September 2008
37 posts
I went to Portland, Oregon over the weekend.
By weekend I mean Monday and Tuesday because that is your weekend when you work the Seattle farmers’ market circuit. I like Portland, but overall it was kind of a mixed bag.
Some things that were good were the foods I ate: a blackberry milkshake, vegan nachos, a spicy pomegranate margarita, a hummus sandwich. It seemed like every restaurant in Portland had tons of vegetarian and vegan...
Ranidu Lankage — ‘Kaliyugaye’
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Starbucks should sell tampons.
I think they’d be able to hustle those better than mix CDs made by Linda Ronstadt.
Cat Power - ‘Deep Inside’ (Mary J....
House has officially beaten out SVU for the title...
On prejudices.
My sister: Do you know [redacted]? She went to Bates.
Me: Barf, I hated her.
My sister: Why?
Me: Because she was a total lez but was dating this guy who was a closeted gay.
My sister: That doesn’t seem like a good reason not to like someone.
Me: Well they hung out with this other guy who was a closeted gay and they’d all wear these ridiculous shiny baseball hats and one time they were at me and Patrick’s secret hangout all in their crazy hats.
My sister: What was your secret hang out?
Me: Taco Bell.
Something that is just so ridiculous.
How crazy is it that cheese and hummus don’t taste good together? It’s actually kind of heartbreaking that the two best foods ever can’t make it work.
The other night I got drunk and made a promise to...
Today I spent at least an hour searching for my future engagement ring. Because I’m thirteen.
I borrowed my dad's laptop and now have to give it...
Some stuff was obviously him, like: ‘dockers khakis’. But ‘meth face before and after’ was clearly all me.
“For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn...”
– Audre Lorde in ‘The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action’.
From 'Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist...
Being curious takes energy. It may thus be a distorted form of “energy conservation” that makes certain ideas so alluring.
Take, for instance, the loaded adjective “natural.” If one takes for granted that something is “natural”—generals being male, garment workers being female—it saves mental energy. After all, what has been deemed natural...
On time management.
This morning I had fifteen minutes to get ready for work so I decided to clean my toilet and then shave my legs for the first time in four weeks.
“Why would you get killed just for being a man telling all women that the...”
– trainwrecks (via jgh)
I followed soupsoup for a minute, but when upwards of 90% of a tumblr’s content is reblogs I lose interest pretty quickly. Anyway, that leaves me in this annoying situation of wanting to unfollow someone but not being able to be because I wasn’t following them in...
“Rock out with your cupcake out!”
– My boss. The context: music was playing.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Hyperballad
(via...
“Alright I just have one thing to say about promise rings. It’s not bad to...”
– Jordin Sparks.
Barf. I used to like her solely because I have a soft spot for chubby celebrities, but sorry Jordin, I’m into ho shit first and foremost.
Resolutions for autumn.
Stop losing shit.
Stop being late to shit.
Stop eating so many Egg McMuffins.
This kind of shit just seriously makes me want to... →
How the fuck are people like this allowed to say shit on television. If I were in charge of the media (like Emily Gould is) I would not even allow this man a blogspot account.
“In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered...”
– God.
Another reason why I hate football.
I don’t ask for much (yes I do), but after working for twelve hours I just wanted to come home to a cold beer and a TiVo’d episode of Oprah (you guys, I learn a lot from that show—facts about America’s health care system and advice about living my life more spiritually). Except Oprah didn’t fucking get TiVo’d because the Giants were playing the Redskins. Also,...
davidcho:
UGK feat. Outkast - ‘Int’l Player’s...
“I always think, What if you just took your hand off the wheel, and slowly, over...”
– Alec Baldwin.
“I still want to do the episode of ‘30 Rock’ where we make fun of ‘Grey’s...”
– Alec Baldwin. Dreams.
“I toasted a muffin and made a cup of tea and ate them while reading my...”
– Emily Gould. My precise feelings. Hey all you pisces: tomorrow is not looking good for us.
Kill myself time dot com.
I just heard ‘Paper Planes’ on KISS 106.1. Then I had an internal debate about whether or not I was allowed to be upset. Also: I could have avoided this whole moral dilemma if I listened to actual good radio stations.
Cigarettes taste like depression to me now.
I just smoked like a third of one and then immediately went inside to wash my hands and face. I guess that’s a good thing? I miss enjoying it though. Kind of like how I feel about playing beer pong and then making out with football players. Ah, simpler times.
You guys, my laptop won't turn on.
I tried to think of some kind of joke to write about that, but flippancy in light of the situation at hand just made me too sad.
I have been to Trader Joe's three times in the...
That store has everything I want in life: cheap wine and frozen foreign foods. Why did no one tell me about this earlier? Their Mediterranean hummus tastes like Amman.
davidcho:
Coldplay - ‘Sparks’
It sounds like a...
“In the heat you could really feel the sorrows of that place.”
– A refugee, on the camps in Nepal.
August 2008
31 posts
Flirting makes my stomach hurt.
I didn't mean to lie.
tylercoates:
I didn’t see a chicken eating a french fry yesterday. It was a pigeon. But please forgive me, because as I texted that update from my phone I was thinking “city chicken” in my head. Honest mistake, right?
Lolz. I like all you This Recording guys.
'Navel-gazing'.
This phrase needs to join ‘douche’ and ‘snark’ on the list of words that should no longer be spoken or written because they are so obnoxious and overused. I’m sure we can come up with some other way to express the extent to which we are all narcissistic assholes.
Omgi'mnevergoingtogetarealjob.
Picante.
Last night I dreamt that the family for whom I’m housesitting called and yelled at me over the phone: ‘We know you’ve been feeding our cats nothing but salsa!’
Sorry, guys. You caught me.
If only my dashboard had those 'thumbs up' 'thumbs...
Some tumblrs I want to unfollow, even though I’ve never followed them, because I hate them so much. Others I want to double follow because they are so fantastic.
Yesterday was my worst day of work ever.
After spending four hours in the rain attempting to hustle peaches and then two more hours in the dark loading soggy cardboard boxes into my car, I had a really strong urge to break something like people in movies do when they’re frustrated—maybe throw a box of cherries across the empty parking lot. But because a box of cherries costs about $100, I decided to end my three months of...
marklisanti:
Ben Kweller cover of “God Only...
Here are three things I have seen in the past...
A spider the size of my palm.
A slug.
An earwig. I think this fell from my hair onto the kitchen counter, but that is too horrible to contemplate so let’s say it fell from the ceiling.
I will not sleep well tonight.
Here is something that just happened.
While preparing to clean my room I thought to myself, ‘Hey, some really good mood music would be a little Alanis.’ My copy of Jagged Little Pill got lost a long time ago and I’m sure it wouldn’t be compatible with my current computer anyway. I mean, Pieces of You isn’t and I know that for a fact because I have tried to play it.
Anyway, I went to YouTube to make an...