One of my cats is a bit of a puker. And she (Bear) threw up on my nightstand last night, which I discovered when I put my glasses on while walking to the bathroom. “How strangely smudged these are!” I thought to myself as I toddled across the apartment. I got where I was going, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Issues of Modernity'
Well-Rounded Resolutions
January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Issues of Modernity, maintenance
New Year’s is a vaguely meaningful holiday for me because it snuggles right up to my birthday, which is… today. This, I feel, gives me slightly more incentive to make and keep resolutions, because it’s not so much a “now that the calendar says it’s a new year,” motivation, it’s more of an “okay, now [...]
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Readers With Great Patience, I Apologize: I’m Having an Affair with Twitter
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Friends, Issues of Modernity, Screaming Inner Child
I’m sorry. I’ve been cheating. And cussing. And providing way too much information to a huge group of people I don’t know. And it’s so much fun, y’all! First of all, if you don’t know what Twitter is, just read this. Now. There is this other fun thing about Twitter, which is “favoriting” a Tweet. [...]
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Reports from the Field… OF SIN!!
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Friends, Issues of Modernity, There and Back Again
Hello, and welcome back! Oh wait, I am addressing myself. See, that’s the kind of strange thing that happens when you decide it’s a good idea to spend three days in Las Vegas and then fly back on the red-eye at the equivalent of 2 AM Eastern time and then go to work that same [...]
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Late Night Follow-Up
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues of Modernity, There and Back Again
- The toilet paper in our hotel has puppies embossed on it. Also it is just shy of a grown-up sized roll, width-wise. It is actually quite adorable. – Tonight on our way to the Western Wall, we witnessed the most intense catfight I have ever seen, and I mean catfight as in fight among [...]
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Preliminary Thoughts on A Very Old Place
June 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Issues of Modernity, There and Back Again
I’m in Israel. I have 24 hours of internets at our Jerusalem hotel, so I’m doing about 900 things at once in the few moments we’re in the room. Rather than try to be too coherent (I’ve been here since 7 PM yesterday, which is noon Eastern time, and I slept? Some? But I’m tired!), [...]
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Look, I Know It’s Been a While, But I Have a Really Important Question
May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments · Issues of Modernity, Screaming Inner Child
(And no, I have no good reason why it’s been so long, but I do have some bad reasons.* Deal with it.) Here’s my Pressing Issue: ONCE upon a time, I had long hair that I didn’t know what to do with. I didn’t know how to use product in my curly hair, I didn’t [...]
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If I Wrote You (A Fake Book!)
March 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Issues of Modernity
Two New York Times stories about fabricated memoirs caught my eye today, this one about Misha Defonseca and this one about Margaret Seltzer. Ms. Defonseca’s book, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, was published in the 1990s and, according to the Times, translated into 18 languages and adapted into a film in France called [...]
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Once Upon A December and Just A Little January, But Enough January to Make Me a 25-Year-Old
January 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Issues of Modernity, Screaming Inner Child, There and Back Again
A few nights ago, while lying awake in bed, I started coming up with a half-serious Quarter-of-a-Century retrospective blog post. Obviously it can’t be wholly serious, because I’m pretty sure you’d all fall asleep somewhere around age three, and I’d be making most of that up, anyway. I even came up with a great title [...]
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