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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????)
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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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Jemima Kirkeās mom used to own the West Village boutique Geminola. Now she hawks her wares on instagram: weird bits of lace, chintzy lampshades, delicate tablecloths with tassels, everything is pale peach or dusty mauve, completely out of style, I love it all. Also if you need a velvet dress for Christmas parties, just dm her, she has hundreds. I think sheās just selling everything in her house.
Oct 21, 2021