March 2009
19 posts
“Love is always the appropriate reaction.”
– Rachelle Hruska’s Twitter feed (some graffiti she spotted in NYC today). And how true it is.
“Sometimes it seems like we’re all living in some kind of prison. And the...”
– Claire Danes as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life
“Distant events have thrown us into long, comet-like orbits, far from our...”
– Salvatore Scibona in The End, his debut novel and this year’s winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award. This passage sent chills up and down my spine. It may sound hokey but I truly believe that some of us are linked in ways we can’t even begin to imagine. I wonder about the mysterious...
Random Acts of Kindness (From Strangers)
I’ve had some pretty remarkable things happen to me over the course of the past three weeks. Here’s how it all went down:
1. February 14th, 2009: I’m tucked into the back of a black towncar speeding my way through Times Square, reading a dirty text from last night’s date on my old-school, first-gen Razor that refuses to give up on me. I’m cursing the traffic that is...
Monsters and Other Figments of an Overactive...
“There is simply no way that a creature like Champ could exist and survive and thrive on this Earth. What that woman saw—or thought she saw, rather—was most likely a trick of sunlight, or a dead tree branch skimming the water. Lake monsters are a myth. They are not real.” I glance over at the television idly (MonsterQuest on the History Channel!) and study the strained,...
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So StyleCaster isn’t officially launching to the public until April, but I’ve kind of got an inside track, being their exec fashion director and all.
So, here’s my early access VIP link: http://www.stylecaster.com/vip/invite/CarolHan/cp1ril
I figured: who better to get feedback from all of you, my oh-so-opinionated (and I mean that in the best way possible) readers?
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