http://www.sarahhepola.com/ We must take back the night. en-us shepola@hotmail.com 2010-01-01T21:13:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000586.html Happy new year. I wrote a story yesterday for Salon. It's a satire about "year of" books. It's called "The year of 'Living Oprah.'" Also, I moved. Also, I'm tired!... 586@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2010-01-01T21:13:49-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000585.html I wrote this story about older women addicted to "Twilight." Then I put together Salon's Sexiest Man Living feature. (Spoiler alert: James Franco wins!) Then I had the greatest Thanksgiving ever. (Spoiler alert: Girls won Trivial Pursuit. Suck on that,... 585@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-11-30T21:10:13-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000584.html I can only vaguely remember how I learned about the miracle that is Spanx. Years ago, a good friend of mine showed up looking fairly smashing one night, and when I expressed my admiration, she said to me, with a... 584@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-10-12T21:57:45-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000583.html I have always taken celebrity death personally. I still remember where I was sitting when I heard that River Phoenix died -- on the plush gray carpet of my first college apartment, leaning up against my messy double bed, one... 583@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-08-29T19:52:11-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000582.html A few weeks ago, I was getting a much-needed haircut. The woman who cuts my hair is quiet, and calm, and good, which is why I've followed her around three locations in Brooklyn unloading a wad of cash I would... 582@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-08-26T08:49:15-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000581.html A million, billion years ago -- before Twitter, before Facebook, before blogs and Tivo and email, before cell phones even, I mean this was practically the Pleistocene -- there was something called a VCR. And my family had one. It... 581@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-08-06T21:50:58-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000580.html Last night, I walked to a sushi restaurant in my neighborhood, past the Honda idling at the stop sign and playing "The Girl is Mine," past the oldschool jambox situated outside the bodega on the corner, blasting "Thriller." I sat... 580@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-06-27T17:02:25-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000579.html "I was a fourth-grade nothing when he electrified my ears. Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa. I’d been listening to show tunes when I discovered him, yelping out his soul. In my life, I have spent... 579@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-06-25T20:36:45-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000578.html This morning, only 20 minutes after my story about "American Idol" posted, I got an email from a friend. "Adam Lambert is fucking divine," it read. Now, that's what I call morning news. Should you want to read more about... 578@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-05-21T09:32:34-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000577.html Several things happened this week, the first week in April. "ER" ended. (In related news, "ER" was still on.) Madonna tried to adopt a child in Malawi. I bought a lamp. But that’s not all that happened! Here are a... 577@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-04-04T22:19:40-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000576.html Sometime in late January, perhaps in early February, I lost the ability to write. Oh, I was able to string words together, to thread a needle through a noun and verb. But whatever joy I once felt at writing a... 576@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-03-26T23:49:16-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000575.html I like to view the ginormous raft of Obama products saturating the market as a sign of our entrepreneurial spirit, can-do attitude -- and total crassness. My story in Salon here.... 575@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-01-18T21:58:20-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000574.html One of the stories I wrote this year made its way into Nerve's Top 10 stories of 2008. Thanks, Nerve. Thanks, readers. Thanks, random guy I met one night in midtown Manhattan. While I'm on the subject of my essays,... 574@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2009-01-06T19:08:37-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000573.html I sometimes suspect that, on my death bed, I will offer my final words in the form of a top ten list. (And coming in at #1? "So long, suckers!") My propensity for top ten lists stretches back at least... 573@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2008-12-31T15:50:58-05:00 http://www.sarahhepola.com/blog/archives/000572.html I don't know about you guys, but I got a hot dog toaster for Christmas. Finally: Someone with the good sense to buy gifts featured in Sky Mall. Today in Salon is my story on the year in celebrity scandal.... 572@http://www.sarahhepola.com/ 2008-12-26T09:06:00-05:00