Loving Zooey
The year I learned to love Zooey Deschanel (and hate myself instead).
Even though I couldn’t stand the pilot for The New Girl, I kept watching it, week after week. And since I had repeatedly derided the show, I watched every new episode in secret.
A coworker asked me to articulate what I didn’t like about Zooey Deschanel. Was it because she was inauthentic? Bad at acting? Had a shitty blog? When I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a good answer.
“You know,” this coworker said, “she seems like the kind of girl you’d like.”
This was terrifying and true.
Oddly, I thought the pilot for the New Girl was brilliant and subsequent episodes kind of meh.
Zooey Deschanel on the Nerdist podcast. (Thanks, Dave!)
Zooey Deschanel plays fantasy baseball. That’s just hot. (Speaking of which, if you live in Calgary, we’re getting a new fantasy league together and need some players.)
New She & Him video. Zooey still makes me all swoony and shit.
Tumblr of note: Zooey’s Miscellany. As in Zooey Deschanel. On Tumblr. For reals. Now, how do I convince her to follow Pop Loser?
New She & Him video for “Thieves.”
