January 2011
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Now I look at other women and see their beauty and... →
Brisenia Flores Is Still Not Quite National News:... →
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Clips, a few selections
These are a few things I have written. I hope you enjoy them.
Tech/Media
For blind New Yorkers, a different, and complex, relationship with technology Capital New York - September 19, 2011
Cupidtino: Where Love Is In An iPhone App Bloomberg Businessweek - January 20, 2011
The singularities of Josh Harris Capital New York - November 1, 2010
Bye Bye Brooklyn! Gilt Groupe moves their operations...
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“No Eulogy” - Black Ships
Hi! Do you read short stories? →
ljm:
Aaaaaand do they ever mention menstruation?
Y’know…periods? MENSEEEES?
Help Lindsey out!
Kylesa report #2
Rosetta is a lot of ambient, jangly business, which is my business.
Shouts to the dude who brought a yoga mat to a metal show.
Kylesa report:
UMMMM Laura just touched my skirt.
Rosetta is brvtal and great. Wifeing the vocalist ASAP.
“Chua is very, very good at talking about herself, but somewhat deficient in...”
– Rich Juzwiak on Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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Slices - “Laughing While Eating”
A drug for periods becomes a life-saver on the... →
YOU’RE WELCOME.
Winter S.A.D.ness songs: The diagnosis and the... →
Was too sad to publish my “diagnosis” song after going bankrupt on YouTube for the past two days, but Frankie Stubbs is getting me through the day.
Write your own entries if you like. Post them to Tumblr with the tag “SADsongs” or email them to me and I can add to the list: gillian[at]capitalnewyork.com.
“Of course, a refrain is heard throughout Europe and it’s the refrain of...”
– Roberto Bolano, from a translation of a speech he delivered in 2000 that was recently published in The Nation.
Egos
Legendary literary agent Betsy Lerner, who has edited Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Rosemary Mahoney and Lucy Grealy, just to name a few, over at Thirteen.org:
“I’m fascinated by the question of the author’s ego because it’s both the thing you most need and often most can hurt you,” Lerner said. “You have to have a healthy ego to be writing, I think. Well, maybe not writing but...
Leatherface - “Winning”
Objectification and Internet Misogyny by Martha... →
Not sure if I agree with all of her arguments here, but there’s some sharp observations and a misogyny checklist that is on point.
In daily life, there are some barriers to a women’s conversion from ‘whole and usual’ into a mere set of stigmatized organs. The woman is there in three dimensions, and she does things that may disrupt the objectifying fantasy. She might do...
Slaughterhouse feat. The Lox - “Put Some...
Watchmaudnewton:
The Mirror Man, a documentary focused on the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges, includes interviews with the writer, his mother, and his second wife, Maria Kodama. (Via.)
See also Borges on the transformative power of art and his (literally) blind self-portrait.
"Washington Irving started the flood." →
www.yearinreviews.com →
Tea goes in first. →
"The bagel, like the circle from which it takes... →
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"I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for... →
“She was a woman of punctual life-tides, ate right, had suffered at all the right...”
– gary lutz (via meaghano)
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"I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for... →
"I am writing to express my alarm that this is now... →
Gonna keep wearing these crooked glasses in 2011. Everyone is just going to have to deal.
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