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don’t turn your back on me.

my friend Alek is seriously considering going to Tyler for his MFA. having already been accepted, he has to decide by the end of the week. i am unspeakably jealous. i have already peppered him unsolicited suggestions of places to live/eat/hang out/etc.
tonight i found my map of Philadelphia, pulled from the bottom of a drawer, […]

as my mom says, pie-lates.

( neck and new bedford )

so i have been taking advantage of my scandalously cheap YMCA membership for the past month and going to Pilates class about twice a week. it has been a bit punishing for me, leading me to the realization that yes, i am hideously out of shape and all the fat on my stomach is preventing […]

flea finds, this week.

i did get that little side table i had been eyeing last week. it is really quite lovely, with a single door that opens to a small square cabinet, maybe a cubic foot or so. it has a little stopper that makes it close nicely, and there is small bits of carved decoration lining the […]

to the flea.

one of the few bright spots in this scourge of a town is the New Bedford flea market. it is held every Sunday at a filthy warehouse in the North End. the place smells of cigarettes and dust. the admission is a quarter, and with your admission you get a tootsie roll and a small […]

meshes of the afternoon.

( film school and art )

for one of my classes this semester, we have to write down and analyze our dreams. i have been waiting all my life for a college class where i could do this. it seems very Professor Trelawney, if i could be a Potter nerd for a moment.
anyway, we watched Maya Deren’s “Meshes of the Afternoon” […]

on the soapbox, again.

( art and rants )

(i rarely get angry enough at any media outlet to write a letter, but this just did it for me. that’s what i get for watching corporate news, though)
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I am writing regarding the story you ran on 11th February on the 11 o’clock news under the headline “You Paid For It”, which is as far […]

apologies for returning with such vitriol.

over winter break (a long, drawn-out hazy month), i of course went to see all my friends in Philadelphia. it was amusing that the one consistent comment i got, after not seeing my closest friends for 5 months was, wow, you look great!
to which i naturally reply, what, i looked like hell before?
i guess St*rbucks […]