Zombie Stores

October 27, 2009

Halloween is my favorite holiday, it always has been. Part of the lead up to Halloween of course involves not only costume shopping, but generally trolling (hah) among halloween stores to see what beauties they’ve come up with this year. I choose to pretend the travesty of inflatable decorations do not exist, but otherwise, most

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Slinking Suburbs

October 14, 2009

I heard a story on NPR the other day (ok, maybe the other week) about a weird trend in recent post bubble real estate, where realtors pay ACTORS to pretend to be neighbors in suburbs, with staged barbecues and invitations to nonexistent little league games, so that an empty neighborhood would seem to have people

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The Other Cathedral

August 4, 2009

Matt and I made sure to get to the National Cathedral when we were in DC this May. I’ve been there before, when I was twelve on a school trip in middle school. Actually I based a lot of my suggestions of sights we should see in DC on things I’d seen while on that

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