February 2011
1 post
September 2010
2 posts
OK, I finally have a new blog. →
As promised, and, of course, much later than I had hoped, here is new blog number 1: Brokavore. It is basically about being a broke hippie living in Brooklyn. Also, Anthony is writing for it too. Hope you like it! Alternately, sorry.
June 2010
1 post
Dear people who tell me they miss my blog: I miss...
I do! Life right now is wonderful and crazy and stressful and sometimes stupid and mostly busy.
I promise; I’ll get back to blogging when I can.
p.s.: if you’re like DYING for inane animal-related content and the other random crap I put up here, maybe you should follow my shared items on google reader? (I’m assuming you know me if you read this blog, but, if you don’t,...
May 2010
44 posts
It's never goodbye (I mean, seriously. I am crazy...
Blog! I graduated from law school today, somehow. This means I must retire this blog, as I will no longer have another final to avoid studying for again.
After a particularly brutal end run to finish my grad requirements as well as moving, I am physically and mentally exhausted, with a sleep deficit that will take a while to clear up.
As for me, I am headed off to my favorite place in the...
The Askers and the Guessers →
Wow, I am totally a guesser, but didn’t know that’s what it was called. This explains a lot!
bobulate:
Andre Donderi introduced terminology that shows we’re raised in one of two cultures:
In Ask culture, people grow up believing they can ask for anything — a favour, a pay rise — fully realising the answer may be no. In Guess culture, by contrast, you avoid “putting a request into...
Ezra Klein Calls Bulls**t on Accusations that...
newsweek: equalitymyth:
Big ups to our colleague (for now, anyway) Ezra Klein, whose Washington Post column today thrashes the argument that Obama shouldn’t nominate two women in a row to the Supreme Court. Since women make up half the population, the odds of two women being seated to the high court in a row are a solid 25%. The odds that 34 male justices would be seated even after women got...
Take that, bitchez!
me: hi!
how are we today?
Jessie: pretty blissed out
despite impending doom of final
how are you?
me: ok
I got pink eye
I'm bummed. I'll have to wear my glasses to graduation
I hate wearing glasses.
Jessie: oh serious bummer!
but i'll bet you look cute in glasses.
I can see it.
: )
me: ha. that's what anthony says
it's all in my head
elementary school trauma, etc
Jessie: awwwww
cuteness!
i love it.
well, you can be all elle woods about it. you have a law degree AND you wear glasses. and you're hot. what now, elementary school bitches?!
Cul-de-sacs are the worst →
roomthily: clint:
The theory behind cul-de-sacs was that they lessened traffic, since they change the primary function of local streets — rather than offering a way to get anywhere, now they simply provide access to private residences.
Sounds great, right? Wrong!
…this design inherently encourages car use, even for the shortest trips. It also limits the growth of communities and transportation...
Going in for my last final of law school. It's an...
#pitchforkbumperstickers →
lowbrowbrilliant: bigcrush: yvynyl:
Score! Pop Up Swap →
brooklynskillshare:
The famous mega-swap is back at BKLYN Yard on May 29th from 12-6!
In case you missed that last two swaps (that drew over 1,000 each!), this is how Score! works: Attendees bring their old clothes, music, books, etc, to the event and drop them at the door. Volunteers sort and distribute these items to themed departments where professional curators organize them into...
“I went to art school. Now art school is not like regular college. Tai chi was a...”
– Alison Brie, a.k.a. Pete’s wife Trudy in Mad Men, in this hilarious Nerve essay about her kinky art school days and attempts to have exploratory sex with a male gay friend. Yet another reason to love her.
Conditioning
totes:
autobhan:
One of my coworkers, who is eighty-one years old, grew up in Morningside Heights. I decided to interview her about the history of air conditioning after I spent a traumatic week in an 81-degree office on the 22nd floor of my Midtown office building. I couldn’t imagine how people held full-time jobs during the sweltering Manhattan summers of yesteryear without air...
roomthily: The Only Thing That Can Stop This... →
Sure, we’ve got dozens of astronauts, physicists, and demolitions experts. I’ll be damned if we didn’t try to train our best men for this mission. But just because they can fly a shuttle and understand higher-level astrophysics doesn’t mean they can execute a unique mission like this. Anyone…
Dispatch from a move, day #4
Anthony found the Mast Brothers dark chocolate with sea salt and peppercorn bar today. Why I packed it somewhere I’d never look - in with the vitamins - is beyond me, but who has time for self-recrimination when there is delicious chocolate to be had?
In other news, I no longer feel like someone has taken a lead pipe to my thighs and calves, and I can walk down the stairs without wincing. ...
Watchdontwhistleontheelevator: lowbrowbrilliant:
You guys I made a crawfish boil video. Lookit.
Hooray for Erin and her vimeo habit.
A Reminder
johnnysimon:
Tomorrow does not celebrate Mexican Independance. It celebrates the Mexican army beating the French at the Battle of Puebla and delaying their movements toward Mexico City. The French invaded Mexico again a year later and continued to Mexico City where they toppled the regime of Benito Juarez and Mexico had a French emporer until 1866.
The Celebrate Brooklyn schedule of free shows at... →
I love love love the Celebrate Brooklyn series! This year’s lineup looks great. I’m most excited about the Sharon Jones show, but also looking forward to Metric, Sonic Youth, Nora Jones, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, the OkayAfrica show, and the country show.
What are you excited to see?
Dispatch from a move, day #1
God I hate having things. I spent three years out of college living and traveling abroad, never amassing much of anything besides photos. It was liberating, not having more than what could be packed in an hour or two. I’ve always been a purger anyways, taking pleasure from the piles of trash and donations resulting from the merciless application of my rule of disposal of anything I...
Santa Clara County, California outlaws toy... →
The law “prevents restaurants from preying on children’s’ love of toys,” Supervisor Ken Yeager tells the Los Angeles Times. “This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes.”
Read more: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/heavy-doses/2010/04/28/happy-meal-toy-ban-in-california-hits-mcdonalds#ixzz0mhvaZkNG
I think this is a great idea. ...
April 2010
120 posts
66 Things You Can Can Grow At Home: In Containers,... →
caramelcupcake:
(via vincentvincent)
i want to grow more things! my basil seems to be coming along nicely - the parsley is trying to sprout, but struggling
