Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Before Having Drinks With Someone Tonight And Not Looking As Cute As You’d Like To But So It Goes Wednesday
11/04/2009
10/29/2009
this used to be my playground
Greenpoint, Brooklyn… if you look to the sky.
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Used to live less than a block from here. Miss it sometimes. Tiny bedroom, great neighborhood.
10/14/2009
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Mark your calendars. Every year for my birthday (March 23), I celebrate with Meat and Singing (i.e. karaoke). This year, the meat will be served here. I am literally going to have a sausage party.
09/21/2009
Last Night's Dream
During a lull in an R.E.M. show, Michael Stipe tells me about the utterly mediocre-sounding comics project he has set up at my company.
(Note to all: To the best of my knowledge, Michael Stipe does not have a comics project set up at my company; and if he did, we’d do our best to not make it mediocre.)
09/16/2009
Twenty minutes in the oven, and the leftover Greek salad becomes vegetables for some very tasty pasta. So THIS is what grown-ups do.
09/14/2009
It’s a Greek salad! (Without olives!) I made it myself! I’ve never done that before! It’s fairly tasty! HOORAY!
09/14/2009
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I TAKE IT ALL BACK I will also be needing about fifteen or twenty million dollars to compete in this auction.
09/14/2009
I did the math...
…and it would only take $14,202.95 to actually buy me happiness.
No, I’m serious, I actually did the math. I have a spreadsheet and everything.
09/11/2009
If I owned a bar
…I’d sure as hell be there today instead of here, I can tell you that.
09/10/2009
If I owned a bar
There would be at least two Skee-Ball machines. We would have a sickening quantity of bourbons and a hilarious number of sodas. We would offer little cards that you get stamped every time you order a shot, which earn you freebies. Possibly instead of stamps, we would make drunken patrons put tiny little stickers onto the card, for our amusement. Every urinal would have a photograph of Morrissey crying posted above it. There would be tacos, but only soft-shell. The jukebox would have every Pet Shop Boys album, with the bonus discs that come with the reissues. If I could secure one, there would be a Street Fighter II console. The tables would have images of dinosaurs laminated onto them. In fact, the joint would probably be called Malcolm’s, and there would be a signed photograph of Jeff Goldblum above the bar. Straight people are basically welcome if they behave themselves and remember that the gays are not zoo animals preening for their amusement (it’s more the other way around), and if a documented straight person makes out with a gay patron, they get a free shot (limit one per night on free shots, but not on makeout sessions). Tuesday night is movie night, and the first Tuesday of every month is always Purple Rain. There would always be comic books lying around, assuming you bastards don’t steal them. And yes: yes, we would have karaoke. I think. Until I got sick of it.
09/07/2009
An Incomplete List Of Things That Were Notable About This Summer
- First proper “vacation” in years
- Discovery that I weigh more than I ever have in my life
- Went farther north in New York State than the outlet mall for the first time
- Experienced worst depression I’ve ever had
- Became addicted to 7-11 Big Gulps
- Racked up another in a string of two-month heartbreaker relationships
- Discovered passionate love of feta cheese
- Life came to resemble Pulp’s “The Fear”
- Outdoor sex
- Professional disappointments
- Helicopter rides (not real ones)
09/03/2009
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Pet Shop Boys - “The Way It Used To Be” - Yes
If you follow my Twitter page, then you know I went to the Pet Shop Boys concert last night, alone, and that being alone in a crowd of affluent, coupled gay men was pretty depressing for me (I’d just had to flog my second ticket to the show for $50 on Craigslist; it was bought back in those heady days when I had a boyfriend). But then the show started, and it was totally worth all the pre-show grief. I don’t have the brainpower for a full-on writeup, but I would refer you to this Brooklyn Vegan post for the setlist and some excellent photographs, and to YouTube for video of my favorite performance of the night, “Two Divided By Zero” (unfortunately this high-quality video was recorded at a festival performance, so the full stage set isn’t in evidence; refer to the photo post for that). The PSB always have amazing and ingenious stage shows (can’t wait for the inevitable DVD), and I got to hear two of my absolute all-time favorite deep cuts, “Two Divided By Zero” and “King’s Cross,” so I’m a happy camper.
The above MP3 is my favorite song from the current PSB album; it absolutely nails that uniquely gay melancholy that I come to the Pet Shop Boys for, and as a bonus, it’s a very New York-specific kind of song. Plus, it’s just full of awesome hooks. It kills me when Tennant quasi-raps, it really does.
(Plays: 22)
09/01/2009
Too sexy.
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I have a standing request out to all of my friends: If you ever have the opportunity to acquire, through means legal or extralegal, a poster of this type, featuring an attractive woman from the 1980s cradling or about to bite into a gyro, you must acquire it for me.
It’s a real shame that Nagel never did a gyro poster.
08/19/2009
Lazyweb.
HOLY CRAP I AM TIRED. What can I eat for lunch that won’t just make me fall asleep?
07/30/2009
A still from last night’s inaugural round of Cards Against Humanity, the hilariously filthy Apples To Apples rip-off that is clearly our new favorite game.
