Rachel Kaufman

Freelance writer, editor, and blogger in the Washington, D.C. metro area

New and Cool

Give Me Bacon or Give Me More Bacon

“Bacon cereal.” “Bacon lollipop.” “Bacon spaghetti.” “Bacon bread.” “Bacon coffee.” “Bacon beer.”

In a sane world, none of these exact phrases would return any hits when plugged into Google. This is not a sane world.

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Arts

Here’s Looking at Everybody»

Your iPhone embeds geodata into every picture you upload to Flickr. Facebook posts your address without your permission. Your E-ZPass knows where you’ve been driving.

Scary, but is this art? A show at Arlington Arts Center asks, why not?

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Food

Give Me Bacon or Give Me More Bacon»

“Bacon cereal.” “Bacon lollipop.” “Bacon spaghetti.” “Bacon bread.” “Bacon coffee.” “Bacon beer.”

In a sane world, none of these exact phrases would return any hits when plugged into Google. This is not a sane world.

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Blog

Story outlining tips»

This post came my way courtesy of the hive mind (Delicious popular bookmarks) and it was worth a mention: how to outline a big piece.
Meranda of Meranda Writes posts her outlining method here. It’s analog and oldschool, but effective…she writes each “fact” on a post-it note sliver and rearranges.
I did something like this when working [...]

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