Photo by Timothy Lloyd.
An entire wall in my parents’ living room is devoted to my dad’s record collection. Yes, records, what The Kids These Days call “vinyl”–not CDs, although he has those by the hundreds too, a collection constantly in flux. He orders new CDs, makes room in tucked-away boxes for those he likes, sells [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘growing up’
May 22, 2009
Oh, That’s Good/No, That’s Bad: a Musical Retrospective
May 6, 2009
We Can’t Even Starve If We Want To.
“When I set out in my 20s I understood very little but I understood this much: Any educated white person in America is privileged, and no one is going to allow us to starve. We can’t even starve if we want to. People keep inviting us to dinner to talk about Robert Lowell.” – Cary [...]
April 25, 2009
No Offense to You Lawyers Out There
Today I realized & noted this elsewhere: “Going to college made me realize that I should never trust the competence of anyone until proven otherwise, because some really shitty and stupid people are going to be lawyers/doctors/teachers/EVERYTHING. And most of the smart people I know, that I would actually trust with my life problems, either [...]
April 13, 2009
The Audrey Hepburn Rule
It’s a rule: If you were ever a teenage girl, and you were at all into movies (or fashion, or thin people) you went through an Audrey Hepburn stage. There are a hundred beautiful movie stars of the black & white era, and yet it’s not Gene Tierney or Ava Gardner or even Grace Kelly [...]
March 17, 2009
The Domino Effect
(Photo by tracyhunter.)
None of my close friends are married yet. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how grateful I am for that. My parents didn’t get married until they were almost 30 and neither, I think, did most of my friends’ parents. I don’t come from the kind of town where people get married [...]
