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She Is: A Social and Digital Strategist for VH1,
A Freelance Writer Across The Web,
A Lover of Tiny Hats.
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Her Social Footprint Is:
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[@raevotta]
[Facebook]
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[YouTube]
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Her Writing Can Be Found:
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[Village Voice]
[Billboard]
[PopDust]
[NewNowNext]
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it's her job to connect things.
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2012-01-27
Source: vh1
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Source: newsweek
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I wrote a GQ piece about Chris “Lionheart” Jericho, maybe my favorite professional wrestler ever, and the fucking strange and awesome things he’s doing right now. The fact that I get to write wrestling shit in GQ is some sort of life validation.
This is awesome. (I’ve actually been watching the clips of Jericho’s appearances online, so strongly do I <3 <3 <3 Jericho, and they are just as crazy as Tom describes.)
Absolutely obsessed with this article, need to look up YouTubes of these moments and man, I sort of want to watch Rumble now. (My brother used to love wrestling when he was 10 and I was 13ish and used to put me into headlocks and such moves all the time until I learned that if I bit him, he’d stop. Also then I’d dress him up like a girl and make him act in my plays, so it was a decent trade-off.)
Source: tombreihan
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2012-01-26
“Glee”: Full “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” performance.
Glee, when you do things well I am so proud of you because you don’t make me dread Tuesdays!
Source: huffposttv
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nypl:
The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above. Read all about it in the Times and then go play! It’s the latest way we’re using technology to bring our collections to the public, following our What’s on the Menu, Biblion iPad app and map warping projects.
Caturday will never be the same …
So cool! Also, per the Times: “Stereographs, produced by the millions between the 1850s and the 1930s, were a wildly popular form of entertainment, giving viewers a taste of the kind of richly rounded images now readily available on screens of all sizes.” So really, people have ALWAYS loved gifs!
Everyone saw this, right? It’s A M A Z I N G <3

Obsessing.
Source: nypl
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I’m pretty sure the bright amazingness of these gifs are now forever seared into my brain. I’m actually ok with that.
Whoever took our VH1 video and made this awesome gif is AMAZING. Reblogging so I have it saved to show people tomorrow.
Source: paulamcfly
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2012-01-25
Live: Ingrid Michaelson Gets Playful With Food At Joe's Pub
aka, how I got to talk about cucumbers and Ingrid Michaelson for The Village Voice. Her new album is great.
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You StarKids have been exceedingly patient and it’s finally time for your reward! Team StarKid stopped by our NYC offices to talk about their recent S.P.A.C.E. tour, drop some hints for future travels (can you say West Coast and UK?!) and show off some EXCLUSIVE footage from their final weekend of performances last Fall.
You’ve seen our GIFs, so now we want to see your best ones of the above video! We know you can make them gorgeous, just make sure to tag is #vh1 so we can see and reblog it. And we’re not completely out of the GIF game — we’ve got a few StarKid tricks up our sleeves still…
I am so happy we finally got to release this (for those of you who care about behind-the-scenes, putting together a clips package like this for a major corp like VH1/Viacom is not as easy as shoot and drop it on the Internet. Lots of documents, schedules, people in so many departments, etc. But we’re all really glad we took the time to put together what we wanted, not just a quick interview and not just some clips.)
Click it, love it, play it over and over again (if you can, I know I know) so my bosses can continue to be very confused and impressed by the StarKids.
Source: vh1
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If I told you that seven friends and I just spontaneously bought tickets to see Shania Twain perform at Caeser’s Palace on December 8, 2012 I wouldn’t be lying even a little bit.
I consider it a miracle of friendship that I have somehow befriended 7 other people who would buy Shania Twain in Vegas tickets with me. So thankful for you. You’re all the one I want for life.
So excited about seeing Shania with these people.
Looks like we made it. Look how far [we’re going], my baby.
Guys, I got so many credit card points for this purchase. That’s 99 percent of the reason I am going.
Source: drinkyourjuice
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2012-01-24
put love on hold: r0bertbrowniejr: Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5...
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.

She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that…
Click and read, click and read. Although perhaps the part where he was most excited they were “made out of Zebras” is off-putting. ;)
Source: r0bertbrowniejr
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I Pity The Fool Who Don’t Own A MISTER TEA Tea Set [BestWeekEver]
OMG.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygzyrJXuN1qln00mo1_500.jpg)

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drinkyourjuice:
If I told you that seven friends and I just spontaneously bought tickets to see Shania Twain perform at Caeser’s Palace on December 8, 2012 I wouldn’t be lying even a little bit.
I consider it a miracle of friendship that I have somehow befriended 7 other people who would buy Shania Twain in Vegas tickets with me. So thankful for you. You’re all the one I want for life.
So excited about seeing Shania with these people.
Looks like we made it. Look how far [we’re going], my baby.
Guys, I got so many credit card points for this purchase. That’s 99 percent of the reason I am going.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydgxhuMBf1qztt73o1_500.jpg)