December 2008
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November 2008
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October 2008
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September 2008
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Oh, hi. I’ve neglected to update the internet on my thoughts recently, and for that I apologize. But it’s just that I’ve been busy writing words about things elsewhere. If you are interested in those words, please read them over here and over here too. Oh, wait, here also. Also, check out my new widgetbox.
August 2008
5 posts
WatchIt’s television like this that makes me really happy. Colbert goes after one thing that really got me last week: Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s denial that anyone responsible for Justice Department wrongdoing in the improper hiring practices scandal deserves actual punishment.
Mr. Mukasey told the American Bar Association that he did not see any crimes to prosecute. “Not every...
An editorial in the New York Times yesterday compared Postville, Iowa’s current immigration debacle to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. A similar story woven together by Sinclair from the experiences of Eastern European immigrants working in Chicago slaughterhouses - sadly for the present day comparison - was published 102 years ago.
Sinclair depicts a world of second class citizenry, where...
July 2008
8 posts
kitten + procrastination = this
Might I also suggest watching Control? It’s about the short life of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, and as a friend recently said to me, a two hour long boner. Sam Riley is super hot and you get to listen to Joy Division while looking at him brood in the sexiest of ways. Until the end part. Woops. Anyway, since this was supposedly the coolest British movie of 2007, I’m guessing...
words about new york
Clay Felker died today. He was the founding editor of New York Magazine and had immense influence over the way that New York City was covered, obsessed with what Kurt Andersen calls “our local pageant of ambition, the yearning and hustling and jostling for power and—even more—status.
“For hyperambitious provincials like Harold Ross and Clay Felker, the impulse and ability to...
June 2008
20 posts
He's Like a Citizen
Cookie: ok ... officially getting nervous!
Cookie: need to chill
me: about what
Cookie: date
me: ahh yes
me: just be your charming self
Cookie: i will try!!
Cookie: usually my charm is saying things like "i don't know how to work my vibrator"
Cookie: which doesn't usually work on dates
me: hahahaha
me: you can be like "i don't know how to work my vibrator, so i'm glad we're hanging out"
Cookie: ha ha ha ha
me: or perhaps, "i don't know how to work my vibrator, maybe you can help"
Cookie: i meeeaan ... maybe? but hes not like that
Cookie: he's like a citizen
Watchtran·scen·den·tal Pronunciation: \ˌtran(t)-ˌsen-ˈden-təl, -sən-\ Function: adjective Date: 1624 1 a: transcendent 1b b: supernatural c: abstruse, abstract d: of or relating to transcendentalism2 a: incapable of being the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients <π is a transcendental number> b: being, involving, or representing a function (as sin x, log x, ex) that cannot...
I dare you, 60 Minutes.
I dare you to end pharmacutical sponsorship of your program. Are prescription drugs all you have left to sell to the old people who watch your program? Well besides your fall programming, which after seeing all the trailers, looks pretty terrible.
Come to think of it, I’m not really sure why I’m watching your program. Maybe I thought it would be informative, but you just spent the...
Cyndi, Pauper
Not many people know this, but Cyndi Lauper worked as a shop girl at a small vintage boutique in Manhattan called Screaming Mimi’s before breaking into the music business. Long after she released all of her albums of note, of which there aren’t many, I was doing the same thing.
I worked at Screaming Mimi’s during my senior year of high school earning $7 an hour making sure...
A Crash Course In Democracy
In 2005 I was working as an aide to a Congresswoman. Within the first month or so of the job I was summoned to Washington, DC for training purposes. There, I learned that there is a whole arm of Congress aimed at removing political- and legislative-speak from bills and laws called the Congressional Research Service. They are charged with reprinting policy in language that is comprehensive...
Barry Good
Katherine Harris holding up a newly-purchased possum during her 2006 run for Senate.
I finally found HBO’s Recount online - the story of how George W. Bush stole the 2000 election in Florida - and promptly downloaded it. It’s been a while since the whole debacle of the 2000 elections happened, and thus my anger at the outcome had subsided a bit. Thanks HBO for making me mad...
who are your role models?
So I’m 27 now. I guess. Whatever that means. I’m pondering what teenagers are learning these days. These kids have no recollection of a pre-internet world. Zines are classic now. The teens get cellphones super early. They don’t seem to enjoy their privacy as much.
I don’t want to get all back-in-my-day. So I won’t. But it was different. And yes, I think...
You’ve got to respect a song that only takes...
I’ve decided to follow in the footsteps of my Aunt Lillian, and old people everywhere, and take up a 5pm cocktail hour. Lil told me it’s good for the constitution. She recently passed away at age 92 and I feel it’s an appropriate tribute to her memory.
Lillian was known for her straightfowardness, humor and wonderful insight. I hope I can measure up to her example.
Oh, Canada
I’ll admit it: I used to protest lots of things when I was a younger woman. Namely, Republican and Democratic Conventions, IMF/World Bank meetings, and in 2001 I attempted to protest the Quebec City Summit of the Americas. I was full of complaints. Two friends and I drove 5 hours from Boston to the Canadian border near Burlington, VT in a crappy car covered with punk rock stickers.
I had...
Skull Kontrol
As a kid, I loved the Indiana Jones movies. I watched them over and over again. I love making jokes about how there’s no time for love, Docta Jones. So a few weeks back when the lastest installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, hit the theaters, I was there. Not because I’m all that gung ho on movies, or seeing them right when they open, but because it was...
May 2008
23 posts
We just wanted money
Who doesn’t like money?! That’s what these two young women have to say in their defense for stealing $150 from a girl selling girl scout cookies. ..And now they’re pissed because, guess what? The money was taken from them and charges were brought. I like money too, but they could have at least done something more respectable. Like sell drugs.
king of hearts
You know how when you go to a place with a person, especially for the first time, your collective memory sort of owns that physical place? Depending on the severity of your commitment, their presence in that place ends up owning a fair amount of your attention should you happen to return. Or perhaps it was just really fun to do something with someone but then they try to do it with someone else...
MoooooorEAL, Montreal
Pookie and I liked visiting Canada last August so much that we’re going back to Montreal again next week. We fed the koolaid to our two best friends and they’re coming too. What we learned from our trip was that Canada is perpetually 10 years behind the States. Which, for a bunch of 20 sometings nostalgic for the ’90s, works out perfectly. First we drove to St. Catharines...
I have a lot of friends. For lasting comfort and...
