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Magic Monday: Urban Street Magic and Walls That Talk
These last 13 years, I’ve had a wild love affair with Brooklyn. She enchanted me, seduced me. I have evidence of the spells she’s put on me. She speaks to me from messages scrawled on her walls…. …to signs slipped … Continue reading
Magic Monday: City Lights Magic
Living in the city, I can’t see the stars to wish on. So I wish on the brightest thing in the sky: My love affair with the Empire State Building started long before I moved here. Regal, gleaming silver, art … Continue reading
Things I Think About Thursday: Risk Taking
I am road sick. It’s like home sick, but road sick. When I can’t sleep in my bed because it doesn’t have the hum of wheels underneath it. When I wake up in the middle of the night wondering where … Continue reading
And Then We Drowned Her….
Directed by my Partner-in-Crime, Burke Heffner. It will leave you gasping for breath….. I watched it all happen. And you know me, I want to dig into the stories behind the story. And what I found moved me to tears. … Continue reading
Strike a Pose…. Vogue.
19 hours had passed since I was wading in sewage and flood in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, when I got a text from Renegade Volunteer Crew Co-Horts, Flambeaux and Abby. When my text binged, I was expecting it to … Continue reading
An Open Love Letter
Today is the anniversary of the day I met this one: At 5am, I was standing in front of our school, leaning against a column, waiting to be picked up by a van to do a student film. A van … Continue reading
Dia De Los Muertos
Everybody happy as the Dead come home…. In the wreckage after Hurricane Sandy, Halloween was all but cancelled in a darkened city. The New York City Halloween Parade was postponed for the first time ever in 39 years. Its usual … Continue reading
The Day The Muses Showed Me The Map.
Here. I promised you the bones. The Filthy and the Gorgeous. The Lowly and the Divine. The Mountains and the Valleys of the Soul. I write to you from a valley. I am not ashamed to be here. It … Continue reading
When I Met Breakdown Pony
I woke up this morning and put on a black lace bra that a girl threw at me on stage. I put on a tiara that a girl gave me on tour. I needed them today. I could tell. Little … Continue reading
I Was a Zombie Schoolgirl Bridesmaid.
Reality check… Being able to write about a day in my life that sounds like a B horror film = Hell to the Yes. Truth: I had never in my life been asked to be a bridesmaid before. I just … Continue reading