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Are You a Carrie?

2008-03-28T03:32:07Z

No hate for SATC from moi, but maybe your personality is, in fact, linked to your favorite Sleater-Kinney member. Like, if you're a Corin, you're the bad-ass activist one. Or something. I haven't really fully fleshed this out. Moving on: who does...

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Set 'Em Up, Jack

2007-09-27T15:28:39Z

One of my favorite stores/brands is Jack Spade. I loved writing about the newly opened shop when I was shopping editor at Citysearch (is that still online? Yes!). Here's a great video from JS during Fashion Week. Note Andy Spade taking a bow at th...

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A Bug's Life

2007-08-19T23:31:48Z

One of my dream rides is a VW Beetle convertible--old school, not one of the nouveau style ones. I mean, those are fine and nice and all, but I just ache for the old ones. Clicking through one of the local auction house's upcoming sale lists, I ju...

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I Think I'm Different; Really We're All The Same

2007-08-10T14:59:18Z

Someday someone will discover the gene sequence for a desire to live in a television apartment--specifically, Mary Tyler Moore's. (The sequence MTM? I totally have it, it's located somewhere around MM, the ability to eat one-pound bags of chocolat...

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Don't Be a Book (on CD) Snob

2007-08-04T16:31:36Z

OK, sorry fellow readers, but this is bullshit. I am totally in love with recorded books (unabridged, of course) for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because they allow me to "read" and drive an otherwise uneventful commute. Why the hate?

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I Has a Malteaser

2007-07-18T13:03:23Z

This article from last week's NYT is a love song to British chocolate. A love song I often sing to anyone who will listen. Now send me your Aero bars, monarchists. Holla!

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Still Summer, In Case You Needed to Know

2007-07-16T15:05:22Z

I was at Target yesterday, buying Grape Nuts and waiting patiently for the Libertine stuff to arrive, when I realized the Great Summer Switch had happened. You know the one--suddenly the garden and barbecue aisles become devoted to crayons and bac...

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In Which My (Small, Closed, Lame) World Collides

2007-07-16T15:00:09Z

From an email received earlier on the subject of my (other) future husband, Joe Pernice: Primarily known as a recording artist, Joe wrote the novella Meat is Murder for Continuum Books' 33 1/3 series in 2003. That book remains one of the bestsel...

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Still Life with My Life

2007-07-09T03:12:09Z

There is always laundry to be done. But I'd rather drink coffee. Read the New York Times. On my estate sale table. I'm off to Seattle tomorrow, where I am hoping to find wedding shoes (wedding! shoes!) and drink Mind-Blowing Coffee before drivin...

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Moblogging FOILED

2007-06-24T14:58:04Z

I tried to post this last night from Tre and it didn't go up. Anyway: Not to get all freegan or anything, but I am feeling a little more waste-weary than usual. That's part of the reason I've decided to wear my mom's wedding dress. Why contribute...

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