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Notes From New York: The City Encompasses Everything And Puts Us In Mind Of Lost Places We Once Knew

Monday, August 7, 2000

adapted from a paper journal, one of those things you should hunt down when I’m dead. Smalls. A basement jazz club somewhere down in the really expensive southern artsy part of Manhattan (10th st.) Not for nothing the name. Large photo of a smiling guy at the front of the room onstage, his knees hugged […]

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Local schools and the etymology of “mamí”

Wednesday, July 19, 2000

(adapted from a letter I sent to my former roomie today) I went to a meeting of local parents about the school system today. It was, of course, infuriating. I found out that the school next door to where I’ve been working ranks 656th out of 677 schools in the whole city. And it just […]

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Cancer!

Tuesday, July 18, 2000

I told you so!

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Links For The Day

Tuesday, July 18, 2000

Links for today: Look! It’s Slashdot! For Pokemon! (This is another Blogger-powered site. Thanks, Blogger!) Anything that looks like a Mad Lib is fine by me. My Dadaist pals and I used to play them every day at lunch, alternating with Hangman, which we played with alternative spellings when the games started getting too easy. […]

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Teach Your Kids To Invest!

Monday, July 17, 2000

I find this really disturbing. Teach your kids that playing the stock market is a better way to make money than working?! Not only does that idea make my skin crawl– I’d rather see people try to change this system in which it genuinely isn’t profitable to work– it sounds genuinely dangerous. I just hope […]

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Why I Don’t Trust Anything That Comes Over The AP Newswire

Friday, July 14, 2000

Three reasons for starters: Exhibit A: Some guy shot a bunch of people in the halls of Congress a few years ago, around when I was working at Sunset Magazine and started browsing headlines every hour or so. The bulletins from the Associated Press went something like this: first they reported that a small gang […]

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The X-Men

Friday, June 30, 2000

I love long weekends, and the Fridays which come before them… Today, out of idle good spirits, we are playing Who’s Your Favorite Superhero? at work. Mind you, this is among a bunch of social services professionals — welfare case managers, job trainers, day care network managers — mostly older than me, from late-20s on. […]

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Detritus

Wednesday, June 28, 2000

Something substantial fell into place for me yesterday at the main branch of the New York Library. I was supposed to be there digging up curricula on day-care related issues and having little luck when I came across a book about Tibor Kalman on one of the reshelving hand-trucks. I don’t know much about Kalman, […]

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Grey Flannel

Monday, June 26, 2000

(Written June 22nd, posted late due to continuing browser issues.) Another cloudy, windy, slightly warm day in New York City… The oppressive heat, the Summer-Of-Sam heat that cracks open every fire hydrant and makes the whole city nuts, hasn’t hit yet, thang god. When I was in high school I convinced myself that the weather […]

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First Post

Thursday, June 22, 2000

(This was originally posted 6/20/00 on my site, a day before before I discovered Blogger.) What are you up to? Falling in love for no good reason, hating my job for no good reason, enjoying New York and all the dancing opptys therein. Yourself? We used to get angry, at Hampshire, when events we enjoyed […]

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