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While rather arbitrarily seeing how much it cost to fly from JFK to x-European or Asian city, just to get an idea of where I might be going this year, I was struck by how cheap it can be to fly to Dublin. And then I started thinking about the Dublin Theatre Festival. And then I started thinking about going to the Dublin Theatre Festival, which goes ( Read more... )

AN OPEN LETTER TO ( Read more... )

I like this haiku because it doesn't really seem to mean anything....but I like to think that it could.

Having a Sunday where I managed to get out of bed before 1 p.m., I made my first trip to the Brooklyn Museum, as I was particularly excited about an exhibit that just opened a few days before called Global Feminisms. The centerpiece of this exhibit was "The Dinner Party", an installation by Judy Chicago ( Read more... )

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Hummus + Sweet Relish= Oh *Baby*

One of my coworkers unveiled his lottery-winning plans: to invite 20 of his closest friends over for a "fancy" dinner and put a black X underneath one of the plates (he was very particular about that). People would sit wherever they wanted, and everyone there would be given one million dollars, except for the random friend who sat at the black X ( Read more... )

Every so often it hits me that my job is, ultimately, helping to make books happen, and it blows me away. It's like working for the Tooth Fairy or something...

I've been missing from this thing for a few months now. This, of course, is terrible. I hearts this thing. But for some reason the ability to write in any interesting, concise way seems so gone from me...which is all the more terrible. And so I must try. Grunt grunt ( Read more... )

I know this was first brought to my attention by the Onion AV Club's The Hater, but I was glancing through her recommendation and, yes, quite in fact, John Mayer IS a funny dude ( Read more... )