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Please check out my new beauty blog
So I haven't posted here in, what, a year? Um, hi!
One of the reasons I haven't been here is that I wanted to pour more of my in-front-of-computer efforts into something meant for a larger audience--something that was less navel-gazing but still personal and authentically me. That has turned into The BeheldIt's a blog about women and beauty, ( Read more... ) -
slightly drunk freewrite: cupcakes
Amy and I were walking down 9th Avenue on a cupcake hunt. We were both new enough to the city that a cupcake hunt, even one prompted by the inevitable overwork and exploitation of twentysomething labor that the magazine world incites, felt festive instead of depressing. We went together instead of alone, our desires to dull our job pressures in a ( Read more... ) -
Michael Jackson
"A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his or her solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and ( Read more... ) -
crisis
Considering becoming a butler. -
freewrite, Long Binh, 1970
The first story, the official story, about my father in Vietnam was that his education bought him a spot in the office, ordering supplies. Then came a story about helping at arrivals, of a desperate, crying young man saying, "I'm from Texas too, don't send me out there, please, as a friend, don't send me out there." Then a whisper from my ( Read more... ) -
town crier
There was a woman crying on the subway in February. There were likely many women crying on the subway in February, I'm sure, but somehow I managed to only see one. New York has so few private spaces that sometimes the relative anonymity of public transit becomes a sort of reverse haven. (This, and the fortysomething delivery menus New Yorkers all ( Read more... ) -
cheater cheater pumpkin eater
What are some signs you’ve personally seen that flagged that a person is prone to cheating? Either someone you/a friend has been interested in, or someone you/a friend has dated?
(No, this isn’t personal; it’s for work but I thought there might be some interesting stories and insight from the internets...) -
really, really, really bad day
SOMEBODY STOLE MY FUCKING YOGURT FOR THE THIRD TIME. -
my mother
My mother sent me a magazine clipping about enemas, with the following passage circled:
...the Mayan Indians used enemas for a completely different purpose-introducing hallucinogenic drugs and medicines into the body. Those intoxicating enemas are believed to have been ritualistic, taken during religious celebrations to enhance or alter ( Read more... )