I did not end up getting that airplane ticket for July 5. I did something stupid.
I woke up early in the morning, and I was still groggy. Of course, the smart thing to do was hop online to make a purchase worth hundreds of dollars. Continue reading “Buyers Beware: Unreliable Third-Party Airfare Resellers on Kayak.com”
I don’t like to play games. I don’t even like to play video games. But this past April, I got an X-Box. Oh, wait, not an X-Box, but an EX-BOX [.mp3]. I recorded this story with my gal-pal Jenny and Shantell of Vocalo.org 89.5FM a few months ago. And, if you liked this story, you … Continue reading The Ex-Box: Hear it Live 7 PM Tonight, Simone’s in Chicago
One summer during college, I sold $10,000 worth of knives. It was kinda crazy. When I started selling knives, it was to my family and friends – sorry, you guys! – but eventually, through their referrals, I took my knives to complete strangers’ homes, gave them demonstrations and tried selling knife sets to them. Can you imagine inviting a complete stranger to your home who is packing a bunch of knives? (Ok, even if that stranger is pretty innocuous, like me at age 19?) Continue reading “One No Closer to a Yes: How to Be Intrepid and Sell Cutco Knives”
Art, at its best, is personal. It happens in the space between the viewer and the art object/action.
In Detroit, Michigan, at the Heidelberg Project, the full text on “Beacon for Broken Health Care” piece above reads: Continue reading “Detroit, Part 1: The Heidelberg Project, A People’s Critique of Systems, Institutions and Their Decades-Long Failure”
