December 2008
16 posts
This morning we also talked about a 21 year-old co-worker who, despite having never lived away from home, wants to get her own studio. Knows someone with a really cheap deal (in Queens, of course). This I consider a massively bad idea, and will start the “moving back home” watch the minute it happens (if it does), but a good part of that is personal.
I decided a few years ago,...
Bentham's Bathroom
magicmolly:
Of the problems bedeviling coffee shop managers, none must be so annoying as bathroom maintenance. There is the threat of graffiti, drug use, general mess, and use by non-customers. The task of fending off non-customers is a complicated one. What managers need is some kind of semi-permeable membrane, like cells have, to admit some things while blocking others. Most coffee shops have...
Dear Brooklyn,
The solid, smooth sheet of ice that is South Slope’s 6th Ave. sidewalk, over the Prospect Expressway between Prospect and 17th? Not cool. While my penguin walk has grown quite nimble over the past couple days, I worry for the older lady with whom I momentarily commiserated this afternoon, and can only hope her grocery cart is a solid support. I expect this from all the...
“Say “Caroline Kennedy” to Bess Goden, 23, and she pauses, working quietly to...”
– “The Young Know Caroline’s a Kennedy, but Which One?“ And I’m like, there can’t really be that much of a generation gap between me and those two to four years younger, can there? (Also, SJU, represent.)
basically, yeah.
me: one of my finals is easy, the other, latin american politics, will take a while to study for
Johanna: it all goes back to america being a dick
Late addition to my Christmas list
Criterion edition of Bottle Rocket, a film for which my love knows no bounds.
While viewing my dozen 16"x20" photos at this...
Weeks: Who taught you how to [color] print?
Me: Uh...?
Classmate, to him: You?
Weeks: [smirks, nods at me] Good job.
taylorlong:
badempire:
Yeah! It’s back on. www.themurdercitydevils.com
HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT
eep! come on, east coast.
For secret santa at work, I drew a nineteen-year-old boy whose main interests can be narrowed to girls, Nikes, and cars (in that order). Although his heritage is more PR/Ital via Bushwick than DR via NJ, I’m thinking a paperback copy of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It’s either that or a Wendy’s gift card. A boy’s gotta eat lunch, and free sodas [courtesy of our...
“College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.”
– Wait wait wait, “may become”? On the list of issues that get me furious, well. I went to St. John’s because tuition (in 2001) was $17k and change, and I got a decent scholarship and maximum grants. I’d love to be finishing my degree there instead of Hunter, but with...
“He also knew he was a good writer. One day a friend who worked at The New Haven...”
– The Making of the Minimalist