PicoBlog

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests. No thanksncG1vNJzZmiqlZeypK%2FAsKaopJZjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills. Share “I’ve seen him naked,” said Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had a sexual relationship with the former president Donald Trump. As she was gearing up for the current trial in a New York courtroom about the alleged hush-money payments Trump paid her, she cheekily told the UK newspaper The Times in March 2023 that she wasn’t afraid of testifying: “There’s no way he could be scarier with his clothes on.

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“sometimes it feels like no one is watching us, the way we find ourselves in spots to make our own decisions. but it also feels like we’re too young to do so, even though it’s all we want, to be able to cut our own bangs, kiss boys in public, pierce our own ears…” The Brittanys is officially here!   Today has been a day full of love and support. I’m so thrilled that the novel is finally arriving at everyone’s front door today and being placed on the shelves of bookstores.

Before Alex Garland’s new film Civil War even made it to theaters—and certainly now, as it’s been released to an avalanche of discourse—political questions have surrounded this election-year thought experiment about a second, contemporary American Civil War. Questions like: How in the world have California and Texas—two states so firmly demarcated as “blue” and “red” that presidential candidates don’t bother campaigning in them anymore—formed an alliance to overthrow a third-term president?

I was looking forward to this book for so long!!  I loved the main books that made up the trilogy and fell in love with the characters, so seeing a book based on the Hawthorne boys - yes please!! While I was not at all disappointed in this read, I still feel that the core books of the series are far superior to this book. Let me explain! This book primarily followed Jameson and Greyson as they engage in two individual “challenges.

Allow me to take a bow for my May 9 Minor Lines post, which included such lines as: It looks like the timing is starting to lock in for young Bryce Eldridge…The past two nights have looked more like the guy I saw in spring… you can see the difference in his body language in the box. He’s getting the swagger going now, and there’s a real sense of “I am going to destroy you!

                                           I used to like to read the news, the middlebrow mass-market weekly news. I also used to like to write it.  Some. This was back in the 90s at Time magazine, a publication which still exists in name but whose original, defining mission – grounding the American mind in a moderate, shared reality – is dead. The whole concept seems strange now – the American mind; a cloud of ideas, opinions, and sentiments floating somewhere above the Mississippi – but at Time, in the 90s, before the internet made its approach seem sluggish and slashed its readership, it was still possible to regard our product as unifying and, in its way, definitive.

I have no recollection, at all, of writing this piece, though I wrote it less than five years ago. Nor do I remember how it came to be, which I have pieced together from old emails - I was encouraged to write for the NYT Magazine’s “Letters of Note” feature, I pitched this, they complained that there was no news hook, I was urged to submit it to the LA Review of Books, they (quite rudely) told me it was too short, and I gave up.