Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 28, 2009, 2:04 pm
I was born like a loud sound, straight from the mouth like a holler, vibrating still on this shaking planet, a missile seeking life. Those were the days, while walking somnambulate,  our hands tied ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 27, 2009, 2:36 pm
  Every writer faces this proverbial fork in the road: You have pounded out what you hope will be the creation that will transform the literary landscape, but you smell something rotten and fear it m...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 26, 2009, 10:24 am
If Megan Fox is "self-manufactured," what are all these hands doing to her at the beauty factory?  
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 26, 2009, 9:45 am
Film Noir has darkened my mind, but lit a little light inside. When I close my eyes, I see fatal women.  
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 25, 2009, 10:04 am
  Charley Gerard, the director and composer for the Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet (BRSQ), possesses a rare collection of talents not often seen together.  Versatile and virtuosic in his playing and...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 24, 2009, 10:48 am
Inside me there is a skirted issue beginning to bare leg, a measles of infrastructure so vast and vat deep that I am beginning to see earth worms ascending while I sleep, the true knowers of the black...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 24, 2009, 10:48 am
Inside me there is a skirted issue beginning to bear leg, a measles of infrastructure so vast and vat deep that I am beginning to see earth worms ascending from the deep, the true knowers of the black...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 23, 2009, 1:38 am
Plenty of people claim to inhabit their art, but Kevin Kunstadt and Andrew Kenney have actually moved in. With the ingenuity of trendsetting Williamburgsters, these two have converted their storefron...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 21, 2009, 3:48 pm

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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 20, 2009, 10:50 am
The time has come to talk about my favorite novel. In House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski uses the house in the title as a trope for the challenges of written testimony. Here, he has secured himself ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 19, 2009, 4:16 pm
Somehow, even after yesterday's film noir binge, there's still room for more. This is one of my favorite places to be. A screen, an overpriced soda, miniature chocolate candies, and my mind ru...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 19, 2009, 8:35 am
I realize that this is an incredibly long article for Blogville--only for the brave... Sylvia Plath’s poetry is complicated by the fact that her language and imagery are designed to transform, and e...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 17, 2009, 10:22 am
Somewhere among the Vietnamese whores, sadistic drill sergeants, and soldiers who know as little about their souls as they do about why they are fighting, there is Full Metal Jacket. From boot camp t...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 16, 2009, 9:55 am
There I am thinking in two directions at once, trying to find the glasses on my head, spewing mind juice all over my papers. Yet there must be some grace  to this unbecoming mambo because I do it dai...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 16, 2009, 9:52 am
Augmentation: First it was breasts, now it's reality. What's next?
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 15, 2009, 10:44 am
Charactonyms, copious hairdos, call girl chic. Gloria Wandrous Holly Golightly
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 15, 2009, 9:50 am
This Gawker article gets points for its title; for giving some thought to the implications of douche as a diss; and for recognizing that the term "azzwizard" is, indeed, rather magical.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 15, 2009, 9:25 am
This is another photo from my pilgrimage to the Banksy Tunnel in London. It grabbed my imagination and hasn't let go. If you look closely, you can see the house I built for myself in their wings. ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 13, 2009, 2:35 pm
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 13, 2009, 11:06 am
And now words, lyrics to the song I often sing, notes passing each other with gazing recognition. One note, eyes turned skyward, hands outstretched,  was overheard saying, “What crazy world is this...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 12, 2009, 7:21 am
Finally, a Donnie Darko for tots!  Combine Donnie Darko’s apocalyptic bunny friend, preternatural phenomena and sharp commentary on contemporary society with a spoon full of sugar, and you get The ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 11, 2009, 11:05 am
I will never be able to fully explain why the images of floating sea garbage in the New York Times has so completely captured my imagination. Perhaps it's the title of the accompanying article, "A...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 10, 2009, 10:18 am
This just in from the weird department: Somewhere between the highway rest stops of a road trip, my friend and I made the strange discovery that we both separated our lives into three different levels...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 9, 2009, 11:42 am
Through the telephone, I hear our love, a winter orchid, strange and frozen, so far from my fingers.   When I speak to you, the distance suffocates and the technological longing ensue...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 8, 2009, 4:48 pm
Dear David Foster Wallace's Spirit, please lead me to your shuttered peaks of verbal lunacy, your beauti-full of madness word kingdom. Sincerely, your partner in longing.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 6, 2009, 11:10 am
The impossible happened. Patrick Süskind’s “unfilmable” novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, was adapted for the big screen (2006). This was no easy feat because scent, the book's theme...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 5, 2009, 9:54 am
One day I will find a way to write you, to make a place in words that speaks what it is  that causes you to shine as if from the beginning of light. You have entered me, brighter than the birth of...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 4, 2009, 11:36 am
Those who neither drink nor over-think won't recognize this dance. “What the bloody bleep is this windbag going on about?” they might ask.  But to the thought- and drink-heavy, these Friday n...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 3, 2009, 9:19 am
Although I often suffer from its opposite, verbal diarrhea—that most unfortunate state in which mediocre words indiscriminately pour forth--no writer is a stranger to the dreaded squeak of the br...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 2, 2009, 5:46 pm
Sometimes, when it gets to be a certain kind of dark, I get that childhood feeling that I just might disappear. 
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Nov 1, 2009, 3:35 pm
With a name like Pimpadelic, I wasn’t expecting this interweaving of  footage from an interview with comedian Katt Williams (First Sunday, Norbit, Friday After Next) and clips from one of his pe...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Oct 30, 2009, 12:35 pm
Where Are We Now? It’s no secret that recent changes in media have radically recast our world. Our lives have become data for us to slice, dice and share with other slicers and dicers. Of course, ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Oct 29, 2009, 2:04 am
Rebels Redheads Female cabbies Flying trapezes Cartoon characters come to life Cars driving themselves Trumpets and horns Freckles and moles Monocles on someone...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Oct 28, 2009, 2:48 pm
Recently I've become really interested in the concept of cultural curation, or the aggregation of floating, creative tidbits that hover all around us, on the internet and in books, films and mouth...
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