September 2009
2 posts
To anyone who happened to be inside KGB Bar last Friday night: I sincerely apologize for my table’s bad behavior.
To the doorman who somehow caught me trying to leave with three rocks glasses of vodka placed securely inside my friend’s handbag: My bad. I realize now that wasn’t cool.
A woman strolls out of Push My Swing pre-school on 29th and Lexington, and I walk by and for the first time in a long time feel an unusual type of happiness. She looks around 30. Worn-out but happy. Dressed business-casual and probably just done visiting her kid during her lunch break.
I wonder if someday I might want a child after all and this makes me giddy with anticipation. I smile at her;...
June 2009
5 posts
“I don’t walk, I get carried”
– Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Reunited
Amazing, Awesome Flower Actually Smells Like Shit
“A flower taller than a man, stinking strongly of putrefying roadkill and colored deep burgundy to mimic rotting flesh, sounds like something from a low-budget science fiction movie. But Indonesia’s titan arum—or “corpse flower,” as known by locals—is a real, if rare, phenomenon, pollinated in the wild by carrion-seeking insects.”
— From the July 18, 2003...
It Was, More Or Less, A Typical Thursday Anyways
I’ve been away for awhile. Which means it was time to replenish a dwindled supply of the sole commodity that allows me to grapple with the utter heartbreak of the human condition – bourbon – this evening. Which is when this fucking day sped from routine but nevertheless soul-crushing anxiety (typical) to frenzied angst over everything in sight (not ideal).
A dumpy liquor store sits near...
April 2009
6 posts
FB Group: We won't see "Observe and Report"... →
katoleary:
wannablessedbe:
Dear Jody Hill, Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and all the assholes involved in greenlighting, producing, and marketing such utterly awful material:
We are not going to see “Observe and Report,” and I want to make things clear. I am not refusing to see it because it isn’t my type of movie, or because I am a person of delicate sensibilities who cannot handle “edgy” humour....
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library →
plainoljane:
littlemisslibrarian:
They describe it as “the top 100 books that have shaped the lives of individual men while also helping define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be a man.” I would be interested in seeing the top 100 books that have shaped the lives of individual women while also helping define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be women.
What would that list...
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library →
plainoljane:
I have read only 20 of these. I guess they are a man’s library, so I would not be expected to. Especially considering this list was entirely gendered and contained only books by male authors or books with strong masculine protagonists. Bullshit. I am a well-read person and these lists will not undermine my faith in my intellect.
That said, I’d also like to point out that at least...
Let's see if we can find a stupider sentence...
alexbalk:
“Unless Lula recognizes that everybody, rich or poor, black or white, educated or not, developed or not, has their own share of responsibility for the current global crisis, he will never acquire enough respect to influence global policy making.”
Not likely.
Dealbreaker: You don’t absolutely love Ulysses and...
In this spirit of this funny-‘cause-it’s-true Tumblr.
“Each successive episode, dealing with some province of artistic culture...”
– James Joyce, regarding Ulysses (via plainoljane)
March 2009
28 posts
The fucking coffee's never strong enough, is it?
“This thunderstorm makes me feel o.k. about playing poker on Facebook for the...”
– A.G.
“You may think that your website is harmless, but remember, that three-phase...”
– Effigy2000 on Building Services Porn. Sobering words. (via buildingservicesporn)
That old joke: the way you get a three-phase distribution board to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way you get a circulator pump is you just have to ask him. That’s not actually a...
Wanderer In Sad-Panda Costume Embodies Recession →
— Gothamist (Via)
Things you might end up doing in Thailand: "Eating... →
Friend moved to Thailand awhile back. This, apparently, is what she’s been up to.
Let Us Now Graze Aimless Men →
misterhippity:
(via alexbalk)
New Didion Takes Pity On The City Youngs
“I Was Warned There’d Be No Cake”
“You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because...”
– Ulysses (via plainoljane)
OMG, undiscovered drinking. →
feistyred:
Amanda and I are planning my yearly winery roadtip. We have done the south/north fork of LI, we want something different. We stumbled upon this awesome list in Hudson Valley.
Short Story Long
The arrangement of furniture offers a faithful image of the familial and social structures of a period. The typical bourgeois interior is patriarchal; its foundation is the dining-room/bedroom combination. Although it is diversified with respect to function, the furniture is highly integrated, centring [sic] around the sideboard or the bed in the middle of the room. There is a tendency to...
Five Issues for Feminist Men to Take On
jgh:
per courtney at feministing:
Comprehensive sexual education that include critical conversations about rape, power, and violence with men AND teaches men what and where the clit is (just sayin’).
Advocating for more family-friendly work policy for all and changing the culture of work machismo among men.
Reflecting on how much $$ goes into male athletic culture, and how linked it is to...
fml:
this weekend, i’m going out on a first date with a woman who, on facebook, lists “mostly just magazines” as her favorite books.
“removing credit tags when you reblogged is a touchy subject around here. and I’d...”
– via I Am Not Kidding
could you pleasepleaseplease then give chuck palahniuk some cred for your blog’s “all god does is watch us and kill us when we get boring …” slug? it’s from invisible monsters.
overheard this morning at 90th and 5th
jogging man to attractive woman jogging past: hi, how are you.
woman: umm, hi. yeah, i'm fine. just having a run. um, how about you?
man: SINGLE!!
woman: [shakes head; jogs away]
Fuck, there's already a NonSobriety?
jgh:
Originality fail
there’s also a nomsociety. i know because i checked months ago. kill me now.
“On my way to San Francisco, my apologies for not posting the last few days. I’ve...”
– NonSociety - Meghan
Would you buy a t-shirt that says “Free Meghan!” or “Run Meghan, Run” on it? (via jgh)
yet another sign of the recession: i get invited to a party at the pink elephant.
Just when you think the world is all out of... →
no. NO! fuck this. i’d leave this vile writing profession craft if i didn’t need my salary to eat buy bourbon.
(via alexbalk)
i wonder why none of my friends ever respond “no” to a facebook happy-hour invite. just kidding! i know exactly why: because they’re a bunch of unrepentant drunks who would never decline a happy hour!
February 2009
28 posts
“#4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York - quick peel me a...”
– (via freddahead)
hey, if this whole writing thing doesn’t pan out, this would be a decent fall-back.
diary of drinking alone, pt. two
(previous iterations here and here.)
there’s a drunk off in the corner who’s so tanked he’s speaking only in vowels, and the way the bartender scrubs and scrubs on the same spot makes me wonder how clean everything else is. i order bourbon on rocks and receive bourbon neat. close enough.
an attractive woman sitting alone keeps on looking at her watch and sipping from a martini glass. as i eye...
yes, i did find it necessary to clarify that.
me: wft *is* that?
me: DO NOT WANT
molly: LIES U TOTES WANT IT
me: i want that like i want herpes
me: so as to say: not at all.
molly: you sir are a delight
“With the Snuggie™, your hands are free to work a remote control, massage your...”
– yes, the as-of-yet unscheduled nyc snuggie pub crawl, which may or may not happen tonight, will involve the latter.
(via gothamist, via antikris)
gawker tipster angry someone else has work. →
the next iteration of this digression will involve journalists, writers, and bloggers killing off one another and using the bodies for food.
Remember those career classes you’d have to sit through and listen at during high school about what goes on at such-and-such’s mother’s/father’s job? Here’s my version of that:
8:00 Wake up with splitting headache and that involuntary twitch in my right bicep. Curse inanimate objects, and then feel stupid when remembering they have no free will and can’t help it.
8:15 Bring French-pressed...
When the NYPost discovers twitter, you know we've... →
soupsoup:
Roger’s innovation adoption curve.
hey soup, don’t pretend as if the post isn’t totally the best go-to source for technology news and also great police blotter and awful headlines.