{"id":516,"date":"2012-04-11T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:49:01","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e15-your-own-pimp-and-your-own-whore-with-molly-mcaleer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E15: Your Own Pimp and Your Own Whore with Molly McAleer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-517\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"mollymcaleer\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/04\/mollymcaleer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/04\/mollymcaleer.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/04\/mollymcaleer-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall walks through Larchmont with <a href=\"http:\/\/molls.tumblr.com\/\">Molly McAleer<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/hellogiggles.com\/\">HelloGiggles<\/a> and writer for CBS&#8217; <em>Two Broke Girls<\/em>. They discuss the definition of internet fame, especially when one&#8217;s internet debut comes in a photo funneling a beer; whether moving to Los Angeles after graduating from the disappointingly party-free Boston College counts as a betrayal of Boston; her avoidance of the label &#8220;humorist,&#8221; and thus any association with Mark Twain; her time at Defamer, which gave her a &#8220;magical&#8221; view of Los Angeles, and what she&#8217;d say to those who accuse it and every other Gawker site of hastening the decline of western civilization; joining <em>Two Broke Girls<\/em> at the height of the Whitney Cummings boom; Koreatown, her point of entry into Los Angeles after having lived in a frat house with 32 dudes; aging a thousand years after spending six in Los Angeles; how much of a discount on nail polish counts as a deep discount on nail polish; her struggle to be as popular with her friends as her mom; the resurgence of press-on nails; experiencing utter brokeness in Los Angeles, and getting banned from using Google ads when those friends tried to help her out; cookies aside, the reduced presence of the Girl Scouts, except in cases of high-profile transsexual trouble; her resistance to driving, and her feeling that some people are meant to drive, while others are meant to be driven; the basic tasks of life that somehow never get taught; manicures as the last bastion of personal maintenance; and how hard it is to avoid humblebragging when <em>The Wonder Years<\/em>&#8216; Fred Savage directs your script.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e15-your-own-pimp-and-your-own-whore-with-molly-mc-aleer\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall walks through Larchmont with Molly McAleer, co-founder of HelloGiggles and writer for CBS&#8217; Two Broke Girls. 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