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Sara G.

Institutional efficiency is very hard to get people excited about.

About Me

My hair is the shortest it's ever been and conversely, bigger than ever.

My Interests

movies, startling journalism, advocacy, lounging, bringing back rollerskating, punching my weight, microcredit, external validation, productive raging, mustaches, Caravaggio, bacon, sugar, Thai curry, to-do lists, Art Nouveau, emptiness, form, armadillos, Mandarin Chinese, fly-ness, vigilantism, phone etiquette, yoga, daylight, knitting, quadriceps.

I'd like to meet:

Unlikely lovers. Icebreakers. Snake charmers. Good dancers. The people I'm gladdest I've met I generally never saw coming.

Music:

Absorbing the Black Keys, Donald Byrd, Modey Lemon, and Fela Kuti these days

Movies:

My Neighbor Totoro, Tootsie, The Burmese Harp

Television:

Dexter

Books:

The Killer Inside Me; The Shock Doctrine; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Heroes:

Dancin fools.

My Blog

Notes from the secret bunker

I am beginning to think Sunday is the undeserving beneficiary of our religious traditions' associations with it as a day of rest, contemplation, and renewal. Every Sunday I come in to work t...
Posted by Sara G. on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:06:00 PST

Holy shit

Network is a good movie. Is it sacrilege to say it compares with Taxi Driver in its especially-70's mode of devastation, its use of subtly-mounting character and story arcs and unrepentant speechifyin...
Posted by Sara G. on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:13:00 PST

blah blah blah Juno blah blah blah

Juno - The dialogue took a minute to get used to, but then I got in to the flow of it. At several points where it could have gotten too cliched and gone over to the side of being a family values ...
Posted by Sara G. on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:57:00 PST

Things I liked better before they were remodeled:

The Squirrel Hill Library: Its interior used to say "It's all about THE BOOKS." Now it's a disco with a book theme. And it is NOT the Squirrel Hill Library of my childhood, which I recall as being sub...
Posted by Sara G. on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:17:00 PST

The truth and lies

Truth is a word denoting a concept and a phenomenon of a grand scale, for which we offer many examples. Truth hurts. It gets a singular verb. Lies don't get a concept. Lies are just a bunch ...
Posted by Sara G. on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:08:00 PST

Sadly, this didnt occur to me immediately as I read this

Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image...but does that mean that The Gap, the consumers and protestors for whom their child-labor-free policy is sufficient, the writers of this ...
Posted by Sara G. on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:14:00 PST

Instances in which movies have prefigured my secret fantasies!

What is it with the French and their appreciation for the potential for hipness of chicks crossing streets in traffic and the deftness with which they plum it? Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Ga...
Posted by Sara G. on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:27:00 PST

now we bloggin!

Fuck Monday, Friday is the most existentially painful day of the week. Forget the dread of another week in the ratrace - I'm so well-suited to my work anyways that I didn't find it, it went and f...
Posted by Sara G. on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:31:00 PST

Gross boys, cute dogs

Creepy guys should not have cute dogs, because if you want to play with the dog, you must also entertain to some extent its creepy owner.
Posted by Sara G. on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:25:00 PST

Alice Coltrane lives!

The fact that she is not a giant with her husband and contemporaries is proof that we live in an unjust world. But some of her music reminds me of where we are fighting to get when we fight for a more...
Posted by Sara G. on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:05:00 PST