Category: Life As We Know It
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Let It Snow
This week started off with the promise of a bang. Unless you were living under a rock in the desert, you heard the proclamations of doom, destruction, and Snowmaggedon that, as of Monday, were supposedly bearing down on New York and its Northeast environs with all the force of Westeros (Note: Ask Scout if that’s…
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Scout’s Top 5 Comedy Specials to Help You Laugh Away Your Winter Blues
We are no strangers to Seasonal Affective Disorder here at Zelda & Scout (so sad…), and especially with Winter Superstorm/Snowpocalypse/Snowmaggedon/Blizzard of Doom Juno dominating our news feeds this week with its (luckily unfulfilled) promises of frozen destruction, we’ve both been feeling the winter blues as of late. When the weather gets Scout down, she turns…
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A Cow on the Roof of a Cottonhouse, or How I Learned to Love Bluegrass
Lawd, lawd, bring him dead or alive Open on a chain gang. Low warbling voices begin to rise over the sound of pick-axes and splitting rocks. With this sequence of sounds, I’m back, twelve years old in my den watching the sepia-toned Mississippi fields of the Coen Brothers’ finest film (in my personal opinion, anyway…though…
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Welcome to New York?
We’ve written before about our love for “1989,” Taylor Swift’s poptastic fifth album and one of our top picks of 2014. I am an unabashed lover of this record. I’ve danced around my kitchen to “Shake It Off,” struggled not to sing along to “Style” (and its mash-ups) on the subway; I’ve even taken Buzzfeed’s…
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State of the Heart
My mom’s family always called me a city girl. Louisville, despite what many of my East Coast counterparts may think, is a city: the largest metropolis in the Commonwealth. As Louisville’s cool factor rises, there’s a tendency among its residents to separate the city from the state, to say “Oh, we’re not like the rest…
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15 New Things for 2015
Well, it’s official. A new year has begun. I’ve never really been big on New Year’s resolutions, partly because it seems arbitrary to me that January 1st is the day when you suddenly turn your life upside down, and partly because I have a terrible track record at keeping them. I think part of it stems…
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Top 14 of 2014
The year is coming to an end, so instead of our usual monthly round-up we thought we’d give you a little list of our favorite things from the past year. From the serious to the silly, these are a few of the things that made our 2014! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL: First things first: we are sports fans.…
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Another Hundred People
“Another hundred people just got off of the train…” The thing about New York is that there are always people. Everywhere you turn, people. People on the street, people at the grocery, people all up in your business on public transit. Sure, the “city that never sleeps” may sound exhilarating, but for an introvert like…
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Oh Tannenbaum
Decorating my family’s Christmas tree is hands down my favorite holiday tradition. When I was in high school, we would all make the trek on some blustery Saturday in mid-December to a local high school, where men in a field sold big fat conifers. After the traditional twenty minutes of arguing over one person’s pick…
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A Very Merry Holiday Marathon
December is a big month in my house. For starters, my mom is Jewish and my dad is Christian, so we get the double whammy of both Chanukah and Christmas. But the fun doesn’t stop there. My sister’s birthday is on the 13th, mine is on the 27th, and then it all wraps up with…
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