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existingispetty · 2 years

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Hi! Could I get a Tokyo revengers and BSD matchup

Personality: she/her, gemini INTJ 3w4. I tend to act very arrogant and cocky as a defense mechanism. I don't like being vulnerable with people because it's not their job to worry about my problems. I come across very calm and collected and people rely on me for advice but can't let myself depend on anyone. I'm really analytical and am good at finding loopholes and working around problems under pressure. I'm not good with emotional support and can come across a little cold because of that. Under everything I think I'm very kind and feel like I burden people with my presence a lot of times. I'm a very eye for an eye person and the way I treat people entirely depends on how they treat me. I can either be really sweet or do horrible things if they deserve it. I'm not that expressive (outwardly at least because I'm actually really emotional I just hide it well) and have a hard time relaxing or enjoying things because I've been conditioned to always consider how it will look on mine and my family's reputation. I'm a perfectionist and hold myself to very high standards. I look intimidating but I'm actually just socially awkward and suck at small talk (because it seems kind of pointless to me). I also have a short temper but there's only certain specific people that can get me to actually lose my patience and explode. I don't cry or break down in front of people and people usually think I'm perfectly fine. My love language is giving gifts and acts of service but I’m not sure what my love language is to receive.

Hobbies/Likes: I love fashion and I've been a model since I was 14, I used to do pageants as a kid, I make my own music and music is probably the thing I love the most. It's really what I use to process the world so music is definitely the way to my heart. I can't play any instruments but I can sing and do digital music production. (I've always wanted to be in a rock band) I'm a good artist but I don't like doing it on a deadline (I took an AP art class back in high school and didn't draw for 2 years after it cuz I hated being forced to draw. It's like when something you like becomes a chore) I've gotten back into drawing recently tho. I've also been doing martial arts since I was 7 + fencing. I'm good at chess and poker and made money from playing/betting on games when I was younger. I also love reading.

Matchup #7

Hello thank you so much for the ask! I apologize heavily for the wait and I hope you enjoy it!

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Your matchups are…(insert aggressive drumroll)

Baji Keisuke

He likes your arrogance it tests his own pride at moments. Once the idiot learns it’s a defense mechanism he’s even more interested in you. Baji is more focused on his own problems plus he understands wanting to deal with your own issues. Baji doesn't lean on you so he doesn't mind if you don’t lean on him. Baji wouldn’t want to overwhelm you with advice so he asks you like once every week stupid questions. Baji gets in trouble so frequently that your loopholes would be such a relief on his part. Baji wouldn’t really require emotional support like other people would so he wouldn’t need you to support him emotion-wise. Baji can honestly see through your act but he understands the point of it. Bajis presence is more of a burden than yours, to be honest… Baji wants someone that is all kind 24/7 it annoys him sometimes. Baji is really good at taking your mind off things, to be honest. Baji would praise you so much because. Of how perfectly you complete everything, you will never find a prouder man. He will always let out a chuckle at how socially awkward you are. You are the one person Baji is slightly intimidated by so he’ll definitely settle down around you. He would be in shock that you ever gave him anything.

Baji would love to watch you as a model! He finds it so fascinating. Baji would be both your biggest fan and your biggest critic. He would also love to listen to your musical creations! Baji would literally love to be in a rock band with you. He would be so impressed that you can draw something better than stick figures. I don’t think Baji knows what a deadline is... Baji would love to battle you in martial arts and he would also attend your fencing practices! Be prepared to get a lot of money from Baji because of how bad he is at betting.

Chūya Nakahara

Chūya had a little bit of an ego but he’s around Dazai the man with an ego bigger than his heart. Trust me Chūya would be more surprised if you were vulnerable around him than if you weren’t. To Chūya, your calm front is like a sip of cold water in 200* weather. Chūya is stubborn so he’ll refuse to ask for help. Finding loops and holes is very important to people in the Port mafia in case they get in a little too much trouble… Chūya doesn’t expect you to offer a shoulder to lean on. He wants to be strong enough to deal with his own problems. Chūya thinks you are quite the opposite of cold I mean he’s around mafia minions all day that has a stomach face no matter what you say to them… Chūya will make it very obvious that he prefers your presence over many others. Chūya is honestly so gentle and quiet around you if he irritated you I would be surprised. Chūya puts off this very professional vibe when he’s not on Port mafia duty or around Dazai. Chūya is also quite the perfectionist as well, he isn’t done with a mission until everything is wrapped up well. Chūya also has quite a short stick but he can definitely control around more calm people.

Chūya is already quite wealthy but he doesn’t buy things for himself your gifts mean so much to him no matter how small. Chūya would enjoy every act of service done for him so much he would love to return them. As you can see Chūya is a man of great fashion. Chūya would listen to your music every minute he can. Please start a band with Chūya he would devote himself to it. He would be impressed with your art but he soundly asks for any works from you. Chūya loves to make petty bets.

#matchup #bungou stay dogs matchup #bungo stray dogs #tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers matchup

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holyfluck · 5 months

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11/21/23

I'm in my bed. It's morning time. I've stacked up my pillows against the wall to create a back support and pulled my duvet up to my armpits. Laptop in lap. I usually spend my first waking hours cruising the digital social sphere. I check my notifications, filter through the stories, and give a lil scroll. When I say lil I really mean a lot. I've been a bit depressed lately, so I get lost on the internet. Escapism, for sure. But I've been doing things differently the last couple of days. Leaving my phone in the other room and intentionally petting my cats. Now I'm trying writing on.

I've promised to prioritize relief for the next couple of months. I want safety. I've been swimming in the sea of risk for years now. But I want a break. I want to ground myself on dry land. I want to feel supported in New York. My place in this city has felt so fragile. Like one misstep could send me toppling back to Utah, which is my hell. So, obviously that scares the shit out of me and weighs on my heart. I want to root down in New York. So that means re-orienting towards security. I'm going to get a job. It's hilarious to me that it has taken me 2 1/2 years in New York to consider working. Before that, I hadn't worked for another 3 years! What a funny little life.

The thought of reentering the workforce sounds luxurious at this point. I've been learning everything I know on my own for 5 1/2 years. Making every decision, chasing every dollar. It will be so fuckin lovely to just enter a space, get told what to do for a few hours, and then just leave! Work doesn't follow you the same way it does as an entrepreneur. Not only that but you get PAID to learn! WHAT A WONDER! I've paid a pretty penny for all the lessons I've learned on my journey as a business owner, so this idea is almost comical. Sign me up! I want to work for an interior designer. There's a place in Williamsburg that has a showroom that sells beautiful furniture, art, and cool coffee table books, but also does full scale interior design projects. YES! I want that! If I can wiggle myself in that space, I can ask a human being questions about the trade, gain experience without the risk, potentially find manufacturers through their distributors, and maybe even sell products through them! It's a win win win win!! YAS! I want it. I can't imagine that they'd be able to pay me much, but I've finagled a support system here in New York that will, at least temporarily, bolster the low wage. I'm savvy, damnit!

Another element that sounds lovely about a gig is the social part. I have been so isolated with my work for so long. I am good at people and want to work with a team and forge relationships!

Anyway, it all sounds real yummy.

I'm insecure about my experience on paper. I didn't go to school and I don't have any professional experience outside of my own. But I think my work thus far will show for itself. I mean, I friggin built luxury lighting with my own two HANDS! I do everything and I learned it all on my own. I think that says a lot. I also have over 1.5 million likes on TikTok, which has got to count for something! My portfolio also rules. I got this. I'll have ChatGPT help write my resume with me.

I don't really know how to get into this but I feel like I should at least document that it happening; my father committed suicide a little over three weeks ago. Gun to his forehead in the middle of the family backyard. No note. Ouch. There are so many questions that I'll never have answered. So much anger tangled with the grief. It has me spiraling in ways with my own life, but weirdly in a positive way. I'm fucking shit up for the better. I feel weighty though. A lot of sadness and negative reflection. That's all I'll say about it now.

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timpac-capstone · 6 months

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Week 4

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The one thing I'm most anxious about in my project is voice acting. I definitely want to have some dialogue in my story but the more I brainstorm the more characters seem to get involved and in that sense, I might have to look into hiring professionals. I am not a voice actor or an actor in general, I've done skit videos before but I'd hardly call that acting because I'm acting like myself with a layer of sarcasm rather than trying to put on a performance. Even when I watch professional voice actors do their performances I still feel a bit of secondhand embarrassment. I found this video by ProZD who is a professional voice actor/YouTuber on "How do you get into voice acting" and it's the answer that I expected which is you just do it and eventually you get better through trial and error. However, this is more so for people who are trying to get into the industry and not techniques to warm up your voice, how to find a voice for a character, or what microphone to use. But one thing that did stick out was that you have to get over that feeling of embarrassment of performing in front of others and once you learn how to do that you're pretty much halfway through the battle. Ideally, the only voice actor in this project will be me but I need to first get over my embarrassment of performing.

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This is a snip bit from a much larger Behind The Scenes bonus video that mainly focused on the Ed, Edd, n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures video game. This clip specifically focuses on the show, such as what was the process of making the characters and how Danny Antonucci came up with the concept of the show and its characters. I watched this about 7 years ago and it was the first BTS video that I ever saw regarding how an animation was made. I had no clue about walk cycles, turnarounds, or model sheets up until that point so it was interesting revisiting to see what information I still retained after all these years and what Danny Antonucci's creative process is compared to other creators and showrunners.

I found this guy about 2 years ago, he's an animator from Canada who works for many big-name Japanese anime studios. A lot of what I know about animation production is from this guy, it has been really helpful in learning the differences in animation between the West and East and what is similar. It has also been very insightful as to how he got into the anime industry considering he is from Canada, the secret being having a really good and active Twitter account but that's probably not the case anymore. He mainly uses Clip Studio Paint since that's the standard in japan but that is a very expensive program and I'm sure Krita works just fine. Recently he's been doing a lot of tutorials on After Effects which will definitely be useful for me since I have some experience with that program.

I've only done a few digital drawings in my life and absolutely no digital animation so it is a big stressor on me because I keep saying I'm going to learn Krita but digital art is just so uncomfortable for me to do. I've only just recently gotten my drawing skills up to where I want them to be and that was because of a personal year long competition I did with my friend in which we had to make a drawing from scratch every single day for a year. However that was mostly all traditional, there is clearly I much different process for digital art but it's a bit difficult to figure out because to make a good digital piece requires your own personal preferences and knowing the limitations of your digital art program. It isn't as easy as just finding a single tutorial on Krita because every bodies work flow is different and when I see these 40 minute long tutorials I feel like I'm gambling away time I should be using drawing and making stuff in Krita. This is a channel I found this week that does ten minute long time-lapse videos on animating in Krita, I feel that these give me more exposure as to what the workflow in Krita is like and I don't have to spend much time watching his videos so that I can go on and do my own thing.

REFLECTION:

This was a much more research oriented week, I probably won't have time to put what I learned into action this week but still pretty useful information that I will definitely go back to eventually. I feel this process will become a lot more easier when I know what story I want to tell so that definitely will be my next goal to get done during this week.

#animation #study motivation #capstone #krita #voice acting #danny antonucci #Youtube

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 years

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Day 27 of 14,600 art meditation and journal entry.

So much of my life as a graphic designer has been to create art that connects to the client, and the function part of it is I am solving a problem visually. It’s my dream job, and a whole story of alignment in and of itself. A few years ago I had a conversation with another designer about this idea — what if you took the client out of the equation, what would we make, could we even do it? Part of the drive is being asked to do something, being hired is empowering because it’s a connection, and a source of deep joy and respect for both sides. Even if it is an agreement between egos - liking someone’s work, and paying for it creates a power dynamic - there still is lots of heart in there. In this conversation my friend admitted it would be tough for her to design without a client. And I have to admit, I’ve had a lot of resistance making art for myself. I have not been a good enough reason. I’ve spent years grieving - or my ego has spent years grieving the loss of that kind of ego-juice. Yay! External approval!!

So that’s really the core of all lines are beautiful, finding the heart space and keep giving #HEART to myself.

Which is why I LOVE these hearts and keep bringing them back. They surprised me when they appeared in my design process.

Mess and beauty and #heart, all in one.

Also movement and flow and color.

Imperfection and perfection together. Depth and feeling.

It’s an image that fulfills me completely. Like sex with art. Which is really what this is … THAT should have been my tagline. All Lines Are Beautiful : Sex With Art.

Art is all about feeling.

I am convinced now that we have to actively learn the gift before moving on to the next one, and I think I’ve officially resisted this lesson long enough now, and am ready to release it. And so ::

I feel SO lucky that I get to make art for myself. I could not be happier. Noting this. Well, I could be happier. Part of the dream is to get commissions for my art. Brand bundles, NFTs, Digital Dresses, books, products - all of it. It takes mindful time ….

I finally found my pattern, my repeatable art and life pattern. My heart space. My art. My words. And it does not involve staying inside the first round of the sketch, it’s ever expandable aftermath.

The other day I was visiting the SF MoMA Design store taking photos of all the things I would want to buy. The guy behind the counter was teasing us asking how many $275.00 metal red heart wall decorations we would like?, my sister said “nine”, ha ha, but he warmed up to us. Later when I was still asking him how much some of the bigger items cost - telling me that I had good taste. 🥰

Speaking of good taste (😜!), I wish I had the courage to SAY, but I didn’t think of it until later, “I hope that my designs make it into the MoMA Design Stores someday.” Because I do. And I know they support local artists…. I am deeply inspired by other people’s art AND product designs. Deeply. And even that is something I've been fighting against my entire life. I would be a better person if I wasn’t so materialistic. But tangible things are something we MAKE from our hearts and imaginations, just as much as we create our lives. So there, another stage of self recrimination that I’m done with. :)

Besides which, my former neighbor of 7-½ years died last week, he was much too young. And it just hit me again how short life is. So there is no reason to contain my heart any more.

With ALL my heart, here are more heart designs.

-Anne

#alllinesarebeautiful #artsoulfully #art soulfully #art #lifeisart #beauty

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asheathes · 7 years

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Can you say more about the NYU program? How was it? Are you planning on staying in publishing now that it's over? I've been thinking of applying for next year's.

I don’t know how much you know about it but it’s a six-week program consisting of a three-week magazine session and a three-week book session. The classes are pretty much from 9-5 Monday to Friday, although we usually ended an hour earlier during the book session. There are some weekend workshops; this year we had video editing, Photoshop and InDesign for professionals and advanced production (four separate workshops), and HTML. These aren’t mandatory but they’re really helpful. The classes we had weren’t lectures–they were more conference-style with industry professionals coming in to speak about various aspects of the industry. The program brought in some pretty prominent people such as Joanna Coles, the Chief Content Officer of Hearst, Cindi Leive, the EIC of Glamour, and Michael Clinton, the President of Hearst, and Dominique Raccah, the CEO of Sourcebooks, Jonathan Karp, the Present and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, as well as various executive editors from the big five. The program also brought back a lot of alumni so not only did we get to hear from some of the most successful people in the industry, we also heard from people much like ourselves who completed the program and went on to get jobs in the industry. Having those contacts are really helpful because they’re more inclined to help you get your foot in the door than, say, the CEO of a particular company.

Aside from classes, we had two major projects: launching a new magazine and launching a new imprint. You’re assigned to a role and a category/genre, and you typically work on this with your group after class every day, so expect some late nights. I probably learned the most from these projects because they were so hands-on. Even though I was the Art Director for the magazine project, I still helped with editorial, audience development, marketing, and social media so it was very collaborative. For books, I was the Publisher so I had to oversee everything. It was super different from what I did during the magazine session because I had to take a step back and look at the big picture, but it forced me to use a different skill set which I can now speak to during interviews. Most, if not all, found the magazine project to be more rigorous than the book project because of the sheer amount of work that you have to do. Throughout the process, you do get to meet with industry professionals who review your progress to give you feedback. For example, we had editorial, digital, marketing, audience development, and design reviews for the magazine project, and marketing, publicity, and design reviews for the book project. This year was the first year we were allowed to launch a digital-only magazine, so we were the guinea pigs for that. They have a few kinks to work out because resources and the distribution of responsibilities weren’t totally equal across digital-only and print and digital magazines. Hopefully, this will be improved next year.

Lastly, we also had a few networking events (one at Time Inc.!!!) as well as industry visits (I went to Vanity Fair and Penguin Random House Children’s). There’s also a job fair on the last day so you have the opportunity to meet a lot of HR reps from different companies.

All in all, the program was incredibly helpful. I know so much more about the industry than I did before, and it’s also given me an opportunity to make contacts. All of the people in my class–they’re my network now. Plus I’ve made some amazing friends! So, yes! I’m absolutely going to stay in (or try to get into) publishing.

EDIT: I forgot to mention this but you also get free books and magazines!!! Totally worth it.

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duanecbrooks · 7 years

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The Return Of Girls Gone Write Further unmistakable evidence that women, by and large, are the superior writers: the former George W. Bush press secretary and current Fox News host Dana Perino's my-life-with-my-dog-Jasper memoir Let Me Tell You About Jasper...: How My Best Friend Became America's Dog and the large-screen sprite Anna Kendrick's personal/professional memoir Scrappy Little Nobody. These two books are, frankly, flat-out joys to read, the former being a frequently warmhearted, often humorous, always heartfelt telling of her life and experiences with her pet dog Jasper, who, as she convincingly claims, has become the real and true star of the Perino family; the latter being an engaging, sprightly, consistently witty literary self-examination of one of the modern-day American cinema's most succulent and most appealing chicks. To partake of these tomes consecutively, both from beginning to end, is to spend quality time with a pair of delightfully quirky, keenly aware, firmly articulate she-babes who, each in her own way, have a marvelous sense of proportion, a marvelous refusal to see themselves as having any kind of Greatness. Before getting into just exactly why these superb books are superb, allow me to go into how I first became aware of Kendrick (If you'll remember, Perino first came into my life via her first-rate within-the-George W. Bush-administration memoir And The Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side). Kendrick caught my attention, as do many other other folks and things these days, via YouTube. Specifically, first, during a compilation of Kathie Lee/Hoda's "best" Today "celebrity moments," wherein, when Kendrick was asked whether or not she'd like to play a game, she facetiously mimicked Nader and replied mock-earnestly: "No! I hate games! I hate fun, I hate laughing!" (Later, she was shown doing some mock-dirty dancing with said girls); second, during a trailer for one of Kendrick's more recent theatrical films, namely Get A Job, the aforementioned trailer's two highlights, for me, being 1) this scene where Kendrick's filmic character, Jillian by name, is sitting on the floor lamenting the fact that she spent almost all of the money she had on a BITCHIIN' pair of shoes, while clad in a pair of equally bangin' black toreador pants that, given her sitting position, magnificently show off her magnificently long, lean legs and her magnificently-proportioned bare feet; and 2) a long shot of Kendrick adorned in a man's white shirt and tie and black high heels and again displaying those stylishly long, lean legs. Thus I was already primed, due to being previously turned on by Kendrick, to favor her tome. It's here where I'll deal with the highlights of both books, the places where our memoirists especially grab ahold of and, simultaneously, charm and delight us. .Perino, on the vast network of fans/friends that has developed due to her having Jasper: "It is a bit wonderful that through television and social media, Jasper and I became friends with so many people across the country. I enjoy interacting with my followers and fans, and I really feel that we have modern-day friendships--people I've never met, but that I've come to know over time through short digital interactions. It has widened my circle of people I talk to, and it's deepened my appreciation for people from all walks of life. I now get a chance to communicate with people I wouldn't have ever known; the Internet has given us a way to connect and network that didn't exist before. We're all neighbors now (with the proper amount of fencing to keep things friendly). "Often this new group of people has cheered me up or warmed my heart just when I needed it. Working in politics and live cable television can be stressful, and switching off at the end of the day isn't always easy. Jasper's following has actually given me a way to set aside the work portion of my day and exchange some messages with my electronic friends, which helps me keep grounded and cheerful." .Kendrick, on her brother Mike: "My brother is my hero. I've idolized him since the day I was born and I still do. He's responsible for at least sixty percent of my personality, for better or worse. I'm told that if you're an only child, you grow up thinking you're the center of the universe, and if you have tons of siblings you grow up with a healthy perspective on how small you are in the grand scheme of things. I'd like to think that my brother told me I was a worthless brat often enough that I got the same effect... "Mike's main interests [when we were kids] were watching Star Wars, playing Magic: The Gathering, and avoiding his annoying little sister. The only time he happily included me was when he wanted to play 'Pro Wrestling Champions,' as I was an ideal partner on which to inflict moderate injury." .Perino, on Jasper's television debut: "Jasper made his debut on The Five [Perino's Fox News political talk show] as a sleepy puppy at just two months old, and a star was born. I brought him on set and when we were back from commercial break, I showed him off for the camera. He looked right into the lens with his deep blue eyes (a Vizsla [Jasper's breed] is born with blue eyes that eventually turn amber). He snuggled into me. Hearts melted. "Jasper has tons of personality and is as photogenic as any dog I've known. On Jasper's birthday, my [The Five] producer lets him come on the show and he sits on a chair, for the most part, wearing a bow tie collar, and you would think he knows exactly what he's doing when he looks into the teleprompter. He's certainly better behaved than [Five co-host Greg] Gutfield." .Kendrick, on her early period as an actor: "Starting in theater gave me a basic work ethic that I may not have gotten if I started in film and television. I worked six days a week, eight shows a week (two shows on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Mondays off). It wasn't so much the schedule--I worked in accordance with child labor laws--it was that I was held accountable for my work. "Once, during rehearsals, our director was playing with the shape of a musical number that involved most of the cast--which jokes should stay, where they should go, etc. He decided to try reinstituting a small joke I'd had in a previous draft, and we started the number again from the top. I lost where we were in the music and I opened my mouth to say the line, a measure too late. He was already shaking his head and signaling the pianist to stop. "'Anna just lost a line. Let's go back to how it was before and start again.'" .Perino, on her period as W.'s press secretary: "[B]ecoming the White House press secretary was the best thing that ever happened to my career. I learned so much--about policy, world affairs, management, and politics. "But the most important lesson I learned working for President Bush was about character and how to conduct myself under stress and attack. I found out how to be productive despite obstacles, and appreciated how a communicator can help calm a situation, advance a negotiation, or lead to a solution. "The press secretary is the pinnacle for a public relations professional--it was the opportunity of a lifetime. "But having worked in politics for so many years, I'd built up a fairly tough exterior. The daily battles can wear a person out, and in some ways, I became edgier and harder than I'd ever been. "It was also a lofty position, and the surest way you can lose your way in Washington, D.C., is to let any of that power or prestige go to your head. "Throughout those years [first dog] Henry kept me from losing sight of what was important in life: appreciation and gratitude for my health and blessings, and the love I shared with [hubby] Peter and our dog." .Kendrick, on her early life as a struggling actor: "The next pilot season [for television series] was starting up, which meant I was usually sent on one to four auditions a day. I discovered MapQuest and wrote down directions by hand since I didn't have a printer. Between that and my growing knowledge of the city, I was only getting lost, like, six times a day. Pilot season is grim because you're sent in for everything, no matter how wrong you are for it. I kept a mountain of clothes and accessories in my trunk so I could go from the fourteen-year-old goth daughter on a TNT drama to the spoiled twenty-two-year-old receptionist on a workplace comedy. It's obvious now that splitting my focus made it responsible for me to do well on any of them, but I was in no position to turn down auditions. "How do I describe my personal life during this time? I met funny, interesting people. I went to art galleries downtown, I performed a one-woman show for free on the street corner. Except none of that's true. I spent most of my time trying to find ways to occupy myself without spending money or ingesting calories." .Perino, on what she terms Jasper's "protest pee": "When I wrote And the Good News Is... I received a lot of gifts for Jasper, including an embroidered quilt with the Great Seal of the United States. It is beautiful and functional. [Peter and I] take it with us to our friends' homes if we are invited to stay the night, because, well, you try telling Jasper he can't sleep on the bed. With the quilt, we're covered. Literally and figuratively. "When we're at our place in South Carolina, leaving him in the house is even more stressful. For a while, whenever we'd go out, we'd come home and find that he'd peed on the floor. As soon as we'd walk in, we'd know something happened, because Jasper would grab a toy as he always does, but instead of frantic joy and butt wagging, his tail would be down and he'd look guilty. It was hard to discipline him because you're supposed to catch them in the act. [Hubby] Peter would get pretty made at Jasper, and I'd feel terrible. "'He's so scared to be left alone,' I'd say. "'No, he's being a brat,' Peter responded." .Kendrick, on behavior at showbiz events: "There's a campaign called #AskHerMore, which was started by some thoughtful, intelligent females (Lena Dunham, Reese Witherspoon, Shondra Rimes, etc.). It aims to ensure that when women attend events, they are asked about more than their dresses. Men don't answer questions about their clothes; why should we [women]? A simple and understandable request. "However, if people could ask me less, that would be great. I would love it if we could limit my red carpet topics to my favorite colors, what sound a duck makes, and my thoughts on McDonald's All-Day Breakfast--blessing or curse?" Also: Nearly the final half of Perino's book consists of various @FiveFanPhotoshops pictures that very humorously show Jasper in a collection of quite colorful poses--Jasper painting a portrait of Perino's former boss, W.; Jasper as a race-car driver; Jasper and Perino involved in the Kentucky Derby with the latter on top of the former, et al. And Kendrick's tome closes with a "Bonus Reading Group Guide," wherein there are "a few questions to help you get the most out of your reading experience."(As an addend, Kendrick wittily 1] apologizes for the "fact" that her "Guide" offers no red meat for those of us who "happen to run a trashy celebrity news blog that requires you to peruse the content of privileged cretins like me"; and 2] gives us permission to "use these questions [in the "Guide"] as a template for creating misleading but juicy headlines." She winds up by, also wittily, summing up what she, so she claims, is conveying: "[F]amous white girls are really fun to be mad at") Among the queries asked in the "Guide": .."Though every page of Scrappy Little Nobody is perfect in every way, which part is your favorite? Make a list (it can be a Post-it that says, 'Every part is my favorite') and tape it to your chest for the rest of the day." .."When Anna compares Zac Efron to Charles Manson, is she making a joke or trying to warn us about a potential murderous mastermind?" .."In the sections about Alexa Chung and Olivia Palermo, the author viciously maligns two innocent and very fashionable girls. Is Anna a shady, basic bitch, or the shadiest, basic-est bitch?" .."Anna makes a lot of bad decisions. Can you think of a time when you've made a bad decision? Oh wow, really? We're gonna pretend you can't think of a single example? YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME?!" And thus there are the books of Dana Perino and Anna Kendrick, the former being a greatly stylish, consistently witty, always loving paean to a dog who is not only a beloved pet but, as Perino very convincingly limns, one of the most well-known and well-regarded personalities in America (easily, happily, well above and beyond any yammering about "animal rights"); the latter being an engagingly lively, undeniably honest, unrelievedly funny self-portrait of a celebrity gal who is obviously on the sides of life and living, whose unflinchingly upbeat, never-say-die attitude comes through in literally every paragraph. In the much-lauded theatrical film The Magic of Belle Isle, the single Mom Charlotte O'Neill (Virginia Madsen), during an evening dinner with her daughters and that evening's guest, the renowned Western novelist Monte Wildhorn (Morgan Freeman), asserted: "I've always felt that a book does something no friend could: Stay quiet when you want to think." To partake of the Perino and Kendrick tomes as they "[s]tay quiet" is to have you "wanting to think" about them--always favorably and, very often, with unsheathed laughter.

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