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Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.

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Posts from July 2008

On Blogging

As I was just telling Meg, I now have Google Analytics installed. So I can track this blog’s meteoric surge in popularity, of course.


Zuboff on ‘the Frozen Economy’

I’m digging Shoshana Zuboff’s column in Business Week (actually, to my surprise, I’m finding a lot of swell stuff to read in Business Week) about observing the economic panic of her neighbors in Maine. She invokes the Great Depression and dramatically, but also bravely, she proposes opening our conversation about the economy way, way up: [...]


Posted
25 July 2008 @ 10am

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Travel

Honduras Bound

In less than three days, I am leaving for a week in Honduras. I’m going to Copan RuĂ­nas, a small town near the border of Guatemala and El Salvador. It’s renowned for its Mayan ruins and its international backpackers. I figure if it’s too expensive to go to Europe, I might as well go to [...]


No Parking

Another Greenpoint sign. On a construction site at Driggs and McGuinness Blvd.


The Lover: Favorite Passage

"…I never fall asleep right away despite the new fatigues in my life. I think about the man from Cholon. He’s probably in a nightclub somewhere near the Fountain with his driver, they’ll be drinking in silence, they drink arrack when they’re on their own. Or else he’s gone home, he’s fallen asleep with the [...]


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