One recent evening whilst googling myself, I came across an 801a post from days past simply entitled “Ask Teen Works: I’m a Flirt” written by a jovial, slightly younger Andy Pressman. Sometimes, much like the author of my favorite blog, I wistfully look to the past — the heyday of the 801a blog, perhaps — [...]

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While I’m blogging…
In the last couple of weeks my loving look back to the early nineties has sometimes brought a tear (of joy, of course) to my eye. Witness the journey:
- a few weeks ago, Renda brought her old cds to the office. I filled in some of the gaps in my nineties music collection, [...]

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I visited the Guggenheim yesterday for the final day of the Richard Prince retrospective. Afterwards I tried to find more quiet contemplation uptown, resulting in a visit to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which is undergoing a significant amount of construction following a fire in 2001.

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thanks to Riley!

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Note: This post was written in early December, but lingered in drafts for a month. Read it anyway! I revisit Philadelphia! PS: Check out this crazy Mummer’s Day parade video featuring my old crew dancing off global warming!
Train travel has never been so fast, so glamorous. Last weekend I took Amtrak for the very first [...]

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Please send me your favorite photos of Hunks for a new feature on our blog. You won’t be disappointed. Any kind of hunk – this is not limited to New York City government employees – is welcome. Thanks and see you in Philadelphia this weekend!

hollygressley@gmail.com

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Yesterday, I received my favorite email of all time.

From Masayoshi Nakamura
To Holly Gressley
Date Nov 7, 2007 11:09 AM
Subject Re: hey there
awesome, yeah. we should be friends and make the outing happening
again sometimes! but not the sort of internet friend on myspace,
facebook, or linked-in or nuttin that [...]

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Last week, the REAL Holly’s Corner Blog got spicy with my favorite topic: boys.

Holly S.’s post-feminist musings veer dangerously towards iVillage territory in “For the Guys”, her analysis of how happy relationships result from each partner meeting universal needs. Holly S., via Dr. Laura, identifies the essential ingredients to a successful relationship with her usual [...]

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Internet celebrity Andrew Sloat brought this flyer back from the AIGA conference on Tuesday.

He gave us a fine recap of a talk by the phenomenal Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes. Bantjes started out her talk by expressing astonishment to be there, and credited it to the fact that four years ago, she quit doing everything she [...]

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Oh man, before my first official Holly’s Corner post, my friend Lucas alerted me to something that has officially knocked my socks off: the Holly’s Corner Blog. I could never compete with this Holly. This blog basically covers everything that my Holly’s Corner would cover – Talent Holly, Spiritual Holly, Intellectual Holly, etc etc. She [...]

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