January 2012
11 posts
Worst Day Ever: An Update
I just paid a guy $100 to drill through the lock on my door. That was the special price, you know, for nice ladies like me. He told me to keep his number and then asked if I like Greek food.
Seriously guys. Can someone tell me how to pick the lock on my bedroom door? My boyfriend moved 3,000 miles away today and I could really use a break.
Have you ever spelled Albuquerque without an auto-correct typing function? It’s very difficult.
Second biggest disappointment of the week is that I am already through both episodes of Jane by Design available online.
Mindy Kaling for Healthy Choice is the most depressing development of the week.
The Internet knows that these “Shit _____ Girls Say” videos are sexist right? Is it a post-feminist thing that I don’t get?
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December 2011
10 posts
The “Fuck I’m in My 20’s” tumblr that people are linking to on Facebook today had the unexpected effect of making me feel glad that I will soon be in my 30’s (or at least relatively glad and relatively soon).
“If someone writes the phrase ‘party of swindlers and thieves’ on a blog,” tweeted Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, “he is just a fuckface.”
I am under the impression that I am missing much of the nuance of the current protests in Russia by relying on the translations made by media here in the US, but this quote from Harper’s Weekly certainly...
“Ann Marie Kennedy, a resident of Effin in Limerick County, Ireland, complained that Facebook was blocking her from listing her hometown on her profile. She wanted to show her pride in her parish, she said, along with ‘so many Effin people around the world.’”
You do all subscribe to Harper’s Weekly, right?
November 2011
3 posts
Another Free Idea
An iPad and/or iPhone app that makes the screen emit a glow on the ultraviolet spectrum, along the same lines as those SAD lamps. Surely someone out there has the technical expertise to pull it off.
OOPS! According to the app store, this already exists.
Also, it’s called iSAD. So, they win.
October 2011
2 posts
“Scientists in France speculated that Uranus had been struck repeatedly by Earth-sized objects, and looked forward to closer observation of Uranus’s moons.”
-A particularly mature morning with Harper’s Weekly.
September 2011
3 posts
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“A Dublin bar where a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in June was found to be hosting parties where patrons could exchange panties for drinks, Ohio police puzzled over the origin of 1,700 pairs of panties strewn along a road outside Columbus, and the AARP counseled people over 50 never to say the word “panties.”
Harper’s Weekly is especially clever today!
August 2011
7 posts
I was a bit scandalized about the MTA canceling service on Sunday until I remembered that both the G and the L are running shuttle buses this weekend. So it’s basically the same as it would have been.
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Boo, Forever
Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
-Richard Brautigan
Community Service Link
Do you guys know about this???? It’s for serious the thing that you should watch.
July 2011
6 posts
I feel a sort of pride that my birthday party didn’t go as badly as this.
Last week I had the humbling experience of inquiring whether the Barnes and Nobles in Park Slope would be doing a late night release party for A Dance with Dragons, only to learn that not only was that location not doing such a thing, no book store in the area will be. Which may make me, certifiably, the geekiest person in New York City.
I’d like to officially announce that I am looking to move to South Brooklyn. If you hear about something, let me know. And no, it isn’t soley because my roommate threw out my cake.
Discussion Topic
Sam Sifton using nicknames to refer to Jay-Z:
“But the dish tastes of the secret New York you get to experience only after a lifetime of loving it. It is the culinary equivalent of Jay-Z playing cards in the kitchen of Rao’s with Harvey Keitel in the video for “Death of Autotune.” (Hova looks at his cards: “Oh, wow. Wow!”)”
June 2011
6 posts
I know that there are several more obvious things to draw from this article, but what if you just walked into your German seminar at NYU and Slavoj Zizek was the teacher? While one would obviously expect him to teach something like Philosophy while visiting the university, I feel it worth noting that he’s not even a native German speaker.
I’m glad to see male birth control getting some airtime.
“No one is buying Chanel couture who would normally shop at J. Crew”
See, the thing is, J. Crew was sort of an expensive place to shop when I was in high school. Guys, this high school prom dress couture thing is horrifying.
May 2011
11 posts
Sometimes I think I don’t move back to Boston because it feels like the young people there are all clever and accomplished or doing things like this. Realistically I know there are lots of idiots there, but I have this weird sense of wanting to live up to the expectations of my home town.
