February 2010
1 post
Kenyon lives in Park Slope!
And so do a lot of other schools … but we get a big font.
January 2010
2 posts
Brooklyn dentists
As a person with dental insurance (the few, the proud), I often get asked for my dentist’s info. Dr. Leena Lakhkar is lovely (and always gives me mini toothpastes to take home, so I never have to buy them when I travel), but she’s not in Brooklyn, where many of my friends live - so from now on I’m referring y’all to this awesome roundup from Brooklyn Based. Now go get your...
You’d think a newspaper would eagerly embrace a pay-for-online-content model … but not when it’s inconvenient for them, apparently. I could go on and on, but the email exchange captured here really says it all. (via Gawker)
November 2009
2 posts
Who will gentrify the gentrifiers?
[Sarah's gchat message: something about how there is no decent chai in Park Slope]
me: ugh. it's tough.
me: they're all so sweet
me: you are talking about chai tea, right?
Sarah: Right? And the one at Baked is the absolute WORST!
me: as a non coffee drinker this is my burden
Sarah: Brittanny and I keep forgetting that it's so bad and ordering it there!
me: you know... i seem to remember Ozzy's has a decent one
me: there's like two kinds out there. one is the super sweet kind. but then there's this nutty variety... and i think that's what ozzy's uses
Sarah: Maybe. I was in Carroll Gardens yesterday, and I thought the Tea Lounge might have been okay--but that Tea Lounge closed too!
me: oh sad.
me: it's pretty sad when starbucks has the best chai latte around.
Sarah: I know! That's where I went instead!
me: well, i would check out ozzys sometime and let me know if it's still decent. i actually tried to get one there last sunday but they didn't have running water
me: whoops
Sarah: Ozzys is kind of a shithole. Their coffee is awful these days, so it would be ironic if the chai is good...
me: ugh. well maybe that went downhill too. maybe gorilla coffee has chai!
Sarah: Sigh...gentification and its discontents.
me: yes it is not good when you need someplace new to come in and gentrify the gentrification
"Independent suburban-dysfunction dramas"
I’m not sure anyone has ever summed up my taste in movies so succinctly. Way to go, Netflix!
August 2009
1 post
Finally out on DVD ... my beloved Last Days of... →
“Young? Upwardly mobile? Professional? Those are good things, not bad things!”
June 2009
5 posts
Man on C train: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Homeless Man, but you can call me Homeless for short.
Stu: You're looking rather rural today.
In the near future, this tumblr will likely become home to some of the work that I’m doing for the class I’m taking this summer, Media Practices: Design. Expect some photography and other design-related endeavors (and more frequent posting!).
Five things to do
One of the magazines that periodically arrive at my doorstep advised me to come up with five things that are most important to me this summer and then make a plan to get them done - that way, you won’t overschedule with other things that prevent you from doing what you really want. Sound advice, considering that at least two of these items were on my mental list for last summer and never got...
April 2009
3 posts
Space blows my mind
There are about 10 things in this article that make me go “what?!”
Yeah, I'm a font nerd
This movie looks really interesting. Watching it should totally make up for the time my media production prof brought up fonts and typography and then said we weren’t going to discuss them because it was “dull” and nerdy. Sigh. I was so disappointed!
Kind of a cool name, actually
Starbucks employee: Can I get your name?
Me (mishearing her while fumbling with money): No, that's all.
Starbucks employee: Tall skim chai for Thatzall!
March 2009
2 posts
“Before we were married, my wife and I used to play a game called Let’s Go...”
– Tom Waits (in GQ, via Jezebel)
Child of the '80s
Did anyone else see this photo and immediately think “Lisa Frank!!!”
It’s like my trapper keeper come to life!
February 2009
1 post
Working all day with writers and editors, I’ve always found it fascinating how many of them just can’t spell - that love of language and writing doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand with being able to differentiate between “your” and “you’re.” (Lest I sound like a pompous jerk, I know I have my slipups, too. That’s why www.m-w.com is my friend.)...
January 2009
5 posts
KA-CHORI!
Nice to know I’m not the only one fascinated by the mysterious yet delicious Ka-chori. The photo doesn’t lie - the dish really does look like someone poured a whole bunch of random pieces of food into an aluminum takeout container. But man is it yummy.
Tape ain't gonna fix it, honey
I’m in a Kills mood this morning. I have a little crush on Jamie Hince.
Touche, Respected Enemy, Touche
Tracy: No one ever died from inanity. Stupidity yes, but not inanity.
Stu: Inanity might be my kryptonite.
Tracy: I highly doubt that for you.
Stu: ...did you just some how turn that around and subtly accuse me of being inane? Because, if so, bravo, that was masterful.
Tracy: Yes, and thanks.
Stu: Hold on, I'm going to stand up now and clap.
“I drew a drawing of you after last time I saw you
I never felt to draw a...”
– The Streets
December 2008
2 posts
Oh my goodness
my tumblr needs some love. I’m on winter break now so I’ll get to it. I’ll get to it. In the meantime, watch above video, my current source of life-inspiration.
September 2008
5 posts
“Our identity is a tricky business. Human cells are constantly being renewed and...”
– Alan Fletcher
R.I.P.
Besides being an astounding novelist and journalist, people from my alma mater remember David Foster Wallace as author of one of the best commencement speeches ever given.
“The Great Gatsby does not proclaim the nobility of the human spirit; it is not...”
– Matthew J. Bruccoli
August 2008
4 posts
I’m having that thing where, after a week or two of feeling decidedly shaggy and split-ended, you make a hair appointment and then instantly start having a string of frizz-free, perfectly tousled days that make you not want to push your luck with scissors. What is it with that?
Silver lining
Today was kind of a crap day, all told. But I’m going to choose to remember it as the day I discovered the Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar. Truly, it was a beacon of peanutty deliciousness.
Also, I listened to Bone Thugs.
Thoughts while working alone at night
I bought a bunch of new clothes at H&M today and they’ve been sitting here at work in a bag under my desk, taunting me. Putting articles up on the internet is great and all, but what I’d really like to do is use the mirror in the office ladies’ room for a FASHION SHOW! However, that takes more time and effort than I currently have to devote to it, so what I’ve done...
July 2008
6 posts
Listen
I miss my dark, moody U2
I’m not one of those crazy rabid U2 fans - although I might have been, if all their albums sounded like Achtung Baby. Back in 1991 they were still referred to in print as “Irish rock band U2” and Bono quite possibly hadn’t been to Africa yet. For this one album, they were sort of brooding and Euro and wrote lyrics like “A man will beg/ A man will crawl/ On the sheer...
This Is How We Do It →
“Once upon a time in ‘94 … “
I had reason to think of Mr. Montel Jordan today. I’m so glad this tune has stood the test of time.
I'm so excited ... for the Saved by the Bell book!...
Now I know Dustin Diamond has become a real sleazebag in recent years, but I’m still going to buy his forthcoming Saved by the Bell memoir, “Behind the Bell.” That book is LONG overdue, at least in my I-have-all-the-Bayside-cheerleader-cheers-memorized mind.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar/Zack Morris, you were such an adorable preppie schemer. I confess I am dying to know if you and Kelly...
Bale
I wrote about Christian Bale and his loyal fans for the Daily News website last week. You can read it here.
Needless to say, this was a fun one to research - I really enjoyed talking to all the obsessive Bale fans I know (and their Bale-obsessed friends), a couple of whom were kind enough to let me quote them. Of course, there were even more gems of Bale devotion that didn’t make the...
June 2008
3 posts
“I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never...”
– Frank O’Hara
(as excerpted in this Sunday’s NY Times Book Review. Frank O’Hara was one of my favorite poets as a kid thanks to this book, and I love him still.)
God help me, I really want to see this movie
I don’t like car chase scenes. I don’t like summer blockbusters that aren’t Batman. I don’t like most movies that Angelina Jolie is in. But James McAvoy looks really hot holding that gun. I don’t like guns! But I like James McAvoy.
The Tropic of Brooklyn
Living amidst the tangle of concrete in New York, it’s often easy to forget that we are, in fact, surrounded by water and the beach is just a stone’s throw away. But the other morning I woke up, and maybe it was the humidity in my apartment, or maybe a particular smell on the breeze blowing through the window, and I suddenly remembered I live a very short train ride from the ocean. ...
May 2008
20 posts
Reunited
** This is a LOST spoiler ** So we had a Desmond and Penny reunion last night!! I wasn’t expecting that until, like, the series finale or something. So yeah. I jumped up and down a little.
“Checkmate, Mr. Eko.”
– Hurley, LOST
My bathroom hand towels are featured in Sex and...
according to the trailer I just saw on TV. Shut up, it was mildly exciting for me. I got them at Pearl River Mart. They’re fabulous.
Sad panda news
Now, I don’t in any way mean to detract from the human toll of the devastating earthquake in China. Of course not. But … the pandas! “Also in the quake area, three giant pandas were missing from the world’s most famous reserve for the endangered animals. All the pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were first reported safe Tuesday, but an official with the State Forestry...
NOOOOO
The Real World is coming to Brooklyn. In other news, it’s time to move.
Why do I like wings?
Wings are the nastiest part of the chicken. I used to think they were gross. All those rubbery and stringy parts. But sometime over the past winter, I started liking them. I blame broomball: There’s something about running around the ice at night wielding a blunt object and then going inside and tearing apart a small piece of chicken with your teeth and hands that just goes together like...
Just because it's ridiculously nice out
here’s the Celebrate Brooklyn schedule. Lots of highlights this year. Outdoor musics time is right around the corner!
“You can’t drink out of a medal!”
– Gotham Blades broomball, “bar champions” of spring league ‘08