| August 6, 2001 | Nostalgia for the Present |
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It's been a while since I've been here (and I suppose "right here, right now" used to exist over there over a year ago). I was going to create yet another new place to put immediate stray thoughts, but then I realized that I already had a container for immediate stray thoughts that had been abandoned almost a year-and-a-half ago. And the container wasn't too shabby either. And it's name is ever-appropriate for me. "Nostalgia for the Present" was what I called the weekly pop culture column I wrote for my college newspaper. Since I'm already doing some kind of electronic recycling by revitalizing this section on my site, I decided to dig a bit deeper and unearth some (fairly dated and embarassing) pieces I wrote for Vassar's Miscellany News back in 1995 and 1996 which no one has ever seen before (because I have purposely kept them off of my website). Pieces like Countdown to the Void, Thirteen Things to Do When You're Wired at Vassar, and then my oddball exit from the column when I became Editor-in-chief of the paper. There are letters to the editor like this one inspired by this column of mine and this odd one inspired by my presence (or lack thereof). It freaks me out that that stuff is still out there floating around. Labels: journalism, nostalgia, vassar, writing posted by Jess Barron @ 12:22 PM 
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