Archive for May, 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

melancholy is a muse

i love three days weekends but loathe the melancholy that creeps in at the end. it’s kinda like in elementary school when you greet the weekends with such glee only to be told on sunday night you can’t stay up to watch married with children. i think it gets harder as you grow older […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

soy un perdedor

i was flipping through the new issue of nylon mag and noticed they have this whole fashion spread on “geek chic”. Why didn’t they toss this term around when I was in elementary and middle school? I could have comforted myself with the fact that at least there was a little bit of chic to […]

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

bonafide lovin’

so i was listening to this song before going out last night and i think it subconsciously led me to smoochies! chromeo is the bestest.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

this looks interesting

But I’m too hungover to read it. Annals of Drinking: A Few Too Many (The New Yorker)

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Monday, May 19th, 2008

just when i thought i was out, he pulls me back in

i am running on three hours of sleep so please forgive the scatter brainedness.fridaywe go to spitzers and nurse betties. i have about twenty beers. at this point i am drunk and really want smoochies but i cant text the bartender because i deleted his number after his drunken incident last sunday. i try to […]

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

happy happy joy joy

my roommate and i were talking about how it takes so much more energy to be depressed than to just be chill. and that happiness is not an objective like a better job or a better body or a better significant other. sure, all those things may amplify your state of happiness but they can’t […]

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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

family matters

yeah, so my title references a bad ninetie’s show with carl winslow and urkel. anyhoos, my bro and i emailed and everything seems to be fine. just wanted to share the last paragraph of his email because it made me laugh and captures the kind of rapport we have. “i could not […]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

check yourself before you wreck yourself

So now I have a vague sense of what it’s like to be a single mom. And now I know why so many rappers have “dear mama” songs. Although rappers’ moms had to take care of their kids for years, working three jobs just so their kids could have health care. My 19 yr old […]

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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

the peter conjecture

If a guy is named Peter then he will be hot.

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

on a heavier note

i’ve been really into eating these kabobs from the street vendor for lunch. so convenient! and i was thinking that more foods should be offered on a stick. because sometimes you want to eat while you walk. and sometimes utensils require too much effort. these are my ideas for meals that should be on […]

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