December 2011
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“In my lame pescetarian defense, it’s very hard to be a girl and to say you...”
– Sloane Crosley
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“We travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
—Pico Iyer from Ecosalon’s wanderlustin’ list of travel quotations.
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“Advertising has tripled the level of our consumption and it is now a very...”
– Kalle Lasn, founder and editor in chief of Adbusters magazine. Read the rest of my interview with him as well as my story about how advertising affects our attitude towards the environment at the Ecologist.
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“Even if the dream isn’t real, the dreamers are. There’s something...”
– From ‘Schemes of my Father’ by Eric Puchner. Makes me miss my state.
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“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
– Gloria Steinem
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My Job as Eye-Candy in the Recession-Era Economy
Not too long ago, I was hanging out in a London nightclub, beer in hand, friends in tow, talking to some British guy I hadn’t the faintest interest in. During a particularly agonizing bout of small talk, this gentleman asked me what I was doing in London. I told him I was writing for a magazine. He was confused.
“You’re too pretty to write for a magazine,” he said bluntly. “Shouldn’t you,...
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
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Current Fixations:
1. Frozen planet:
2. Aljazeera English- particularly this opinion piece (WHY has no one told me that I should be reading this daily?)
3. The Jimi Hendrix Christmas album aka the only Christmas music I can tolerate:
4. Running with the deer in Richmond Park (channeling my inner antelope), instead of Christmas shopping.
5. Sixties supermodels and Mini Coopers, a natural combination:
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