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By ~LS~ On May 2, 2012 · Add Comment · In Politics, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Politics

Usually when I pass the self-storage places in the strip malls as I drive to work, I ignore them. They are part of the mundane aspects of my daily life that blend in with the roadside trivia like payday loan shops, Payless shoes, the Mall, and Office Depot, McDonalds, the homeless panhandler, the gas station, and people waiting for the bus. None of these things stand out until I need them or they disrupt me. Selective perception, and all.

Lately I’ve observed the large amount of self-storage places all around me. I started tracking them during my trip to New York City, where they seemed out of place because the city has no strip malls. Given that space is a premium in the city, they make more sense there than in suburbia.

With occupy Wall Street dominating the discursive and political field, the need for somewhere to store our [...]

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A bare etching and the intimacy of touch

By ~LS~ On March 27, 2012 · Add Comment · In Politics, Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Art, Chelsea, Family, New York City

I bought several Jack Bilander etchings lately. Bilander was an artist in Chelsea, my neighborhood growing up in New York City. Lately I’ve had this urge to go there. I’ve built up an obsession, really, to return to my Grandmother’s apartment, to be in her space, to see the cheap 1960s parquet floors of Penn South, smell the esoteric scent of Jewish working class intelligentsia, and view a wall full of images still strikingly memorable forty years later. I don’t know why I became obsessed with Jack Bilander, but when I found his suite of pictures on Picasa, I sighed audibly, repeatedly, at how many of them I remembered vividly. So indelible and powerful. Clearly it’s a need formed because of where I am in my life at this precise moment. But precise moments are the entire point.

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Tattoo 2

By ~LS~ On April 5, 2010 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Tattoos

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Beneath the circuits, the tree of life

By ~LS~ On March 31, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Tattoos, Technoculture

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A Splendora Tale

By ~LS~ On February 20, 2010 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Splendora, Texas

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Suzuki Beane

By ~LS~ On November 17, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Generations, Pop Culture, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Books, Chelsea, Family, Generations, New York City

When I was a child, my nickname was Binie. This is a huge confession on my part. Still, the net has become everyone’s confessional, so I have permission to do so. Binie was short for my middle name, which I will in no way repeat out loud to any living soul. In addition, according to family stories, I somewhat resembled the character “Suzuki Beane” (1961). Apparently, I wore jeans with the cuffs turned up and I had an attitude somewhat similar to hers. So the nickname stuck. Suzuki Beane, who lived on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village, was the child of hipster parents. She befriended a square named Henry and the two of them ditched school to adventure far and wide through New York City. It’s a charming book. In a fit of reminiscence, I searched for it and discovered it’s going for $100-200 these days. I [...]

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