Category Archives: Place

Encounters With Ex-Boyfriends

27th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
Meg and I were talking in the car today about meeting ex-boyfriends. We were talking about how unexpected meetings with ex-boyfriends become ways to measure oneself against the passing of time and against former selves, the ones we embodied when we were with _____ . Ways of seeing how much the person we remember [...]
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Heat Lightening, Ohio

18th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
Heat Lightening – Ohio from Sarah Menkedick on Vimeo. The other night my dad rustled me up from reading The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao to come look at the heat lightening. We plodded up the wooden staircase to the deck, and the sky was being suddenly, erratically illuminated with violet flashes that etched out [...]
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Adios, México

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
The day I left Mexico it was raining. The morning was a blue the color of the second layer of sea, the layer underneath the clear turquoise where the water becomes soft and quiet and absorbing and the blue comes in deep, subtly varying layers. There was a luminous, gleaming blue woven into [...]
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The Difference between San Cristóbal and Oaxaca

4th
Jun. × ’10
By Sarah
For two cities who share so many of the same elements – indigenous people in the streets, selling embroidered blouses and friendship bracelets; an impervious and snottily racist upper-middle class in overly tight clothes and too much makeup; tourism of the quaint-colonial-Mexico type and the revolutionary-Thai-fisherman-pant type – San Cristobal de las Casas and Oaxaca [...]
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