I am currently reading a biography on Edie Sedgwick, which in one sense is sort of like inhaling junk food. The biography, first published in 1982 by Jean Stein, includes a world of photos of the Sedgwick family and The Factory and Andy Warhol, and when you're as obsessed with the 1960's as I am, it's like I can't devour it fast enough.
There...
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Whatever Happened to Zooey Deschanel?
I saw Zooey Deschanel on the cover of Marie Claire, with her long dark shag of a bangs-in-your-eyes haircut (that I've frankly seen too much of everywhere lately) and her signature cute-as-a-button smile and, most of all, the promise that she'll share with you exactly how she lost 30 pounds. Because she really needed to.
When She &...
Sunday, April 8, 2012
When I Saw You This Weekend, I Remembered
We worked at the Anthropologie on 5th and Pine, it was 2005, and our first monumental conversation had something to do with our mutual love for Joan Didion. We folded tea towels and we talked about love, and suggestively sold clothing to wealthy women and picked up the piles of clothes they left behind.
We sat at the pool in the courtyard...
Monday, April 2, 2012
Smokes
For a time, I sold cigarettes at a smoke shop. I had to learn the difference between hard packs and soft packs, 100's and Lights, reds and golds and menthols. I learned about rolling papers and tobacco and lighters and chew. I worked the night shift on weekends and the place was always hopping. It was a small town in Idaho, a little...
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