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Florida, Massachusetts

Last week’s Collected Agenda is on Mars , along with a What You Should do for the whole month of December, and some notes from Noah Kumin on prestige vs popularity and the media inflection point. This may become a monthly column, so stay tuned <3 Florida, Massachusetts WHAT I DID Before I go to Massachusetts, I go to the ExPat Press Party, I go to Holy Cow for fries and grilled chicken, I go home and David makes me p

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Last week’s Collected Agenda is on Mars , along with a What You Should do for the whole month of December, and some notes from Noah Kumin on prestige vs popularity and the media inflection point. This may become a monthly column, so stay tuned <3 Florida, Massachusetts WHAT I DID Before I go to Massachusetts, I go to the ExPat Press Party, I go to Holy Cow for fries and grilled chicken, I go home and David makes me pistachio pudding, I wake up, I go on the roof. The roof is all torn up on account of the rain. The railings were lined with little pine trees when we moved in, but the trees have died and we ripped up all the paneling to fix a leak. Now, it’s all potholes and fallen brown branches. I’m doing yard work at the top of Manhattan. I can’t imagine how I’ll ever get the trees back down. Other things: I think I might be thinking about myself too much. At the gym again. In earnest writing things like OUT OF YOUR HEAD INTO YOUR BODY again. What if something drastic happened? I hope it doesn’t. Before I go away for Thanksgiving, I go to dinner at Decibel with Madelyn. We go to Pardon My French for a martini. We go to KGB . I go to the Lower East Side, I go to a going away party, I go to the bodega, I go home. At a party in the Lower East Side, a girl is talking about censorship, the age of censorship, how liberated she feels by the passing of This Terrible Era. “So what do you want to say?” Her friend is asking. “What?” the girl says. “What were you waiting to be free to say?” The girl rolls her eyes. “It’s the principle” “Yes,” her friend is saying. “The principle is important, but you can be free to do whatever you want and still be entirely uninteresting.” At a party in the Lower East Side, people are talking about The Internet. “Everything you say is regurgitated from The Internet,” the girl is telling her friend. Before I leave New York for only a few days, I go to Franz Kafka at The Morgan Library . It’s not a very nice exhibition. They’ve put pop up walls and bright colors and crowded superfluous exhibition text all over the whole place. I write a review, but then I think it’s kind of snarky. It’s ok to be mean, but it’s not ok to be cheap. “Why are you afraid of being mean,” someone asked me a few weeks ago. “Because I don’t want to say things that hurt people close to me,” I said in response. What I should have said is - because what if I’m mean for nothing? What if I’m mean and I’m wrong and it’s cheap. I get a martini at Moynihan Station. David cuts the Amtrak line. “What are they going to do?” he says. This infuriates a woman near us. Afterwards, I think I see this woman everywhere. She’s sitting next to me at The Tunnel Cafe . I book a dermatology appointment for when I’m back in New York City. Select any provider, I say. I receive my confirmation email shortly after and I swear to god - the doctor they assigned me is the woman from the train. I cancel the appointment quickly. If this is fate, then it stems from nothing good. God‘s hand has nothing to do with it. Someone is simply playing tricks. the Amtrak Some things that happen in Massachusetts are: I behave very badly. I can’t find my keys. It’s raining. I can’t go outside. I’m in an airbnb where I have never been before and It’s so cold and these walls are gray, nothing like home, a lot like the kind of walls that one could imagine closing in. I start shaking by the window and I think about how I could probably be someone who does something like punch a hole through the glass. I wouldn’t do this, but it’s strange to feel capable of it. I think about how I should probably just go outside. It’s objectively strange to spiral. I never crash out. I don’t know why gray wall to wall carpeting and people talking too loudly and vicinity to an unknown suburban street freaks me out so much. I wish I could scream at the sky and the rain would stop just like that. I calm down. I don’t actually wish I could control the weather. That would be no kind of a life. I go to a hotel I can’t afford and I try to break into their gym to use the treadmill. I can’t get into the gym, but no one stops me in the lobby. I drink their lemon water. I drink almost the whole pitcher. I call my dad and I say can you please come pick me up now. In a different house, a house that is familiar, a house that I have always known - I sit by the fire, I sit by big glass windows, I watch Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), I drive to the snow. “I’m driving to Florida to drive to the snow,” I say. Welcome to Florida, Massachusetts the sign on turnpike says. It’s a white sign flanked by plaster palm trees. A little snowman with yellow hands and feet throws his hands in the air. Troop 76 Pack 76, the sign says. It’s a blizzard up the turnpike. It’s snowing in thick wet sheets. It’s the type of snow that’s fast and heavy, almost like rain but it’s opaque and it’s sticking. Everyone gets out of the car but me. I’m too cold, I say. My sister is throwing snowballs. I get out of the car too. We drive down the mountain. My dad plays Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. We play all twenty-five minutes of it and then we play it again. We pick up David. Do you want to hear Alice’s Restaurant?, I ask him. Alice’s Restaurant , Album Cover Things are nice, from here. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tuesday, December 3 - From 5:30 - 7:30pm at Il Bisonte — Yolo Journal celebrates the new Fall/Winter issue. I love few things more than a beautiful travel journal (something that has become few and far between). Yolo Journal, however, fits this bill to exaction. Wine provided by Franciacorta . RSVP to ilbisonte@novellapagherapr.com - From 7pm at Sovereign House — One Man Army hosts Vol 6 of Anthology Film Festival Paradise Shredition - From 10pm - late — Baguette Tuesday is back at Paul’s Casablanca - a new party series launched by Vaquera and Chloe Sevigny. Wednesday, December 4 - From 7:30pm at El Nico @ The Penny — Polyester Zine and Mixed Feelings hosts The Magical Girl Mixer . Come for a free copy of the new edition of Polyester, free cocktails, a costume contest, and more - From 10pm - late — Let’s see if I finally actually make it to Jean’s . Electric Pussycat is back for another unhinged night. DJ: Bea Hardy Thursday, December 5

  • From 7pm at Old Flings — Catie Fronczak holds Probably The Last Ever Words At Flings , featuring readings by Peter Vack , Leg5 , Page Garcia , and others. - From 7pm at Berry Park — Limousine hosts the Naughty or Nice reading, featuring Eliza Mclamb , Delia Cai , and others. This is a reading for modern day neurotics - submit your moral conundrums in advance, and the readers will filter your behavior into two essential categories: naughty or nice. - From 8pm - 9:30 at Molasses Books — Clocked Out Magazine has rescheduled the issue launch; Election Edition. Katherine Williams, Matthew Donovan, Liam Powers, Zoe Laris-Djokovic, and Fiona Miller will be reading selections from the mag. Free drinks will be served. Friday, December 6 - From 6pm - 8pm — Parent Company celebrates the opening of Emily Janovick: Wet Blanket – exploring communality and connection as it pertains to grief, healing, love, and care. - From 11pm - late at Grotta Azzurra — Cooper B Handy hosts a release show party with Test Subjects , Chanel Beads (dj), DJ Manny , Goner , and more. - From 11pm - 3am – It’s Techno Night at Old Flings . I go back and forth between enjoying techno and finding it sometimes unbearable. Techno in a small space has a strange appeal, however. This venue is, indeed, a small space. Techno in Manhattan is also a rarity. I’ll probably at least swing by. Emily Janovick: Wet Blanket. Image via Parent Company Saturday, December 7 - From 7:30pm at Knitting Factory — Liturgy performs a solo set supporting Martin Rev. - From 7:30pm at David Geffen Hall — Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 ​is performed alongside​ William Kentridge’s Oh To Believe in Another World . Tickets here . - Save The Date — there’s a full bill for this DDM / Uncensored New York event - From 11pm - late — Headless , The Heaven , and Number1fairytale are at Baby’s . Free entry. Sunday, December 8 - With ninety minute performances at 2:30pm and 6:30pm at The Brooklyn Center for Theater Research — Let Her Cook is a show of food and dance by Kaylen Tanner and ArtsAppetite - “Structured like a three course meal, you will be served bread, vegetables, carbs, protein, and dessert. Chefs from some of New York’s top Michelin kitchens have crafted dishes that have deeply layered connections to the content of the three new dance works you will watch. These dishes have also been creatively prepared to, at times, be plated while the dancers are still performing.” - From 3pm - 4pm at Pioneer Works — Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor discuss the renaissance of the harsh book review and the rise of the epic takedown. This should be fun. OF FURTHER INTRIGUE - Dean Kissick is discussing the Harper’s article with Anna and Dasha at SVA Theater on Jan 9. Tickets for “Wither Contemporary Art” here . - Betsey Brown’s writing workshop returns to The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on December 16, 17, and 18. I’m really not a workshop person, and this class was transformative for me. I would recommend it to anyone a million times over. When I took it in July, it penetrated my subconscious and got me to begin my novel all in one! TBD if I can coordinate this with grad school, but I hope to be there in December. Join me! - The Drift says Simone Weil is the Patron Saint of Everyone . Another class I hope to take this December - Supernatural Knowledge: A Simone Weil Workshop with Emmalea Russo - The New York Times Hunter Biden Love Story Article has arrived - I’m excited for this — Arrival Art Fair will launch in the Berkshires next summer. I wrote about how much I love MASS MOCA last week. Arrival will take place at The Tourists - a wonderful converted motel-to-hotel right next door. Very chic and fun. - I have 3 (!!) exciting guest edits coming next week. If you’re interested in contributing to Collected Agenda, or have someone you’d like to see featured, email me - chloegpingeon@gmail.com

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