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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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In another part of the world – Viator Mt. Fuji Tour

By ~LS~ On December 15, 2010 · Add Comment · In Travel and tagged Tagged With: Family, Tokyo Trip, Travel

The Viator day tour to Mt. Fuji is underrated. This is an indisputable fact. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. The itinerary is pretty easy. We took a bus upto Mt. Fuji, stopping first at a small rest stop along the way. That rest stop is purely a pit stop and an opportunity to look at the top of the Fuji volcano in the distance. We were there for maybe fifteen minutes.

Our second stop was at the fifth way station up the mountain, which is as high as vehicle traffic is allowed. We were very lucky because usually that level is generally inaccessible in the winter months due to snowy or icy weather and poor visibility. The weather the two days we’d been in Tokyo prior to the tour were terrible and the forecast did not look good. We were predicting that we had wasted our money, but [...]

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Valentine’s Day 2010

By ~LS~ On February 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Food, Holidays

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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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My family culture

By ~LS~ On November 15, 2009 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Family, For Wordies, Pets

Families have cultures. Rules and roles, beliefs and values, habits and customs, these things form the unique reality of a family. One of the ways that families express their culture is through little communication rituals and idioms, phrases that make sense only in the context of the family, and perhaps close friends who get to observe the family in the wild. I often reflect on my family idioms (from my current family, not the clusterfuck of my family of origin). I find them charming and endearing and overwhelmingly cutesy. Of course, those dark idioms exist as well, but let’s not go there.

Most of our idioms revolve on the cats and my niece, Willow. Some are shared in the dyadic coalitions that form among the three of us. Many come in and out of fashion from time to time, and some die off, never to return, except during bittersweet recollections.

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My grandmother and her family

By ~LS~ On November 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Generations, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Family, Generations

Generation Y documents everything about itself. Facebook, youtube, myspace, flickr, the repositories of that generation are endless. My generation has some documentation; we’ve got home movies, videos, pictures, but nothing close to what the children of Gen Y will have as they age. Most people of my generation are lucky if they know anything about more than their grandparents and maybe their great grandparents. My family did a poor job of documenting us. I have very few pictures of myself as a child growing up. I have very few pictures of my parents at any age. I have almost no pictures of my grandparents. There were no home movies or videos. Compared to most families, there is not much of Willow either.

I got in the mail today from my mother a handful of pictures of my grandmother. I don’t know anyone in the pictures other than her. I can [...]

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