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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>This is my missive to you.</description><title>Dreams &amp; False Alarms</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @elsam)</generator><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Which I initially mistyped as “Tumblr Googles.” And really, where are “Tumblr...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Which I initially mistyped as “Tumblr Googles.” And really, where are “Tumblr Googles”?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236490625</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236490625</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:48:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>leilacohan:

It is not yet 9pm. No one should let us have Tumblr access while drunk

The real...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://leilacohan.tumblr.com/post/236488097/it-is-not-yet-9pm-no-one-should-let-us-have" target="_blank"&gt;leilacohan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;It is not yet 9pm. No one should let us have Tumblr access while drunk&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The real question is, “where are Tumblr Goggles?”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236489303</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236489303</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:47:18 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>“Hotel” — Cassidy feat. R. Kelly
Leila: this is a...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://elsam.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/236486538/tumblr_ksrosqMx401qz852u&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Hotel” — Cassidy feat. R. Kelly&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leila: this is a good song.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elsa: the &lt;i&gt;best&lt;/i&gt; song.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236486538</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236486538</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:43:38 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Because +J said we were on a "suicide pact style reblog"</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html"&gt;Because +J said we were on a "suicide pact style reblog"&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;NEVER FORGET (the pregnancy pact).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236480461</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236480461</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:35:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"Big Pun has points to make guys. My big problem with LA is that we never got truly drunk there. I..."</title><description>“Big Pun has points to make guys. My big problem with LA is that we never got truly drunk there. I don’t understand how people live in that place.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Leila, on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KZ4nlFBY0" target="_blank"&gt;this song&lt;/a&gt;, and also; life.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236470607</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236470607</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:22:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Not unembarrassing, but this is how we are. 8:17pm, y’all.</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YSCQbVhvklE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YSCQbVhvklE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;i&gt;unembarrassing, &lt;/i&gt;but this is how we &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt;. 8:17pm, y’all.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236466019</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236466019</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:17:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>sunplusnightplusjess:

For the record, Mr. +J literally kicked a puppy today....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sunplusnightplusjess.tumblr.com/post/236314930/for-the-record-mr-j-literally-kicked-a-puppy" target="_blank"&gt;sunplusnightplusjess&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For the record, Mr. +J literally kicked a puppy today. #Ivemadeahugemistake&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Don’t forget that — truly minutes later! — S+N basically punched a baby in the face. Serious questions arise re: my social associations.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236359396</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/236359396</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>“Peace Train” — Cat Stevens
The only thing I want to...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://elsam.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/235098913/tumblr_ksp6g2B5SF1qz852u&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Peace Train” — Cat Stevens&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only thing I want to listen to today is Cat Stevens, and, truthfully, I kind of like it, but I also want to know: WHY?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Is it related to Sesame Street?)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/235098913</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/235098913</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Attn:</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I made it through airport security — twice — with a very visible pair of scissors in my purse. &lt;i&gt;Don’t they realize what I could have done? &lt;/i&gt;(Had I known they were there.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/234657254</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/234657254</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:23:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/nyregion/28about.html?ref=nyregion"&gt;Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Oh, the things brains can do! I braved the rain to go see this today, and it was basically as amazing in person as it sounds in print.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/226074310</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/226074310</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:39:52 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"I don’t know why I just googled “flowers” — that’s not a very hot lead..."</title><description>“I don’t know why I just googled “flowers” — that’s not a very hot lead for activities. What do human beings usually do?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Mason (we are looking for fun things to do today)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/225005705</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/225005705</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Because I'm so not ready for this weekend to be over</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Within 5 minutes of getting home from the final +Jess and Keyholez wedding event, I made a playlist of the songs used in the procession, and have been sitting here listening to them, already indulging in nostalgia for yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Guys, it was honestly one of the most memorable, happy, completely poignant, and fun times I have had in a long time. Thank you for letting me be friends with you and for letting me have any role at all in your wedding, much less the one I had.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/223034401</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/223034401</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:36 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Very telling about both my mom and my dog</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My parents went up to Maine today, just for funsies, and my mom called me to say that she fed our dog broccoli from the garden and rosehips from the wild roses that grow everywhere. Zoe loved the rosehips so much that she went foraging for them on her own.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219399890</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219399890</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:08:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>For the record, every text message I receive is now an “it’s coming from inside the...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;For the record, every text message I receive is now an “it’s coming from inside the house!” moment.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219286365</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219286365</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:25:12 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>How To Lose A Girl In 24 Hours</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Send her ten texts in that same window of time. When the only one that she sends back reads along the lines of “terrible timing: i can’t do anything until &lt;i&gt;x-&lt;/i&gt;date very far in the future,” reply with: 1) a message about how it’s actually &lt;i&gt;perfect &lt;/i&gt;timing, because you still met despite the time constraints, 2) an offer to casually stop by one evening with a bottle of wine, and 3) a request for her email address.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;… at least it flips the pathetic single lady trope?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219206944</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219206944</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:23:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>allcreatures:

Baby lemur

For Daphne!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krvdxzY5Pr1qzou5ko1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://allcreatures.tumblr.com/post/219113523/baby-lemur" target="_blank"&gt;allcreatures&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Baby lemur&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For Daphne!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219174526</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219174526</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:36:14 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>marielk:

there are exactly 12 of these. there is also an audio...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krvg47WAqg1qznrmjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://marielk.tumblr.com/post/219145367/there-are-exactly-12-of-these-there-is-also-an" target="_blank"&gt;marielk&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;there are exactly 12 of these. there is also an audio recording via el sam’s camera in her purse.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Oh, Friday night! You were so much fun. How did I not lose anything? How did we manage to look relatively sober in this picture?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219173655</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/219173655</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:34:55 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Are groomsmen ‘the ultimate bros’?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/10/are-groomsmen-the-ultimate-bros.html"&gt;Are groomsmen ‘the ultimate bros’?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hipsterrunoff.tumblr.com/post/217310935/are-groomsmen-the-ultimate-bros" target="_blank"&gt;hipsterrunoff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h6&gt;Photos via &lt;a href="http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/2009/10/man-day-thursday-groomsmen.html" target="_blank"&gt;sorryimissedurparty&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/groomsmen2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Sometimes I wonder how many more opportunities I will have to chill hard with my bros. It seems like something inside of me ‘wants to settle down with a woman…&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;To assume the lingo: kinda “relevant,” in a &lt;i&gt;Truman Show&lt;/i&gt; sense if nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/217511825</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/217511825</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:21:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"We are artists living in a loft in Bushwick at the moment we have 4 guys &amp; 2 girls. we have..."</title><description>“We are artists living in a loft in Bushwick at the moment we have 4 guys &amp; 2 girls. we have pitched tents in the loft .We have a lease &amp; there is heat in our space &amp; bathrooms in the hall. It is a cool building full of working artists. There are no showers, we use the city gym on Bedford ave which cost only $70 for the year. We are planning on making a documentary of our indoor tent city. We have space for 2 more females, to balance out the vibe. you must be clean,creative &amp; drama free. we also have 2 cats. there will be no charge we are commiting to one month at a time”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;-A &lt;a title="Craigslist" href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/roo/1421675324.html" target="_blank"&gt;Craigslist&lt;/a&gt; post that reminds me that I am too damn old for everything in Bushwick but Roberta’s. Via &lt;a title="Curbed" href="http://curbed.com/archives/2009/10/19/women_needed_for_bushwick_tent_city.php" target="_blank"&gt;Curbed&lt;/a&gt;. (via &lt;a href="http://leilacohan.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;leilacohan&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can we be positive that these are not the people from &lt;i&gt;True Life: I’m Polyamorous&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/217333326</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/217333326</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:13:40 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My little sister has lived a crazy life</title><description>Daphne:  &lt; ||||||| RED |||||||||&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
that was a red crayon&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Elsa: hahaha&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Daphne:  that is all i remember from being 11</description><link>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/216500653</link><guid>http://elsam.tumblr.com/post/216500653</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:13:09 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
