Have you met my friend Lindsay?

"We do not like to look out of the same window and see a different landscape.

We do not like to climb a stair, and find that it takes us down.

We do not like to walk out of a door, and find ourselves in the same room.

We do not like the maze in the garden, because it too closely resembles the maze in the brain.

We do not like what happens when we are awake, because it too much resembles what happens when we are asleep.

We understand the ordinary business of living,

We  know how to work the machine."

-T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion

Lindsay is pretty much my soul mate.  We went to the same middle school and high school and hated one another.  We shared many of the same high school boyfriends (one of which is now gay-probably because of us).  We look like we could be related (which added insult to injury during this period).  We became tennis partners my junior year of high school and hate turned to absolute love.  She and I are alike in so many ways.  We're both of that same "artsy chick" species that seems SO (wrongly?) elusive.  We both went to graduate school for really expensive degrees that are absolutely doing no service for us in the here an now.  We're both newly single and confused as sh*t.  We both would much rather have a used book brought to us on a first date in lieu of flowers.  We both have those periods of inner soul searching that mostly result in breathless, cold-sweat-ridden-hysteria.  But we have a knack of giving each other really solid advice (that we have a tendency not to follow ourselves).  She makes my life infinitely richer by merely existing.  

And because of all this-you should read her blog.  She is the smartest, most witty, most fall out of your chair hilarious writer I've had the chance to read.  This is her blog.  Make sure you read this one: Foucault?  Derrida?  Descartes?  Vodka.

In other Lindsay news, she will be doing a reading/performance at the upcoming starving artist group show I'm putting together for mid-October.  Details to follow.  :)