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Top 10 Books of 2008

January 4, 2009 – 7:51 pm

This was a big year for me. I baked my first Shrinky Dink, had my first SnoBall, made my first vegan cashew cheese, AND graduated from college with a Bachelor’s in English. That last one makes me feel pretty smug. Really, though, having a fresh new Bachelor’s in English means just two things: 1. I [...]

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Top 10 Albums of 2008

December 28, 2008 – 6:07 am

After a WHOLE YEAR of deliberation, I bring you my decisive Top Ten Albums of 2008. I think. Maybe I shouldn’t be so decisive, because I’ve revised this about 15,000 times in the last two weeks. Let me just say this: It was a GOOD year for music. Things started to get really interesting in [...]

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prospect 1

November 2, 2008 – 7:26 pm

Yesterday New Orleans unveiled what might be the most amazing art exhibit the United States has ever seen. I know that I’m a bit young and naive to be making this statement, and I’m not even that immersed in the art community. I’m one of those art-posers, you know? I have some art books; I [...]

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gray ghost

October 30, 2008 – 1:03 am

If you don’t live in New Orleans, you probably haven’t heard of the ominously-titled “Gray Ghost” — the “city-serving” force who has been covering up graffiti on everything from synagogues to schools to skyscrapers around the city with gray paint without consequence. Really, the Gray Ghost is not just one man, but several who operate [...]

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missing in action

March 28, 2008 – 9:07 pm

I kind of dropped the ball last week, and I’m sorry. There are many perfectly good reasons for it, though, and I thought I might detail them for you so you can feel like you’re more involved in my life.
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My life mentor, Salim Muwakkil, came to speak at Whitman this week, which was a [...]

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bullshit

February 1, 2008 – 6:42 am

Gawker.com recently posted a rather brilliant “Field Guide to Tumblr” — which is essentially a less text-heavy blogging utility site that allows users to post the weird, funny shit they find on the Internet. With a greater emphasis on design, too, Tumblr is necessarily what Gawker admits is “like LiveJournal for privileged white 20-somethings.” In [...]

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Ten Political Songs

August 9, 2007 – 2:07 am

I posted a new page with my 10 favorite political songs of all time — and there are even MP3s and videos for most of them. Enjoy.

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talent, talons

June 20, 2007 – 3:48 pm

I found out that this man Amiri Barksdale who works at The Nation creates intensely beautiful works in oil (I assume), and has a great Web site to boot. He has a fantastic show right now (I mean, I haven’t been to it, but I assume it’s fantastic because his work is really great) at [...]

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