Jackie Braje

I’d argue that people are naturally strange. If you disagree, then I urge you to stay up extra late sometime, turn on your TV and watch some of those hour-long infomercials. I mean it. The Shake Weight didn’t just invent itself, you know. More than…

I was a sucker for scary, oddball books when I was a kid: The Goosebumps series, Where the Wild Things Are, The Veleveteen Rabbit (I've never looked at a stuffed animal the same way again), Grimm's Fairy Tales, etc. I remember so lucidly that…

We all have that one friend who scoffs whenever T-Swift comes on the radio. You know who I'm talking about — the friend who makes everyone mix tapes for birthdays and talks about musicians as if she personally knows them. The friend who only knows…