One Tough vonCookie

voncookie | March 24, 2006

Hi everyone– I just wanted all to know that I’m taking a week’s vacation from life and from the blog, but I’ll be back in rare form on April 1. See you then! anna eva

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voncookie | March 20, 2006

There’s a concept that I ran across somewhere in my readings of Spanish Literature called the momento dichoso. The momento dichoso is not so culturally cliché as, say the príncipe azul, a.k.a. the Knight in Shining Armor, or the media naranja—the perfect person for you, your “better half” as it were, or to use even [...]

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voncookie | March 17, 2006

The past 24 hours have been a little bizarre. Now normally, I’m not one to talk about angels and all that stuff, so let’s just say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that human kindness still exists in this world. It was raining a cántaros yesterday (read: pumas and st. bernards), and as the [...]

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voncookie | March 16, 2006

After I finished ogling KB’s awesome boots, I sat back to listen to her read snippets from her book Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles. I had absolutely *no* idea what I was about to hear, since I had never read anything by KB, and the only thing I had heard about her was [...]

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voncookie | March 15, 2006

So, last week I went with a friend to my first real literary outing. I mean, I could say that at grad school *every* day is a literary outing, but I would be * l y i n g *. I have chosen to make grad school as un-literary as I can, at least from [...]

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voncookie | March 11, 2006

I just thought I’d take a moment to meditate on road trips, especially the ones of the cross-country variety. I’ve made the journey x-ctry 5 times (one way each time) with a variety of people–my friend Joanna, my dad, my cousin Veronica and my friend Martie (see below, both of us looking very cocky, to [...]

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voncookie | March 11, 2006

Have you ever noticed how the lyrics to songs you learned in your childhood generally have nothing to do with the actual lyrics as they exist in reality? I’m watching “The Muppet Movie” right now and it occurs to me that what I have been singing to myself since I was three–Movin’ right along, doo [...]

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voncookie | March 10, 2006

Today’s Song that Has Been Stuck in My Head Since I Woke Up at 8:45 a.m.       “Power of Equality/If You Have to Ask” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tracks 1 & 2 off of Blood Sugar Sex Magic, 1991. …only with alternate lyrics. “Power of Equality”: Last verse, mumbled by Anthony [...]

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voncookie | March 10, 2006

He’s bright pink, sits in a green bowl, right in front of Albert Einstein and next to Wonder Woman. Right now he’s lurking at the bottle of his bowl, looking rather sedentary and kind of pissed off, like I haven’t been paying enough attention to him or something. His name is Izzard, but it’s usually [...]

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voncookie | March 10, 2006

I wanted to write a book in my early twenties that would be titled “I Was a 19-Year-Old Girl”. It was going to be the Great American Novel (hereafter referred to as the G.A.N.), and it would have been 500 pages of rhapsodizing about the summer of 1994, all of that coming-of-age bullshit–alcohol, world travel, [...]

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voncookie | March 5, 2006

The quitting smoking thing is good today–I think I may be past the worst of it. I’m sure another binary will be necessary at some point, probably at those cliche moments like after a meal, after a stressful conversation, the second after your alarm goes off in the morning and your body shouts “NIC – [...]

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voncookie | March 4, 2006

We’ve already established the initial (and *most important*) binary opposition that should have the effect of keeping me from smoking. And while scientific evidence points to Exhibit A being true, I haven’t noticed a real difference yet… So, let’s investigate the next important binary… CIGARETTES or VANITY. Ah, to be forever young! Apparently, you can’t [...]

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voncookie | March 3, 2006

Today I went for my second quit-smoking session at the acupuncturist. Usually when I go to see my acupuncturist, I slip into this state of absolute calm–time disappears, and I watch myself with Kantian disinterested interest as if I were merely one singular aesthetic phenomenon produced by an inobservant world. I close my eyes and [...]

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voncookie | March 2, 2006

Happily Smoking Out the Window at 1951 Chestnut, Fall 2005

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voncookie | March 2, 2006

I want a cigarette, I want a cigarette, I want a cigarette, there is nothing else on my mind, nothing at all. This is all I can think about—See Exhibit B: These photographs were taken by a friend of mine as I prepared to move out of my old apartment in Berkeley, and they serve [...]

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