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Articles by Sarah D. Bunting

AIDSWalk: Nap for the Cure
May 14, 2009 – 5:57 PM | 3 Comments
AIDSWalk: Nap for the Cure

Come celebrate the first ever Team SupersnackAIDS Nap!
AIDS Nap 2009 was conceived during previous AIDSWalk outings, whenmany Supersnackers looked around at the beautiful May day and opined that, whilewalking 6 miles in Central Park was …

“Melo-prom-a”
May 14, 2009 – 3:49 PM | No Comment

My latest 90210 recap at SOAPnet:

Silver certainly won’t win again next year, since she uses the occasion to deliver a speech about how she’s had a hard year and she doesn’t know who she is …

The Things They Carried
May 11, 2009 – 2:52 PM | 42 Comments

They’re all dead.But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

When I open a book and begin to read, and I have …

Yahoooooo-ooo-ooooo!
May 8, 2009 – 2:39 PM | 24 Comments

Thanks to all your donations in the TN Contest ’08, I got to meet Jerry Yang of Yahoo! yesterday.   Pictured: Jerry and I try to act natural while plotting world domination.
A big thank-you to …

The Vine: May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009 – 12:34 PM | 44 Comments

Hello Sars,
Longtime reader, first-time questioner! Here’s my dilemma: I have insane, ridiculous, sensitive skin. No eczema or rosacea, just really pale, really hyper-sensitive skin. Because of this, I generally skip a lot of makeup.
But there …

“I was almost excommunicated in the second grade”
May 3, 2009 – 8:40 PM | 16 Comments

I never read the Sunday Times anymore, really, but I bought a copy of it today because I’m moving (no big whoop, just within Brooklyn, and more on that later but the moving process is …

The Vine: May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009 – 4:31 PM | 38 Comments

Hello Sars,
Sometime back in 1976-1980, I had a Snoopy plush doll that was about 10″ (or so) tall, and one could buy outfits for him separately.There was a motorcycle outfit, a baseball outfit, a pajamas …

The Vine: April 29, 2009
April 29, 2009 – 5:28 PM | 81 Comments

I have a question for you and/or the readers, and it’s kind of a dating etiquette question, but with legal overtones too.
A few weeks ago I met the Guy on a blind date, and we’re …

My girl B. Art
April 27, 2009 – 12:46 PM | 34 Comments
My girl B. Art

I really can’t say it better than Wing and I said it in the TWoP book.   So, I won’t.   (Awesome image via Pop Hangover.)
Arthur, Bea. Bea Arthur starred in Maude and The Golden …

Who’s a good girl?
April 25, 2009 – 4:25 PM | 21 Comments
Who’s a good girl?

1) The Boosh, who has just departed for her new home with 2) Miss Laura.   Yay for both of them!   And thanks again to 3) Elena at S.I. Feral Initiative, and to all …