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Molly Young

3 years

The zine is back by popular demand! PDFs are free or you can obtain paper copies to fan out on a surface of your choosing

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Molly Young

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3 years

ANARCHY FOR HER

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4 years

Rereading Andre Agassi's memoir. Just got to the part where he gets 2 speeding tickets within 1 hour while driving his white Corvette. The judge sentences him to... "kick some butt"

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4 years

We're about 1/3 through the book at this point. I'll leave you to discover the rest, including Agassi's peace and loving conclusion. MY conclusion? This guy fucken rules.

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3 years

Weirdest shirt I've ever found on eBay at 2:17am and that's saying something

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4 years

One day Pete Sampras comes to Agassi's hotel room for a meeting. He makes fun of Agassi's pet parrot, who is named Peaches. Agassi is enraged; considers the parrot an "integral part" of his team

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4 years

NFT stands for Never Forget That I love you :-)

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4 years

By the way, Agassi's relationship with Brooke Shields started out as a lengthy fax correspondence.

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6 years

Next time a client tries to hire me for a preposterously low rate I'm going to offer them my diffusion byline, Molly by Molly Young, which is similar to Molly Young but way shittier. Will this gambit succeed? Stay tuned

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Molly Young

@MollyYoung

2 years

What my father does instead of buying index cards. Thrifty king

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Molly Young

@MollyYoung

5 years

I wrote about learnings, deliverables, asks, sarcasm, WeWork, Nietzsche and other stuff. Enjoy! (or not whatever, it's out of my hands)

Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?

The pernicious spread of garbage language.

www.thecut.com

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4 years

Midway through the book, Agassi cops to a lifelong habit of "unconsciously" lighting things on fire whenever he is upset

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4 years

"Back in my hotel, I sit on my bed for hours--watching Italian TV and lighting things on fire." –Andre Agassi

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4 years

Good morning and bon appetit to this #girlboss

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2 years

Dedication page from old embroidery book

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3 years

😈

Staff News From Books | The New York Times Company

www.nytco.com

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4 years

Sometimes he takes a 22-minute afternoon shower before a match– not for hygiene, but so he can experience his self-hatred in an enclosed space

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4 years

Brooke Shields guest-stars on "Friends" and films a scene where she puts Joey Tribbiani's hand in her mouth. Agassi goes berserk with jealousy at the taping, storms out, drives to Las Vegas (from LA) and breaks all his trophies

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4 years

He hates tennis and always has.

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4 years

Can't, or rather wont, go one minute without my full attention

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4 years

Agassi smokes crystal meth for the first time; has never felt "so alive." Cleans entire house and doesn't sleep for 2 days.

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4 years

Agassi starts dating Brooke Shields. He complains that she only ever "talks about objects." They get married.

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5 years

main activities this past week have been 1) totally losing it! 2) gaining it back 3) losing it again! 4) gaining it back 5) lost, with a vengeance! 6) etc

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3 years

A tiny frog snuggling in a dahlia

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4 years

Gaze into the hypnotic folds of the chocolate babka. Now you are at peace.

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Molly Young

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5 years

I still think about the time [May 2017] when a man sitting near me at a movie theater complained to a friend about his wife dragging him to a burlesque show. “I can’t stand burlesque,” he said. “Burlesque is to sexuality what clowning is to comedy.”

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1 year

It must be utterly surreal to be a phlebotomist. All day long you exsanguinate people and... do paperwork. What other jobs mingle the sacred and profane so nonchalantly? I cannot think of any, but they must exist.

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4 years

Eavesdropping at the beach. A man surveys his three young children and says quietly, to himself: “Everything that was once clean is now covered in sand. This is not an ideal way to live.”

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4 years

Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today To get through this thing called...life

Quarantine Was Driving Me Crazy — So I Decided to Lose My Mind on Purpose (Published 2020)

If you can't live normally, why not find little harebrained ways to warp reality?

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

At the net an opponent playfully tousles Agassi's hair...nearly dislodging his designer toupee. Agassi vows never to lose to this man again.

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3 years

Two hotties were walking ahead of me on the street. A guy biked past. "Hey gorgeous ladies!" he addressed them, then glanced back at me. "You too, baby. Don't feel left out!" 😂

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4 years

1994. Agassi recovers from a morning of "ferocious diarrhea" just in time to beat his arch rival, Michael Chang

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2 years

Writing is my passion

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7 years

Alert

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3 years

My bittersweet work inbox

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4 years

Andre Agassi's coach has a hairy chest but won't shave it, despite ongoing pressure from Agassi.

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4 years

Agassi takes 3 showers per day.

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4 years

This plant is partying so hard

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3 years

Good book dedication

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4 years

"My entourage is thinning faster than my hair." –Andre Agassi

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1 year

One of my great Pleasures is allowing the battery on my phone to die. In its death, the wicked device restores me to Life.

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3 years

I have a deep and despicable weakness for the "despite--or perhaps BECAUSE of--" writing maneuver. What a rollercoaster. Gets me every time.

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@MollyYoung

4 years

I asked a food safety expert about Sqirl and he said

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4 years

My friend Daniele has a neighbor who cultivates tropical plants. She befriended him 3 years ago and just discovered that he's actually an identical twin and she has been talking to both all along.

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Molly Young

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4 years

Neapolitan ice cream is perfectly adapted to the modern palate (distracted) and sensibility (Instagram) yet nobody has rebranded it. Just a gentle idea from me to all the billionaires who read my feed

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4 years

Agassi shaves off his thinning hair; feels liberated.

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4 years

"I always like my opponent to display nervous energy. A good omen--but also a sign of respect." –Andre Agassi

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3 years

"Success with women had taught him that to be handsome was not essential; on the contrary a somewhat odd appearance attracted the girls as surely as a salt-lick attracted the deer."

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Molly Young

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3 years

A few* words on disgust *tons of

How Disgust Explains Everything (Published 2021)

For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

Every morning I add a Jelly Belly to Alice's pills.

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6 years

Tumblr's porn-detecting AI flagged this picture of my new lamp as violating community guidelines. I have no choice but to infer that the AI has mistaken my lamp for a Nude and Sexy Woman

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5 years

“He had widened and purpled since their first encounter, five years earlier.” (amazingly brutal description of a guy, by Edith Wharton)

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4 years

Would you like to buy a creepy little zine?

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5 years

This is the tightest thing I've ever seen

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4 years

I wrote about FASHION for The Cut. This should have been the only image in the piece but I do not make the rules.

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3 years

I'M LISTENING!

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4 years

Some personal news: I just signed up for a free knot-tying workshop with a local mariner named Rusty

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2 years

Ok thank you I Will

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8 years

The Danish term "tandsmør" ("tooth butter") describes butter spread so thickly on bread that you can see tooth marks in it, like so:

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3 years

I am always the last to know!

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3 years

🤘

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2 years

I haven't been home in a while but the police blotter tells me what I need to know

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@MollyYoung

6 years

Nothing is funnier to me than this arms race of ingredient labeling transparency. Soon we will know what the walnut dreamt of as its tiny titties were milked.

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4 years

Listening to a couple in their eighties debate, for fifteen minutes, whether or not someone’s daughter is a reasonable person. They have just concluded that she is not.

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2 years

Today my husband @teddyblanks got an Emmy nomination in the category of Sexiest Hot Babe! They use different words for it--some Hollywood lingo I don't understand. Congratulations, stud

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4 years

When I was a kid the word "documents" figured prominently in my fantasies about adult life. I anticipated that I would be handling a lot of documents—moving them onto and off of my desk, signing them, etc.

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3 years

There's an Iris Murdoch novel where a husband compares his wife's appearance to that of "water-haunted sunlight on an old pavement in Venice."

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5 years

Show me a better tagline

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3 years

Winter 1869: William James writes to brother Henry that "stomach, bowels, brain, temper and spirits are all at a pretty low ebb."

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4 years

My new book on flower crafts has a whole section on what kind of flower crafts to make as a 90th birthday gift. No other birthdays are mentioned in the book, just 90th This is the kind of tyrannical authorial anti-logic I seek, and indeed find, in craft books.

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4 years

OKAY

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3 years

🐸

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2 years

It would please me if there were a button I could press on iphone that made it temporarily impossible to use for anything other than calls/map/clock. Is there a guy in Croatia I can pay in ETH to accomplish this for me?

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4 years

It's me. I am Riley Reid.

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4 years

had to pause and check whether this cheerleader extra was riley reid

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5 years

“The only thing I want in life is a written apology from everyone I’ve ever met.”

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4 years

🤙🤙

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Molly Young

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4 years

A vine occupies a long-dead tree stump, recreating the shape of former tree.

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Molly Young

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3 years

At one of my jobs there were 2 Mollys at the company. We were roughly the same age and shape, so people began referring to us as Molly Words (me) and Molly Numbers (other Molly) for quick identification

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@MollyYoung

4 years

As is his right

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Molly Young

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6 years

For Your fucking Information

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4 years

My tomato stalk broke in half a few weeks ago. I panicked and wrapped tape around it. It somehow un-severed itself and is now thriving. Plants are mental.

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Molly Young

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3 years

My friend Alice loaned me a book by a psychoanalyst and there was a lengthy passage about delusion that she had annotated with "MOLLY." It is very important for your friends to keep you honest.

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Molly Young

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2 years

Update: my husband @teddyblanks won an Emmy tonight! It's about time the Hollywood elite recognized him as Hunkiest Dreamboat Alive (or whatever their technical phrasing is). Congratulations, cowboy

Molly Young

@MollyYoung

2 years

Today my husband @teddyblanks got an Emmy nomination in the category of Sexiest Hot Babe! They use different words for it--some Hollywood lingo I don't understand. Congratulations, stud

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5 years

Just woke up from a dream that I found a violent and ugly dog wandering the streets. He was named Language (per his ID tag) and I was forced to adopt him as my own. Great work, brain👍

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Molly Young

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5 years

FINE

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Molly Young

@MollyYoung

4 years

speaking of zines, do you have any seminal zine memories?I was obsessed with a feminist zine called SNEER created by Kate Flannery, who hung out with me once when I was like 12 and she was in San Francisco, probably the biggest writerly influence of my young life.

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Molly Young

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2 years

Archilochos 😏

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Molly Young

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3 years

Probably my favorite web designer of all time. Check out those zig-zags. Argiope argentata.

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7 years

nice

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9 years

I'd say the legs are what nudge this into "masterpiece" territory

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4 years

@kristineberth this farewell message from a (non-robot) customer service rep almost made me weep.

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Molly Young

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5 years

Someone used my credit card to fraudulently rack up massive charges at Dave & Busters and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, and honestly, good for them

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4 years

Took every ounce of self-control not to slither beneath these rhododendrons and lay like an earthworm in the Venn diagram where their fallen blossoms intermingle.

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Molly Young

@MollyYoung

2 years

People who annotate library books in pen should be expelled from society!

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Molly Young

@MollyYoung

7 years

Yesterday I passed three teenagers chilling on the street and sharing a half-gallon of whole milk. Weirdest thing I've ever seen in NYC.

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4 years

There are puzzle pieces scattered continuously along a half-mile stretch of the road I'm walking on. We can never be certain how this incident unfolded, but every imaginable possibility is intriguing

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Molly Young

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4 years

"Lord, when the time comes, I'm gonna have a face-lift, jaw lift, eye lift; everything that is falling will be lifted, and the things that can't be lifted will be moved!" -Little Richard

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Molly Young

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2 years

I grew up drinking this tree. It is a BBS (Big Beautiful Sassafras).