Popping into the Etsy Holiday Shop with one of my favorite entrepreneurs
December 09, 2012 | No Comments
It’s been a month. As in, it’s been a stormy, eventful 30-some days of realizing all the good that I have and preparing to build on everything I’ve started. First there was the hurricane. Then…
What’s up, Sandy? Brooklyn is ready.
October 28, 2012 | No Comments
Zone Aers are evacuating their homes. The subways are shutting down at 7 p.m. Mayor Bloomberg canceled school for tomorrow. ConEd announced they may shut down power in Lower Manhattan. Gothamist reports that hundreds of…
I got married in a comic book store
October 01, 2012 | 4 Comments
I’ve been married twice. To the same man. The first time was at the Downtown Brooklyn Courthouse in July 2011, and the second wedding was a month later at Bergen Street Comics in Park Slope,…
Living some sort of dream in New York: My week in Instagram photos
September 28, 2012 | No Comments
Er, more like two weeks’ worth of Instagram photos—September 17–September 27, 2012. Janis took me for a walk just as fall began in New York. I’m always fascinated by trees whose roots tear up sidewalks…
The adventures of Julie & Amy in Chicago
September 23, 2012 | No Comments
This is my home girl Julie J. Pants Showers, pictured here in a clipping from Venus #2. We met our freshman year of college at Michigan State University, so when I do the complicated math, I…
Meet Dixie Laite: The grande dame of vintage style
September 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’d like to introduce you to Dixie Laite (née Feldman), my mentor and all-around cool lady. By day, Dixie works as the Senior Editorial Director for TeenNick. By night and weekend, she lives an amazing,…
Popping into the Etsy Holiday Shop with one of my favorite entrepreneurs
December 09, 2012 | No Comments
It’s been a month. As in, it’s been a stormy, eventful 30-some days of realizing all the good that I have and preparing to build on everything I’ve started. First there was the hurricane. Then…
Posted in Style & Stuff
What’s up, Sandy? Brooklyn is ready.
October 28, 2012 | No Comments
Zone Aers are evacuating their homes. The subways are shutting down at 7 p.m. Mayor Bloomberg canceled school for tomorrow. ConEd announced they may shut down power in Lower Manhattan. Gothamist reports that hundreds of…
Posted in Life & Love
I got married in a comic book store
October 01, 2012 | 4 Comments
I’ve been married twice. To the same man. The first time was at the Downtown Brooklyn Courthouse in July 2011, and the second wedding was a month later at Bergen Street Comics in Park Slope,…
Posted in Life & Love
Living some sort of dream in New York: My week in Instagram photos
September 28, 2012 | No Comments
Er, more like two weeks’ worth of Instagram photos—September 17–September 27, 2012. Janis took me for a walk just as fall began in New York. I’m always fascinated by trees whose roots tear up sidewalks…
Posted in Life & Love
The adventures of Julie & Amy in Chicago
September 23, 2012 | No Comments
This is my home girl Julie J. Pants Showers, pictured here in a clipping from Venus #2. We met our freshman year of college at Michigan State University, so when I do the complicated math, I…
Posted in Then & Now
Meet Dixie Laite: The grande dame of vintage style
September 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’d like to introduce you to Dixie Laite (née Feldman), my mentor and all-around cool lady. By day, Dixie works as the Senior Editorial Director for TeenNick. By night and weekend, she lives an amazing,…
Posted in Style & Stuff
Life According to Jenny An, the writer who feels like ‘a total villain of the Asian-American universe’
September 15, 2012 | No Comments
When she wrote “I’m an Asian Woman and I Refuse to Ever Date an Asian Man” for xoJane, Jenny An wasn’t quite prepared for the shit-storm she was about to create. Possibly the most controversial…
Posted in Then & Now
Renegade Craft Fair = the epitome of DIY success
September 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ll never forget meeting Susie Daly (née Blatt) and Kathleen Habbley in 2002, during a Built By Wendy sample sale that I’d helped to organize and promote in Chicago. This being way before indie craft fairs were…
Posted in Then & Now
How do you want to design your life?
September 06, 2012 | No Comments
I just came across this piece that I wrote for a 2010 issue of Venus Zine, when Sarah Beardsley was publisher and the lovely Jill Russell (now Deputy Managing Editor for Groupon) worked as editor-in-chief.…
Posted in My Story
The JD Samson Files: From Le Tigre to Men
September 04, 2012 | No Comments
^ The above contact-sheet scans of JD Samson were taken shortly after September 11, 2001, by Eri Morita for Venus Zine’s Winter 2001 issue. Go here to read an excerpt of the interview and view additional…
Posted in Then & Now
