Monday, November 30, 2009

Diasporic Dining: Episode VIII (Let's Do Lunch)

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Photo by Hallie Cohen Most writers today are too young to remember the infamous SASE, or self-addressed stamped envelope. The sight of yo...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Ordinary Pain

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You are speeding along by yourself on an Interstate when a really great song like Stevie Wonder’s Love’s In Need of Love Today comes on, an...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Diasporic Dining Episode VII: The Possessed

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Photo by Hallie Cohen Everyone has an as-if personality. We’re all ventriloquists and plagiarists looting the stores of memory. It’s a ri...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Calcei Recalciatus

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Sartor Resartus , meaning “the tailor re-tailored,” was the title of a famous work by the nineteenth century author Thomas Carlyle . But Cal...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Labyrinth of Solitude

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Modern technology challenges the notion of place. If we are constantly plugged in to an electronic universe, we are everywhere and nowhere a...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Diasporic Dining: Episode VI (Organic Fusion at Modestly High Prices)

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It’s no longer 1984, but George Orwell’s Newspeak is alive and kicking in our modern culinary establishments. There is a certain kind of an...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Salt of the Earth

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Salt of the earth people can’t complain. Don’t ask how they are if you are complaining about the malignity of the universe, because they inv...