Author: Emily Weiss
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I’d Rather Hang With Zack: A Rebuttal to Becky’s Rebecca Black Post
I don’t know if it’s his teenage bravado, casual French, or the fact that at least his lyrics RHYME (ahem, Rebecca – looking your way in disgust!! P.S. Not really, because I will be blasting you on my iPod FOR SURE when I leave work this Friday), or his bored, mis-matched footie sock-wearing back up…
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Favorite Books of Local Bands
Red Pens – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Very Small Animal – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Total Babe – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Peter Wolf Crier – White Fang by Jack London Gayngs – The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Pink Mink – Animal Liberation by Peter Singer Gay Witch Abortion – The…
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Best precocious child characters ever
Marcus from About a Boy This little sweetheart with a bowl cut and an endless supply of hippie knitwear cared so much about his suicidal mother that he was willing to sing “Killing Me Softly” in front of his whole middle school class. When he wasn’t being a lovable dorkwad, he was harassing Hugh Grant…
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Ye Olde Celebrity Playlists
Have you ever looked at the celebrity playlists on iTunes? They’re dullsville and so are the celebs who endorse them. (Ex: “Your Love is My Drug by Ke$ha…is such a good song to listen to while you are driving.” – Miranda Cosgrove a.k.a Nickelodeon’s iCarly) But maybe I would be inclined to purchase these tunes…
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The Sum of All of Our Fears
It’s Wednesday and here at The Tangential, Wednesday is the day we set aside for reflection, watching Tuesday night shows on Hulu, and sometimes going to pub trivia. But mostly it’s for reflection. This week’s reflection session (or reflecks sesh for all our Tween readers) forced us to reveal our greatest fears. And combine them.…