In January, you leave your whole life 2500 miles behind in search of something better. You step out of a taxi and into a new world. The next day, as you’re engulfed in a strange daze of hope and loneliness, it snows on your way to the subway, and the buildings down Third Avenue evaporate [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Four Years in Fourteen Songs
30-Jan-05Totally Radical
25-Jan-05For one of my classes this spring, “The Radical Tradition in America,” I had to buy a little book titled The Radical Reader. Basically, it’s 700 pages of primary documents from various organizations and movements, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Among the authors: Thomas Paine, Fredrick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Mario Savio, and the [...]
An Experiment
24-Jan-05Update: See the NYPost article on Pop Rocks and applesauce. Let’s get this straight- I’ve eaten some strange things in my life. As members of what seems to be a cult of adolescence, my friends and I share a certain proclivity for daring one another to eat various concoctions. We’ve combined chocolate sauce with veggie [...]
In Transition
23-Jan-05Hi there. I’ve been working on the look of the site, but the photolog isn’t quite there yet. Stylesheets got me down. Anyway, if you think it looks ugly, that’s because I wanted it to be that way. Sheesh.
Liberté, Egalité, Stupidité
17-Jan-05Instead of celebrating the new year amongst friends or family, I spent the final minutes of 2004 in a nearly vacant 767 en route to Paris. Flight attendants handed out plastic cups of champagne as the captain counted down the seconds to 2005 over the PA. There were multilingual cheers throughout the plane as we [...]