The only people who care enough to comment on my blog are strangers who google themselves and somehow end up on a random post I wrote from three years ago.

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ragbag asked: was england justifiable in interfering between egypt and the soudan rebels in the urabi revolt?

I know why you would want to ask me a question like this, Mr. Bag. I’ve often been told that reading through my blog gives people the impression that I am some sort of expert on 19th-century English-Egyptian relations. Unfortunately, I have almost no knowledge in that era of history, but since lacking knowledge on a subject has never stopped a person writing on the internet from having an opinion about something, I’ll do my best to continue the great bloggy tradition and form a quick, glib judgment after hastily reading a wikipedia entry on the urabi revolt.

So, to answer your question: hell no.

I feel like I don't update this blog enough

But instead of creating my own content (read: taking screenshots of things on the internet that are only funny to me) I will make you, the reader, do my work for me.

Ask me anything.

"‘He did a lot of hand work,’ said Trichon, praising his ‘straight fingers, perfect nails’ and ability to ‘hold things correctly.’"
— Model agent Maggie Trichon recalling her days of representing Scott Brown. (via Wonkette)

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Questions For Our Times

Which is correct: “dilly daddling” or “diddle daddling?”

rosasparks asked: What are you working on right now? I miss talking with you.

I miss talking with you too!

I’m still working at the Gap and I’m working on getting my new website and copywriting portfolio up, hopefully by the end of this month. After that, I plan on emailing/calling every single ad agency in New York looking for internships. If for some reason that doesn’t work out I will probably just start a Tumblr filled with pictures of dumb Facebook ads and then get a modest book deal from one of those publishers that specializes in blog-to-books-that-end-up-in-the-gag-gift-sections-of-Urban-Outfitters and then live off that money until I run away to go live on a farm.

But, you know, that probably won’t happen. I’m optimistic!

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NOOOOOOO!

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(Ed. Note: I won’t be posting all of my Formspring answers on my Tumblr because I know how annoying that can be and I don’t want to take up people’s precious Dashboard space with things that are not iPhone pictures of cats; however, I just felt like this was something you all NEEDED TO KNOW about me.)

You have such a pretty name. Are people always mangling it? What’s the worst version you’ve ever seen on junk mail?

People mess up my name so frequently that I don’t even notice it anymore. I most often get called “Marie” or by my last name “Lara.” I can see why people would call me those two things since, in the case of “Marie,” I don’t pronounce my name with any Spanish trill and “Lara” is a fairly uncommon Hispanic last name in America (as opposed to Lopez, Gonzalez, etc.) and is mostly known in the US as a first name. So, I mean, whatevs.

The junk mail versions of my name are always messed up, usually because my name is long. “Mariamerced” is probably the worst one that I’ve seen.

It is funny because when people mess up my name it doesn’t really bother me. One woman at my work has insisted on calling me “Marie” so I’ve given up on correcting her. The only thing that annoys me is that when I tell people my name is “Maria” they immediately start belting out “Maria” from West Side Story, or some other “Maria” song. Or, if they are in their mid-thirties and Hispanic, they start singing the theme song from the popular telenovela starring a young Thalia called “Maria Mercedes.” UGH! Now that is the worst.

Ask me anything

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