Dear Marcus,
Congratulations on a record-setting game to start your career! Throwing 4 touchdown passes in a dominant victory in your first NFL game is an experience you'll never forget—and I say that from experience.
As you may have heard, those 4 touchdowns tied the NFL record for most touchdowns in a player's first game. I did the same thing, back in 1961. In my first game (incidentally, also the first game in franchise history for the Minnesota Vikings), I came off the bench against the mighty Chicago Bears—owned, coached, and managed by the legendary George Halas, founder of the entire NFL!
I entered the game late in the first quarter and had a game I'll never forget. I completed 17 of 21 passes, threw 4 touchdowns, and ran for another—I hope you'll forgive a retired...
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Dear Liz Kendall voter
Liz Kendall is right: we lost in May because of a toxic combination of doubts about our economic credibility and the leadership of our party. This is surely indisputable. Liz has consistently recognised how too many of the public viewed us and is fighting to put an alternative forward that meets the challenges posed by these doubts.
My respect for Liz has grown every day over the course of this campaign. Every speech she makes has real content, new substance and is future-focused. I agree with her that we need a English Labour party and real devolution so areas like Cumbria where I represent – which could not be further from Westminster physically and in so many other regards – can have the tools to be in charge of the destiny of their own local economies,...
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Dear Arisce Wezner,
“Take a moment and remove yourself from the fact that you’re a condescending, conceited bitter woman”
When I read the open letter to Kendall Jenner from another model in the industry, I was gobsmacked. Although I’ve come to expect people slamming the Kardashian’s day in, day out via the various social networks, it really struck a nerve reading this particular piece.
Even if you’re not a fan of the Kardashian’s (which I’m not sure I am), you know who they are. They’re on every magazine cover, radio station and billboard; there’s really no escaping. Through their successful TV show, they’ve rose to fame on the back of their father, attorney for OJ Simpsons. Nowadays, their claim to fame is more about having catty arguments on camera with one another, jetting off...
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Dear Washington D.C.,
I'm slowly falling in love with you.
However, I've only been here a week. I can't proclaim my love with a beaming heart so fast, that would be impolite to the social norms of the day. But I will say you've exceeded my expectations; I didn't think I'd be so enamored with your glamour and your grit -- at least I didn't think it would happen this quickly.
Maybe it's the stark buildings that greet me when I emerge from sculpted subway tunnels at the metro stop. Maybe it's the way the heels of my sensible shoes echo as they hit the glistening marble floors of nearly every government domain I set foot in.
I'm spending my quarter as a fully credentialed reporter for a news service. Emailing, calling, interviewing, writing my way through the in's and out's of a...
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Hi Jerry-
My husband and I recently saw your show at Foxwoods. I knew you’d be funny, but you surprised me with how serious you got at one point. It was the joke about how people always complain that there’s not enough time in life, when in fact, there’s too much time.
Life, you noted, is really just about filling up a whole lot of time until it’s over. People laughed when you said it, but it seemed to me that there was actually a lot of pain behind those words. I was reminded of my childhood existential crisis when I realized the same thing. Life is not much more than trying to stay busy enough to not have time to consider what you’re staying busy for in the first place.
When I made this realization (at eight years old) I had a very nice life – close family, good friends, everything I...
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Dear Fashion Editors,
We all know that climbing and clawing your way to the top in the fashion industry can be treacherous and you will have to go through dozens of pairs of stilettos and manicures. Not only do we have to look the part, pay our dues, and deal with egos the size of double venti lattes, but we usually only get paid mere pennies to endure to the “privilege” of working in fashion.
So once you’ve paid your dues and built a bit of a name for yourself, why is that fashion editors are still expecting you to work for free to build their brand? Any profession should be a two-way street, where both parties are benefiting from the work that one provides and the incentives that the other gives for the work.
I’ve encountered a countless number of fashion editors (usually...
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Dear liberal arts major,
You’re cool. Seriously, you are. You’re probably the kid with the hip glasses, the skinny jeans, and the Urban Outfitters everything (is that what the young folks are wearing these days? I’m so out of touch). You’re also the kid who takes all the philosophy classes just because you can and the nerd who reads books on the way to class just for kicks. You also may not want to teach most of your life (which is what everyone assumes you’re going to do. That or work in the insurance industry. Not my cup of tea.)
I was you. Well, ok, I was financially limited in college, so I didn’t have Urban Outfitters everything. But I did have the big glasses that fit my miniscule budget (aka I got them for free. Yeah, I’m cool.) and I took all the philosophy classes I could...
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My Dearest Natalie,
So this is what it's come to. All those years of idolization, the embarrassing affinity for Queen Amidala and the even more embarrassing tendency to see movies like "Anywhere but Here" or "Where the Heart Is" on opening night and this is how I'm rewarded. I know you have a history of dating avant-garde guys, hell that's part of your appeal...but now you're dating the one man on earth weirder than Lukas Haas and a dude that I can un-arrogantly and unequivocally say I'm better looking than. You and this guy? You and this guy!
Look I know you're different than most celebrities. And if I didn't every magazine cover story ever done on you ever would have clued me in. You're not Lauren Conrad. You aren't dating the world's Chase Crawfords and Wilmer...
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Dear People Who Flip Off Cameras,
I originally wrote “Dear Douchebags” in my salutation, but didn’t want to seem so bitter. However, that is what you indeed look like, a douchebag, when you flip off the camera.
I’m writing to you today because after viewing the 100th photo of one of your kind flipping off the camera for NO APPARENT REASON on my Facebook feed yesterday, something in me snapped: I began deleting your kind from my friend list. It takes a lot for me to de-friend someone (the only other people I delete are the ones who post about Jesus, IN CAPS, every ten minutes- do you want to fall into the same category as them?), but I got so tired of being flipped off for shits and giggles that I decided to remove any trace of your unnecessary sign language from my vision. Now, of...
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Dear J. Crew,
There’s something I need to talk to you about. Something I saw on page 58 of your February 2012 catalog that I just can’t get out of my head. But first, a potentially embarrassing bit of background info, lest you think I’m just some weirdo internet troll with ulterior motives rather than a loyal customer writing out of legitimate concern, or at least something resembling concern.
In my closet right now, there is what a lot of people would consider an absurd amount of clothing purchased from your company: 13 long-sleeve button-down shirts, 15 sweaters, one suit, two ties, two pairs of pants, and this really great thermal-lined hoodie you stopped selling years ago. This is to say nothing of the few pairs of shorts I’ve packed away for the winter, or the two short-sleeve...
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