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Venus Coffee, VA, 1990 |
When I was attending St. John's I worked at Venus. It was a coffee shop, what more do you need to know? It was the early 90s so we often played the Cure and Violent Femme on the cafe's stereo. |
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St. Johns College, 1990-1991. At St. Johns I studied the proscribed liberal arts curriculum, became lost in Plato and found truth in the shadows.
Harvard College, 1993-1995. At Harvard I became interested in biology and radical identity politics. Wilson and West filled my thoughts, "do-me" feminism channeled them. I was fascinated by sexual self-perception ("the Beauty Myth"), evolutionary sexual theory ("Coolidge Effect"), memes (Dawkins), and media (Flynnt). My senior thesis was on unintended cultural fetishes resulting from controls on mass media. That which is denied is desired. The thesis was entitled "Anti-Obscenity Laws and their Affect on Signaling Sexual Receptiveness in Media." Evidence towards the thesis included the fetishization of panties and shaved pudenda (some obscenity regulation prohibited the display "pubic hair") and tentacles in Hentai (some regulations prohibit the display of penile intercourse).
Cooper Union, 1994-1996. Industrial design, media design, and typography.
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Venus Coffee, VA, 1990 |
When I was attending St. John's I worked at Venus. It was a coffee shop, what more do you need to know? It was the early 90s so we often played the Cure and Violent Femme on the cafe's stereo. |
Strand, NYC. 1994-1996 |
I love NYC and Strand. At Strand I shelved books, processed orders, and rang up customers. For a brief period I also worked at a Borders. But I soon returned to Strand, a 50 coverless StarTrek books the richer. (If you can't move a cheap softback in retail, they rip of the covers and send them back for reimbursement, the book ain't worth the shipping costs). |
Central Sq. Hardware, Cambridge. 1993 |
Do you need a bolt, u-bolt, hook bolt, fastener, linkage; or perhaps a washer, grommet, bushing, or stamping? Tools rule. I specialized in screws. For some reason, hardware stores in Cambridge tend to be populated by skins and punks. |
Newberry Comics, Boston, 1994. |
Sales Associate and then Asst. Manager. I got lots of free cut-outs, I would have had to make 35K a year to collect a similar amount of disks. Manic Panic at discount prices too! |
y!kes™, Web Design Intern, Cyberspace, 1996-. |
I did a number of projects at y!kes, including a dominatrix resource site for a leather community center in SF. |
I live with my ex-high-school sweet heart; somehow, after many years we both ended up in Cambridge. Our his and her mowhawks of yesteryear have dimmed and fallen, but the beat is still strong. On the weekends, I often work in the co-operative veggie patch and protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet. I'm trying to save enough money to open my own used book store.
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