March 2010
12 posts
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In the real life version of Law & Order, NYPD detectives and Brooklyn Assistant District Attorneys are allowed to send you text messages.
February 2010
15 posts
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People assume you are a bitch when you carry your bag like that.
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She asked me if I am “trying to bring rain bonnets back.”
Yes.
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Something about two-part plays and three-part perfumes.
Something about saving your receipt.
Something about drowning your pomegranate in order to set its seeds free without staining anything.
Something about dying a sheet set with beets.
Something about splitting the fare.
Something about dry air and bloody noses.
Something about knowing which end of the train to take.
Something about a...
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The family plot.
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I wanted to tell him: “It is not intuition; it is an algorithm. I am just really good at using Google.”
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He said, “I love you.”
She said, “I would love to write an essay about you.”
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This weekend, I revisited two from my past: The Magnetic Fields and Fashion Week.
Of course, one still fits better than the other.
Both made me cry.
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We are going to watch this movie two times in a row.
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Although I have convinced myself otherwise: logic, reason, maps, and facts prove that I am not always 15 minutes away from everywhere.
Travel exists within the parameters of set variables.
Everyone else knows how to tell time.
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Something I do understand and definitely am going to talk about: An Early Evening with Dear Old Love at 92Y Tribeca. Buy your tickets now. Andy Selsberg + Emily Gould + Tom Shillue + Sara Benincasa + Jeffrey Lewis = your new love.
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A LOT OF ART IS BORING
I was an intern. I read and replied to the slush pile stacks and also I opened the mail. This felt glamorous and grown up and a little gross.
I was in charge of rejection. Of only selectively passing things on.
But I was thrilled to commute to complete my tasks.
One day, a package arrived from Ryan McGinness, who is brilliant. It had stickers and stuff and a print...
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It quickly became clear that the night before we saw each other again — after a long time of meaning to see each other again, sort of, but never getting around to it, and when it came down to it, not minding so much, though certainly missing each other a little — we read each other’s blogs.
We had intended to pretend that we were prepared.
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Social Studies.
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A nice way to tell my mother that she cannot post a photograph of me — holding someone else’s baby — on her Facebook page.