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the 5 minute hand job

March 22, 2005

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I wasn’t going far, but I was wearing heels and didn’t feel like blisters.  I would cab it to Columbus Circle because the tmobile hotspot at the Starbucks near me was out of service. When I told the bearded driver…

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my most obnoxious post

February 15, 2005

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my most obnoxious post

Blogger and photographer Stephanie Klein’s STRAIGHT UP AND DIRTY: The Life of a Young New York Divorcee, a humorous tell-all tracing the author’s return to single life as a "firm, fashionable, and let’s face it – fetching" twenty-something, plus a…

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thank you

January 9, 2005

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thank you

I can’t speak.  Okay, well I can speak, but I sound like Kathleen Turner.  “You should re-record all your outgoing messages while you’ve got this.”  There’s something seexy about a woman with a deep voice, well as long as it’s…

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save the date

December 21, 2004

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save the date

Despite being a writer, I’ve been invited to give a reading.  Publicly. 
Get a pen, a Palm, or something useful to jot this down. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2005
KGB BAR
7-9 pm
FREE ADMISSION
85 East 4th Street (b/w 2nd…

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sex of a city

July 29, 2004

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sex of a city

Every city has sex. London is unmistakably male, Paris is a woman, and Manhattan is bi-sexual. Their personalities weave into the houndstooth, through the curve of a door handle, and hang like flour over the bakery at dawn.

Paris is…

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zoom

June 18, 2004

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I’m not religious. I don’t keep Sabbath or go to synagogue. I might go for Yom Kippur and Roshashana, but that’s about it. And that’s mostly for the bingeing on blintz and candied meat stew. I like Christmas trees, and…

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pathetic

May 25, 2004

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A few months ago I realize I’m not reading enough real books. Self help, guides to New York, photography, and cooking books don’t count. I needed analysis flexing, to curl a heavy book. After careful consideration I chose Middleseex. Friends…

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seduction

May 20, 2004

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In high school English with Faith Toperoff, I paid attention. Bridges of Madison County was just released in theatres (surprisingly I hated that movie almost as much as I hated The English Patient). Faith talked about “seexy.” She said seexy…

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