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WELCOME TO OUR COUNTDOWN!

Until the newly-expanded FRESH YARN site launches,
each week we'll be bringing you:

We've mined the FY vaults filled with SIX YEARS of personal essays, and picked two fresh-tastic pieces that randomly connect in some way.

What will next week's theme be?
Come back and see, won't ya?

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~~ THIS WEEK'S MASH UP~~

Two pieces about growing up with famous fathers!

4/29/10

The Day the Sun Exploded
By Kelly Carlin-McCall
(Blogger on Huffington Post; writing appears in the anthology Dirty Laundry: Real Life, Real People, Real Funny (Phoenix Books); upcoming memoir, What a Strange and Wonderful Life. )

Becoming a Flower
by Alicia Anka
(Writer, editor, teacher and copywriter.)

~~ LAST MASH UP~~

Two crazy-ass jobs!

4/9/10

The Big Red Shoe Diaries
by Paul Feig
(Creator of Freaks and Geeks; Director The Office, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Weeds, etc. Author, Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence and Superstud: Too Much Information About the Author.)
Pornomime
By Joe Smith
(Creator/producer of public radio parody program IPR: Irrational Public Radio. Reads his essays at L.A. spoken word hot-spots -- Sit 'n Spin, The Spark, Tasty Words and more.)

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~~ PREVIOUS MASH UPS~~

Learn the truth about Peeps in a shout-out to Spring!
Two pieces about the season.

4/2/10

The Truth About Peeps
By Deborah Stoll
(Writing has appeared in More Intelligent Life, the L.A. Weekly, Squid Ink, and Swivel.)

Spring Awakening
by Paula Killen
(Playwright and monologist, has performed her original works on NPR's "This American Life" and renowned theaters throughout the country.)

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Two pieces about saucy, salacious grandparents!

3/11/10

My Grandfather the Pimp
byJeff Hopkins
(Writer/director film festival favorite short Draw the Pirate, and P.1. aired on HBO; Actor Joe Somebody with Tim Allen and Sugar & Spice with Mena Suvari.)

Carney, A Love Story
by Bill Krebs
(Main outlet for literary angst has been the financial pages of Barron's, battling corporate malfeasance -- in the "mailbag" section.)

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A THREE WAY mash up!

3/4/10

And it's not by subject matter like past weeks. The three personal essays are by FY contributors who all have just had books published in the last weeks AND the books are both about the same topic -- MARRIAGE! (Alright, so it's a little convoluted but a mash up nevertheless!)

CHECK OUT THEIR BOOKS!

MARRY HIM: THE CASE FOR SETTLING FOR MR. GOOD ENOUGH by Lori Gottlieb

YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn

And here are their pieces from the FY vaults!

Sleepless in JFK
by Lori Gottlieb
(Author of bestseller Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self; NPR Commentator; has written for Time, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, People, Elle, Glamour, Slate, and Salon.)

The Tyranny of Happiness
Annabelle Gurwitch

(
Commentator on NPR's All things Considered; spent 7 years co-hosting the cult favorite Dinner and a Movie on TBS; has published essays in mags including Los Angeles, Premiere, Child, Glamour and Penthouse.)
The World's Worst Waiter... Ever
by Jeff Kahn

(Emmy-winning writer/performer The Ben Stiller Show; Actor Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage.)

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Two pieces about a celebrity's fall from grace!

2/25/10

A-One and A-Two-A Macadamia Nuts
By Maxine Lapiduss
(TV writer/producer Dharma and Greg, Ellen, Roseanne, Home Improvement; Starred in Bravo's reality show Situation: Comedy)

True Crime Whore
by John Geirland

(Former editor-in-chief Shockwave.com; Frequent contributor to Industry Standard and WIRED magazine; Author DIGITAL BABYLON.)

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Two powerful pieces about losing a parent (and so much more....)

2/18/10

The Dragon Slayer
By Leigh Kilton-Smith
(Writer when she feels she has a good story to tell; Acting coach, The Good Girl, The Cooler, and The Constant Gardener.)

Lucky Lindy
By Laurel Ollstein
(Actress, writer, director, member of the acclaimed Actor's Gang; Performed around the country in her one-woman show about Dorothy Parker, Laughter, Hope and a Sock in the Eye.)

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Two different pieces having to do with...well...SCHOOL BUSES!

(They were featured a year and a half apart from each other so who even KNEW the graphics were so similar? Clearly not me at the time!=))

2/11/10

Timmy, Hand Momma her Gun
by Jason Micallef
(Won the 2008 Nicholl fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his screenplay Butter, which begins filming in April and stars Jennifer Garner.)

The Year I was Special
By Jerry Mahoney
(Reality TV producer/writer, created The Reality Show for MTV.)

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Two different pieces about LUCILLE BALL!

2/4/10

The Pink Gorilla (Tuesdays With Lucy)
by Taylor Negron
(Actor, film: Stuart Little, Punchline, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. TV: Friends, The Practice, ER, The Tonight Show, HBO Special, One Night Stand.)

Clash of the Titans
by April Winchell
(Comedienne; Radio host; Voice Over artist, The Simpsons, Antz; Toy Story 2, etc. The voice of Disney's Cruella De Vil and Clarabelle Cow.)

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~~ LAST ESSAY ~~

61st INSTALLMENT :: 1/21/10

Cool

by Jeannine Pitas
(Writing has appeared online in Ghoti, Flashquake, Boxcar Poetry Review and Hackwriters.)

59th INSTALLMENT :: 1/14/10

Witness Protection

by Scott Saltzburg
(Has written for Hollywood Squares and shows on NBC, CBS, TLC, GSN, Planet Green, and more.)

59th INSTALLMENT :: 12/17/09

Santa Claus is Coming to Town...NOT

by Sarah Khan
(Editor, Travel + Leisure magazine; writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, and more.)

58th INSTALLMENT :: 12/10/09

How to Be a Third Wheel
When it Comes to Dating, Three's Company, too -- Here's Why


by Matt Sullivan
(Writing has appeared in Black Book, Salon, and the book Six Word Memoirs On Love And Heartbreak (Harper Perennial, 2009).)

57th INSTALLMENT :: 12/3/09

Shiny Happy Pirate

by Alex Moody
(Pursuing an MFA in fiction at Vanderbilt University; posts his random musings on his blog MoodyTunes.)

56th INSTALLMENT :: 11/19/09

Means of Support

by Caroline Bicks
(Pieces have been included in the book and show Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine (St. Martin's Press), and on NPR's "All Things Considered.")

55th INSTALLMENT :: 11/12/09

Why Not(e)?

by Lauren Marks
(Award-winning writer currently working on a memoir entitled A Stitch of Time: Diary of an Aphasiac.)

54th INSTALLMENT :: 11/5/09

Cheese Mover

by Jeremy Deutchman
(Frequent contributor on the L.A. story salon scene -- Show and Tell, Tongue & Groove, WordPlay, and Piñata; piece in book Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled (Villard, 2009).)

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