What is news? Something someone somewhere decides you’ll read, watch, listen to, or otherwise absorb and therefore care about, not because you really care but because by simply existing, the news story tells you to care. That’s the official Merriam-Webster definition, I swear. Aside from entertainment or celebrity news, because obviously everyone cares about that (newsflash: so-and-so is scary skinny and you-know-who is getting kinda chunky, or is that just a baby bump? …Continue reading this entry
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Sep 262011
Hello. My name is Danielle Marlaine. It is my first time posting on Gather Round the Mic, and I am a cliché.
Before you begin to protest, “No no, Danielle! Why would you ever say something so rash?! So what if you’re a writer moonlighting on a blog because you can’t get paid to do it in ‘real life’ – that doesn’t make you a cliché!” Thanks, but THAT is not the cliché I’m referring to. …Continue reading this entry





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