December 2008
64 posts
in 2008, i quit my job, started a few other jobs, dated someone new and broke his heart, moved in with someone old but good, reclaimed manhattan, showed up on design*sponge, stopped eating meat, saw a great concert, made a few friends, threw a few parties, went a few places.
and now i’m late for work on new year’s eve.
HAPPY 2009!
“Digital cameras let us do away with whatever we decide is not quite right, and...”
– ode to the Polaroid.
google launches "the google" for older adults →
anyone care to loan me a calculator?
even a solar-powered will do.
Watchryan gosling? kids in costume? old-timey piano? shifting focal length? check, check, check, and check.
omg
futurehomemaker:
i am seriously considering shipping my clothes back to brooklyn so that i can fill my luggage with records.
i am also weighing the pros and cons of checking a bag full of cheerwine vs. shipping it back to the city.
EMPHASIS MINE
instant satisfaction
the thing with instant foods is that the really good ones hold a unique pleasure, one completely dissasociated with the original, made-from-scratch dish they riff on. for example, mashed potatoes in a box, kraft macaroni, and frozen creamed spinach.
in fact, i don’t think instant mashed potatoes taste for one second like a potato boiled in milk and butter and then mashed with a fork and...
not so merry. →
aerial video footage of the 400-acre flyash spill in kingston, tn.
jack bauer is super smokin’ in person and nice to boot. he asked how MY night was and then bummed me a light.
CHEERS.
ginger soy dressing
reminds me of being too poor in college to buy anything but beer at upper deck and thus making an entire meal out of pouring it onto toast.
gross.
under my thumb - rolling stones (because this is...
ok
1. who took the warhol glasses?
2. why so many full beer cans open?
3. the jingle bell ring had a short, but sweet, life.
(thanks for documenting, m.)
a.o. scott, 1. →
“Eggplant parmesan. Printing press. Lung. Bone marrow. Eye transplant. Rosario Dawson. Great Dane. Banana peel. Jellyfish (but you knew that already). Car accident. Congestive heart failure.”
Remember Sufjan Stevens?
alexbalk:
Indie kid, glockenspiel fan, had that album about Illinois out like a decade ago? What’s he up to these days?
let’s illustrate:
No
cosmopsis:
I am so hungover. I am hallucinating Paula Deen. I want someone to make me mashed potatoes and feed me popcorn in a dark, womb-like movie theater. I’m calling the police…
i didn’t have any excedrin so i took nyquil at 5 am. now? a hungover zombie.
Green Sap, Gardenia Petals, Sambac Jasmine...
akin to a fragrance i once smelled, lovingly entitled “sex panther.”
“How are you supposed to enjoy your golden parachute and last year’s...”
– oh James, stop! (wink, love you, call me)
it's been way too long since news of hootie. →
real life pink panthers! →
(am i the last one to pick up on this AWESOME story?)
Girls who wear glasses
magicmolly:
No doubt about it, there’s a certain playful genius at work in early Playboy captions. A 1959 pictorial with a sexy-librarian theme was accompanied with text that confessed that certain notions
“have hitherto prevented us from scouting the libraries of our land in search of gatefold glamour. A little unbiased cognition, of course, should have led us to the conclusion that there’s no...
20 signs you don’t want that web design project →
helenrice:
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet. (via swissmiss)
[snort] “Client begins first meeting by making a big show of telling you that you are the expert. You are in charge, he says: he will defer to you in all things, because you...
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks →
oliveargyle: i seriously just laughed “harder than i have in years” (via elbee103)
“Chefs should be better at tasting than they are at cooking.”
– Ferran Adrià, head chef at El Bulli (via junesix)
notable quote, considering one of his most famous students almost lost his sense of taste from throat cancer.
