OBSESHES

  • Punk and Me: A Dissociation Love Story

    There was a year of high school where I basically only listened to the Velvet Underground, and so it went from there. My primary bands are hardcore: Black Flag, Minor Threat, and the Adolescents. I also like X and Social Distortion and Bad Brains and some Fugazi and the Germs. But I’m not a punk, and I never was. Full story

    2013 Apr 26 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Rabbit-Soft Self-Care

    So although my purpose at the moment is only to absorb and absorb and absorb the human horror that has been steadily unfolding in Boston (are y’all shivering, too?), I can offer up some mostly other, mostly unrelated Obseshes of the week for you. Just a little rabbit-soft self-ca… Full story

    2013 Apr 19 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Bummer Obseshes

    Obseshes aren’t always the happier, excitinger, positive-bright-sided things of life, you guys. Obseshes are also the bleakest, most-worst preoccupations, which are just as likely to dominate a subconscious/conscious/conscience as whatever it is you’re bopping around to and lovin… Full story

    2013 Apr 12 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • A Million Little Ones

    Maybe more like a half-million medium-sized ones, in the spirit of springtime, or of pink-yellow-blue flower buds, or of the jillions of ice crystals and snowflakes that have us/me locked into this forever-April torment. Let’s do a million little ones just because. Full story

    2013 Apr 5 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Everyone's All About It

    VICE very presciently did up a whole issue loosely themed around spring break (I wrote about “limited chaos,” which is going to solve your life if it needs solving) (probably), and my girls are all about it and are scrapping whatever nascent fashion plans were in place for S/S 13… Full story

    2013 Mar 22 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • The Dunham Rule

    Last week I invented “Swift-boating” to describe the undue overattention and bushfire criticism that a young, pretty woman who says stuff (“says stuff”) inevitably experiences. This week I’d like to submit the “Dunham rule” as a related phenomenon, in which a woman who has demons… Full story

    2013 Mar 15 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Enough with the Psychodramas Already

    My feelings are SOMETIMES a crystal unicorn locked in a curio cabinet that gets dusted monthly. I mean, in one most-of-the-time sense, I’m high-functioning; in another sense, in the sense we will now discuss, I’m made of glass. (SOMETIMES!) It’s fine. Full story

    2013 Mar 8 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Feminist Fatigue

    Feminist fatigue, the kind of philosophical sleepiness that sweeps through me/you/everyone when there is too much to say no to and is something I have felt for years and years, in waves. Not nice warm ocean waves like in Florida but, like, 'The French Lieutenant’s Woman' waves… Full story

    2013 Mar 4 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • The Relative Transgressions of 'Girls'

    The discussion around Lena Dunham’s body (her body!) last week after an episode of 'Girls' where she spends a couple of days having sex with Patrick Wilson—who I find creepy and unappealing but who the Man Internet decided was waaaay too hot for Dunham and who would never put it… Full story

    2013 Feb 22 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Vin Diesel's Cream-Colored Long Johns

    In the movie 'xXx' (hahahahaha), Vin Diesel spends some crucial screen time in cream-colored long johns and if you can forget that it’s Vin Diesel (can you?) as “Vin Diesel” and think of him as “Mark Vincent” who has a twin and a kid and wants to do work that achieves more (you c… Full story

    2013 Feb 15 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Boys Are Dogs and Girls Are Cats

    Why do guys make plans within two texts and a couple of hours and girls make plans with 30 emails and several weeks and two cancellations? Boys are like this, and girls are like this. Boys are dogs, and girls are cats. Full story

    2013 Feb 8 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Let's All Stop Complaining About High School

    “Peaked in high school” is a sound concept: a lot of people do. (A lot, a lot, a lot.) The adult lives of many high school mob bosses are just sad as all fuck, not sad like “I’m judging you for your social affiliations and entertainment choices” sad, because that’s mean, but sad… Full story

    2013 Feb 1 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Obseshes ≠ Endorsements

    So when I say I’m obseshed with the just announced mini Black Flag re-re-reunion, I mean that I am interested in the way that an academic is interested when a Google Alert pops up about something tangentially related to his research but isn’t like busting a nut about it. Full story

    2013 Jan 25 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Self-Imposed Chocolate Poisoning

    OK you guys this is going to be a tough read because I did it while I was bent over at the waist—or like between being bent over, but not for long because sitting up is real, real hard—because I ate some chocolate really quickly before a meeting, and whatever adult moves I like t… Full story

    2013 Jan 19 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • Welcome to My Obseshes

    Here in “Obseshes” (RIP Girl News) we will talk about some stuff to like, to love, and to be obsessed with, for real but just for right now. Well, maybe for longer, but that doesn’t matter. OK? OK. Full story

    2013 Jan 4 Kate Carraway Stuff
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  • 'Girls' Is Back and You Should Care

    Our show’s second season debuts on Sunday night. Oh, you don’t like it? It’s not your show? Are you allergic to solid one-liners and low-lit nakedness and pal-melodramatics? You are? Anyway, call me. Let’s talk about it after it's over. Full story

    2012 Jan 11 Kate Carraway Stuff
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