January 2010
23 posts
wow did the City Room blog go precious on this one →
Once upon a time there were three little brown bears. They lived on Baranof Island in Alaska. One day, their mother wandered too close to people, and she was killed. The orphans were rescued by the Alaskan government and taken to a shelter called Fortress of the Bear. From there, the bears took a plane to New York.
more friendship
Leila: EXCUSE ME
EXCUSE ME
ROBERT REICH HAS A TUMBLR
Elsa: FOLLOWED
Leila: YEP
ELSA IF HE FOLLOWS BACK I WILL DIE
I WILL JUST DIE
friendship
Mariel: all i'm saying is that saturday i will be watching a puppy
which is meant to entice you to my island (clearly)
and perhaps a rousing round of settlers [of catan]
Elsa: you know my buttons!
Mariel: haha
Elsa: (puppies, nerdy board games)
(food? cake?)
Mariel: (yes yes)
(i can promise those things too)
An important question about MTV's "Teen Mom"
Are Catelynn’s mom and Tyler’s dad meth heads? There’s a certain je ne sais quoi to their haggard faces.
my lifestyle
At 4 o’clock, I felt like eating ants on a log, but had no peanut butter or raisins, so I made do with currants and almond butter. Feel free to laugh at me for being a person who faces what is basically a backwards kitchen cabinet dilemma, or for wanting a snack designed for preschoolers. Or both! It’s open season over here.
I mean, what’s even up with me and late afternoon...
A memory right before sleep last night
When I was in 9th grade, I was in a Massachusetts PSA about teenage drivers. The details are hazy: for all I know now, it could have been about drunk driving, seatbelts, or the change in age limit for getting licensed. This would have been before driving while talking on a cellphone was an issue. In 1999, cellphones only existed on businessmen, or in the movie Clueless.
For filming, we had to sit...
just the basic warlord starter kit! →
The best part of this article is that they call it a Warlord Starter Kit. Everything else (what? American arms executives would “pay bribes to get a piece of a $15 million contract to equip the presidential guard of an African country”?) is neither surprising nor cute.
attn: Mariel
Two can play at the family archives game! Your photos led to me Google my grandparents’ names, which had the most boring results, but for this (from 1909):
Things I did not know about are “Bessie W. Balston, at one time an actress of some note [BURN!].” My great-great grandfather’s mistress, I suppose.
When James Franco was on 30 Rock
Was that also performance art?
“The stars really aligned for me last night. Jupiter was in my TV house.”
– The Sam Arvel (via leilacohan)
This is meeeeeeee. (Both Jersey Shore and 30 Rock had two new episodes last night. Also, we were talking about astrology earlier. What can I say? I make the connections.)
"The Good Guy" trailer →
Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. In the new romantic dramedy THE GOOD GUY, Beth falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications...
I went to a comedy thing on Sunday and one of the guys doing stand up talked about moving into an apartment without roommates for the first time. The main thing he riffed on was having the freedom to listen to the same three-song Lady Gaga playlist on loop, only taking a rest from that to obsessively listen to one Britney Spears song.
So as I sit here, listening to “Try Sleeping With A...
All my worst fears realized
I was outside earlier today when I felt something brush against my ear and, from the corner of my eye, saw the something as an indistinct white blur. My first thought was “snow! Some jerk must have just thrown a snowball at me!” but, as it turns out, what happened is that a pigeon flew over my shoulder and its wings momentarily grazed the side of my head. Maybe you don’t know...
