December 2009
48 posts
listening to brand new and taking back sunday cause i have feelings and stuff and i’m mad and whatever.
due to the outpouring of concern over my last tweet, i need to say i’m not actually mad nor do i have feelings.
you go, grandma! http://ow.ly/R4HM
turn on wnyc and listen to this crazy man answering trivia ?s and proving people who don’t won tv’s aren’t any smarter than those who do.
When did “Choking to death alone in my apartment” become an actual fear /cliche anxiety for single women? I blame sex and the city.
Just finished Part I of Art Spiegelmans’s Maus. If I wasn’t on a train I’d be walking to a bookstore for Part II right now.
Someone’s gotta put the chill back in children.
“legitimate” is the new “literally” which was the new “ironic” #wordseveryoneincludingmeuses #andnooneusescorrectly
NY politics: the next west wing should be about this stuff: http://bit.ly/6IYK0f
RT @aspca: Homeless people and their pets http://ow.ly/QphD
fashion, turn to the left.
i think that hell probably looks a lot like the room where all the models sit after a show on project runway. it’s just a room full of intensely competitive, tall, hungry women who, when you walk in, all go “awwww, oh no, you’re heeerreee?! you got eliminateeeeeed?”
but you all know they’re really excited and happy you got eliminated because the entire fashion...
http://bit.ly/8m3g63 oh good, michelle duggar is lecturing the world on moderation.
the soundtrack to heaven, methinks: http://bit.ly/wsrwQ
Last Indian dancing bear set free →
allcreatures:
mabelmoments:
Animal rights campaigners are celebrating the end of a seven-year campaign to see all of India’s dancing bears set free. Former keepers have been rehabilitated into other jobs so that they no longer use the animals to earn an income. (Click through link for video.)
good people doing good thing = the world going round. or at least = the world not devolving into...
How can you wait until a train is in Newark to say “Oh, we’re not going to NY because there’s no power.” #dontworrychrischristiesonitright?
NJTransit: Because monopolies mean never having to say you’re sorry.
It’s my dream to look at a google street view picture and see myself.
RT@JohnLoGioco a ringer of a sunset today from the @outbrain BD fish tank http://twitpic.com/up6sl
oops, because of things like this: http://bit.ly/8m2lvB what a sad tweet without the link.
life is unfair.
RT @LovelyOnTheGo: Lovely Guest Writer: Ali Plante! http://www.lovelyatyourside.com/2009/12/lovely-guest-writer-ali-plante.html
My desk @outbrain is so nice thanks to @nathanmilford !!! http://twitpic.com/tu3vi
Also thanks to the food I keep under it.
Highly recommend Misled @ucbtheaterny
“Pickles is my thing” - Snooki, ‘The Jersey Shore’
idea
i want to write this character into a sketch: a guy who thinks you’re supposed to be naked under a snuggie. and he’s like “oh, i’m freezing!” and everyone’s like, “why, you have a snuggie!” and it’s slowly revealed that he’s naked.
this is what i think: it’s a mediocre sketch that takes place in a ski lodge and a guy in the...
dyin my hair back to red in an unventilated room. in other news, i’m zombie princess. hi couch! when did you get eyes?
two things
1. i would really like my blog to look like, if it were to wear a sweater, that sweater would have (faux) leather elbow pads.
2. a conversation i had with my dad:
dad: is there a reason you left this light on?
me: just an existential one.
dad: those don’t count.
*turns light off*
don’t tell him i said this, but he cracks me up.
Your brain is full of spiders/You’ve got garlic in your soul, Mr. Griiiiiinch!
please let any of this be true
I still really, really love Brand New.
http://bit.ly/72EBp7 esp the paragraph above the first video. i am laughing and also very scared.
RT @salgentile A video about the legendary @JohnsHopkins scholar Richard Macksey http://bit.ly/BlglI // so jealous you had him.
Hey guy sitting next to me, when you compulsively flick stuff off your coat in my direction, guess where it lands? My coat.
Eating McDonalds and Superchunk came on my shuffle. Very funny iPod. Very funny.
What an I doing tonight? Just living the dream is all.
“You’ll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time/What are you...”
– -Jimmy Eat World, “23”
This song came on and I remembered I really like it. Also that I am that age. Whoa, y’all.
The guy next to me on the train is stessing so hard over his iPhone poker game, it’s stressing me out. Enough with the hand gestures, guy.
“Stephan walked back!”
– Clifford
credit to @thealiplante for the last tweet. i would never find something cool on my own.
Link: evolution of the hipster http://bit.ly/7jWvcZ
Come see Dr. Sickbone, Poolside and The Reunion, Saturday @7pm, the creek L.I.C. Bound to be tubular.