September 2011
1 post
Listen, I love hearing about Beyonce’s baby, but as far as I’m concerned, the two following items are what really merit a story:
Solange, herself a mother, just relocated to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, from Los Angeles, and sent her son to first grade this past week. She’s also working on a new record. #
Don’t you have so many questions? I have so many questions! (Like what...
July 2011
2 posts
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I like to think that “WOMYN aka HITCH...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
“I remember in my twenties feeling that certain people were real and certain...”
– Jennifer Egan
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this is embarassingly accurate →
coldplums:
“You grew up to have an affinity for lovely things, a possibly inflated sense of your own uniqueness, a teensy hint of self-righteousness (remember how she refused tea when they raised the tea tax? “Thank you, I shall take no tea!”), and a latent familiarity with Colonial Williamsburg.” (i’m pretty sure you all know exactly what this refers to)
I belong to the bitter last...
“Flagpole Sitta” - Harvey Danger
It...
April 2011
2 posts
"her fave color is obvi purple" (—MK, 4/22/11)
Why “likes purple” is the most pointed, apt, two-word description of a person ever, I will maybe never know, but it just is.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a thought exercise: think of people, but especially lady people, that you have known, who liked purple a lot. Really think about them. I know! It’s all so clear now, isn’t it?
Then spend the rest of your day...
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Bus talk
I will never understand why so much perfectly nice ink and breath is wasted on shit-talking New Jersey. No one here doesn’t realize just how awful Connecticut is, right?
I can’t top this description of driving through the place, because oh my god, “all those gray cities with their Ikeas and weird Insurance Office Buildings,” so I won’t try, but honestly. No one would...
March 2011
2 posts
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January 2011
8 posts
Cute: snow farms!
Cuter: Snow Dragons!
Cutest: “Robert Tuttle, 85, waved a hand dismissively when asked if the snow was keeping him from getting around. He walked to the store to buy Popsicles, he said, and had no trouble.’I’m a Maine boy,’ he said. ‘I’m used to this.’”
Boston Crowded With ‘Snow Farms’/NYT
leilacohanmiccio:
In a reply to my last post about “Shake Ya Tailfeather”, Anthony pointed out that “is that your ass or your momma have reindeer?” remains a baffling lyric. But here’s the thing: it’s only one of the bizarre parts of that song. To wit:
Is that your ass or your momma have reindeer?
I like the cocky bowlegged ones
They be like “he’s the man” when I’m really a Thundercat
I’m...
Things that are bananas about the No Strings...
1. The Natalie Portman-Mila Kunis thing is a point barely worth making, so all I’ll say is: how distinctly unfortunate for Mila, in this case, that her movie is coming out after Natalie’s.
2. The point has been made that Natalie Portman is “sleeping her way through the cast of That 70s Show”. The other obvious fact tucked inside that information is that Ashton Kutcher and Mila...
Splitsider: The Forgotten Brilliance of Popular →
leilacohanmiccio:
Yeah, I went there.
Hey, you know what is one of my favorite memories from high school? Driving over to Leila’s in my 1986 slate-blue Volvo station wagon every single Thursday night, curling up on her couch (her cats circling us like miniature lions), and watching Popular and Popstars.
“It’s not obscure - it was on the Now & Then soundtrack!”
– Leila, taking me to school. (via anthonyisright)
This is a valid point! Also, everyone knows “No Matter What You Are” right?
(via leilacohanmiccio)
Everyone!
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Today: a tally
I left the house! +10
…but wore fleece leggings to do so. -5
To be fair, they kind of almost look like pants, if you ignore the “no pockets” aspect of them. +1
Which would be an OK point to make, if it weren’t for the fact that these same fleece leggings are what I wore to bed last night and never bothered changing out of today. -10
I did put on red lipstick though!...
“And I was like, “don’t let the door hit you on the way back!”
– my mom, who is a foreigner.
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in case you were wondering how much it costs to...
the answer is $1,775.41
December 2010
6 posts
Lab Scans Bones That May Belong to Amelia Earhart →
Researchers say crews found other items near the bone fragments, which could also be from a turtle.
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Somebody on Friday Night Lights (or many somebodies?) is working quite determinedly to keep The Wire alive, right? First came Wallace, reincarnated as Vince, then that brief appearance by D’Angelo as a bad guy turned good. And now, it turns out that the guy threatening Vince is named Kenard?
Kenard!? I don’t know about you, but the first and only other time I’ve ever come across...
also!
Hot real estate tip, via Google Maps: if you have some extra money lying around, here are not one, but TWO duplexes for sale in the same building as Jay-Z’s old stash spot! That is definitely someone’s concrete jungle dream being made.
November 2010
3 posts
titles of books of short stories I have read, or...
Both Ways is The Only Way I Want It
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
The Theory of Light and Matter
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever
No One Belongs Here More Than You
You Are Not A Stranger Here
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Normal People Don’t Live Like This
a romantic comedy pitch: straight from my life!
I went to the library this morning to pick up the books I had on hold, one of which was Just Kids, the other being Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — And the Journey of a Generation. (I feel like this season is the best one for indulging in 70s rock nostalgia! Hypothesis: because of fall fashion?)
When I found my holds on the shelf, I noticed that two of them where not for...
October 2010
2 posts
“How do you like the title of this reality show: “Desperate...”
– how my mom opens phone calls
September 2010
5 posts
A question from childhood that still stands:
Why does music make humans feel like moving their bodies?
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just now, outside
old toddler/young kid: Mom, what are we doing for B-I-O-K-L?
his mom: what does that spell?
old toddler/young kid: "NOW!"
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"wishfall thinking"
Bought some apples and made bread today.
August 2010
4 posts
“I’m going to call it right now. Step Up 3D: best movie of the year. (Hush. Just...”
– A very truthful and just honest review of Step Up 3D.
July 2010
9 posts
“Denton McKay liked plans and he liked to change plans. He called meetings of the...”
– Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time. Bosses!
You know what makes me feel like I will never really be an adult? The fact that I can’t use markers without getting ink all over my hands.
very hard to get sick of “Suite Judy Blue...
most embarrassing thing that has happened to me,...
Confusing Raymonds Carver and Chandler in an email, in such a way that I look like a complete idiot who has never opened a book by either author. Is it socially acceptable to cop to my mistake, or will that just make me look like an even bigger asshole?
:( :( :(
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advice
If you are going to hover by the stove, eating jam straight from the saucepan it’s being made in, you should probably wait until the house production is something besides blueberry. When your mom comes into the kitchen and asks you what you’re up to — as you dart away from pot, holding the telltale spoon behind your back — your bluish teeth and purple tongue will be a devastating...
Does this mean our generation has officially come...
I sat down to do the NYT crossword puzzle today, for the first time in maybe a year, and was pleasantly dumbfounded by what I saw. Did you look at it today? Here are some of the clues!
“Cries from Homer Simpson” only notable because,
“Kwik-E-Mart clerk”
“Enters Facebook, maybe”
“Any Beatles song, now” (answer: “oldie”)
...
June 2010
28 posts
