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Humor

Good Housekeeping According to Liz Lemon

Liz Lemon: night cheese connoisseur, eye roll aficionado and possibly one of the worst homemakers, ever. This week, we look at the holy grail of home-based everything, Good Housekeeping with our fearless heroine Liz guiding us through the appropriate reactions to some of their top headlines. Godspeed, Liz Lemon.

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Just for Fun

Christmas for Non-Christians: A Gif Guide

Popular media would have you believe that Jewish folk have cornered the market on ignoring the religious holidays towards the end of the year. However, my family and many other families took the Christ out of Christmas a long time ago (sorry right-wing pundits!) and celebrate mostly the cultural gift-exchanging and excessive eating.

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Pop Culture

TV’s Best Original Music

Who doesn’t love a good musical interlude?

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Books

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Zombie, Zombie Again

Hi, Persephone readers! I’m a first-time poster, long-time reader who’s here to tell you the story of how I wrote a thing, I got a literary agent for thing!, thing did not sell, there was much huffing glue with fantasy creatures, and then I self-pubbed thing and lived to tell the tale. The zombie fairy […]

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We try it!

We Try It: Going to a College Reunion

A few weeks ago I went to my fifth college reunion. I know what you’re thinking: Karishma, that’s not that far removed from college, it won’t be weird. You probably saw half of those people last week. That’s where you’d be wrong.

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Pop Culture Phenomena

My wife and I are finally catching up on Breaking Bad. We are only half way through the second season. Our trip to Albuquerque kind of spurred us to watch it again. It is one of a handful of water cooler shows that I feel like I missed out on when they originally aired. In this […]

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: New to Your Netflix Queue

Many people were in panic mode as 2013 closed and Netflix lost streaming rights to a whole slew of movies and TV shows. Now that 2014 is in full swing, this means a whole new set joins the streaming service.

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Gift Guide

Holiday Giving Guide – In Which Money is No Object

In a perfect world, people could buy things based on how freaking awesome they are as humans.

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Favorite Spooky Songs?

Everyone is planning their Halloween costumes, so let’s start thinking about our Halloween soundtracks!

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Pop Culture

Favorite Male-Female Friendships

Ah, the mythical male-female friendship. So rarely does it happen on TV or, if most magazines are to be believed, in real life. Well, considering the fact that my current roommate is a guy who happens to be one of my closest friends (and I know he is reading this and is feeling pretty proud […]

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Pop Culture

Breaking the Fourth Wall

A few days ago I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and George of the Jungle, back to back. It wasn’t planned, I just had nothing to do and they were on neighboring channels, which made it easy to decide. Those movies have almost nothing in common, except that I really enjoy them, and that at […]

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Pop Culture

What “30 Rock” Meant to Me

If you were a fan of 30 Rock, you know that last Thursday the series came to an end. For good. And while I know that it was time for the show to leave, I’m still sad that it won’t be on any more. You see, the show and Liz Lemon meant a lot to […]

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Pop Culture

What I Watched Last Night: The 30 Rock Finale

Listen up fives, a ten is speaking.

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Pop Culture

Fall TV: Time to Say Goodbye

All good things must come to an end, and that proves true for television shows as well. While most of the programs ending this upcoming season have lost much of their luster, I will miss a few. 

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Pop Culture

Representing the Underrepresented: How I Met Your Mother and Performative Contradictions

Every show has one… the token minority character. Tokenism, as we’re all aware, is wildly problematic.