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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Thankfulness

Motorcyclist: “Oh lah dee dah, I am just so grateful to have a special spot for mopeds and motorcycles that I will not use that spot and instead TAKE UP A PERFECTLY GOOD SPOT NEXT TO THAT ONE.” Me: I am thankful my boyfriend has one of those fancy phones that can take pictures, so [...]

Gathering dust

- Half-written thank you notes – Birthday cards – Old homework assignments and notes from college (in case I need justification for an allegorical relationship between obesity and Southern race relations in “Light in August” handy) – Unopened utility bills (accessed and paid entirely online) – Stack of New Yorker issues that I will totally [...]

Visionary Artists

Since I just got back from Baltimore, I have to plug my favorite little museum ever, the American Visionary Art Museum. This little folk-art museum features artists who are self-taught and have outsider perspectives; oftentimes the artists are institutionalized or suffer other various societal obstacles (the first time I visited, the ratio of artists to [...]

What’s the matter with Kansas?

Back in town from a brief visit to my sister’s house in Baltimore, which, according to the stenciled benches and dumpsters around the Harbor, is “The Greatest City in America.” Aww. My sister decided to throw a little dinner party this weekend, and since I and two other carnivores were coming (her husband is one [...]