Monthly Archives: October 2010

caroline, yes

Posted on 28 October 2010 by

(8 december 2008) despite the fact that i am not from new york, do not live in new york, and do not particularly love new york, it matters very greatly to me that caroline kennedy become the senator from new … Continue reading →

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i’m leaving town, baby/ i’m leaving town for sure

Posted on 26 October 2010 by

(12 april 2007) once upon a time, in one of my editing groups, a girl got to bitching about the south. she used the term “backward.” she was talking about alexandria, virginia. i wanted to slap her and say, honey, … Continue reading →

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fight club

Posted on 21 October 2010 by

PART TWO (miss PART ONE? go HERE) First Ladies aren’t supposed to raise hell. Especially not widows. But Jacqueline Kennedy was no ordinary First Lady. When she beckoned William Manchester, her obstinate author, to the Cape that August of 1966, … Continue reading →

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teddy

Posted on 19 October 2010 by

(26 august 2009) teddy and i don’t go back very far. well, we do by default simply because he’s eulogized pretty much all of my biographical crushes, but i don’t have a big Teddy Anecdote beyond what i’ve said before: … Continue reading →

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long-forgotten fairytale

Posted on 15 October 2010 by

(31 october 2006) once there was a lovely girl. your standard, average, lovely girl. we’re going to call her penelope. because that’s such an every(wo)man kind of name. as a child, penelope was a commedienne. she was the queen of … Continue reading →

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and lo! we reuned

Posted on 13 October 2010 by

(2 june 2007) our graduate school experience was very unique. or at least that’s what we MAPHers tell ourselves. for 9 months, we ran ammuck, dabbling through all the “humanities”- whatever the hell those really are. most graduate programs have 10 … Continue reading →

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my heart’s a tart

Posted on 11 October 2010 by

(28 august 2006) placebo is one of my greatest guilty pleasures. they’re huge in europe and teeny tiny in america- aside from a substantial following of velvet goldmine obsessives and people who have dated me and thus been exposed. they’re … Continue reading →

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fight club

Posted on 8 October 2010 by

(4 august 2008) PART ONE Just how awesome are literary throw-downs? That is the question. Because, really, literary throw-downs are effing unbelievably awesome. Maybe simply because the centuries have afforded us so very few. We’re more accustomed to catty quill … Continue reading →

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my harsh mistress and mariah carey

Posted on 6 October 2010 by

(21 september 2006) i love writing. but sometimes writing is a mighty tough trick. i’m supposed to be writing about faux2. it’s supposed to be me, right now, writing about faux2. i know this and all i can think about … Continue reading →

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heaven tonight

Posted on 4 October 2010 by

(11 october 2006) a friend and i are writing a play. tonight this play took us where we inevitably knew it would. but that doesn’t mean we were prepared. that we weren’t both rather stunned when the friend dunked her … Continue reading →

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