Update from a busy July: Hogwarts Square, ArtBea(s)t, and a tourist trip to Nantucket and Old Ironsides

July 31st, 2007 by Maria Varmazis | 2 Comments

Update from a busy July: Hogwarts Square, ArtBea(s)t, and a tourist trip to Nantucket and Old Ironsides

Twice in a row, I’m apologizing for infrequent posts. For better or worse, things have been pretty busy since I got back from vacation. So I don’t bore you all to tears with minute details of my goings-on, I’ll summarize with the aid of four pictures:

When Harvard Square became Hogwarts Square
7/20/07 — a momentous day [...]


(American) feminism’s irrelevance in contemporary J-rock/J-music

June 21st, 2007 by Maria Varmazis | 4 Comments

(American) feminism’s irrelevance in contemporary J-rock/J-music

This blog’s been quiet for a few days, longer than I’d meant. I do apologize—while trying to get things organized for my upcoming vacation, the work’s been piling up.
Audrey Kimura of Benten label and Sister records, a Japanese indie music label that specializes in signing bands fronted by women, got back to me with the [...]


The internets! It knows me!

June 11th, 2007 by Maria Varmazis | No Comments

The internets! It knows me!

The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time:

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Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY?
Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello?
Reaction I should have had: [...]


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My name is Maria Varmazis. I'm a cub editor/reporter, a writer and a geek, a gamer and a Greek. I live in the greater Boston area and love to wander around America's Grumpiest City, often with a camera in hand. This blog will probably tell you far more about my life than you care to know, but welcome all the same.


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