Teenager Who Loves Classical Music
May 15, 2013
