April 2008
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Girl who never lies eats 1 million ice cream cones...
Did you celebrate Ben and Jerry’s free cone day yesterday? I did, despite an embarrassing incident in which I thought I was being rudely ignored by Employee #1, so then ordered from Employee #2 who told me they were out of the flavor I wanted (cheesecake brownie), but then Employee #1 came out with a cheesecake brownie cone for me just as Employee #2 handed me my back-up flavor (regular...
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Response to Omnivoracious's book-beer pairings --...
Editor’s note: I met Ciara through zines in the mid-90’s. We kept in touch through the years, and she went on to establish & edit successful online literary magazine The Furnace Review — while also honing a fine taste in books & beers, as you’ll see in her guest post below. The writers at Omnivoracious are right: why should wine snobs and smelly cheese lovers have...
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Top 5 shows I saw in April, in the order I enjoyed...
It’s been an exhausting month. Not that I’m complaining, as I packed in a good handful of really worthwhile shows in April. I needed this weekend to chill out & recover after a particularly action-packed past week.
Let’s start with a short playlist of sample songs from the bands I caught, and then move on to the ordered list of the top five acts. I’m throwing on...
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Childhood snapshots re-created at Youngme / Nowme
Youngme / Nowme is a project begun by Ze Frank of Color Wars which challenges readers to recreate childhood photographs as adults. The site juxtaposes the old photograph against the newly re-created one, and the results are interesting, to say the least. Winners were already chosen, but because the project is ongoing, submissions are still being accepted for online gallery inclusion. I spent...
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Working is a drag, so quit! -- Guest blog by Greg...
Editor’s note: Jess recently said of our ol’ college friend Greg, “He’s undoubtedly one of the most ridiculous characters I’ve ever met, and I mean that in the best way possible.” I’m inclined to agree, and I think you will be, too, after reading today’s guest blog. Working is a fact of life. You do it for the money and occasionally don’t...
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Bear from Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro fight scene...
Rocky, the 5 year-old grizzly bear that wrestled Will Ferrell’s character in the movie Semi-Pro attacked and killed its trainer, Stephan Miller, 39, around 3 p.m. yesterday. Pepper spray was used to subdue and contain the 700-pound bear after it bit Miller’s neck, according to today’s Huffington Post. Miller’s cousin — Predators in Action training center owner...
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Harry Potter's mystery dream girl taken but "keen...
When Daniel Radcliffe was unable to work his Harry Potter-esque magic on the girl of his dreams at an Australian film party last week, he enlisted the help of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper to help him seal the deal. “She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn’t find her,” Radcliffe told the newspaper. “I must have walked...
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Celebrate your local independent record store...
Tomorrow — Sat., April 19 — log off iTunes and head to your favorite brick & mortar music shop to celebrate the old-fashioned record store experience in honor of Record Store Day! Shops all over the world have some great events and discounts lined up in honor of this one-day event. According to the official info site, the following NYC-based shops will participate with live...
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The Western Civilization is a lovely band of...
I met Reggie & Gretchen of Houston-based band The Western Civilization at one of Jess’s barbeques during SXSW. Though pretty much everybody I met in Austin ranked among the nicest people I’ve ever come across, these guys were two of the loveliest. Throughout SXSW, I kept hearing rave reviews about their band, and was bummed I couldn’t catch any of their wristband-only...
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Totally gratuitous Peter Sarsgaard hot photo post,...
Uh oh, guess what time it is! Now that my “totally gratuitous Peter Sarsgaard hot photo post, part 1” was bumped off the main page of my blog, it’s time for me again to pay tribue to SARAHSPY’S official most attractive actor that ever lived. (Consider this declaration along the same lines as a newspaper’s endorsement for a political candidate, as it is, clearly,...
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Overdubbed video idiocy -- Guest blog by Jimmy!
Editor’s note: Ten years ago, my friend Jimmy and I worked together on a diary-esque website fueled by teenage melodrama and mutual obsession for Radiohead. Today, he works for an education nonprofit in Boston, and in his spare time, combs YouTube for hilarious re-dubbed video clips. Enjoy these linked gems in today’s guest blog! I’m no historian, but I’m sure there was a time, long...
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Armageddon in Retrospect releasing today, on the...
Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of 12 new and unpublished works about war and peace by Kurt Vonnegut — releasing today on the one-year anniversary of his death. The author’s son, Mark Vonnegut (a pediatrician and author of The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity), penned the lovingly tongue-in-cheek introduction, which leads perfectly into the start of the collection — a...
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Things haven't changed a lot for me since I was 16
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Congrats to me -- now a curator for the Brooklyn...
How cool is it that the Brooklyn Museum’s summer photography exhibit “Click!” will be entirely curated by the general public? Last month the museum held an open call for photographic responses to the theme “Changing Faces of Brooklyn.” Now, visitors to the museum’s website are asked to evaluate the resulting submissions to determine which of them will be...
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First-ever Brooklyn Flea this Sunday!
So I’m bummed I’m leaving town this weekend, because the first-ever Brooklyn Flea is happening this Sunday from 10am-5pm in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Luckily it’ll be a weekly affair, so I can check it out another time (probably every single week thereafter). The Flea is organized by Brownstoner.com and will feature 200 vendors of vintage furniture, clothing and antiques alongside...
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Thankfully, TBS airs Sex and the City reruns once...
In the New York metropolitan area, single women aged 25-44 outnumber men by more than 210,000 — the largest disparity of all U.S. cities, according to Sunday’s Boston Globe. Notably, however, the statistics neglect to include the bajillion gay dudes that live here. Which for us single gals — I’m sorry to say — means the ratio is even more skewed, and the chances...
World's oldest shark in captivity dies at Coney...
Bertha, a sand tiger shark who had lived at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island since the 1960s and was believed to be one of the oldest sharks in any aquarium in the world, died on Saturday. Her age was estimated at 43 years old. New York Times article “Remembering Bertha” at the NY Aquarium site
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Life lessons learned from "The Babysitting Blues"...
Editor’s note: My friend Steve, who I’ve known since the 7th grade, has always been “that movie guy,” ready with trivia to excitedly spout at any prompt. He presently works in publicity for a big movie studio in NYC, but has not forgotten his roots, as you’ll see in his guest blog. Growing up, there were several movies I watched repeatedly, almost obsessively. I...