by Lisa Brady

We all know that when it comes to us ladies we take a little longer to get ready and carry our entire lives on our oversized, could-be-a-carry-on-item, purses. But for someone with a slightly more complicated life, everyday routines and the contents of a purse can be a whole other ballgame.

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by Nathalie Moody

There’s just something about summer that gets us all in a hot mess. Pheromones and libidos ablaze with the sudden heat and stickiness of the June, July, August months. For us Seattlites, the surge of summer energy seems to come about more intensely, like a great volcanic eruption that in reality, haunts and threatens us everyday.

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Malloreigh Suicide in Sauced

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• INTO: Ethical (local, cruelty-free) consumption, dancing, politics, late-night adventures, flirting, climbing trees and buildings, firsts, shared experiences, laughing, unusual connections, logic (formal and informal), cultural/social/ethical theory, politics, saving the world.
• NOT INTO: “With great power comes great responsibility” unless you’re a multinational corporate entity, then you’ve got a free pass to fuck everyone without their consent. I don’t believe in that shit.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: New people, kitchens with couches in, learning, passionate weather, breakups, anything that makes apathetic people feel alive, riding my bike really fast at night, crushes, dive bars with vegan options, books and movies that change the way I put words together.
• MAKES ME SAD: Grumpiness, apathy, too much makeup, unrecognized privilege combined with political zeal, not having any text messages when I come out of class.
• HOBBIES: Self-analysis, efficiency, the internet, cooking, conversation.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT:Glasses/contact lenses (-7.5L, -6.75R), my camera, my bicycle (51cm/9kg fixed gear conversion), Lush Aromacreme, contact with other human beings.
• VICES: Staying up all night with girls who are bad for me.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Free time is not a concept I use. All of my time is free time; I try not to dedicate any of my time to things I don’t want to be doing. It follows that I am always financially lacking, but happy; and I rarely skip class. A good sign.

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by Eric “Butter” Levy

When was the last time you sat down and made a mix tape, eh? Was it for someone special? Someone who caught your eye? Was it for yourself? For a friend? For that mile long walk home or that far away road trip? When was the last time you got a mix tape someone else made for you? Are you one of those who has no clue what a mix tape is, too young to remember the heyday of tape and its decline to the CD… only to be replaced once again by digital files?

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by Bunny McIntosh

Dear Bunny,

I recently IM’d a friend of my girlfriend, just to be nice. I said “hello” and asked her how her weekend was. That was it. Her friend replied “hello,” but was then silent. Shortly after, I endured an hour long lecture from my sobbing girlfriend over the phone about how it made her friend uncomfortable that I would try to contact her at all, and that I needed to understand that her friends would never see me as anything more than their friend’s boyfriend, and that I shouldn’t ever try to reach out to them.

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by Tara Diane

Today we are making a string… glue… balloon… lamp thing!  This is probably one of my favorite projects to do; this is the third one that I’ve made.  I can take zero credit for the idea, it’s totally 100% these awesome people.  I’m posting a few variations from their instructions, but they’re the original, so they probably know better than I do.  I’m posting it here because… well, I just fricking love it.

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