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What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you in New York?

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What are you?: Ex-New Yorker

What is your relationship to New York?: I moved to NYC in the fall of 1999. After a year in Astoria, I moved to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and stayed for 8 years, turning my experience into a play called "There Goes the Neighborhood."

In March 2008, I left "for a month" to clear my head. After a year-long nomadic journey that included stints in South Carolina and New Orleans, I fell in love with and in Boulder, CO.

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I founded this site with my dear friend Anna as a way to process my experience of leaving New York. Read more about our project, and how we came to collaborate, here.

I make my living as a freelance writer and editor, have a theater collective called Word on the Street Productions, and will drop anything for a glass of red wine.

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Friday Night = Wig Shopping

My last two Friday nights have begun the same way--with a trip with my fiance to The Ritz costume shop to pick up a wig for a costume party. Two weeks ago, he found a Mick Jagger wig and I found an Edie Sedgwick-or-just-mod-girl one for an Andy Warhol Factory Party I threw with my friends to celebrate our shared birthdays. (We covered an entire room in silver mylar, another in aluminum foil, set up a "Screen Test" area, and had a live video feed between the various rooms. Epic.) This past… Continue

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 2:38am — 2 Comments

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At 11:40am on August 24, 2009, Kate said…: Hi Mari--thanks for reminding me to take off the "Test User" mask :) I'm a Brooklynite feeling a deep itch to leave the city after nearly 10 years here... oh, but where to go? New Orleans is on my list of possibilities--how long were you there? Why did you go?

At 12:21pm on August 24, 2009, Niki Eways said…: South Boulder! Too busy to write at the moment, just launched a flea market on the Hill yesterday - thehillflea.com
anyway, would love to connect at some point!

At 12:46pm on August 24, 2009, Emma Angevine said…: I think of Brooklyn as home, not Manhattan. When people come to visit it is Brooklyn I want to show off. I will always think fondly of the time here, I just know it won't be forever.

At 1:23pm on August 24, 2009, Georgina Acevedo said…: Hey my dear, what I like most of NYC is the diversity, I can walk one block and I can will see so many different faces... so many different restaurants.
The least thing that I like is that I feel that everyone is in a rush, I see many careless faces, everyone is in their own world, the subways (transit) is bad, I hate it! and if you do not have a good job forget about moving to NYC, the rent is ridiculous high, no control! all your money goes into paying bills & rent!

It is like living in between two different worlds, a place I love and a place that sometimes I hate! walking to work everyday, I wonder "Is it time", I wonder" Hey "Que sera, sera", Life is just a dream!

At 3:35pm on August 24, 2009, BRYAN! said…: Have you ever been to a real movie theatre in LA? New York's theaters are old, they smell, they're dank, the sound is fucking shit, they're dirty. In LA a movie theater is a sensory event, not a place that looks like some homeless man is going to be jerking off next to you.

Of course, everything in New York pretty much smells.

At 4:07pm on August 24, 2009, Adit Nathan said…: No, we haven't talked about it. But I'll be thinking about what to write.

At 4:34pm on August 24, 2009, BRYAN! said…: no. It's just... clean. And beautiful, and ornate, and grand, and filled with people who applaud and cheer and boo, and leather seats that recline, and gourmet treats, and reserved seating so you don't wait in line. Sometimes old hollywoodness, sometimes new amazingness. Grand sweeping ceilings, and full bars, and old photographs of ghosts, and hands and feet, and FUCK New York.

At 7:24pm on August 24, 2009, BRYAN! said…: I just mean big photos of old premieres at the Dome or the Chinese or the Village...and walking out of a movie onto the hands and feet of old stars at the Chinese. I was just ramping up to say "Fuck New York"

At 8:56pm on August 24, 2009, Joanna Mandell said…: i am red for now....just wait....hiding for now....xxoo

At 9:38pm on August 24, 2009, Alexis Croucher said…: i think we were at the same wedding last week. it occurred to me as i was driving home that perhaps you were the mari i watched execute a very lovely interpretive dance set to uncle rocco's poem. is it true? can you either confirm or deny this? are you now or have you ever been a member of the scott-flaherty/itken wedding party?