Unlost, or Cell Phones and the Age of Colliding
Posted: August 4, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cell phones, china, facebook, fear, iphone, modernity, n+1, twitter, urumqi Leave a comment »I wanted a map. The only unmet desire I had from my warped old clamshell cell phone was access to a map. For this desire I had a perfectly symmetrical argument: I will never again be lost. No more will I get off the subway and not know which way is North, nor realize I’ve forgotten to write down the address of a party or meeting room. No more will I stare at the dumb faces of buildings, trying to match their bricked frames and shaded windows with an arrangement of numbers and letters, whose only real order lies in some old civic planner’s papers, which even she’s forgotten by the time I’m trying to find the outlines of her work in the gloaming streets of outer Queens.
Entropy, Ice Skating, and You Lost Me At Hello
Posted: April 2, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: arranged marriage, ballet dancer, bryant park, dating, entropy, fear, goals, gravity, hockey, ice skating, love, michael thomsen, nu shooz, relationships, rink 4 Comments »I used to be fixated on the idea of arranged marriages when I was in high school. Relying on other people’s judgment to get around the difficulties of discovering what I really wanted seemed both sensible and adventurous. What better way to enter into a lifelong relationship with someone than in the spirit of discovery and making the best of an unavoidable situation? I’d revel in the lower divorce rates for countries with traditional arranged marriages and munch on mystic stories about the capacity of someone else to play matchmaker on my behalf.
