January 2004
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berlin homegirl blog #2
I’m in a cafe in the lobby of Mitte´s Backpackers listening to KRS-One shout “Queens keeps on faking it.” Not a spectacular moment, except that I’m in Berlin, and remembering when I first heard those fighting words. I was roller-skating (or trying to learn how to) with my friends Nicky and Ginger up and down the sidewalk in front of my house. We weren´t allowed yet to leave the...
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berlin homegirl-- whooo hoo!
I´m on my way to Germany to make a movie. Folks I meet along the way keep giving me cryptic messages. First there was the amazing man in my train station in the coffee stop, who said that he hasn’t missed a day of work in 29 years. When I exclaimed that that’s practically my whole life, he said, “Well, you gotta do what you love, Boobie!” He said that his doctor says that he’s his...