David James Parr
The Thing with Annie / Episode 18: Homecoming
The dress I end up wearing to Homecoming is scratchy against my body; also, it makes me look as if I have no chest at all. It is...
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David James Parr
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
The Thing with Annie / Episode 2: Brilliant
"On Saturday, he is gone. Ever since his mother died, Stanley goes once a week to visit his father at his farm in northern Ohio and stays...
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David James Parr
- Oct 1, 2021
- 2 min
The Thing with Annie / Episode 1: Mercy
Everything in this hospital room is right. No. Not right. White. The sheets, the walls, the ceiling. Even the light coming in through the...
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David James Parr
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
The Thing with Annie
Annie's eyes: rimmed in black, shadowed with hues of blue and purple. Bright green flecked with brown. They glow in the dark. If Annie...
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David James Parr
- Oct 31, 2020
- 7 min
Surrender, Dorothy - Parts 2 & 3
2 When I was a teenager, I had many female friends who complained constantly about their mothers with ferocious intensity, about actions...
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David James Parr
- Oct 29, 2020
- 5 min
Surrender, Dorothy - Part 1
1 Lavender. It was a lavender robe with tiny blue and pink petals. Not silky, as the flowers would suggest, but rough cotton, plain,...
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David James Parr
- Sep 12, 2019
- 2 min
Honeymoon Bridge
The main problem was that Sheila didn’t remember the rules, it had been so long since she’d played, and that was with her ex-husband whom...
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David James Parr
- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
Mata Hari (from VIOLET PEAKS)
At the Halloween party itself, a large congregation in a huge, empty rehearsal space normally used for dance classes, Violet's Mata Hari...
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David James Parr
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
Itchy Scalp
Jude proudly wears her Pussy Hat though over a year has passed (!) and she is not marching this afternoon but striding down 7th Avenue on...
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David James Parr
- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
Plaid Monday - Beauty Marks is now on Kindle
While he is telling me that we are breaking up, Mark is wearing a yellow plaid shirt that I haven’t seen before. Usually it's a white...
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David James Parr
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
I Want My MTV Blog #2: Pretty in Pink, and Miami
I am no expert on Enrique Iglesias music videos, but based on the three that are in constant rotation at the treadmills of the rocking...
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David James Parr
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
Moist Lies - from Beauty Marks
I know that Michelle has an irrational fear of houses that look like faces; she knows that I have a phobia of peanut butter getting stuck...
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David James Parr
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
Dreamcatchers (from Beauty Marks)
Michelle announces, “I had the weirdest dream last night.” I finally take a sip of my coffee now lukewarm; it tastes like dread. The...
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David James Parr
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
I Want My MTV Blog #1: Getting Right with Jennifer Lopez & Jennifer Lopez & Jennifer Lopez...
My gym has not changed its rotation of music videos since 2008, so at the New York Sports Club in West Harlem Lady Gaga continues to hold...
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David James Parr
- Jan 4, 2019
- 1 min
Making Bookends Meet
When I graduated from college, my mom gave me bookends in the shapes of globes, with the inspiring instruction to fill the space between...
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David James Parr
- Dec 12, 2018
- 1 min
Kamikaze Rapture
“Kamikaze!” I blurted out just before our first kiss, suddenly remembering the name of the German Shepherd who had bitten me twenty years...
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David James Parr
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
Love Handles (from Beauty Marks)
"The lighting in this bar is dim enough, and the frozen cosmopolitans cheap enough, that everybody here flirts with the screens of their...
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David James Parr
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
Downward Facing Dog (from Beauty Marks)
"While Ginny roots around in her refrigerator, I try and figure out which sort of Betty will turn up at the door: a flirty Betty Boop, a...
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David James Parr
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
From Beauty Marks
"While we were sipping our cocktails, a group of young bikini bottom-clad Parisians suddenly wandered in from the pool party next door,...
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David James Parr
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
The Thing with Annie / Episode 18: Homecoming
The dress I end up wearing to Homecoming is scratchy against my body; also, it makes me look as if I have no chest at all. It is...
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David James Parr
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
The Thing with Annie / Episode 2: Brilliant
"On Saturday, he is gone. Ever since his mother died, Stanley goes once a week to visit his father at his farm in northern Ohio and stays...
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