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Friday November 1, 2013

Darcy Perdu

A Darcy SMILING BIG Original (Shelly 7.5.13)Darcy Perdu has won three national writing awards in the past year for her humorous take on family life on her blog, So Then…Stories. Her real-life stories of running a business, wrangling two kids, traveling hither and yon and navigating relationships are universally funny. She recently won first place in the 2014 National Society of Newspaper Columnists competition in the blog and multimedia category (100,000 monthly visitors or less) after winning Voices of the Year awards in humor writing for 2013 and 2014 from BlogHer.

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And here's the kicker

Mike Sacks has re-released a longer version of his 2009 book, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers, complete with an extra 200 pages and never-before-seen interviews. In June, Viking/Penquin published his fourth book, Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers. He has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney's, Radar, Funny or Die, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, B ...
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Let's FACE it

A friend of mine gave a speech recently about how social media can cause depression. I am depressed. Yup. I admit it. All those happy, perfectly well-adjusted, secure-in-their-own-skin types who post their selfies from sunrise to Leno are getting me down. My friend's speech research revealed that most people who post on Facebook are extroverts and narcissists. Well, I thought I fit snugly into that profile, but I can't bring myself to selfie into the Guinness Book of the Clueless. Who car ...
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