February 2011
193 posts
"How Often Do You Think About Ghosts?"
Asks the Hairpin.
The answer is: A LOT.
The first HowAboutWe date I ever proposed was “How About We look for ghosts in NYC’s most haunted spots.” (No one was interested. “How About We Play Darts At A Dive Bar”? Much more the average NY guy’s speed.)
But I don’t know if I believe in ghosts!
But I’m obsessed with them!
But I find their existence...
January 2011
191 posts
An Ode To Asian Pub
Rachel, Jessica, Me at Asian Pub, 2006
Genuinely sad to hear that Asian Pub will be closing down, after losing its bid for Landmark status. Built in the 19th century, 35 Cooper Square has been home to Liza Minnell and beat poet Diane de Prima.
It is also where I learned to drink.
Jake Arky turned 21 a year before I did, and held his birthday party where he knew his friends would not be...
Do You Need To Break Up With Your Ex?
The irony is not lost on me.
howaboutwe:
Seriously folks, blocking your ex on Facebook is so much cheaper and more effective than therapy, prozac, and alcohol.
And no one in the history of time has ever thought: “Gee, I miss my ex, but at least I can console myself with pictures of him on vacation with his new girlfriend. That will make me feel better.”
[Break Up With Your Ex Day]
lucky paper stars: What Not To Do On A Museum Date →
The funny thing is, the quote got cut off, but it’s pretty clear in what I originally tumbled that the tip was a tip for girls (or guys! artsy know-it-alls, really.)
Maybe you know a lot about the collection and kind of like to show off a bit. Bite your tongue and keep yourself from marching your date through the museum on your tour. It’s cool and sexy and impressive that you know so...
What Not To Do On A Museum Date
9. Don’t Give Your Own Tour
Maybe you know a lot about the collection and kind of like to show off a bit. Bite your tongue and keep yourself from marching your date through the museum on your tour. It’s cool and sexy and impressive that you know so much about art but share information, don’t lecture, and make sure you let your date experience the art at their own pace. No...
Here Is A Cross-Eyed Possum With 50,000 Facebook...
Just in case you were feeling good about your accomplishments today, meet Heidi: she is an oppossum on a diet and she is more famous than you are.
[Heidi]
Definitely sowed some transcendental wild oats...
So that’s good.
1 tag
Yep.
Kunst: oh, just so you know, I’m watching Legally Blond and ordering lace shorts for summer.
Me: oh, just so you know, I’m sipping tea and writing a monologue.
Kunst: well it seems like all is right in the world.
The Real "Laurie"...
…was in fact a polish youth Louisa met on one of her trips abroad. She seems to have hinted that they actually had some sort of an affair, though it’s hard to really know. She definitely confirmed through multiple letters to acquaintances that the character of Laurie in Little Women was based on him.
Long after Little Women was published, once Louisa was a famous author, she mentioned...
Did You Know "The Beast" Is Named "Prince Adam"?
He’s the type of dude who looks wayyyyy better in stained glass.
[Which Disney Prince Would Make The Best Boyfriend In Real Life?]
WatchWhat’s The Worst Pick-Up Line You’ve Ever Gotten?
Little Women (1994) is also my spirit animal.
megsokay:
Jo: If I weren’t going to be a writer I’d go to New York and pursue the stage.
Jo: Are you shocked?
Laurie: Very.
Road Trip To Orchard House, Home Of The Alcotts
Tomorrow, Madeline and I are going on a road trip to Concord, Mass, to visit Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott grew up, and upon which she based Little Women.
Hopefully we’ll have time to see Emerson’s house, too.
As a result, there might be a lot of 1840s Americana/Little Women on this tumblr for the next few days…
This Worries Me.
The Short Stigma
There are certain people in my life who are probably not going to be very tall, who are maybe already a little self-conscious about being among the shortest in the 7th grade class, who are awesome, smart, and viciously funny kids, who deserve all kinds of great things in life, and don’t need to develop (apparently valid) complexes about height.
:-/.
The Perils Of Higher Education
“I am in the johns hopkins SAIS breakroom.
the tv is on.
it is maury.
the topic is “i slept with 100 men, will i ever find my babydaddy.”
—Paul, on Gchat just now.
“I can’t imagine that I’m the only person to make this leap from the big city...”
– Love and Lobsters 1, by Joy Engel
I am writing a post
and I am SO TEMPTED to put in this Mary Poppins reference that NO ONE WILL GET and it’s always better to say less than to say too much but but but…
I am having the type of day where a Mary Poppins reference would just totally make me feel happy.
I don’t know.
Should it stay in or go?
“It’s really too bad you were born in this century. You could have totally...”
– B. Schech, to me, with what might have been intended as an insult but was totally taken as a compliment.
Resolutions
me: I thought you were getting twitter. where is your twitter?
paulalexanderwozniak: dead ontop of a treadmill i am not running on beside a pile of the bits of nail i have continued to bite.
Always Gotta One-Up Me.
Sent at 4:23 PM on Wednesday
me: i joined crunch yesterday!
Madeline: yay! i just did two shots of whiskey!
Contiki
“My cousin went on it last summer. Girl needed to get laid like nobody’s business and Contiki took care of that for her. It’s like Birthright if you’re not Jewish. (Side note: the funny part is, we’re Jewish, but she’d already been on Birthright.)”
re: this post from The Gloss
A Text From California
“ahahaha my first thought about your blog post was “people hang out in coffee shops?” and my 2nd was “they go back for a SECOND CUP??”
re: this post
“I would not watch, say, The Bicycle Thief again. I am glad I did, I guess, sort...”
– This is exactly how I feel about The Bicycle Thief. I own the DVD and I’ve watched it once and I never, ever, ever, ever, ever want to see it again.
But it was beautiful.
-“The Leopard” (aka Il Gattopardo) on The Hairpin
Coffee Shop Pick-Up Strategies →
These are like, good, actually applicable ideas, if I do say so myself!
(and I do.)
Jay-Z Officially Producing Willow Smith’s Annie --... →
What a hard knock life!
interweber:
Could there be better news?
WatchOk, so I was recording the answer to “What should guys wear on a first date to dinner?” and referencing a post I did on what guys SHOULDN’T wear.
I got to “short sleeved button down shirts” Scott (who was sitting across from me) looked at me horrified.
And then, yep, turns out he’s wearing a short sleeve RIGHT NOW. Sitting across from me. As I instruct...