Here’s a deliciously addictive little blog. “In Passing” basically consists of snippets of conversations this chick Eve (as in Eve S. Dropper — get it?) overhears as she goes about her life in Berkeley, CA. Judging by her comments sections, she gets an enormous amount of traffic. I can see why. A wonderful way to scratch that voyeuristic itch — but without feeling dirty about it. Some of the quotes seem a bit too incisive, political or profound to have come from random people Eve crosses paths with. I’m a bit suspect that Joe Townsperson is quite that compelling. But then again, she does live in a college town. If I remember my days in Bloomington IN correctly, pretty much everyone from the students to the townies to the grad students working in the coffee shops seemed to think and speak in pithy, bumper-sticker nuggets of language.

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