Someone find a way for me to see PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL!
SO CLOSE TO THE END OF FRIDAY OMG OMG OMG
March 2, 2012Fuck Pictures
March 2, 2012I have never been a huge Thought Catalog fan, though I may be changing my tune after this article on why Pinterest sucks.
An excerpt from the piece by Brian Donovan:
“Pinterest, for those of you who never left the chip bowl, is Facebook without the faces. It traffics in pictures, not of one’s self, but of what you find interesting in that moment: perhaps a clever way to arrange bathroom shelves, or an irresistible preparation of asparagus, or, as of this morning, 75,000 pictures of Ryan Gosling. It really is nothing more than that: lots and lots of images, and people are going nuts over it. A few weeks ago, Pinterest became the fastest stand-alone site to reach 10 million visitors in a month. Which confirms one thing and thing only: America will do anything to avoid having to read.
“Pinterest is not Pinteresting. It’s not Pinjoyable or Pintillating, and honestly, I have no idea how it’s even Pinpassable as Pintertainment. It’s literally the least amount of information that can be put in front of you and still make you feel like you’re looking at something. You admire a photo, re-post it if you like, and if you’re feeling particularly frisky, clink on it to see if it links to a recipe or design idea. That’s it. Basically, imagine going to a museum that’s been curated by someone’s hip aunt using magazines and Hallmark cards as her only resource, and you’ve been to Pinterest.”
And here is the link to the whole piece. My link function on this site hasn’t been working for a while (definitely my fault and not WordPress’), but if you are too lazy to just cut and paste the below, you must be a Pinterest fan.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/pinterest-the-depths-we-will-go-to-not-read/
SPAM
March 2, 2012Sometimes I find SPAM hilarious. Like this gem:
Subject: Dead or Alive?
Usually i don’t do this but this is the only way I could contact you for now, I want you to be very careful about this and keep this secret with you until I make out space for us to see. You have no need of knowing who I am or where i am from. I know this may sound very surprising to you but it’s the situation. I have been paid some ransom in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer. It’s someone I believe you call a friend, I have followed you closely for a while now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusations leveled against you. Do not contact the police or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do, I will know, and I might be pushed to do what I have been paid to do.Besides, this is the first time I turn out to be a betrayer in my job. I took pity on you and your family. That is why I have made up my mind to help you. Reply me as soon as you get this mail or i will be left with no choice than to terminate you.
If you are willing to help yourself and not make your family attend your untimely death reply me asap.
There is no time to waste..
Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad..
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The funny thing is that someone sent this to my boss, who doesn’t really have “family,” just one grown daughter. Foiled, Ibn-La’Ahad!
Some Funny Sentences From the Last Two Days
March 1, 2012Text from KM: I get a shopper’s high from CVS.
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Text from IS: I want to dress using only 33 items of clothing
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Gchat with Boyfriend
ML: incidentally
i’m on your bed
is there something you want to tell me?
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ID: what’s on there?
ML: book of mormon…
ID: ahahahhahaa
put me to sleep!
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KC: Confession –– I’ve been listening to the new Rihanna CD –– AND I LIKE IT!
Too Drunk To Post
February 29, 2012I don’t like to write even one word when I’ve had one sip of alcohol, so I’ll hold off on my musings about guilt, religious and other, until tomorrow as I’ve had three Stella Artois(es?), and instead post this quickly-dating picture of Cory Kennedy looking like an absolute fuckwreck at Fashion Week in NYC.
Guess which one, if you don't already know?
I always knew that inside mess would make its way out, CK.
SPOILER ALERT
February 28, 2012This is the END OF ANNA KARENINA, присоска! (That says “sucker” in Russian.)
“I shall still get angry with my coachman Ivan, I shall still argue and express my thoughts inopportunely; there will still be a wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife, and I shall still blame her for my own fears and shall regret it; I shall still be unable to understand with my reason why I am praying, and I shall continue to pray –– but my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, every moment of it, is no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an incontestable meaning of goodness, with which I have the power to invest it.”
Note to Society
February 28, 2012Dear Society: Please bring back the boudoir slipper. Merci!
If you are thinking of gifting, please contact Siobhan, who will direct you to the correct Agent Provocateur store.
UPDATE
February 28, 2012As many of you will remember, a few weeks ago my roommate LB (otherwise known as RG) received a very sad and creepy note from a fellow who has apparently been harboring feelings for her for about eight years. And today –– lucky for us, but not so much for him –– he gave the correspondence, as of yet unrequited, a second shot! Important to note before reading that she doesn’t now nor has ever spoken Spanish, and also that yes, this communication is taking place via the messenging system on Last.fm.
“I am so sorry if I didn’t write you long ago. If you expected an email from me for years after we exchanged addresses, I’m really sorry about that. I didn’t even notice how many years had gone by. I thought I would write you when something worked out in my life and things were good for me, and that didn’t happen so I just kept working.
I think you told me you made jewelry then, so I’m glad that’s going well for you. =)
Anyway, I saw that picture of you with the bulldog drawing when I looked for you and… I remember the way you looked and the way you saw me. And I don’t… I mean it was so many years ago and we talked so little that, well, you probably think its silly that I remember you and maybe it is. But if its not, I hope you’ll write me or find me some day, even if I change my name. Maybe if I lose myself you could remind me of the person I used to be. If you knew then. You’re kind of my last memory. 😉
That’s what I’d like to say anyway. But its been so long.
I remember you were pretty and you were good with languages. And I liked your eyes. That’s why I liked you. I thought maybe we could understand each other. Spanish isn’t my favorite language, but I could see it as beautiful if you did, at the time. 😉 But you were seeing someone and so I thought I’d write you later or some day.
Now, so much has passed and I’m starting to figure out that for normal people, 8 years or whatever is a really long time and nobody remembers anything, too busy taking what they can get while the getting is good. I don’t think anyone thinks that there’s something that’s right, I don’t even know if I do anymore.
Anyway, we didn’t really talk that much so I don’t know what kind of person you are or whether we’d get along or anything, it was just that one conversation really in whatever that castle dorm place was called. Manor… I guess and that other conversation earlier but…
So yeah. If you remember me, write me. Don’t wait years like I did, thinking there’s a right time. You should write me now, JUST in case, and we should talk, so maybe we might get to know each other and keep in touch before things are too different for us.”
Ha!
February 27, 2012I’m on an e-mailing list for a Catholic Church in the East Village (don’t ask) and their newsletter last week begins: LENT IS ON! Don’t I know it, Jesus! What are you giving up? I’m giving up socializing.
This Weekend
February 25, 2012Not just a CLASS on squatting, but a SYMPOSIUM on it! My brother once told me about these people he’d heard of who were squatting in a mansion in Paris. I’d rather squat than rent. My other house is a tenement.
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Squatting Europe Collective
For the first time ever, a group of activist researchers from the European squatting movement are gathering in New York City. They will make public appearances to speak about the decades-old movement of squatting and building occupations in their respective countries. The tradition of political squatting is moving from the shadows into the light. With the world-wide rise of the Occupy movement, the deep reservoir of experience within the movements of political squatting have become suddenly significant.
Generations of activists have participated in occupations of vacant buildings in Europe, beginning in the 1970s. The best known early success was the famous free city of Christiania in Copenhagen. But every major city in Europe has experienced some version of politicized squatting, most recently in the form of social centers.
Various times, locations, and events. Check website for complete listings.
Continues through MONDAY
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