What One Life to Live Taught Me About Endings

/ January 24, 2012

Back in November (when I confessed how I loved the reality show Dirty Soap), I shared with you all my love of the daytime soap, One Life to Live. OLTL has been off air for over a week, but I finally brought myself to watch the finale on Sunday night. I watched it with mixed feelings: anticipation over how they

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Guilty Pleasure Alert: Dirty Soap

/ November 7, 2011

Those in the Lurkdom that know me IRL know I have a love of daytime television. Bestie Danielle likes to make fun of me because of this. I’m devoted to One Life to Live so much I went into a mini depression when it was announced that it’s coming to an end. I could write several blog posts about soap

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Writing Lessons from Step Up 3D

/ August 29, 2011

This weekend while we were supposed to be ravaged by Hurricane Tropical Storm A Lot of Wind Irene, I spent more time hammering out my latest WIP. I got tired of watching bad 90s television for background noise and decided I would see what entertainment On Demand had for me. Don’t judge The first two movies in the Step Up

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Movie Shame

/ January 10, 2011

Last Tuesday, I talked about guilty pleasure music. If you haven’t read it and are too lazy to click the link, I’ll recap what defines a “guilty pleasure.” A guilty pleasure has to be something that you’re reluctant to admit to. It’s that thing you get all excited about even though you know you shouldn’t. For a movie, this isn’t

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Pop Music Shame

/ January 4, 2011

For some half-cracked reason that I yet to understand, I joined a book club that focuses on reading music-related nonfiction. The book club started up this month by reading Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond, which I talked about here and then fangirled some more here. It’s a great way to kick off a book club

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