better gratify their immediate needs

Interview Magazine, Dec/Jan 2013 8 min @ Happy Bones NYC, 1.22.13 Water and light. That is it. That is all the baby needs. They only had one baby. Zoe had picked up the fledgling money tree in Chinatown when they moved into the Parkdale storefront. Garrett didn’t think they’d keep Read more

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“You want sucky sucky?”

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. by Chelsea Handler 8 min on the F train into Manhattan The visits with Genevieve and the baby were getting awkward. Brenda knew her friend thought she was a prude; Genevieve thought all Americans were uptight about their naked bodies. But Brenda had Read more

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All That Glitters

All That Glitters by Pearl Lowe 8 min on the set of “Rookie Blue”, 1.18.13   Every night you told me a different fairy tale.  You said they were true stories and I should never give up on my dreams.  Everyone gets a happy ending.  I remember my tenth birthday when we Read more

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when dogs will become men?

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 8 min @ Mercury Espresso, 1.17.13 My mother refused to marry my father even though that was the thing to do. It was hard to be a single, unwed mother in the forties. But she always said why marry the dog that did her wrong? Read more

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Acting Lessons

I went to see the film Holy Motors last night.  Wow.  I hadn’t read any reviews because I didn’t want other people’s impressions to color my experience.  I do know that it made a ton of top ten lists and is lauded all over the globe.  But “Wow” is my Read more

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I roar quietly.

The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman 8 min in bed, 1.14.13   It is one o’clock in the morning and I am wide awake.  I am seven years old and I cannot sleep.  I am a very new seven because my birthday was just three weeks ago, but someone once told my Read more

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fears of feeblemindedness

Astray by Emma Donaghue 8 min @ Hub Coffeehouse, 1.11.13   Why didn’t she remember that she hated musicals?  Well technically Pip didn’t hate musicals anymore, and there was so much hype around the film.  Dom like everyone else wanted to check out the pomp and pageantry, but this was that one. Read more

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