February 2012
12 posts
The Man At The Nearest Starbucks
When I lived in the Bronx, I wished that I lived near a Starbucks. It sounds a bit weird - to want to have a branch of a corporate chain near home - but to me, back then, it represented a smidge of upward mobility. Now, though, I get to live in Manhattan, and guess what? There’s Starbucks EVERYWHERE. So many Starbucks that I’ve become immune to them, avoiding their coffee for Stumptown...
WatchDream of the 90s?
How about 1890s…
You know what day it is.
Ned: Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil: Hi, thanks for watching.
Ned: Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.
Phil: Not a chance.
Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil: Ned Ryerson?
Ned: BING!
Phil: Bing. So did you turn pro with that whole belly-button thing Ned or...
Ned: No, I sell insurance.
Phil: What a shock.
January 2012
33 posts
Watchpurns:
jakefogelnest:
Please watch my friend Chris Gethard kill it on Conan last night.
What a world we live in.
“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets...”
– John Steinbeck (via rulesformyunbornson)
Favorite Places in New York: Pat Kiernan →
The most trusted man in New York.
The only sucky thing about RCN as a cable provider is not having Pat Kiernan in the mornings.
“In The Dark,” Josh Ritter
(a little...
Vanity Fair: Why I'm Giving Up On "Glee" →
Accurate.
America's Rock Band: →
How R.E.M.’s almost-utterances allowed listeners to find their own meaning
[The Atlantic]
The Phone Stack →
Take social awkwardness and the telephone age and make a game out of it.
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
– Walt Disney
Just now
Student: Mr. Dunford, if I sent an e-mail to the entire school saying "I like turtles," would I get in trouble?
Me: Yes.
Student: Why?
Me: Because you'd be misusing school resources.
Student: (Sighs, then a deep breath). Fine. (Determinedly) When I graduate.
William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
jessethorn:
If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,— if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: “I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!” If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks,...
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were... →
Let this be the motivator to begin your great new year.
“Life is an illusion, so we might as well make it a good one.”
– George Christopher
December 2011
59 posts
