Author Archives: Jeremy Denk

Looking for Work?

WANTED: S. Richter lookalike to work as an extraReply to: gigs-278167412@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-02-13, 1:56PM EST Seeking someone who resembles late, world renowned pianist Sviatolsav [sic] Richter in ‘late’ phase of his life to work for two hours as an extra in a visual art project. There is no special talent needed, just the looks. IN ORDER […]

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Anna

Perhaps many of you out there will not agree with me, or will think I am making light of a tragedy (I am not, this is a terribly sad story which we will never really know), but I think this New York Times obituary is a masterpiece. There are so many ambiguous subtexted paragraphs in […]

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Weathered

Let us plumb boredom’s depths and further discuss the weather. I mean, really. Yesterday, in my ongoing quest for what I don’t want to know, I hit up the Accuweather site, and was confronted by a giant, ominous curving blue arrow directed precisely at my geographical location. Labelling letters read: “BRUTAL COLD.” I particularly enjoyed, […]

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Touring

I awake in an exit row with the syrupy scent of deicing fluid coating the warm waffle of my mind. I awoke–earlier–to the rushing Iowa winter breezes singing plaintively over the hotel parking lot. The hotel clerk advised me to bake my own waffle (literally, not metaphorically) in the lobby before heading out for the […]

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