Intern Edition Summer 2008

Who knew upon starting my internship this summer that wigs would become such a key element of my life? For the last 2 months while researching my Intern Edition piece on wigs and why people wear them on a daily basis, wigs have consumed and intrigued me. I interviewed avid wig wearers, from drag queens [...]

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Shauna and I left Maryland around 1 p.m.  It was July 13 and a hell-hot day. 
I’ve never owned one of those thick, spiral-bound Thomas Guide-thingies and I don’t have a portable GPS. So I Googled the route to Winton, North Carolina.   I find it interesting that all those computer generated route-makers such as Mapquest and [...]

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The “sense of place” thing is great and all, but really — there are some places you just don’t want to be. Stuck overnight in the Newark airport, for example. Or fourteen blocks from the Metro on a typical D.C. summer afternoon.
And you certainly don’t want to be locked on a dark second-story balcony at [...]

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I’ve switched the mouse on my desk to the left side of my keyboard in an attempt to alleviate the shoulder pain I’ve been experiencing since I moved to a new cubicle. The curve in my desk means, no matter how I sit, I find myself stretching slightly backward or forward, straining even for the [...]

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When I became part of Intern Edition, I was asked to think about my “sense of place.” Hm. That’s a tricky one for me. But as I thought deeper, I was sure that Toronto, my hometown, is the one place that embodies my sense of place. Not only is it the place I grew up, [...]

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Maybe it’s just the fact that this is my first office job, but I spend way too much time looking at, and thinking about, why so many people waste their days looking at pictures of LOLcats. How do these things get so big?
 
Although we haven’t talked about viral media on this blog as much as we [...]

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Alex had all our mouths watering over Georgetown Cupcake and Love Café’s cupcakes, but master chef Johnny Cupcakes will have you drooling over his delectable t-shirts.

What started off as a nickname given to him by a friend in 2000 has turned into a whirlwind t-shirt business centered around—you guessed it—cupcakes! After wearing his shirt to [...]

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It’s been alleged that Sesame Street has become too political - there are rumors circulating that Ernie and Bert no longer share a room because it suggested homosexuality, and last month Cookie Monster told Stephen Colbert that he couldn’t eat cookies all the time … *gasp! cue dramatic music*

But it still tickles me to see Sesame Street in [...]

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It’s hard to pull a comprehensive list for review out of an artist whose gold moments are not original albums but rather scattered mixtapes and single releases. But in light of recent gems** from Diplo, I decided to make my own list of Wes’ best and brightest tracks from the past few years. Not included [...]

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Interested in learning more about TOMS shoes, as featured by Ryan last week? Check out the youtube channel.
 
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