June 2011
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I have noticed in myself lately the inability to definitively end conversations transmitted via text message. In that, I must needs have the last word? (Semi-related: while I was sitting waiting for the start of a screening I watched the young woman in the row ahead of me composing full sentences with her thumbs faster than I can type with my monkey hands, and I was taught by Mavis Beacon. I...
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I was relieved, really, at the news that ABC had canceled “Brothers & Sisters.”
The show began with the patriarch suffering a heart attack and falling in the swimming pool and ended with the matriarch and her brood dancing to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” at a wedding. So! Quite the weird, rocky tumble from dramatic greatness, that.
I grew up watching soap operas...
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I was walking down First Avenue when I passed a woman sitting in a kitchen chair, in front of a sign offering psychic services, and another, younger woman with a suitcase.
Which way is Avenue A? the psychic asked.
I pointed.
That’s St. Marks so…
I pointed again. The young woman wheeled her suitcase away.
Hey, you should get a reading.
How can I trust someone who doesn’t...
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