May 2009
2 posts
True on so many levels
“Could be a little richer… (more art)… B+”
The grade I got on my visual journal for Parisian Contemporary Art. He wrote it on a neon green post-it. I don’t know why, but I loved it. It’s now in my scrapbook.
A truly post-modern problem
When wondering how to get dressed in the morning, I often check weather.com, a site which I have discovered gives a completely inaccurate weather reports 100% of the time, we’re talkin degree-wise and cloud/sun or rain forecast. Always wrong. Consequentially, some days end in backaches from the pointless umbrella stuffed in my already weighed-down purse or ruining various...
April 2009
5 posts
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Yes, everything is art, but that doesn't mean...
Here’s looking at you, Sophie Calle. The bourgeois woman who got a job as a maid at a hotel so she could look through people’s possesions and photograph them (L’hôtel, 1981). The artist who stalked a man for a week including following him on a plane to Italy to document his every move (Suite Vénitienne, 1980). The person who found an address book in the street, and instead of...
March 2009
5 posts
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This is why I'm a feminist
Around 12:30 last night, A taxi dropped me off four blocks away from my apartment. As I was walking home, a man started running towards me from across the street screaming “mademoiselle can I ask you something? I need to ask you something!” I ignored him as I thought would be the safest option (as opposed to telling him to fuck off, which I haven’t quite mastered yet in French)....
The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School in the U.S. →
We’ll take any title we can get.
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Everything you don't want me to write about part...
Below is the what I was going to submit to that writing contest, before I read the directions (see earlier post ‘Everything you don’t want me to write about’). It’s also an ‘excerpt’ from an essay I have yet to complete.
Everywhere you go there you are and other cliched epiphanies
After choosing Barcelona on a complete whim with no background in Spanish or...
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February 2009
10 posts
France is for Lovers... (who have babies)
After Michael Moore’s film Sicko was released, conservatives fumed about his portrayal of France (and every other country) claiming it was biased, exaggerated or slightly inaccurate. While that’s probably somewhat true, yesterday I found out there’s even more about France for Americans to drool over:
1. The French government dispenses 200 Euros each month, to any person with a...
Watchlast night
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Everything you don't want me to write about
I got an email that advertised an abroad experience writing contest by glimpse/national geographic. I started writing without reading the guidelines (I’ve never been big on directions) and found out that my story fit perfectly under their category called what ‘we don’t want’. Some cute excerpts of what they don’t want:
Long-winded descriptions of your thoughts and...
a punny beginning... sorry
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