2008

Let’s talk television for a minute. This is my new...

MoveOn is giving away free Obama buttons

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It's like this:

Yes, sometimes women date shitty guys. And guess what? Sometimes guys date shitty women. This...

Word of the Day: PAIN

This is one of those days where I never should have left my bed. Last night, while walking out of...

“I mean look, Rolling Stone said, ‘Oldman is so skilled...”
— Gary Oldman, on playing...

I have seen The Dark Knight, and it is good. Very good. If I was forced to sum it up in one...

Reasons to Avoid McCarren Park Pool

At the Death Cab for Cutie concert, some friends and I were attacked by an out of control...

I’ve stumbled upon the best Hall & Oates picture...

“Over the course of four years and as many albums, The Hold...”
— Aquarium Drunkard Well,...

Because Today I Booked A Ticket For...

I have a strange relationship with my hometown. It doesn’t really connect to my...

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance...

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Yo

When’s the next tumblr meetup? There needs to be one I can actually go to.

Dear Two Gallants, Come back to the East Coast. I miss you.

Anna, Mita & I at Battery Park this weekend.

Reminder that Life is AWESOME

Things I’m doing within the next week: Seeing Billy Joel @ Shea Stadium (gratis!)Seeing...

I feel stuck. Very, very stuck.

This is kind of hilarious. “Look, I’m beating...

Re: Tonight's Fleet Foxes Show

Me: FOXXY FLEET
That's what I'm going to call them
Mita: omg yes!

For Once, Taylor, You Are Actually Wise...

Note to self: Stop staying up until 5AM, even when you have the excuse that you’re in the...

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Popdose: Top of the First

Dengue Fever @ SummerStage (edited - click through to see...

Apparently I may or may not have appeared on the JetBlue televisions recently. You know how they air...

This Fourth of July:

I am thankful for Texas-Sized Margaritas at Dallas BBQ.

Reason 284 Why I Am So Ready To Have A...

I’ve decided over the recent months that most of my bad habits are bred out of boredom. My bad...

youcanandyouwill: taylorlong: I don’t want to put all my hopes into the job that I interviewed for...

I don’t want to put all my hopes into the job that I interviewed for on Friday, but it’s...

Everybody's Free (To Wear Converse)

All the flooding was a big sign, but this… this really means armageddon: “At the halfway...

Me last night: in a random limo that picked us up from the...

The passage of time changes everything. Yet we’re all convinced that we’re exceptions....

The weekend of July 17th & 18th is going to be the best weekend ever. Friday: Deerhoof doing...

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go...”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and...

Things I Don't Care About

That dude (and his associates) That chick (and her cronies) Remember that phrase “No such...

NYT: New York City Waterfalls

This is the only Superpower that I...

You know what would be awesome? If you could listen to one song with one ear, another with the other...

Favorite new food discovery that sounds weird but is totally...

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

To-Do list, in terms of CD reviews and concerts. I am a busy...

I saw the Cure at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night -...

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“Everything we think of as great has come to us from...”
— Marcel Proust, Guermantes Way

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we...”
— Anais Nin

My family at my cousin’s high school...

Radiohead Contest on T-Sides

I’ve been straight up dissing 2008 as a year for music so far, so now it’s totally...

THE MARINERS FIRED BAVASI! OH, HAPPY DAY!

You know what I love about the...

How much you can edit things - even things in the past.

Taken when I went to go see the Telectroscope this weekend.

True or True:

Rainbow Road on Mario Kart was completely inspired by the last 20 minutes or so of 2001: A Space...

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You know what's funny?

Bloggers who complain about bloggers/blogging. If you hate them/it so much - WHY ARE YOU BLOGGING...

"Vienna," the Addendum

One of the things that I love about pop music - and writing about pop music - is its ability to stir...

Top Two Things I Don't Get In Music...

Apes & Androids Lil’ Wayne If you feel you can convince me on either one, please do.

“I’m a New Yorker first and an American second.”
— Anthony Bourdain

What’s this? Oh, just a personalized book from my...

Salman Rushdie at the Barnes & Noble in Union Sq....

Camera phone pic: Blurry Bleeding Hearts

Camera phone pic: it’s happening, it’s really...

Something to Consider.

According to the NYT, a significantly larger amount of men voted for Obama over Clinton, whereas...

Concert Review: The Eagles @ Madison Sq....

“How fly? So fly I reside in the clouds”
— Kidz in the Hall, “Mr....

By Doug Cowan, found through Cool Hunting

Things That Irk Me, Part #18573

Using “nabe” as an abbreviation for neighborhood. There are a lot of stupid...

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From Dave Eggers, "You Shall Know Our...

“Last year was the strangest year I’d ever been involved in, it was the most brutal and...

Updated the Muxtape

When you’re young and wandering in NYC, the weekend is...

Fate and Other Reasons to Love NYC.

I’m obsessed with Salman Rushdie. Really obsessed. I read Satanic Verses in 2004, thanks to a...

KING Magazine: Five Things R. Kelly Probably...

Manhattanhenge (!!!)

Reflections from Vermont, Part Two

Note: you can’t say I didn’t warn you that this kind of thing might be coming. In some...

I saw the Eagles for Freegles. Convo via...

Taylor Bell: youre going to bone Don Henley
Me: OMG that would rule. And be hysterical.
Taylor Bell: Dong Henley!
Me: Porn star name!

One of my neighbors is playing saxophone again! I don’t know who they are, but I thank them,...

Act Three, where our Hero reclaims their...

Memorial Day Weekend in Vermont was exactly what I needed. Debauchery, nature, contemplation,...

Spill it, Carrie: How are you 'Sex'y on a...

“BELIZE: You know what your problem is, Louis? Your problem...”
— “Angels in...

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some...”
— William Shakespeare

Official stamp of nerddom and hot librarianness.

HERE I COME, VERMONT!

Hey look, it's "The Devil Wears Prada" of the...

I was walking so fast down the street today that someone pulled their friend out of my path. It made...

I'm finally on Google Reader

Ode to Change.

Whenever I start something - mostly creative, but even some other things - usually about halfway...

the difference between GWU's Graduation...

Cousin: yeah.. weather could've been better. but I was telling people about it and everyone said better that than 80 degrees and humid in those black tents we have to wear.
Me: very true
it got hot wearing those things
Cousin: yeeaaaah, I remember your ceremony.
Me: Me too
and the sunburn on my neck it gave me
the ceremony part I don't remember so much, haha
Cousin: hahaha.
i remember schumer making a weird, arrogant, but occasionally funny speech
Me: I remember his, 'cause he was like "oh, I had to choose between a trip to europe and a girl and I chose the girl," and I was all "PSSSSH, shoulda gone with Europe"
Cousin: YES, that's the part I remember too
i remember people shouting at that point
someone yelled "fuck that bitch," if I recall right
Me: Hahaha, yup.
Good ol' Hofstra.
Classy place

Notes on my return from the Nation's...

I think the thing that rubs me the wrong way about D.C. is that it doesn’t feel very vibrant....

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the...”
— Herbert Hoover

Print by Rauschenberg, who passed away today, which made me...

“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without...”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

FriTunes

Sigh.

“In our time, we were clamorous and vain. I speak not only...”
— Robert Stone, Prime Green

Happiness is:

caramel brownies, red wine & the new Death Cab album, Narrow Stairs (on a CD, NOT the leak).

Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex?

Good god, I love this city. I don’t mean to be an asshole when I say this, but it is truly...

Is it just me, or does young Ken Kesey look a bit like young...

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My friend Clay visited me in NYC for a week and took some...

It’s warm outside, I’ve got all my doors and windows open, and somewhere one of my...

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ohgodsomuchgoingonsomuchtosay For now, check out this...

Two Facts

I have to say. Eastern Promises? Fucking good. Cronenberg is like a magician - the answers are all...

me: well, you're going to miss out on my screening of Viggo's sexy sauna fight
I'm sure you're bummed about that
mita (my roomie): oh thank the lord
he's tooo manly for me.
i like man but they have to have some femme
and fat
me: ain't no such thing as too manly
mita (my roomie): i just lol'ed at that so hard my nose hurts

Stereotypical tumblr user checklist

Surveys annoy me, but this is too amusing/true to pass up. Use a mac: iBook G4. Converted 3 years...

My result from the Time Out NY “Are you a New Yorker?” quiz makes me happy: Your Score:...

“It was like we had the keys to a Ferrari but we could only...”
— DeRogatis, on working at...

World: 4, Taylor: 1

Oh, and in case anyone’s counting, the World responded to this by throwing up the metaphorical...

“Never trust a critic who doesn’t on occasion double...”
— Jim DeRogatisI’m doing a...

Quiz: Discontinued Ben & Jerry's Flavor or...

Spring Fever

I’ve been sort of mentally complaining that things have been so slow, socially, for the past...

Last week, I bruised and/or cracked and/or shattered my knee cap.This week, I got a sinus...

Mets management concedes song contest was...

Hey guys, remember Muxtape?

Is anyone here on Goodreads?  If you’re a big reader, you should be. I am seriously in love...

The difference between men and women

I’m thinking about going sober for awhile. It’s not that I think I have an alcohol...

if no one is applying for EA jobs, then...

Here’s the response I wrote on the nymag website: “The problem is that magazine jobs are...

My Review of the Jay-Z & Mary J. concert

Anthony Bourdain @ the Moore in Seattle

(NYU) Get Hype

I’m so there this weekend.

Ben Gibbard's "New Side Project"

Baseball is back!

peterwknox: happycap: Happiness is an opening day win by the New York Mets. Especially when...

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