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July 13, 2009
Bernard Julian, Aspiring Musician/Retail Employee

“I was always told that because I was born in the nineties, I couldn’t appreciate Michael Jackson—but I really did! I bought all I could, and I tried dancing like him for a while. I was horrible.”

June 15, 2009
Les Burns, Retired Teacher

“I’ve written about 3,000 pages, so either it’s more than one book or it needs a lot of editing. I’m in a race with Proust.”

June 1, 2009
Bill Thompson, Photographer, and Lucy

“My daughter tells me, ‘She’s not my sister, she’s a bird.’ But I think in fact there’s jealousy there.”

June 8, 2009
Waiting for Pablo

A cross section of the crowd outside the immensely popular Gagosian show.

May 25, 2009
Carol LoPresto, Painter

“I’m an extreme bohemian. I barter for room and board with my roommate.”

May 18, 2009
Robert Fougère, Ph.D. Student

“It’s kind of like a classical look, harking back to the seventies, when men were allowed to have hair on their face and bodies.”

May 11, 2009
Misfit Dior (a.k.a. Laeticia Harrison-Roberts), Rapper

“I’ve been taking vocal lessons to get more into pop—I’m a way better singer than I thought I was going to be.”

May 4, 2009
Martin Cohn, Student-Model

“If I get in a cab, they’ll say, ‘Where to, ma’am?’ or ‘Hi, lady’—stuff like that. At first it was kind of annoying, but you get used to it and laugh.”

April 27, 2009
Maiko Hadden, Mother, and Issa, 5 Months Old

“There’s a site called Mixi with 190 Japanese parents from Brooklyn. We meet in the basement of the public library and sing Japanese songs.”

April 20, 2009
Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Dancer/Salesman

“My girlfriend was like, ‘Fashion’s always going to be here, but you have eight prime years as a dancer, so you’d better use them.’ ”

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