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

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Posts from October 2008

Union Square Greenmarket, October 24

I’m endorsing Obama endorsing arugula.


Product Placement

My friend Anna, who works in the record industry, told me recently that hard economic times are traditionally thought to be good for record labels, because during recessions when people can’t buy large items, they indulge more in small ones, like records and CDs. Maybe, then, I will start a regular series about tiny acts [...]


Cute Overload Gone Wild

New blog alert: The indomitable Andrew Bleiman of ScienceBlogs’ own Zooilogix, aka the wittiest wildlife blog of all timez, has started a diabolical new project. It’s a blog called ZooBorns, featuring reader-submitted pictures of the cutest exotic baby animals from zoos and aquariums around the world (check the baby stingrays, which are born live and [...]


Aspirational Sleeping

My sister just told me that she aims to get nine and a half hours of sleep every night. She’s my new hero. Image: Riot Jane, from her 365 Days of Self-Discovery set.


Do Brits Blog Better?

I am reading a number of British blogs these past few days for a project, and it’s led me to formulate a question for further inquiry: do Brits, on the whole, write better than Americans? Early research seems to point to Yes. Is it true, or just a matter of regional styles? If it is [...]


Catch of the Day

Just last week, I was washing dishes or something and thinking to myself it’s funny that light verse is dead. Turns out I thought too soon: The Digital Cuttlefish doles out social commentary in charming rhyme. I’m surprised I didn’t know about it already, considering how well-linked the blogging cephalopod is with the ScienceBlogs crew. [...]


Mug Woman, Mug Man

This morning, something happened to me that was straight out of a kicky ’90s music video. Picture if you will: A brilliant fall morning. The young lady emerges from the door to her building, in her fall jacket, laptop bag clapping against one thigh, teacher-bag clapping against the other, and in her hands she’s balancing [...]


Enjoyed This Over Breakfast Yesterday:

“Late Bloomers,” by Malcom Gladwell, in the current New Yorker. It’s about creative process, contrasting precocious wunderkind geniuses (like Picasso) with late-blooming masters of craft (like Cézanne). Gladwell describes these as two distinct types, but I have a feeling that the reality may be more of a continuum—a great Kinsey Scale of creativity. Definitely a [...]


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