Lucas has excellent taste in classic movies, and I’m sure my boyfriend is going to make me watch them all. (This is the boyfriend who asked recently if it was possible to have cable but only pay for Turner Classic Movies.)
Some of us, however, prefer our movies

In color
In English
Audible (meaning with audio tracks from the […]

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I got this in my email today. I was confused because I have a nephew named Henry who I did birth announcements for — three years ago.
> Hello!
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> I received Henry’s birth announcement! It was a nice card and I agree that
> it looked better than your average snapfish version. Good job!
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> So, […]

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After a leisurely 90 minute lunch at home (cabbage, hummus, and tomato sandwich), I returned for 45 more minutes of meditative news-viewing. I had just started a new Facebook scrabble game (in which I opened with a bingo, “UNEATEN”), and they’re dismissing us. For eight years! I’m already thinking of volunteering, sometime when I have […]

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Unlike most people, I’ve been looking forward to jury duty for my whole life. Something about the formality, the sense of civic obligation, and the potentially bus-terminalish humiliation of it has called my name since I first said the pledge of allegiance.
I have only been here for four hours, and it has not let me […]

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…the voting fever! But not the Obama fever, I’m afraid.

Nothing interesting happened today at my polling place, mostly because we still have the same voting machines that we’ve had since New York became a state. (Fuck HAVA!) So instead I’ll share with you my experience from voting in the 2004 primary. (Sharpton ‘04, totally not […]

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Andrew’s party was fancier than fancy soda friday. It was like this: take Fancy Soda Friday, add cocktails, vegan-friendly treats, hors d’oeuvres, a brownstone with three floors and two bathrooms, a house full of guests and lively chatter (not muffled by bothersome music), and call it a night to remember. The theme was Congestion Pricing. […]

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Hey you guys, I’m on a panel at a conference this Thursday called Designism. It’s about design and social change. I’ll be debuting a new video. Come by!

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RENDA LIVE BLOGGING
4:55 pm After much consulting with me, friends on ichat, Andrew Sloat has determined that he is going to buy an iPhone. It is also determined that his need for an iPhone is immediate, since he wants to use it on his trip to Washington DC this weekend. His train leaves at 9pm […]

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Our leftover jack-o-lantern has been adopted by some small neighbors of mine. I hesitate to make the comparison, as belittling conceptual artists feels very adolescent, but the particular way my little buddy is working on the pumpkin brought to mind Janine Antoni’s 1992 work “Chocolate Gnaw.” Apologies to Ms. Antoni.

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