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TikTalk: the dialect of our mirror universe

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I have contemplated a parallel reality since I, a 26-year-old woman, went to Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden.

Six weeks ago, in indigo-lit floor seats., my college friends and I sipped tequila and pineapple juice and danced behind very skinny teens with eclectic wardrob...

Brooke Alexx: "It takes a long time to look effortless, essentially."

A few weeks ago, singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler posted phone-note screenshots of the pressure she faces from the music industry to lean into social media to become successful.

“honest thoughts- the music industry is confusing to navigate as an artist right now,” the post starts.

@chelseacutler on January 3, 2022. (the first line says “it feels exhausting to be constantly thinking of” and the last line says “possible” - sorry for the cuts)

The post discusses the disruption of connecting to a sin...

introducing, The Collage

Welcome to 2022. It’s Capricorn season—a season for resolutions—and it’s January—a season for disillusioned, unfulfilled expectations.

Re: the book

In my pre-sale campaign, I focused on fundraising enough to produce a hardcover and audiobook in addition to the PERF paperback. We raised more than enough money to achieve both goals, which is *astounding*.

I’m pleased to say that the hardcover will be released June 2022. It will come with The Cool, Intellectual Reader’s Guide that will also be added...

my 2021 montage

INT. MY BRAIN - THE SUNDAY BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY 2022 - 11 P.M.

Despite not doing anything for the last two weeks besides watch Disney+ on my parents’ couch, I too understand you’re probably coming out on the other side of your December “Best Of” list burnout.

This year has brought changes (this newsletter didn’t exist, and some of you may remember that time fondly). A book. Two jobs to end a 9-month unemployment stint. A new apartment (with new four-legged roommates :) they’re late ...

baking a pancake brain

In the cold months of 2020, socializing in New York required placing an overly-large dinner reservation to simulate a bar. We often placed ten-person reservations for our COVID social pod. Though we wanted to recreate the standing room of a bar, the seating arrangements cemented you to one or two conversational partners for the entirety of the meal.

As Omnicron rears and puts us back to that pre-vaccine place of wary awareness of your neighbors (both in hygiene and topical similarities), my room...

Your PERF 2021 Wrapped

(My Perfectionist Reading of) Your PERF 2021 Wrapped

Vibe check! In a year like 2021, you slayed, girlie. Read for the biggest accomplishments with the publication of PERF. Warning: no cheugs allowed!

(I guess the definition of “slay” is loose. Personally, I left something on the table. Like a marketing campaign around my launch.)

Back in April, you made dreams come true! You raised $9,765 over 30 days to order 205 paperbacks and 42 e-books. What is this, DONDA?!

(Yeah…my first book is definitely o...

show & tell: to go

This is me, last week, in Luke’s childhood home:

Luke and I rented a car to Philadelphia for his sister’s engagement party. We packed our dirty laundry and the cats and stayed until Wednesday. Luke threw my desk phone’s ethernet cord out a second story window to connect it to the living room’s router. The office I usurped had enough room for the cats to straggle in without me noticing until they climbed on my laptop, then my lap.

a glimpse of city cats in the wild

Since my hours are aligned with t...

disjointed thoughts of the decidedly alone

disjointed thoughts of the decidedly alone

This morning, I dreamed my mom and my sisters hosted a watch party for a horse race in my fifth grade classroom. Five people standing on each other’s shoulders could scratch the ceiling. The tall space above us contrasted the tightness of desks, dotted closely on the floor. As the race started, and this room full of strangers yet family members turned away to watch the bulky TV (where in reality, we watched that baseball kids movie where the kid’s cast ...

address change form

I have signed almost all the books!

If you have moved since April, please fill out the address change form, takes 60 seconds and prevents your book from being lost in the mail:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

the books are here. at my apartment.

Hi bud,

This morning marks the first walk-outside-to-quickly-return-inside-for-more-layers fall morning of 2021. As someone that loved the meticulous demands of back-to-school shopping (24 Ticonderoga pencils, 3 paper towels, 32 ounces of hand sanitizer), fall oils my gears. The sugary pumpkin flavor is a bonus, but what about that productivity high?!

Now that “summer is over” etc., I have resolved that I. Will. Be. Focused!!!! I will write three scripts & sand then paint a wooden nightstand I fo...