The financial collapse here in New York has finally affected me… My landlord is selling the apartment. So for the third time in 28 months, I’ll be moving. With any luck I’ll find a no-fee apartment, but not without a fair amount of frustration I expect. The Manhattan rental market is a beast like no [...]
Back to back trips to Buy Buy Baby and Babies ‘R Us this week to find an extra tall baby gate to contain my frisky feline had me thinking about babies. I expect that as the marriage count among my friends is continuing to increase, steadily behind it will come the baby count. Eeeek. Babies.
Until [...]
Some people have a talent for storytelling.
Sufjan, who, in addition to writing songs, tells precious little stories…
And my brother’s friend Crans, who crafts these lovely gems from Paris…
I was tempted to play carols at work on my computer to get people into the Christmas spirit. But playing music out loud in the office is a [...]
I’m waiting in line at the laundry with one girl behind me while a couple in front of me disputes something about their laundry detergent. Two or three minutes go by. A man walks up carrying a bag of laundry and steps in front of me.
Me: “Hey, there’s a line.”
Him: (shrug)
The couple leaves just then. [...]
You can set a locked maximum volume on your iPod. I like loud music. I always want it a little bit louder. I want to feel like it’s inside me - even when I’m on the subway. But, I’d also like to be able to hear when I’m 60. [...]
I’ve been griping about weddings for quite some time now. Call me bitter. Call me cynical. Probably I’m a mix of both intermittently - particularly at weddings. At any rate, this year being one in which I won’t attend a single wedding, it seemed the best timing to theorize about the [...]
I happened upon “Love & Sex” (2000) starring Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen on IFC tonight. The movie was a surprisingly good Saturday-night-before-Sunday-workday-nothing-else-to-do activity.
Right at the part where you realize that like all romantic comedies this one is also going to have a happy ending despite whatever plot devices are currently being used to [...]
I moved twice during my childhood that I remember. At the time it felt traumatic and then later, for college applications, I was able to spin the experience of moving as “making me flexible” and I began to believe my own story. The year I went to college my parents moved away and I [...]
For a few weeks I’ve been contemplating a platform change, i.e. Windows —> Mac. My computer has had it (or maybe I should say I’ve had it with my computer). Firefox seems to consume approximately 99% of the CPU and I can’t watch a movie and have Firefox open at the same time. [...]
some dude i was talking to in a bar was wearing a shirt that said, “music is my life”
and so i was like, “you like music??” and pointed to the shirt
and he goes “i guess. my brother gave me this shirt.”
this is season 1, entry 1 of a series about retarded things people say [...]