June 2011
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Idea For a New Talk Show
Real Talk With My Mom First: you would tell your problems to musical counterpart R. Kelly, who is reinventing himself as a Paul Schaffer-style sidekick. He will creatively interpret your problem into a hip-hopera, playing all relevant parts himself onstage. Second: My mom will then give you (via R. Kelly) advice. Giveaways: Container Store-sponsored containers to organize your life on a literal...
Jun 14th
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“For art criticism we need people who would show the senselessness of looking for...”
– Leo Tolstoy, in a letter to Nikolai Strakhov
Jun 13th
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Extraterrestrial Orchidnapping
Moscow, April 1988 Police arrested an amateur biologist who flower-napped “Cosmonaut,” the only orchid ever grown in outer space, and planned to sell it on the black market to an orchid collector, a Soviet newspaper said yesterday. “Cosmonaut,” which was grown aboard the Salyut 6 space station and returned to earth in 1980, died during the bungled flower-napping. Socialist...
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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ontheborderland asked: Someday, you must share the story of the kitchen ghost!
Jun 6th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 3rd
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May 2011
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Likely Occurrences While I am in New York Next...
Smelling the oldest known orchid (112 years old) at the New York Botanical Garden.  Making a pilgrimage to the Momofuku Milk Bar solely to devour their compost cookies Eating a lot of french fries (Shake Shack/Pommes Frites) and pizza by the slice Eating soup dumplings at M Shanghai Riding a bicycle through Brooklyn enough that the fries/pizza/dumplings won’t count Swooning around in...
May 25th
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May 22nd
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May 17th
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noisthenewyes: Low cover Toto’s “Africa” one of my favorite bands covering one of my favorite songs Sometime after rolling down hills in Golden Gate Park at 10am on a Tuesday, checking out botanical rogues and assassins at the Conservatory of Flowers, nursing our hangovers in Muir Woods, and eating fresh japanese noodles, but before a gaggle of tumblrers took over a row of the Kabuki to don...
May 12th
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What we are doing instead of working
May 11th
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We let some drunk stranger on a skateboard take a swing at Lo’s birthday piñata.
May 9th
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May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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“The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what...”
– Tobias Wolff
May 3rd
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April 2011
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hlewisallways: No Place Like Here: Marfa, Texas One of my favorite places of all time.
Apr 27th
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