June 2009
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I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was hallucinogenic and shaking me like a leaf and I grabbed the sleeve of the Air France steward. “I’m not feeling well, I should see a doctor” I said and the reply came as a brilliant mix of death anxiety and french rudeness: “Uh, yes… Terminal D… go there maybe… when we...
Colin: found your summer job! http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tfr/1237872031.html
me: a thousand bucks AND a lifetime supply of butterfingers??
Colin: how awesome is that?
me: i would do it if i could go under a pen name
Colin: Like Candy Devine?
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Zach: OMG
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MJ > Y2K
Just ignore the fact that it's a LiveJournal
You should be reading Elyse Sewell’s blog:
I always scold myself on the kinda-rare occasions that I buy emergency socks or underwear instead of doing laundry: like, how wasteful and disorganized. How contemptible! But oops, life got so entropic in Budapest that I found myself in the panty zone of a supermarket, late nite, weighing my options. Go commando the next day? Drive down the dirty...
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Bon Iver + Collections of Colonies of Bees, I can’t WAIT. Both so amazing.
Matt likes good things.
Social security number brass tacks
From the wiki:
There are also special numbers which will never be allocated:
-Numbers with all zeros in any digit group (000-xx-####, ###-00-####, ###-xx-0000).
-Numbers of the form 666-xx-####, probably due to the potential controversy (see Number of the Beast).
-Numbers from 987-65-4320 to 987-65-4329 are reserved for use in advertisements.
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The new words I learn in a given day are almost entirely gleaned from House. Last night’s viewing gave me purulent and sputum (used in conjunction).
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Ce soir
-I finished The Long Halloween on the subway and proceeded to drop a page of an unfinished letter to Larry in a puddle of what I presumed to be coffee; rewrite of that page commences tonight.
-I intended to see a free advance screening of $9.99, but so did the entirety of lower Manhattan, so I cut my losses by skipping over to Momofuku Milk and had a piece of the cinnamon bun pie and a sample of...
Lifehacker has turned into a food blog. How long until Gawker has an entire site on food/NYC restaurants? Isn’t that what the people want?
Trying to devise a schedule for the Northside Festival is a bit like going into Dylan’s Candy Bar with only a few dollars. Anyway, a tentative plan for the night (which assumes it doesn’t rain and I can bike):
9 - Grooms at Public Assembly
9:40 - Ólöf Arnalds at Music Hall of Williamsburg
10:15 - Tallest Man on Earth, also at MHOW
—break for tacos at Endless Summer—...
To the woman at the deli counter who rung up my pancetta as “Canadian bacon”, thank you. It meant the difference between buying generic and Charmin Ultra Soft. And we all know what a difference that can make.
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sometimes Mother Grimm just really gets me
“I am trying to save up for your B-Day—I know you like clothes and alternative music so I am going to get you a Talbot’s gift card and a Sanjaya CD.”