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My two favorite living American writers āĀ Fanny Howe and Mary Robison ā both named female characters Money. Fanny imagined it was long for āMona,ā Mary, that it was short for āMonica.ā I will be naming my child Money Phillips, no middle name. Anyway, you should read their books. (I have a lot of ready demands on whatever partner is dumb enough to procreate with me. Like, whoever has a child with me will have to drive me to a random hospital across the stateline into Montana in my third trimester, because I need my child to be a fifth generation Montanan. Itās a great source of anxiety to me that my dad lied to me growing up and said I was fifth generation. I was fourth.)
Oct 21, 2021
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for a boy - elijah byrd, benjamin jay. byrd is a family name and i love love love the name elijah. jay is a mix of my dads first and my moms middle name (neither one of them have middle name first names and i think its important to honor family members that you love with middle names
for a girl - juniper irene, gwendolyn (wendy) claire. okay, so the stuff i said about middle names goes out the window with juniper irene... i just think its pretty. i know juniper is kind of trendy rn but i think its so so so cute. as for gwendolyn claire... long story. i believe in names with nickname potential and i think wendy is so so cute. im a blink 182 fan and my favorite song by them is wendy clear.... wendy claire... wendy clear.... you get it. me and my mom also listen to a lot of blink together so its honoring her!!!
honorable mentions: soren, anson, malcolm (mack), mitchell, nadine, winona, margaux (maggie), adrienne.... sorry, i'm insane about these things. highly recommend getting a behindthename account if you're as weird about names as me
Apr 6, 2025
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My current list:
Carl
Thorvald (This is a family name Iām not insane)
Gustav
Willa
Dale
Georgia
Virginia/Ginny
Alice
Winifred/Winnie Freddie Wendy
Some truly awful ones leftover in my notes app from when I was 15:
Kendall (for a boy)
Roman
Shiv (as inā¦ the succession characters)
ā¦Jane Austen???
Asuka (after the fucking evangelion character??)
Genesis (after the Grimes song????)
4d ago
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I thought Labi Saffre was a woman, heās not. Nice quality in a singer. Anyway, these are two of the best love songs ever written. I first heard Youāre Lovely on repeat on mushrooms. Itās :32 seconds. I recommend the experience.
Oct 21, 2021
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Henry makes a lot of low key insufferable navel-gazey films that I really enjoy. Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) is his best. A matriarch presides over her family, who are all somehow involved in the theatre. It makes you wish you grew up with intellectuals in a house by the sea. Eating: A Very Serious Comedy about Women and Food is so annoying, itās just women saying theyāre fat at a party in Los Angeles, but my friend and his wife have the poster in their dining room, and itās a great poster, I recommend getting it.Ā Heās alive, Henry is, my translator friend knows him, sheās his muse, though sheās turned the camera back on him, her documentary on him needs a place to screen, if youāre a gallerist, get in touch. Support living artists!
Oct 21, 2021
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A book critic friend of mineās husbandās parents live in Boulder, and they have all these great intellectual boomer friends who make art but donāt have to make money. Or so it seems. I may be wrong... Anyway, one of them is Barbara Shark. This is like Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, but no one has ever heard of it. I think itās out of print because it wasnāt ever really in print. I donāt even cook, for the record.
Oct 21, 2021