Other Places

Did I tell you I'm an editor over at Beauty Hacks? It's BlogHer's new space for everything fashion and beauty-related and today I wrote about self-tanner. Specifically, I wrote about the world's second-greatest self-tanner---that is, the world's greatest self-tanner that you can buy in a drugstore for ten bucks---and if you've ever wanted to hit the bottle (um, the self-tanning bottle) but weren't sure which one to pick out to avoid Oompa Loompa-dom, you should go read it. Have you ever seen me look streaky and orange? Exactly.

Also---and this isn't an "other places" thing, really---but my post about buying the expensive shower gel because a woman was rude to me is linked to on iVillage.com today under "The Buzz in the Blogs." I keep checking it out and thinking "Ha! That's me! On iVillage.com!" Wonders never cease, I tell you.

Finally, Sarah Brown---who is one of my absolute favorite bloggers in the entire world, like, seriously, if I was only allowed to read one website for the rest of my life it would probably be hers---had her first book published today: it's called Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas and you can buy it all over the place.

Remember that really crappy poetry you used to write while locked  in your room, wearing your flannel shirt and listening to Pearl Jam? Those overwrought journal entries about how no-one understood you? That embarrassing letter you wrote to a famous person on your best stationery, convinced they'd write you back? This book is a compilation of all that. And I even have a piece in there too, which would probably make the fifteen-year-old me sigh dramatically and roll my eyes and run upstairs to light some incense and read some more Sylvia Plath. But that, of course, is exactly the point.