“They’re so proper,” Chen Reichert says. “They were just asking for it.” Reichert is speaking, of all things, about postcards. After a year of teaching English in Japan, Reichert came back to the States in 2006 with a tall stack of them, which she started defacing for fun. Into each street scene or forest or […]
Tag Archives: Jonathan McNicol
Let’s Talk
I went into the Architecture in Dialogue exhibit at Yale’s Beinecke Library, which runs through this Friday, December 14, expecting to think about buildings and bridges and feats of engineering while browsing drawings and schematics. Renderings in blue pencil with many notations in all-caps lettering might answer questions of tensile strength and fireproofing. Not so […]
Roll Players
You probably have a picture of roller derby in your head that feels very 1970s: a bunch of tough gals with campy, sexually suggestive pseudonyms skating in a sloped circle on tiny tires, slamming each other into walls; a scripted sport in the vein of professional wrestling, more entertainment than competition. At CT RollerGirls, parts […]
Knows the Type
It’s a long, slender office on the second floor, above and behind Ashley’s Ice Cream on York Street—the sort of place where you’d expect to find a personal injury lawyer, maybe, or the accounting department for a dental hygienist across the hall. In this particular office at 282 York #201, though, what you’ll find instead […]
Touch and Go
Costumes, games, puzzles, puppets, playhouses. Bugs, drums, wheel barrows, Lincoln Logs, a maze. Toy planes and trains and trucks and cars, toy toolboxes, a toy piano. And stuffed animals. Oh, the stuffed animals. Elephants, giraffes, mice, frogs, monkeys. Bears and bees and butterflies and birds and bunnies. That’s the stuff of a child’s dreams, and […]
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