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The Secret Diaries

How Television Ruined Christmas in the 1970s

by kara on December 17, 2015

Reposted from 2010. Christmas, as we all know, is a time of joy, goodfellowship, and political score settling, as well as some good old fashioned rioting for electronics. Four decades ago, televised Christmas specials were as integral to the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus as trees, lights and presents. When we reference […]

Happy Birthday, Chaka Khan

by kara on March 25, 2012

on the set of Krush Groove, 1985

my paly: boudoir singer, gasser.

by kara on September 30, 2011

from today’s nytimes Creating Some of That New Black Magic By STEPHEN HOLDEN, September 29, 2011 In the unlikely event that a modern version of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack restores “Mad Men”-era lounge singing to the forefront of pop fashion, Seth MacFarlane shows potential to compete for the title New Chairman of the Board, or at least a […]

by kara on March 14, 2011

This morning I woke up feeling like crap. Inexplicably confused about the time change, I left for work too early, so I stopped at Rite Aid, across from my office in search of an over-the-counter remedy for what ailed me: malaise, hazy-head, ennui. I roamed through the aisles and eventually did find that antidote, just […]

Kara and Cara go to a House Party

by kara on October 10, 2010

These are their stories.