Tons of white, a beautifully submerged Central Park, thick and light here, crystalized and dripping there, kids on sleds, their dads angling them just into position, just right, just here, okay, okay, now, “How do I steer this thing?” “Just pull on that rope, yeah, just like that. No, not like that, like this, see here? See, just pull like this. That’s all.”
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Look At This Fierceness
When I was in high school I got scouted to model for Esprit. The company was (is?) based in San Francisco and did a lot of local looking around when it came to shooting for their campaigns. Continue reading
Outdoor Film
Here’s another student memory I’ve kept from when I taught English in China over a decade ago.
A Memory Worthy of an Aftertaste
Sometimes when you’re 22, you ask a room full of Chinese students an essay question and you get a bunch of hum-drum la de da. Once in a while, you get this.
I Am Quite Satisfied
From 1999-2000 I taught English at Tsinghua University in Beijing. I’m glad I kept a number of student pieces from that time. This response to the prompt “tell me about cooking your favorite dish” from my student Xu Dian still really cracks me up.
The Tunnels
From 1999-2000 I taught English at Tsinghua University in Beijing. It was my first job out of college and I’m glad I kept a number of student pieces from that time. To follow is one student’s response to the assignment: Share one of your earliest childhood memories.
Stephen Crane
“Eventually they entered a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against a hundred windows.
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Attempting to Attempt an Attempt
Night tremors, starting out with a sweat.
A good start.
I start strong only to heave,
To forget the one thing I was going to say.
Anyway.
In the kitchen you can pour highly distilled water into a nearly empty tea mug to revive the bag.
Or you can reorganize the crisper drawer.
Joan Didion
Tonight I heard Joan Didion down by Union Square and got there walking these really massive assured steps just to get out of work and be on time, which is to say extremely early, which is to say just charging between subway doors, just holding things up.
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