Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jul 28, 2011, 12:37 pm
If the whole magician thing doesn't pan out, I will become an aesthetic outlaw. If it weren't for trash cans in ladies bathrooms I might have to resort to seeking my next career move in the classifieds like other people.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jul 22, 2011, 10:57 am
Thought you should be the first to know.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jul 18, 2011, 11:22 am
Nathalie Miebach: Barometric Pressure: Herring Cove, Cape Cod  With synesthetic vigor, Nathalie Miebach transforms weather patterns into psychedelic sculptures and even musical scores. Converting astronomical, meteorological, and ecological data into colorful works of art requires gr...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jul 11, 2011, 10:10 am
Mark Simpson, English author and journalist, coined the term "metrosexual" back in 1994 to describe how the face of masculinity was changing and getting much, much prettier. His latest book, Metrosexy, brings together all his key essays and articles on the subject. In the introduction, Simpson write...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jul 5, 2011, 8:29 pm
I've written quite a bit here about how the strange visions that float in and out of the margins of our lives are really the whole shebang. In fact, that could probably be Culture Sandwich's mission statement. In the spirit of my reverence for crucial marginalia, I give you this week's wonders. ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jun 27, 2011, 11:26 am
The poems in Knocking at the Door approach a concept that slips through the fingers of the most adept theory students. As if that weren’t tricky enough, this concept, the other, takes its meaning not so much from what it is, but from what it is not, and therefore its significance is const...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jun 15, 2011, 9:19 am
Coconut water If you're quiet a second longer than feels comfortable, people will often tell you their story. Animals do not like vegetables any more than you do. When people feel the need to say very clearly that they are not doing something, they usually are. Sometimes ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jun 10, 2011, 7:19 pm
  I realize that noticing the little things is treated as just another platitude, but it's implications are powerful. This isn't about insignificance; we're talking about something that appears to be inconsequential, but that actually pushes the button that makes things matter to you....
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Jun 7, 2011, 8:23 am
People eating cupcakes Cupcakes eating people Clowns who recite poetry Poets who dress as clowns Interviews with hipsters about their bicycling habits Interviews with bicycles about their hipster habits
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 31, 2011, 6:00 am
I've been using a Memorial Day weekend visit with my parents to catch up on books and movies that I've missed along the way. This means staying up late reading, and then pulling my puzzled parents out of bed early to watch Love in the Afternoon. It's rare to make it through a discuss...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 27, 2011, 12:28 pm
While it won't be everyone's cup of tea, written by fellow members of the Groundlings comedy group, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig (of Saturday Night Live), Bridesmaids does provide a rare glimpse of women being raucously funny onscreen. Please note, I am not referring to the not humorous at ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 24, 2011, 4:58 pm
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London I see secret codes everywhere, slices of intelligence pouring from unknowing mouths, only to swirl pleasurably in translation, puffing softly against my deciphering places. Each day brings a new rapture, encoded logic, cuts of mind meat that abstai...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 20, 2011, 3:13 pm
Photo Credit: Olek When we think graffiti, we don’t usually think of our mothers and grandmothers, yet older women are taking to the streets, finding signs and statues, and tagging them…with yarn. This “grandma graffiti,” or “yarn bombing,” is an international DIY craft/street art...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 16, 2011, 2:40 pm
Exhibit A I have a neato little trick I want to share with you. As I have previously documented, I am intrigued by garbage. This doesn't mean that I am a fan of the amalgam of hell items that juice from trash bags at night; this means that I can look at what someone discards and tell you who...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 11, 2011, 10:39 am
I'll be reading poetry at KGB Bar tonight at 7. See all you blog types there!
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 10, 2011, 4:25 pm
As I was going around the city taking my pictures, it occurred to me that I see so many tributes to the kind of religions that can be celebrated publicly; but what about our private religions, those lights that secretly guide us? When pondering my own inner lights, the old standards—...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 6, 2011, 9:50 am
The complications in Umberto Eco’s Confessions of a Young Novelist begin with the title. In his writings Eco often employs “double coding,” a term thought up by architectural theorist Charles Jencks to describe the ability of a work of art to contain at least two meanings simultaneously...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - May 3, 2011, 12:49 pm
  I took this photo at The Bowery Poetry Club, one of the most spirited poetry venues in New York. I took it because I had to take it. How often does such a perfect shot present itself to me? It was everything I like in photos and life--surreal, haunting, and in praise of creativity. ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 25, 2011, 10:54 am
Wonderfully Awkward   1. When an androgynous person in the public restroom makes you wonder if you've chosen the wrong door. 2. When you're trying to pass someone on the street, but it looks like you're dancing. 3. When you become the target of a voluble pick-up artist o...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 18, 2011, 10:49 am
As an urban child, being in a car was a bewitching experience. I would squint my eyes so that the car lights around our zooming contraption morphed from mechanics to magic, the headlights resembling the numinous entities I knew them to be. The following scenes that I captured with my camera didn't e...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 15, 2011, 1:43 pm
Photo I took of a work by Laurina Paperina at Volta If you feel like your creative life is a song you just want to keep turning up, you have come to the right place. Welcome. I admire and pity you because I understand. You’ll get through it. And when you don’t, you’ll write about it. I�...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 13, 2011, 3:32 pm
This is the stoop sale that alerted me to the fact that I had died and gone to heaven. Yes, you are seeing correctly. That black pig is making nice with that blue one. What you can't see is me, off-camera, alternating between looking quizzical and crying with laughter.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 11, 2011, 11:37 am
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London I ate the wind, just took the air in my mouth and chewed. I could smell my own breath as I ate—cloves, cows, and honey. At night, I told myself bedtime stories about the woman I would become, someone who could eat still more wind. Do you know I still ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 8, 2011, 12:39 pm
Sometimes I think there's another self that breaks free and no longer needs us to live, that we only find out about later by googling ourselves.  
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 4, 2011, 1:07 pm
  Who can explain why certain images--in this case a wee shoe near smoked cigarettes and what appears to have once been a straw--hole up in our heads and refuse to leave? Maybe it was the scant sleep I had achieved the night before, but this morning the shoe seemed like some strange m...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Apr 1, 2011, 8:37 am
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London Dear reader, I want to thank you for making me be. Before you, I was just a series of letters. I didn’t meet you at a bar, but here in this poem, through the haze of typed verse, something other in us grazed. We dwelled in stanzas. You were chan...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 30, 2011, 11:11 am

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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 28, 2011, 10:43 am
1) Sweatpants 2) Cats 3) Glazed-eyed wall staring 4) Goofball behaviors 5) Funny faces without an audience 6) Long conversations with yourself, often about the importance of stopping these long conversations with yourself 7) Brief bouts of solipsism &...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 18, 2011, 11:18 am

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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 16, 2011, 12:42 pm
Which way should Alanis Morissette's line from "Hand in My Pocket" have ended?   I've got one hand in my pocket. And the other hand is:   a) petting a caterpillar b) eating disco fries c) trimming a man's pony tail d) ordering from the Home S...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 14, 2011, 11:28 am
And, yes, I take photographs while doing my business.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 9, 2011, 11:53 am
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London For poetry my fingers storm computer keys, rush the next neural connection, my fire lived within. While I doze, the poem children work, I wake to a house of exploded lyrics. All morning they rise. I go about my day pretending I am something more ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 7, 2011, 11:32 am

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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 4, 2011, 2:00 pm
During my often exceedingly awkward daily commute, I've been thinking about eye contact. I understand that people don't want to attract attention or danger, but is it really worth living our lives with eyes averted?  I guess this not overdoing it looking-wise makes it all the more siz...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Mar 2, 2011, 4:11 am
  This cat belongs to a one-time professor of mine. I am not sure that I have ever seen such a face in all my life. And then there's the hat. The face. And the hat.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 28, 2011, 1:38 pm
  As I was putzing around at the border between writing poetry and writing fiction, I discovered a collection of short stories, Mitch Levenberg’s Principles of Uncertainty and Other Constants, which made me determined to cross the line. Levenberg has a special gift for describing th...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 25, 2011, 9:21 pm
A doodle brought to you by Franz Kafka Here at Culture Sandwich I have made no secret of my obsession with doodles, sketches, and scrawls. I have also not been too shy about my love of words, letters, and even whole sentences. So imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon a truly impre...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 23, 2011, 10:38 am
There's no better form of double voyeurism on a Wednesday morning than spying on a woman spying on the New York City skyscape.
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 21, 2011, 4:10 pm
1. Modern Dance 2. Deep-fried Twinkies 3. Country music 4. Ironic moustaches 5. Overly intellectual conversations 6. Suspenders 7. Casseroles 8. Joke tellers 9. Vincent Gallo movies 10. The American dream 11. Meatloaf ...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 18, 2011, 5:33 pm
Photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London The poetry teacher asked us how we would like to die. She meant it as an exercise in absurdity, but I started thinking seriously about afterworld real estate, the car I'd like to drive out in. First, I had to figure out how I would want to go. I dec...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 16, 2011, 1:18 pm
1. Libraries like Jay Walker's: Photo by Andrew Moore Wired's Steven Levy was lucky enough to land on Geektopia, or rather Jay Walker's (founder of Priceline) library of wonders. Walker has collected a striking hodgepodge of relics from the history of deeds and ideas. Interested in th...
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Caroline Hagood posted an article on Culture Sandwich - Feb 14, 2011, 11:21 am
Manhattan Lesson Number One: Wait If you wait beneath a city wall long enough, eventually a ladder of industrial beauty will pop out. When it does, you must climb it, even if it leaves you partway up a brick wall. It's not until you're up there that you realize you can see the w...
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