February 2011
3 posts
long, hard blog.
kudos bar to anyone who gets that title. (im so obnoxious, but it’s really insecurity - insecurity that no one understands my brilliant allusions.)
so, as some of you know (i guess im talking about the three people who i actually know read this thing, at least once in a blue moon), ive been meaning to start a new blog, cataloguing my training for the burlington marathon in may.
well, i...
“When I got home at 10pm there were rose pedals strewn all over the staircase...”
– DC, romantic
“i just dont like adversarial situations.”
– LMP, lawyer
“she wants to become a yoga instructor, but she has never really even taken a...”
– SS, on a friend
January 2011
23 posts
“If Singapore has one thing to teach America, it is about taking governing...”
– thomas friedman, serious in singapore
relativity.
photo from google images. consider it a dramatization.
i had a couple of revelations on the train this morning.
sadat. there was a mariachi band on the 5 train. after they finished playing their song, when one of them went around with the overturned sombrero, i noticed that the seemingly more ‘downtrodden’ folks - im not judging, generalizing or stereotyping, but yes, im...
it's amazing what soup can do.
for some reason, i really like that new campbell’s tagline. so much so that i made it the refrain of a song.
obv this is dedicated to my double-soup brothers.
they spent the day shoveling out on the drive and when they came back they were barely alive you took them in the red and the blue it’s amazing what soup can do the king was a mess he was deep in his cups the prince was on meth the...
i think there's a third organ in the equation, but...
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Deep into Real Housewives I Realized a More...
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Me: Who is the guy in the pink tie? CB: John Boehner, new Speaker of the House Me: Right CB: I’ll say it again, it wouldn’t kill you to read the paper! Me: True CB: … Notice how he’s darker than our black president.
state of the union.
GW: seriously how am I going to pay for this if I make it in?
I have no clue
whatevs
follow your bliss....
CB: haha, if joseph campbell had to borrow 70 grand for his bliss, he prolly wouldnt have followed it as far
GW: that is true
CB: 'let your bliss run far far away'
the italians.
they sat on the stoop with paper fans and orangeades. they made their world. they said, who’s better than me? she could never say that. they knew how to sit there and say that and be happy. thinking back through the decades. she saw a woman fanning herself with a a magazine and it seemed like an encyclopedia of breezes, the book of all the breezes that ever blew. the city drugged with...
dyker heights.
consider this a reblog, as well as a shout out.
Actuality 1.
Nick came home one day and told her put on your best dress baby, and darling fix your hair up right. He had already called the sitter. He was taking her to Deus, a new restaurant nobody could get into. He got them a table through his Times connections. He had been working the phone for the past two days for this alone. Josephine said she wished he hadn’t have bothered, but she was...
December 2010
8 posts
truth.
CB: i love how everyone's turned on lebron so hard.
and im firmly in that bandwagon!
SB: Agreed - I love judging people other than myself, it's so easy.
November 2010
7 posts
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womb.
when i walked in the door tonite my apartment smelled like my father’s place.
im just about the age he was when i was born.
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i get wary when i hear a song where the guy sings something like ‘you’re the only one who really knew me at all,’ or anything like that. any singling out of anyone, any use of the word ‘only’ pertaining to an individual person.
it makes me feel like there are all of ten people in the world.
it’s like, ‘look harder, man. dont be so black and white...
“if i want to hear fiction, ill go talk to jonathan franzen.”
– blair waldorf
possibly maybe bjork
October 2010
16 posts
you wear it well.
CB: why are you cranky
AR: oh that was yesterday
the bossman kept giving me work
like it was my...job!
CB: hahaha
AR: when both of us know my job is to wear tight pants and act like i'm better than everyone else!
“She was connected with a very powerful current but she couldn’t disconnect...”
– saul bellow, on marilyn monroe, as retold by maureen dowd in this excellent op-ed
“it was a pretty big school.the odds are that someone would be mentally ill and...”
– JK, speaking about the previous post
“eric is the second person ive gone to school with who has committed a high...”
– DR, speaking about this
“i didnt have an eating disorder.
i just didnt eat.”
– LMP