We were driving into Scarborough to visit Lenny, the world’s only life-size chocolate moose and largest chocolate animal, when I made some kind of grotesque “pththththtbh!” sound and Janaka expressed one of his reserved “heh”s. He turned to me. “Memory lane is a dead end?” “So great!” He pulled into a gas station to turn [...]
“We joke that you can always tell by the length of the nails.” I looked down at my own, which had become long (and thus, dirty) simply out of neglect. “But I’m mostly straight,” I said, “and my nails are mostly short. I mean, they’re long now, but that’s not on purpose.” “Adrianne. Think about [...]
A month or so ago, Black Cat Burlesque teamed up with Big Moves teamed up with a bunch of awesome solo performers to create an entire show around Beck’s “Midnight Vultures” album. It was one night only, and conveniently, I just happened to be in town. “Oh man!” I said. “I’m going to bring my [...]
Every now and then, as I’m blow-drying, brushing and hair-spraying my bangs straight, then moussing, scrunching and air-drying the rest of my hair curly — I like to envision myself at a party twenty years from now, smacking a tabletop in glee. “Oh God, 2010! What were we thinking, right?”
Of things that have happened in the past twenty-four hours: 1.) We drove three hours through a blizzard to attend a community dinner in Central Maine. This is what you do when you study documentary-making. “So this is kind of awkward, guys,” I said as we buckled seatbelts. “But I’m going to need to grab [...]