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Culturally Speaking #28

By Sarah Stodola

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Artists unite to visually protest the Republican National Convention. Lots of posters, all with a good message. Seriously, there are some really talented folks involved in this.

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I'm afraid The New Yorker revealed its demographic without a bit of subtlety when it opened its review of the play "Sight Unseen" with the line, "Can you still recall youth's special quality of hope..."  The implication: If you are reading this magazine, you are presupposed to be well past the upward climb of youth - not just past it, but far enough past it to maybe not even remember it. Kind of makes me feel like a schmuck for reading the thing every week.

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This site is awesome...Music bubbles.

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My friend Matt Bray has been running the Praxis Theater Project for a few years now. His latest production, The Fastest Woman Alive, comes highly recommended..

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The underground market for pigeons: One eyewitness account is documented as follows: "One woman from the Upper East Side said that in the last six months she has seen netters on several occasions next to the East River on the jogging path near 76th Street. 'One of the guys looked at me staring at him and said, "Keep walking lady, just keep walking,"'she said."

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According to Slate, the fat summer fiction issue of The New Yorker doesn't actually contain much fiction. Instead, it seems to feature a bunch of writers who normally write fiction writing nonfiction.

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Boredom at work yesterday led me to my high school's website, which I had never visited. Perusing the list of teachers, I noticed that a girl from my graduating class is now an English teacher. The prospect of teaching at the high school you attended causes a strange stirring of emotions.  Placing the person I am now in the setting of the person I was then seems like the stuff of science fiction.

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What's the Matter With Kansas?  A political question certainly worth asking...

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Sarah Stodola is the Managing Editor of Me Three.  She can be contacted here.

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