Blog is a Mix Tape

Notes on the Daytime Smoker

2007-08-26T20:51:29Z

For the daytime smoker, the cigarette is a pause button. An Official's Time-Out. A reprieve. What you notice about the daytime smoker is that when they aren't on that break, they are generally balls of kinetic energy. They wear their agitation on ...

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Books: The Bell Jar

2007-08-06T02:39:50Z

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1971, Harper). I sat outside the Beehive next to two women kanoodling over coffee and an unopened copy of Potter. I was reading Sylvia Plath with Sleater-Kinney blaring through my ear buds. I am Jack's riot grrrl les...

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Saturday Night Secrets

2007-04-15T03:19:16Z

I'm in my favorite coffee shop. This woman is about to perform. She just walked in. She's wearing some crazy next level Uggs but I'm trying not to judge. It's been awhile, dear VOXers. Here's my world right now: 1. Everything's Broken! - Earthli...

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Books: Love is a Mix Tape

2007-03-04T21:52:17Z

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield (Crown, 2007). I sat in Lulu's Beehive this morning with my coffee and banana bundt amongst a sea of laptops, a painting of ducks that looked suspiciously like a picture in my...

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