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Marisa Bowe and Ken Kurson

Entry 1:

Good morning, Ken.

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As you know, I am a "dot-com" person. Have been for a long, long time. In fact, New York magazine not long ago labeled me an "ETB," or Early True Believer. This resonated with me so strongly that I ran right out and got a tattoo--not telling where, LOL!--that says Marisa@EarlyTrueBeliever.com!

Now that the whole genome thing has broken open, though, the whole dot-com thing is over, over, over. Time for the carpetbaggers to bug off and for us keepin'-it-real old schoolers to get back to fundamentals. So out of deference for the Old Ways of the Net, I ask you now in the timeless fashion of chat-room flirts everywhere

What are you wearing?

 
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Marisa Bowe is the editor-in-chief ofWord, the executive producer of Sissyfight.com, and a co-editor of Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium (click here to buy it). Ken Kurson is the editor ofGreenMagazine.com, writes the "Green" column each month in Esquire, and is the author of The Green Magazine Guide to Personal Finance (click here to buy it).