Dreams & False Alarms

This day in unemployment/gore

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:30:00 -0500

I just cooked some beets, but my counter, sink, dishes, and hands are more like “murder!!” There’s DNA evidence allllllll up in my fingernails and I don’t know how I’m going to make disappear…

Okay, I know I just put Leila on blast for her love of...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:18:40 -0500

Okay, I know I just put Leila on blast for her love of organization, but this bulletin board? This bulletin board right here? IT NEEDS TO BE MINE.

In other news, how the mighty have fallen.

this, however? Not who I am

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:10:50 -0500

Leila: okay
now i am down a spiral
[link to Container Store]
update
now i am just going crazy
and planning a whole new home office
Elsa: girl
stop it!!
snap out of it!
Leila: ELSA I LOVE ORGANIZING
Elsa: there is life outside of organization
Leila: FALSE

this is who we are, part I-don't-even-know-anymore

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:09:22 -0500

Leila: have you ever been to paper presentation in chelsea?
Elsa: nope
Leila: OH MY GOD GIRL
it is the best store in the world
and we should go before candymaking
they have many boxes!
and stamps
and ribbon
and so many fun things
Elsa: ooooooooooooh
you had me at "paper"
all the rest is just icing on the cake
Leila: http://www.paperpresentation.com/
me: oh my god, those boxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leila: WE CAN HAVE BOXES AND RIBBONS

“You Are My Sister” — Antony and the Johnsons I met...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:06:00 -0500

“You Are My Sister” — Antony and the Johnsons

I met a friend from high school for a drink in Fort Greene earlier, and on my walk back home, I listened to Antony and the Johnsons and felt winter close in around me. Then I found $10.

No, really: then I found $10 lying on the sidewalk! The unexpected modest bounty plucked me out of my wistfulness, and when this song came on, I beamed at some guy with a briefcase, just because I am $10 richer and we were both humans on a leaf-covered Brooklyn street.

"Archi-sex-ture”… that is NOT how you spell “Buckminster Fuller”."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:55:00 -0500

““Archi-sex-ture”… that is NOT how you spell “Buckminster Fuller”.”

- -Ted Mosby

I am just now watching last week’s How I Met Your Mother. Best Bucky shout-out ever?! (Yep, best.)

This is important

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:48:00 -0500

This is important:

WHAT JANIE FOUND
Caroline B. Cooney
Delacorte Press
Fiction
ISBN: 0385326114
181 pages

Janie and her two families are back in WHAT JANIE FOUND, the fourth and last book in Caroline B. Cooney’s Janie series. Each of the characters is looking for closure of the kidnapping nightmare. Will they be able to find their way home?

Stephen Spring, Janie’s older brother, is a student at a college in Boulder, Colorado. He’s not sure what he wants to do with his life, but he knows he wants to be as far away from his family as possible. He wants to forget his whole life, which has been lived in the shadow of Janie’s disappearance.

Reeve, Janie’s boyfriend, isn’t sure he wants to stay in college. He loves Janie, but after he told her story to his radio audience, he doubts she will ever love him again. Brian, Janie’s younger brother, is getting used to living separately from his twin, Brendon. Janie’s sister Jodie will start college in the fall. Everything seems to be going well for all of them.

Janie’s life also seems to be moving along smoothly as she adjusts to her two sets of parents and learns to love her brothers and sister. Then her Connecticut father suffers a stroke, and Janie must handle the family finances. While going through files in her father’s desk, she makes a startling discovery. This discovery takes her, Reeve, and Brian to Boulder to try to find the reason why Hannah Javensen took Janie away from her family so many years ago.

Finding Hannah could mean betrayal and hurt for both of her families. Is it better to forget revenge and leave the past buried, or to try to locate Hannah? The decision she makes will affect both of her family’s lives forever. Can they handle any more? Moreover, can Janie handle dredging up the past, or is it time to forgive?

Cooney has written a thrilling and thoroughly satisfying conclusion to her Janie series, consisting of THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JANIE?, and THE VOICE ON THE RADIO. Though each book stands alone as a complete story, I recommend reading them in the order they were published, so you will get the most enjoyment out of each of them.

I know it came out in 2000, which is both too long ago and too soon for me to have read it (or do I mean for me to have not read it?). Guys, The Face on the Milk Carton is as book-important as Clueless is movie-important.

This day in unemployment

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:36:00 -0500

I made potato-leek soup for lunch and added tiny bits of bacon as garnish. That done, I started on my next project: apple butter, with Calvados instead of cider, while Out Of Time played very loudly in the background. My home is warm and smells great right now, and I am still listening to early 90s R.E.M.

bitches are crazy and, as it turns out, lindsay didn't steal from herself

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:00 -0500

bitches are crazy and, as it turns out, lindsay didn't steal from herself:

marielk:

“The Bling Ring is not a reality show. It is reality, with a wide-ranging cast of characters.”

As far as I can tell this (totally fascinating and absorbing) crime ring is basically just “The Hills”, underworld-style. Also, revealing! “A person familiar with the show the sisters are filming for E! said it is about growing up on self-help books like ‘The Secret.’”

It is hard to pick a single best line from this article.

Every day is the right day for “Something to Talk...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:54:58 -0500

Every day is the right day for “Something to Talk About”.

The Arnold Arboretum is the third-best thing about going home.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:41:00 -0500

The Arnold Arboretum is the third-best thing about going home.

Winter

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:37:00 -0500

My mom bought me a slow cooker last week. The level of excitement I feel about using it (high) makes me feel a bit :(

best email in my mailbox YET AGAIN

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:17:07 -0500

leilacohan:

marielk:

Child Bride Shopping Addicts In Polygamy Pageant Cults

Touche La, touche.

Tonight is basically going to be the best night of my life.

Guys, let’s not make people too jealous of Our Glamorous New York Lives (tm).

“Mariel’s World”? (Minus prostrate...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:39:00 -0500

“Mariel’s World”? (Minus prostrate desperation.)

Cultural Criticism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:40:49 -0500

+J: oh god I love this show so so much
if I wasn't already married I would totally marry it
El Sam: hahahaha
I KNOW
honestly, i often think that if i could replace living my real life with constant 24/7 (new) glee i would do it
in a heartbeat
+J: OBVIOUSLY

On bridesmaids dresses

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0500

Leila: don't worry, i'm not neglecting myself on this shopping trip
i'll be getting married in this
[link to a David's Bridal dress called "Modern 3/4 Sleeve Taffeta Dress" which is basically a shiny lab coat]
Elsa: "modern"
lies, DB
lies
Leila: i am getting married in a laboratory, btw
Elsa: will we carry our bouquets in beakers??
Leila: um
that actually sounds a little awesome
Elsa: hee, right!?!
not for a rustic wedding
but if you were having something very clean and minimalist
(or if the people getting married, were, in fact, scientists)
Leila: SCIENTISTS GETTING MARRIED
that would be the cutest

the best email in MY inbox this morning

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:36:00 -0500

CHECK OUT THE SUGGESTED LINKS.

(via marielk) One of the first times we met, Mariel and I talked...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:34 -0500

(via marielk)

One of the first times we met, Mariel and I talked about how we like to mix equal parts salt and lemon juice and just eat that straight. Our friendship was basically destined.

“Walking On Broken Glass” — Annie...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:38:00 -0500

“Walking On Broken Glass” — Annie Lennox

Doesn’t today feel similarly brittle and bright?

"marry me!"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:59:00 -0500

Have you ever seen Restorer Guy on TLC? From the show’s site:

Gable Painter (yes, that’s his real name) brings new life to old structures in RESTORER GUY. A meticulous and obsessive home restoration expert, Gable Painter and his team get their hands dirty restoring historic homes in an effort to bring America back to its former beauty one house at a time.

What they don’t mention, but is unmistakably clear within less than a minute of watching, is that Mr. Gable Painter is young, hot, and probably eminently cool:

Desirability is not limited to Gable or the houses. His crew is pretty cute too:

The conceit of the show is so transparent (super dreamy dude who’s good at fixing stuff + beautiful old homes = everything the ladies want) that they didn’t even bother giving the show a real name.

Obviously it is the best ever.