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  • Vacation: Terminate.

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    Last night, we touched down in New York City. Greeted by rain, wind and 50-degree weather, it’s hard getting back into the swing of things. Moving from head-jolting roller coasters or simulated trips to Mars into the slow, sputtering stench-filled bowels of the MTA is a bit of a shock. But last night as I…

  • I’ll Take ‘Things to Get Worked Up Over’ For 500.

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    Every once and a while I’ll read something in the newspaper that makes me want to spit like a pack mule. It happens, I can’t deny. And then I have arguments with myself about what I just read. Does this have anything to do with me? Not really. Is it easy to pass judgment? Totally…

  • Cellular Nightmare

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    This weekend, Toby Joe and I finally changed our numbers from San Francisco to New York City. We walked into a store on 5th and 14th, which sported a HUGE sign that proudly read: T-Mobile Authorized Seller. (Yeah.) For the past 9 months, Toby Joe has been using a phone he dropped down 6 flights…

  • Deep Thoughts

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    Office windows in New York City open. The office windows in Washington, DC do not. I have noticed this and I’m curious as to why this might be. During the time I spent working in DC, I did not work at one place that had windows which opened. I like knowing I can open windows.…

  • Damien Jurado

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    Tonight, we’re going to see Damien Jurado at South Paw in Park Slope. I hear the opening act is incredible as well. And then on Tuesday we see Kevin Devine again with Stars. It’s our week of music it seems, great music, I might add. Edited to add: I won’t have images of a New…

  • Tonight, I know nothing and I am Joyous

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    Last week, while bartending, I hooked up my iPod and turned away from the typical angry girl-power stuff and put on a massive Will Oldham compilation instead. A little while later, two woman stopped in to catch up with one another over a glass of wine. They were my only customers at the time, so…

  • Percolating (again)

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    Toby Joe and I have decided to start a new project. Well, I have decided to start a new project and I’m going to bring him along, kicking and screaming. Every week, we’ll venture out into a neighborhood of one of New York City’s five boroughs and capture whatever it is we see. Last Friday,…

  • Los Angeles

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    Well, just when you thought our lives couldn’t get any more insane, Toby Joe is offered a transfer to the Los Angeles office for the company he works for. I’m besides myself with freak. We would have to be there in May. And the project would begin then, too. They would pay for ABSOLUTELY everything…

  • What comes around, got around.

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    I work at a bar in Brooklyn. Its decor is made up of a lot of pictures of naked ladies. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily pornographic in nature (though, I guess that depends on our definition of pornographic). Its Russ Meyer meets Pulp Fiction meets Betty Boop meets a hundred girls with herstorys. (Put this…

  • When did you come out of the closet?

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    (Please note: The above title was supposed to be “When did you come out of the blog closet” but I am so irritated with the word “blog” and how it sounds, I have decided to stop using it.) I get a lot of email from folks who take part in SPD asking me to change…