Carrie Jo Tucker

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writers are people, too

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hi guys! hey, thanks for getting in touch. yeah, i’d totally love to write some 500-word blog posts for you for $5 each. totally! food? who needs it? not me! i’ve really been meaning to cut down on my meat, fruits, and vegetables anyway. oh, what’s that you say? you’d like to know if i [...]

“we hope to do for zombies what mad men has done for advertising”

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so i was going to write this big long thing about bea and What I Learned At BEA and The Future of Publishing and maybe some internet week crap and be newsworthy and tag stuff and “blog” about lots of other stuff everyone else is “blogging” about, yet in a different way, different enough to [...]

2 lolz of the day

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1. 2. the gates, abc’s new summer (aka future fresh kills landfill fodder) series, is apparently about suburban vampires/werewolves living in an upscale gated community. i could not say it better than a scifiwire.com commentator, who noted: “didn’t the simpsons do an episode like this?” * * speaking of the simpsons and vampires, i always [...]

ode to pink typewriter

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when i was a little kid, like maybe seven or so, my parents had an old pink typewriter. it came in an attached hard case. dragging it out of the closet akin to carrying a rock with a plastic handle. sometimes i’d drop it on my foot. i wrote my first short story on that [...]

put on a happy face

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anyone feel like putting on a carrie suit and finishing out the week for me? it’d be just like this: additional duties include researching jack coe and early pentecostalism, being frustrated with the florida review (i included a self-addressed stamped envelope, dammit!), and spending at least two billable hours marveling at how difficult it is [...]

i want a pony

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do you think walter would welcome him with open arms?

cute overload

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who remembers squirt tv? i do i do! also, know your damn chicken, ok?

somebody call 911…

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was that shawty fire burning on the dance floor last thursday morning? nah, it was just the laundromat underneath my apartment building going up in flames. this shawty right here was standing outside her apartment for about two hours, in a crazy red robe and black elastic sweatpants – cliff burton-style. (i tried to find [...]

do want

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because shoes are the backbone of any good wardrobe. (image via katelovesme)

in another life…

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…i’m a style editor for a magazine. also, i get eight hours of sleep every night and never feel slightly dizzy when i wake up in the morning. wait, where was i? oh, at the capsule trade show. yeah, so anyway, my job is not hard. any editor who says they have a “hard job”, [...]