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Natural Hair: An Introduction

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Three guesses who's been taking down her braids since yesterday and keeps finding justifications to give herself commercial breaks? That's right, Queen Elizabeth. Also, me.  It has just occurred to me that in spite of being Team Natural from birth (never relaxed my hair), having an intermittent interest in learning to manage my black hair better and firmly believing some ...

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“Disconnect” (2012): Giant Thumbs Up & Movie Review

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It is 02:15am right now and I'm wide awake because shut up, that's not the point. What the point IS is the movie that just wrapped up on telly: “Disconnect”. Whatever you're doing right now, stahp: immediately open a new browser window and LEGALLY get the 2012/2013 movie asaptually, no joke. Had to have the poster somewhere. moviegos The TV guide blurb ...

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Shingeki no Fashion!

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Fashion fans and fanatics, it's time: we need to stop wearing clothes.  As you should have heard by now from the frantic nonstop frothing of your otaku friends about the coming live action movie, Shingeki no Kyojin (also known as 'Attack on Titan' manga series & anime) is THE hottest commodity the world of anime/manga has gifted the world since the beginning of time. mangabee Aside ...

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Weekly Shawarma: The One With Tiwa Savage

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Since introductions are for wimps and people who aren't running from a submission deadline in 2 hours, let's hop right into this week's installation of shawarma-themed AWESOME. Previous incarnations can be found here. Hark! 1. Reading Yes, at long last, your resident newbie Murakami fan and sayer of things like "Of course I'm right, I read Haruki Murakami" has gotten her hands on his ...

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5 Things You'll Love About The Golem & The Jinni

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io9 I sincerely doubt any other articles have been as pushed forward as the book reviews promised ages ago. The simplest explanation: how can you possibly do a writer’s words, what they painstakingly crafted, any further justice without utterly corrupting the source material into an unrecognizable pile of SRSLY? Still beefing. moarpowah Short answer: you don’t. You speak ...

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#GirlBoss: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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#GirlBoss is the autobiographical book by Sophia Amoruso, fashun mogul & the entrepreneur extraordinaire founder of Nasty Gal. I'm not much for the fashion world but I do partake in girl power business-oriented literature so I figured what the hey.  Speaking of #GirlBosses. elle.com The Good The book is actually well written to begin with. When a book has you ...

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Weekly Shawarma: The One with The Creepy

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It's that 'posts with misleading titles' time again! *blasts glitter cannon* Previous shawarmy goodness can be found here, and an Internet Explorer pox upon ye who do not go check them out. Threats are a great way to make friends, btw. Let's hop to it, yes? Dress code: badass. bloody-disgusting 1. Reading #GirlBoss, The Richest Man in Babylon and holding on to “If I Stay” to ...

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On Needing a Captain Save a Ho(bo) - Street Douchenozzles Edition

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Prologue: Find an introduction to Captain Save a Ho(bo) here. The Set Up Early this month, a good friend I hadn't seen in literal years sashayed back into town, so of course, catch up plans were hastily made. An eventful day of lunch, lounging and 2 years worth of gossip followed and a good time was had by all. That's not where this story begins. At about 08:45pm, we were done with our ...