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Last week I had the opportunity to sit in on a CMJ Music Marathon panel about “Being Your Own Label”. One of the panelists was Yancey Stickler, the Cofounder of Kickstarter, a “funding…
My mom is adorable - she sent me a package for Halloween.
PERMANENT
Remember when it used to make sense
to write crap down
on your bedroom wall
with magic marker?
Where did that go?
for about a year in my room at my parents’ house, I had my walls covered with pictures ripped from magazines and poems and drawings I would write. I think everyone went through that phase - now everyone is all about being minimalistic.

Drink Up Buttercup playing thier acoustic set at CMJ’s Happy Hour at Brooklyn Brewery
Last week I had the opportunity to attend CMJ Music Marathon in New York City. I was able to…
still thinking about moshing to “This Charming Man” last Friday night. #MusicMonday
Hands down this has been one of my favorite songs my entire life. Though it may not be seen as the best choice, this will definitely be played at my wedding reception. Get ready to mosh Mom and Dad.
Note from Ron: I honestly can’t figure this out. I don’t really understand what she is trying to say but I am more confused in trying to figure out how someone could end up this confused. Confusing?
i… i think she’s somehow confusing illiteracy with prejudice?
ignorance?
(she haz it)
Ignant.
i guess she means ignorance. one could argue that illteracy could lead to ignorance. even so - read a dictionary once in a while.
“She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If she arrived one minute after, she worried because that made her the logical scapegoat of the boss if he happened to be in a bad mood that day.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn