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Girl in blue: a 25-year journey through time and colour

16 Thursday Nov 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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aesthetics, blue, fandom, girlhood, growing up, hipster, indie, internet, lana del rey, life, music, personal, personal development, social media, tumblr

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It was the opposite back then: I was always a pink girl. When I was the age girls are when all they want to do is become a princess, and so make up for their lack of birthright by dressing up thus, I wanted everything pink. Pink for my Barbies and me. Pink stickers, pink toys, pink hairbands and clothes. Of course, my complexion means that Continue reading →

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The millennial’s guide to contemporary poetry

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Poems

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blogger, blogging, gen y, internet, millenial, online, parody, poem, poet, poetry, satire, social media, tumblr, twitter

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Henry Winter

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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blogger, book, donna tartt, fiction, henry winter, instagram, internet, ivan kozak, literature, model, photographer, photography, the secret history, tumblr, video

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Ladies and gentlemen of WordPress, readers, book lovers, fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History: I give you Henry Winter in the flesh.

No, his name is neither Henry nor Winter, and he is far from fictional. He is a model, real name Ivan Kozak (@zxwo), featured in @kat_in_nyc‘s mini music video from which it is unlikely I will ever recover. Continue reading →

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Toxic comparison: the ugly side of social media

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Opinion

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Phone hot and heavy in your exhausted hand, you scroll down Instagram, the fourth (or is it fifth?) time you have done so in the past hour. You pay close attention to posts by female account holders—they set the standard against which you measure yourself. Some girls make you feel like Princess Buttercup (rare), others a big green stinking ogre (torturously frequent). Some women appear so rich and successful, with their marble apartments and glossy jobs in fancy faraway places like London and New York, that it fills your chest and stomach with a hollow despair faintly resembling hunger. Others have so many followers and fans that thinking about it makes your head spin. On the flip side, some have so little, or post such poor content that you are instantly elevated, in your own twisted head, from poor imposter to plush super-master.

It all comes down to comparison and self-perception, the root of all glee, all unhappiness. And the issue at hand is social media, Continue reading →

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Resume of a pigeon

13 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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animal, career, funny, humor, internet, life, pigeon, resume, wit, work, writer, writing

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Career objective: to swoop and poop whenever and wherever the urge strikes. Continue reading →

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Shakespearean actor dons cheap gorilla suit

18 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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cinema, film, gorilla, hollywood, internet, jimmy kimmel, king kong, movie, pop culture, tom hiddleston, tv

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When in Hollywood. Continue reading →

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@Will_Shake

03 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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art, artist, humor, internet, literature, social media, technology, twitter, william shakespeare, writer

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King of Twitter, time-travel permitting. Entertainers, begone; comedians—get thee home!

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Litbaits: click and ye shall find!

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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blogging, book, books, creative, humor, internet, literature, parody, reading, writer, writing

the lion the witch and the wardrobe

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* With reverent apologies to: C. S. Lewis; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Leo Tolstoy; William Shakespeare; Henry James; Vladimir Nabokov; Oscar Wilde; J. K. Rowling; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Sylvia Plath. 

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