Archive for October, 2008

Friday, October 31st, 2008

oh…my…GOD!!!!!

From Entertainment Weekly:
Warning: This next story may make you pee your pants.
TV’s best comedy and drama are about to collide in the most spectacular of ways.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that Mad Men star Jon Hamm is in advanced talks to do a multi-episode arc on 30 Rock.
Cross your legs — there’s more!
I’m told Hamm, […]

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

ephemera

1. So I was having dinner with my French guy friend the other night and talking about the onerous process of attaining my U.S. citizenship and how I have a better chance of being mauled by polar bears in Times Square than becoming a citizen. And on top of that, all the lawyers I consulted […]

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Monday, October 27th, 2008

you can’t go wrong with bathroom humor or mad men


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Monday, October 27th, 2008

thank you for being a friend (yes, i am quoting the golden girls)

Happy Monday, precious readers!!! It has been pretty quiet around these parts. I must admit that the past couple of weeks have not been conducive to writing. Much time has been devoted to alot of soul searching, anxiety, and self doubt. I suppose this kind of introspection is inevitable when your 29th birthday […]

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

criticism is good for you

Ji You know I love you and it’s obviously very difficult for me to be critical of anything you do.  But I simply cannot hold this back.  You have not updated your blog daily.  For your working friends who need interesting, personal and changing web content to get them through their days, this feels […]

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Monday, October 20th, 2008

how mad men is turning me into a woman

I guess it’s the sociology major in me but one of the things I love about Mad Men is the study of gender roles in the work place. In a Los Angeles Times article, Matt Weiner, the series creator, talks about researching the social issues of that era and and even reading Helen […]

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Thursday, October 9th, 2008

the russian

The first time I met him was at a conference for work. I didn’t notice him at first, which is odd, given that no one attractive or under the age of forty ever attends these things. We actually met on our way out as we waited for the elevator. The first thing that […]

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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

legos zombies are so cute

So one of my fave blogs is io9. Um, yeah, it’s a sci-fi blog. I only read it for the posts on LOST okay? So what if LOST is on hiatus right now?! Just let me be!Anyway, this post shows a zombie apocalypse scene constructed out of legos! How adorable! I think it also goes […]

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

a new movie genre?

i wanna see that new anne hathaway movie “rachel getting married”. it seems to be in the same vein as the noah baumbach film “margot at the wedding.” i can see the next wayans movie now “i can’t believe my fat, ugly sister got married before me.”

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

book club

hey, lets do an online book club! my goal has been to read a book a month (i’m a moderate achiever). i skipped september but kavalier and clay was like 700 pages so that should count as two books. heh. so this month’s book is american pastoral by philip roth. The last Roth […]

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