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Today’s soundtrack: we sit in the car outside your house

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Today at 9:02pm: running from West 4th to Bleecker and Broadway with a backpack on

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Physics is against us as a species. What I mean by that is that it's far easier to destroy things than to create them, and this is true for everything from physical structures to human relationships.

The Twin Towers took a few years to put up and Bin Laden took them down in half a day. Houses of cards are undone by opening a window; an elegantly-constructed wine glass at the edge of the table meets its demise when the subway runs past. And any man who has ever dated a woman knows five-star dinners can be ruined by theoretically witty rejoinders delivered in the wrong tone.

Still, I like creating things, and I am going to defy physics.

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