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Make Lemonade!

by the Coconut Girl on May 17, 2013

It’s swimsuit season! If your backside puckers like it just ate a lemon, Make Lemonade!

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tCG’s HoneyWagon Music Fest!

by the Coconut Girl on April 15, 2013

A man stands at a street corner with his partner, waiting for the light to change. He notices a flyer stapled to phone pole. “Awesome! The HoneyWagon Music Fest is this weekend!” The partner steps around the phone pole, and sees a flyer, too. “Oh.”  

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Jennifer Lawrence Answers Questions About Gender Equality

by the Coconut Girl on February 27, 2013

An article came out recently in the New York Times about women in the workplace. Has there been a feminist regression in the last fifteen years? Why are women working/earning/living less large now than in other decades since the feminist revolution? The author, Stephanie Coontz, sets out to answer these questions, using lots of illuminating [...]

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Recession Chic™

by the Coconut Girl on February 21, 2013

The cheapest home renovation I know of is totally free. Here’s how to do it: put things “out of place.” In my architecture practice, I call it Recession Chic™. It’s the design version of a Staycation. Start by lifting framed pictures off their hooks and moving them to different spots. Your eye will ka-boing like [...]

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B**

by the Coconut Girl on December 6, 2012

  bs.  Can you guess what I just wrote? Bear with me, I’m trying to outrun the pornbots. Especially the international ones spamming me with ads for discount ED drugs. Such as the following promo, disguised as a comment on this blog: A number of developments go in and out in the trend bridesmaid apparel [...]

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tCG’s Cold and Flu Remedy

by the Coconut Girl on October 26, 2012

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Grand Slam Garden Tournament!

by the Coconut Girl on August 10, 2012

It’s August: time for a burnt-out, weed-filled, overgrown Garden Grand Slam! Thanks to Sponsor Boo Radley Yard Mainenance.  

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August Camp Options!

by the Coconut Girl on July 27, 2012

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the Coconut Girl Home Security

by the Coconut Girl on March 12, 2012

People in town have been stressed out about a recent string of residential burglaries. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to improve your home security quickly and inexpensively.

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Tribute to Award-Show Tributes

by the Coconut Girl on March 7, 2012

The Grammys…the Oscars…every year the televised awards shows hook me with their “In Memoriam” montages. Photographs of celebrities and industry leaders flash by, while an artist sings a live, heart-rending standard like “I’ll be Seeing You.” This year’s Oscar performance of “What  a Wonderful World” by Esperanza Spalding was transcendent.  If she could have heard [...]

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