The Sprawl: Archive

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Jan 1st

bukowskiarmwrestle asked: Oh you're certainly welcome. I actually want to serve in the PC myself to teach English after I get my B.A. Is it worth it? I've been trying to connect with someone who had actually gone so I could ask them some things

Dec 31st

bukowskiarmwrestle asked: Oh you're certainly welcome. I actually want to serve in the PC myself to teach English after I get my B.A. Is it worth it? I've been trying to connect with someone who had actually gone so I could ask them some things

Dec 30th

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pari: cosmopaulitan: A short film shot in Astoria, Queens during the blizzard is getting high praise from Roger Ebert, who says it deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. I’m not ready for this! I want sunny Florida weather forever! This makes me want to bury myself under a mound of blankets.

Dec 30th

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"So this is the new year and I don't feel any...

I guess I can’t really get away with that headline. Not after this year. Yet, here I sit in my room, in my bed, back home… and I really don’t feel much different. Was I really away for 2 years? Was I really in Ghana? Did that just happen? So this is the new year And I have no resolutions For self assigned penance For problems with easy solutions I know that with 2011...

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Here’s an idea of what I’m going through lately.

Dec 27th

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Here’s an idea of what I’m going through lately.

Dec 27th

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Here’s an idea of what I’m going through lately.

Dec 27th

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“I’ve officially written the Governor of New Jersey to have my town’s...”

– A reader’s comment from this online article about our blizzard

Dec 27th

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Dec 26th

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An "Oops I'm in America" Moment

Me: The directions say to use warm water. So should I heat it up? In the microwave?
Jeanine and Lauren: *blank stares*
Jeanine: You know, tap water does come out warm too.

Dec 25th

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Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

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Living in the Sprawl

Here I am. Back in America. After spending a little over two years in Ghana as a Peace Corps volunteer, I’ve returned. Near the end of my service a new Arcade Fire album came out and had a pretty profound effect on me. It wasn’t often that I was exposed to new music while living in West Africa, and it certainly wasn’t the case that it summed up life -at least as I know it- so...

Dec 23rd

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“Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small That we can never get away...”

– The Arcade Fire- Sprawl II (Mountains beyond Mountains)

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd