Category Archives: Ephemera
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Once upon a time in Chicago
Leave a commentJanuary 31, 2015 by carolinetanski
Coincidentally, “a tiny goblin of a man” is how an acquaintance of mine describes Van Morrison, who propositioned her in …
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Modern friendship
2January 24, 2015 by carolinetanski
After I move, I always set aside a chunk of time for my books. Sometimes it’s a morning project with …
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Brian Turner on “American Sniper”
Leave a commentJanuary 22, 2015 by carolinetanski
“When one of the children we often joked with threw a grenade into the vacant building we used as an …
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“How to Tell If You Are in a Henry James Novel”
Leave a commentJanuary 19, 2015 by carolinetanski
Over on the Toast, the story of my life: “You’ve found yourself uncomfortably wrestling between the suffocating pretense of the …
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All hail Bowie
Leave a commentJanuary 14, 2015 by carolinetanski
I’m a little late on this, but to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday, artist Helen Green made the most amazing tribute …
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“Let’s Get Drinks”
Leave a commentJanuary 13, 2015 by carolinetanski
I’ll just leave this here. Shouts & Murmurs covers a dance I know well.
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It is, in fact, winter
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2015 by carolinetanski
I knew when I left for my two-mile walk to work this morning that the temperature was around 0 degrees …
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A day in the life
Leave a commentJanuary 6, 2015 by carolinetanski
A few weeks ago a data analyst I know shamed me (unintentionally, or so I hear) via graph about how …
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NYPL answers life
Leave a commentJanuary 5, 2015 by carolinetanski
A coworker brought to my attention that the New York Public Library staff recently discovered a box of old reference …
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A poem for the new year
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2014 by carolinetanski
“…keeping beat to the song, see how my boots are scuffed, tooth-marked, worn-soled.” Brought to my attention by the superlative …
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