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accountability/ flashback friday
11 July 2008Okay, sports fans– I am cutting all of my hair off tomorrow. (Also, my new “thing” is to address people as Sports Fans in situations where it in no way applies. I would never say it to my fantasy baseball league, but somehow, it’s okay when I say it to my book club. So look [...]
at 8:30 this morning
10 July 2008Cristin: I walk to work through Times Square, and every day I pass the same place and have the same thought– why would you name your strip club Mixed Emotions?
Cousin Erin: Maybe Guilty Conscience was already taken.
Day 11: Wyoming
6 July 2008The only experience I had with Wyoming prior to this trip was my assignment to act as a republican senator from that state when we did Mock Senate in AP History. I wrote “Wyoming- Wy Not?” on my name tag (a pun I’m so terribly proud of that I still write it into fiction pieces [...]
Touched down in the land of the delta blues in the middle of the pouring rain
19 June 200848 hours from now I am scheduled to be in Memphis. And then Oklahoma City, and then Santa Fe, and then the Grand Canyon, and so on. I’ve done what I consider to be an enormous amount of meticulous planning, though that just means I called AmEx to insure everything I’m bringing but still have [...]
Building a mystery
13 June 2008I love everything in this story about an architect who built a series of clues and puzzles into a family’s apartment. It’s like a real life Westing Game or From the Mixed Up Files, and it sounds impossibly fun. (Keep your eyes peeled for Jonathan Safran Foer, who turned down the opportunity to be a [...]
I guess it depends on how you define “famous”
11 June 2008Video of patrick singing his heart out at the knitting factory! on the pitchfork website! Which is a big deal!
And though it hurts my eyes to see my name so close to the words “new jersey resident” (8 days, Ali. It has been EIGHT DAYS since I lived in manhattan! You and your journalistic [...]
I have way too much to say on this one
10 June 2008NYT article about how to make more young people move to the ‘burbs over the city. Good luck, brave urban planners!
Hi. I live in new jersey.
1 June 2008I am shocked by how quickly I was able to revert to my NJ ways. I guess it’s kind of like riding a bicycle, but it feels a bit more like Jason Bourne in the diner scene of the first movie (”I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up [...]
there’s no place like home
29 May 2008I spent several hours of tonight returning my blue living room to its original off-white state, followed by several minutes of tonight picking dots of paint out of my eyelashes. The rest of me, I think, escaped unscathed, but I’m sure I’ll wait until I’m in some Meeting With Important People to glance at my reflection in [...]
Something in the way she moves
27 May 2008I’m moving Friday. It’s going to be hilarious (I hope). Or, it already has been, sort of– I’ve been enjoying my “coping” mechanisms from kind of a third party viewpoint a la “Isn’t it so interesting that instead of packing/ repainting the living room/ spackling the nail holes that are dotted all over this place, [...]