Amanda McCall
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Amanda McCall is the author of Hold My Gold: A White Girl's Guide to the Hip-Hop World, Britney's Baby Book, Why Is Daddy In A Dress?: Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals, and Grandma's Dead: Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals, which was named one of U.S.A. Today's Top 100 Books of 2008. She lives in New York City.

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Equality Fudge Chunk

Posted February 22, 2010 | 12:47:17 (EST)

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The other night, as I prepared to spend an evening curled up on my couch watching the Olympics, I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a pint of my favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor, "Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream." The...

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Cloudy with A Chance of Bullsh*t

Posted February 9, 2010 | 22:34:33 (EST)

It is being reported that a major snow storm is threatening to ravage New York City, and it very well might. The weather reports might be right. But what we seem to be able to erase from our communal memory every time a new big, scary snow storm approaches, is...

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In Defense of Jersey: F*ck you, America!

Posted January 29, 2010 | 12:12:52 (EST)

I grew up in Manhattan and learned very early on that making fun of New Jersey is an old treasured pastime for New Yorkers. Despite the fact that many Manhattanites (including myself) have never even visited New Jersey aside from driving through it occasionally to get somewhere else, making fun...

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