March 2012
46 posts
Virgin Atlantic launches "Upper Class Red"...
…and I kind of want some?
and I really want to fly from London to NY in the “upper class cabin” (is this the Titanic?) where the flight attendants all have to wear it…
[Virgin Atlantic Launches Lipstick - Today.com]
The events depicted in my dating blog posts are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental.
Not what you want to hear, but...
I’ve made my living as a writer since 2010, and I could have never
ever
ever
done it without an unpaid internship, which, instead of monetary compensation, gave me the experience and clips I needed in order to have a chance in hell of ever getting paid to write.
What Your Nail Polish Color Says About Your Dating...
Vermillion: nothing!
Lilac: nothing!
Mint Green: nothing!
Black: nothing!
Pale Pink: nothing!
Turquoise: nothing!
Glitter: nothing!
Orange: nothing!
Midnight Blue: nothing!
Sable: nothing!
It Sometimes Secretly Sucks When Your Best Single... →
I mean….right??
A little bit right?
The Best Little Love Story I've Read All Year →
Excellent work, Liz Moore!
Another annoying thing that only happens in movies is people abruptly announcing that they aren’t hungry, putting their napkin on the table, and getting up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEAL. I am very often not that hungry at dinner time! Sometimes, I am preoccupied at dinner. I’ve even been known to squabble with family members at dinner. But I seriously can’t imagine, in the middle of...
“The orchid cuff on the right was inspired by Monet’s color palette and designed...”
– GOOP
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The Best Possible Game to Play on Facebook
1. Pick a Facebook Friend, any Facebook friend!
2. Go to their profile, and click on their post recent tagged picture.
3. Click your Left Arrow Button.
4. This brings you to the first picture they were ever tagged in on Facebook. Gasp, giggle, and “awww” at how different they looked back in 2005!
5. Repeat til you’ve wasted the entire afternoon!
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Me: Guess who MY tv soulmate is?
Caroline: Niles from Fraisier?
The Ridiculously Simple Flirting Move for Shy... →
It may sound like nothing, but my jaw dropped when I saw a girl do this last night. One of those, “Oh, she is GOOD….” moments.
“One of the great gender injustices is the pure amount of crap women are expected...”
– Why women look better in the summer (in the summer.)
By the way, this reads as even more sexist out of context than it does in the post, if you can believe that.
Why am I powerless against the allure of Juice Cleanses?
I’ve tried them, they make me miserable, I think so many of the lauded “benefits” are bullshit, yet the second I hear about a new one, I’m like, “Hmm, maybe I should try?”
Witchery!
Are You a Joan Harris?
If you had only held out a little bit more. If you hadn’t let yourself get so paranoid about being single into your 30s (did you watch too many episodes of Sex and the City, too?), then maybe you could have found a perfect fit instead of just…a fit. But you are not one to admit your mistakes, least of all to yourself, and you are going to make this relationship work, damnit. Because frankly?...
Are You a Trudy Campbell?
You’re the type of person that spends a good amount of time on Facebook, writing status updates about the cute thing your significant other did. People you went to high school with probably hate-read your page, jealously clicking through all your cutesy vacation photo albums. You think your relationship is perfect — it isn’t, of course, but you think it is, and really, isn’t that all that...
Life's Big Questions
Me: do you have any relationship questions?
Erica: Ummmmm. Why am I not in one?
Do you even LIKE James Taylor?
Do you???
The Sound of Music Guide to Austria
Growing up, I had one dream. I wanted to go to Salzburg.
Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say that I wanted to wake up one morning as the 8th Von Trapp child in “The Sound Of Music”, and it would preferably be the morning that Maria takes us on a picnic in the mountains and teaches us how to sing “Do A Deer”, after which we would all go on a mad dash around Salzburg and the...
I'm in Love.
And I can’t concentrate on anything.
I’m supposed to be at a restaurant in 26 minutes.
But instead of getting ready, I am sitting despondently on my bed, with wet hair, wondering if I’ll ever, ever be happy again.
I wish I could go back to the way things were before, but there’s no going back now. I’m irrevocably changed.
And though I know that I have so much in...
The Worst Thing You Can Say to Your Girlfriend... →
(Do you like the picture?)
“I’m Chiara and I’m an amazing writer. Great Britain is a passion of...”
– Caroline, pretending to be me.
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The Only Fail Proof Pick-Up Line I Know
There is a line that I have used on Irish bartenders, Irish waiters, Irish anybodies, for the past 4 years, and I swear to you it works every. single. time.
It’s really dorky.
It’s really goofy.
It has nothing to do with Guinness.
And it has never steered me wrong.
Like, I could basically draw a map for you of all the places that this pick-up line has worked. And the map would...
Our Town at the Barrow Street Theater, 2009
Did any of you guys see Our Town at the Barrow Street theater back in 2009?
Three years later, and I still think about it all the time.
I think it might have been the best thing I’ve ever seen.
How we do things here....
ashellray: this is either going to be really good or really bad
sunnyca7: what?
ashellray: well i just threw a girl literally in off the streett
ashellray: to do my entire itinerary for DC
sunnyca7: hahahahahaha
ashellray: do you think she thinks i'm crazy
sunnyca7: yes but thats ok
ashellray: is her name kayla
ashellray: or kelsey?
sunnyca7: kelsey
ashellray: you sure?
sunnyca7: lol yes
ashellray: are you sure you're sure bec i'm going to say it now
ashellray: OUTLOUD
sunnyca7: i am SURE
ashellray: good dude this is just what they (NYU kids) need
ashellray: to dive in
ashellray: like you walk in gofg doors
ashellray: you be put to work
ashellray: just wait until later this afternoon when i compare us
ashellray: to rolfko
ashellray: you just wait
sunnyca7: to what?
sunnyca7: oh
sunnyca7: rothko?
ashellray: whatever that artist is
ashellray: yeah
I miss Guest of a Guest sometimes.
Yeah, of course they are.
In this post about dating geeks, I wrote this:
(True story: There was a group of guys at my high school who would wear green polo shirts on Fridays and meet in the Chem room during lunch to play Dungeons and Dragons. I wonder what happened to them! Are they single??)
Anyway, apparently “at least two of the green shirts are married now.”
What’d I tell ya!
Meanwhile, on Gchat.
erica: p.s. he didn’t write back.
me: thats ok it took you forEVer to respond
erica: yeah. but! he wrote it at like 10pm. I was going to bed! And he was responding to something I wrote at 4! I feel like during the workday people should respond immediately. we all know we’re all just sitting at our desks waiting for distraction
“Lady Antonia Pinter, DBE, says she likes the Pinterest.com website, named after...”
– That is incorrect information, The Daily Mail: Pinterest was not named after Harold Pinter.
(But here is a great Pinterest devoted to Pinter!)
“What did they enter? Why would they type it and not send it? Did they forget to...”
– There is nothing more annoying than the “[So & So] has entered text” alert on Gchat.
Nothing!
You were living in New York when you were working for Harvey and Miramax, right? Why’d you move to LA?
Quite simply because I was sick of giving the Under St. Mark’s my money.
Who?
These assholes in New York who are running scam blackbox theaters. All of my money so that they could tell me I fucking broke a light at the end of the thing and charge me. You know what I mean? I was...