9/11
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There’s a curious lyric right after the famous opening lines of the Talking Heads song, “Once In A Lifetime.” Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down… It’s curious because when you think of “letting the days go by,” you think of “going with the flow,” you think of “floating.” This lyric
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http://www.youtube.com/v/pZPNQK3k8Yo&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> I grew up among a handful of Chinese families in Hollis, Queens. I have been mugged three times in my neighborhood. When I was 12, two or three kids around my age tackled me off my bike, kicked me, told me: “This is our neighborhood! Go back to China you Fuckin’ Chink!” They
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Simultaneously posted at Rice Daddies. It rained heavily the night before the Tuesday the planes hit the World Trade Center towers. My wife and I got into a huge argument. I don’t remember exactly what we argued about. Only that we had argued about it before and that the absurdity of the argument was that
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At the beginning of the month, I was lucky enough to participate in a workshop at the New York Historical Society (NYHS) on teaching about 9/11 called, Collections and Recollections. It was facilitated by Jon Fein, who has just finished a documentary called Objects and Memory. It follows NYHS staff through the collection and cataloging
Vincent Young 