We’re starting a new weekly feature here at Pluck, titled “What’s working right now,” with an emphasis on the “right now.” So much parenting stuff I read promises answers to my most frustrating kiddo problems with an air of elegant confidence that of course these amazing solutions that will PRESTO! get your kid to stop […]
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Being the helper
Can we talk for a minute about how exhausting it is to be the helper? Of course, there is the run-of-the-mill helping attendant to having a young child. The wiping alone could qualify as a line item in your daily time budget. There is the helping you do for your family. For many of us, […]
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All Hail Karen O
Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Mosquito (Interscope) Release Date: April 16 I worship at the altar of Karen O, so this review should have a huge BIASED watermark; however, if you listen to the new album releasing on April 16 and don’t like it, maybe you shouldn’t read any more of my reviews ever. Karen O bathes in […]
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Say Something Funny
“Let’s cut that crap right now that chicks aren’t as funny. Women are funnier than men. We’re funnier because we have to work harder.” — Kathy Griffin I don’t like those self-serving emails and Facebook posts that say “quick, describe me in one word and then hit reply/post it on my profile/send it to 50,000 […]
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Why Bananas Suck
Let me start this rant by saying, duh, I know bananas are ridiculously healthy. Well la-dee-da, good for them. Lots of fruits are ridiculously healthy. Bananas still suck and here’s why: They’re Phallic We might as well get the obvious out of the way. They’re phallic. Sure, lots of other foods are phallic, but nobody […]
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Q&A with Chicago comic Sapna Kumar
Sapna Kumar is a stand-up comic and actor who has appeared on LOGO TV’s “One Night Stand Up 9″ and NBC’s “Last Comic Standing 4.” Here she sheds some light on what’s it like to be a funny lady in Chicago, angsty folk singers and what makes her Rebellious. Who first told you that you […]
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Rebel Street Style: Jodi / Berwyn & Glenwood
Occupation: Yoga Instructor Why I love: First of all, I know some people will never side with me on the skirt-over-pants question, but I love it. It means business. And those leggings are awesome. As always, I’m a sucker for the leggings-legwarmers-boots ensemble, and Jodi has worked it so it actually doesn’t seem that cold […]
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The Music Man/Monster
We’ve been doing baby sign language with Teddy for the past few months, and he’s got a few signs down now: all done, eat, nursing, potty, more. They all took awhile to take hold – lots of us signing to him and showing him how to do it with his hands, and then watching him […]
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Against gay marriage? Don’t have one.
When I came out more than 15 years ago, gay marriage felt like merely a twinkle in the community’s eye. The federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) had been passed a few years before, and those radicals in Vermont hadn’t yet created the compromise of “civil unions,” a phenomenon that’s always been confusing to […]
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Primal Whimper
It’s just that I’ve been gone all day. Doing things like rehearsing the piece that premieres in less than two weeks, and then having a meeting to plan doing a better job of writing on the internet. Good things – things that I really like. But things that still take it out of me. My […]