August 2010
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I’m loving how Joseph Mitchell describes a hot summer day in New York City in his short story The Biggest City in the World. He wrote the piece in the 1930s, but his observations transcend modernization. A journalist, he tells it like it like he sees it, and he’s right (in this case). I was going to post an excerpt, but there’s a cool rain tapping my window right now, so the...
WatchBrooklyn’s DJ Punches entertained the pool party crowd before Cut Copy hit the stage this weekend. This song I never heard before, but now kind of love, erupted a fantastic dance party. I documented, but truthfully, I really wanted to join em’.
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Slow work day, got any questions?
A few months ago I was hired to compile a big brief detailing gay rights issues for a director working on a documentary piece. I have gay friends, and began the project thinking I knew a thing or two about their struggles for equality, but as I dove into each issue further - marriage, adoption, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, health care - I found myself in the dark. Within my research ran a...
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