March 2009
19 posts
First, why don't you tell me what exactly...
One of my New Years resolutions for 2k9 was to really hone my Bloody Mary making skills according to my own personal preferences. Hands down, it’s my favorite alcoholic drink, but sometimes when I order one at brunch restaurants, I’m brought a lil glass mug of watered-down, horseradish-y shrimp cocktail sauce, which is the opposite of hearty, which is the opposite of good. In my...
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GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web
Place your bids now for Fergie’s gold panties & many other celebrity unmentionables, on auction for charity. (via Popbytes) Walkscore is an online service that maps 40 U.S. cities for their approximate walkability. (via PSFK) Body-slimming company Spanx will expand with a clothing line. (via Glamour) Anne Hathaway will be animated for an upcoming Family Guy episode. (via Zap2It) ...
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Real life feels lame and unfulfilling now that I...
Guys, how am I supposed to go back to boring old reality after a week of careless daydrinking at free shows in 80 degree sunshine? This desk job is not living. Overhearing my Jamaican little girl neighbors sing along with Barney the Dinosaur through my bathroom wall is not living. Using almost-stale tortilla chips to scoop a giant bowl of homemade guacamole into my face during 30 Rock is only...
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Dan Auerbach played a 2am house party during SXSW,...
Friday afternoon, Jessica & I heard Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys was playing a house party in the middle of the woods at 2am. Both of us were sure we weren’t VIP enough to be there, and we also weren’t confident we’d last that late after 3 full days of day-drinking in the sun. Whatever, though. Priorities. We drank strong coffee, apologized for being irritable...
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GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web
Oh, just a giant castle constructed from late 70’s drugs. (via Miasma Protege) “Grace Around the World,” a new Jeff Buckley live DVD/CD is set to release June 2. (via Billboard) Here’s how to feed yourself for $15 a week. (via Get Rich Slowly) In hard times, freelancers are turning to job-procuring sites online. (via the NY Times) Three girls have been hired as...
Follow me on Twitter while I'm in Austin for SXSW!
I’m headed to Austin this week to crash with my girl Jessica for my 2nd-ever SXSW. I won’t be online to post while I’m away, but you can follow me on Twitter for updates like my last several below!
Will you pledge to sponsor me in the 2009 MS Walk?
A quick time out from my usual silliness to address a cause that’s affected me personally, and I feel really strongly about… Why I’m participating in the 2009 MS Walk MS is a chronic, incurable disease that eats away at the nervous system. I am walking on behalf of three family members: my father, Paul, diagnosed when I was 7; my sister, Stephanie, diagnosed early last...
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GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web
Google Earth updated its maps of Mars. (via CNet News) Bill Gates tops the 2009 list of tech billionaires’ financial losses at $18 billion. (via TechCrunch) TV ratings gurus aren’t confident that MTV will renew the CollegeHumor show. (via New TeeVee) In Germany, Obama [chicken] Fingers are available for purchase in the frozen food section. (via Foreign Policy) New mobile...
Alltime Favorite Albums Week: Part 4 of 4,...
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans, 2005 (Amazon / Insound) When I’m wandering NYC & feeling stupidly emo, I put Plans on & it’s always right. One night about a year ago, for example, I got lost looking for an alternate subway stop in the West Village when the one I meant to take was closed (I’m useless off the numbered grid). I wasn’t prepared for how hard it was...
Alltime Favorite Albums Week: Part 3 of 4,...
The Strokes - Is This It?, 2001 (Amazon / Insound) One summer home from college, I listened to the Strokes practically every day on my drive to & from my stupid retail job at the mall. I didn’t have A/C in the Jetta (r.i.p.), so Is This It? would blare real loud from open windows— except at night, when the air cooled enough to keep windows up & scream-sing along with it...
Alltime Favorite Albums Week: Part 2 of 4,...
Radiohead - The Bends, 1995 (Amazon / Insound) The Bends was the first album I loved in whole immediately. I vividly remember pressing “Play” and perching attentive on the edge of my bed— too mesmerized to know what to do with myself, really, and eventually falling back on the mattress to just lay & listen. My resulting obsession verged on gross: I religiously haunted...
Alltime Favorite Albums Week: Part 1 of 4,...
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville, 1993 (Amazon / Insound) I remember listening to blow job song “Flower” at 14 or 15 & thinking, “Holy shit what is this?” And though I may to an extent be romanticizing memories now, I’m pretty sure Exile in Guyville played a huge part in my “becoming a woman”— like in figuring out what that meant to me, and...
I hereby declare March 9-13, 2009 "Alltime...
I made this up. It’s based on nothing. But I hereby declare its official-ness. As I gear up to discover new musicians at SXSW next week, I thought it’d be fun to celebrate albums I’ve loved forever that any number of newly beloved finds can’t ever replace. Over the next 5 days, I’ll geek out & explain my alltime favorites, and I invite other...
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GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web
A lost Mark Twain story will be published in The Strand Magazine. (via LA Times - Jacket Copy) Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz guest star as cocaine dealers on CSI: NY, and Videogum has a clip. Dine Out Brooklyn, our version of restaurant week, will run from March 23 to April 2. (via Out About Brooklyn) Hearst may turn the Seattle Post-Intelligencer online-only. (via the NY Times) Dakota...
Something else I'd like to hug, 10 day-old giraffe...
The mystifying music that ZSL put behind this only heightens my urge to wrap my arms around this 10 day-old giraffe baby.
Wanna own mounted prints of these surreal Rene...
It’s hard to tell sometimes, what I’ll love forever. It’s not always the same thing that I love right now. Right now I want to track down big mounted prints of all three of these surreal Rene Magritte paintings and buy them at whatever price. But at the same time, I’m also saying to me: “If you hang all 3 of these in your one-room apartment, you will develop wack...
I recently found out my badass dinosaur necklace...
Late last fall, I bought a silver dinosaur necklace from Red Lipstick (sweet boutique near my previous apartment in Prospect Park, Brooklyn). The charm was fantastically detailed & scary-looking. I thought it would make an excellent conversation piece (which are wise to wear to parties, just in case said gathering is totally awkward.) Dinosaur charm looked like this guy here: I debuted this...
It's so messed up how close I sat to Peter...
Yeah, I’m a chill, non-violent kid who wouldn’t actually do anything creepy to Peter Sarsgaard. But still— can’t believe Amanda & I scored front row tix to the Off-Broadway production of “Uncle Vanya” starring him & Maggie Gyllenhaal, considering the number of near-psychotic crush posts I’ve written, including: Totally gratuitous Peter Sarsgaard...