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Archive for August, 2009

August 9th, 2009 by the jodi

cookie monster

I went on an audition this week, a casting call on craigslist for a print ad for cookies. I’m pretty crazy about cookies, so in the spirit of this whole reinvention thing, I took the bait. I sat in a cramped anteroom for twenty minutes as a handful of people went in but oddly, no [...]

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August 7th, 2009 by the jodi

another little piece o’ my heart

I got a chance to read some of the dirtygirl story in public last night at the inaugural of the new reading series, Sex Worker Literati. It was packed. People were sitting on the floor. A dozen or so had showed up for me personally (I sent out two hundred invitations. I’m going to pretend [...]

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August 2nd, 2009 by the jodi

help me, I’m moulting….

July is my month. I celebrate both a birthday & an anniversary of what I hope will always be the day of my last drink, my last drug. This year, the birthday was number 53 and the anniversary was number 19. Considerably more than anyone who knew me when I was drinking could imagine and [...]

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