January 2009
51 posts
I am absurdly happy
To be at cheers.
I need a smaller purse.
When I was in North Carolina, there was an anti-abortion rally outside of our office. It was an oddly planned thing, since our street had so much construction on it that there were no passersby or cars. At its largest, there were maybe 80 people, at lease a quarter of whom were children, ages eight and under.
Of course, we were under strict instructions not to engage them at all. Most of us went...
Third of Three
At brunch this summer, I had a discussion on expansion v. reduction of things. We were trying to figure out what some menu items were and I said something like, what does it really matter what it looks like, we have a description. One of my companions explained that he liked specificity, to name each and every thing as itself. Without really thinking about it (I guess I was in that mood where I...
Second of Three
So last night, probably my favorite person in DC got broken up with by a guy she has been seeing for a month or so. He broke up with her because he thinks she is weird.
I do not know what to do with this breakup. She is odd only in the most lovely way and is not even that much of that! Sure, she wants to bring on a second string-art Renaissance, but who doesn’t? But if she is weird, that I...
The first of three
But first:
Good thoughts on the post-bro situation, except I am not sure that I agree that a bro’s realization that he is a bro and that a bro is a bad thing to be, thus becoming a post bro does not make him better than a bro. Take a more personal example: we are useless. We understand that we are useless, at least for the time being. But we consider ourselves better than most people we...
My bus is an even bigger tool shed
Than Bave’s room. I am getting stabby and we have not even left DC!
In other news, I got an earlier bus so I will be there at 345. I have to murder two people and go to the bank, but then get out of work and we can drink.
Let's work some of this out...
1. Yes, the day you call me squealing in a margarita haze from a Happy Hour that serves cheese poppers and has a chant when the clock strikes seven - you will be reprimanded.
2. As for this ‘postbro’ nonesense. I see what she is saying. It must be hard for bros to stay true to themselves with so many movies coming out about brolove, bromance, brobreakups. Should we blame the media for...
Pre-Sleep Thought
So this girl here often talks about the “postbro” movement here in DC. I have pressed her to define it, as have others, but all I understand is that “postbros” are bros who like Regina Spektor and the Arcade Fire and are somewhat aware that there is backlash because they are bros and no one likes a bro. I do not understand this and I often tell her that. She replies,...
Wait...
So for a while, your HS drama award was the Cox Award?
Secondary Epistle
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I will be there tomorrow. I will only play box soccer with you if I get to be on Mick’s team. I am currently stone cold sober and reading Proust. Well, Proust is next to my foot and I am reading it for as long as it takes the next episode of the Tudors to load.
Promise me that we will never be the type of person who gets excited about happy hour. Promise that we will only go to happy...
Yet another reason we are friends
You know. Jamie Kennedy knew Courtney Cox. Courrney Cox was in Scream. Before that, in her younder years, she went to my high school. And the “11th Grade Drama Award” was named after her. Except for she didn’t sanction it or give any money or, apparently, know about it. My senior year they added an addendum ‘Miss [she was not Mrs. Arquette at the time] Cox does not gives...
A preliminary epistolary...
Dearest M -
I miss you wildly. I got drunk and listened to blues. In fact - scratch that - I am still getting drunk and listening to blues. I wish you were here and we could do that fun thing where we pretend to jump off of fire escapes and play box-soccer in the latest of the night time.
I can’t wait till tomorrow!
acleek
Is that Jamie Fucking Kennedy?
I had the biggest crush on him circa Scream and Scream II, until he died in the van at the hand of people who wanted to subvert the Christian Coalition’s hold on broadcasting. Two key things about Jamie Kennedy:
1). He is the cousin of Dianna Moore, who I went to high school with.
2). In Scream III, Jamie Kennedy’s character’s sister makes an appearance. Her name is Martha and...
The weird thing is
that picture could really be either of us.
My friend is on a date with a girl he had a crush...
Did you know that still happens? Dates? Successful crushes? Perhaps if I moved on from crushes on young/ crazy/ gay boys, things would go better. But I am not even sure what I would do on a date… Drink? But that is what I do on not dates!
I was thinking
Want to go to med school? Or you could be a vet and I could be a doctor. Cause I can watch even the yickiest parts of house now without flinching. They are cutting off someone’s scalp right now.
Episode 1 of The Tudors: Proto-She'sAllThat
While wearing ruffly blouses, short shorts and tights to play indoor tennis, the King and some hotter guy just made an 100 Crown bet that the hotter guy cannot seduce Buckingham’s daughter. Maybe SAT would have been better if Paul Walker FPJr. had worn tights? Also, the Fast and the Furious.
Texting is pretty awful, isn’t it? Every... →
Pop Quiz, hotshot
Tomorrow I will:
a). Stay in bed all day eating coughdrops and pretending they count as a meal
b). Go outside and make myself useful
c). Take a bus to New York because I need to go to the bank
d). Take a bus to New York because I can feel myself sinking into a well of agoraphobic insanity
e). Take a bus to New York because we have to talk about how Skullcrusher Mountain is the best song ever
...
“You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don’t like monsters so much...”
So Jonny is driving up to New Haven today
I could hitch a ride as far as NY, but I am still recovering from post-inaugural illness. I know, shame on me. I should head up, I know, but I am not going to. Does this make me a bad friend to all of you in New York? Maybe. But I think I will come up next weekend on my own. I would rather have buckets of fun next weekend than sickish fun this weekend.
Want to come down tomorrow and play in the...
Kanye's blog is wonderful. →
Did I tell you?
I ripped a hole in my jeans with my big toe. Huge hole. Little toe. No more jeans.
-acleek
I could tell this was going to be nothing like... →
A recent conversation.
I was having some sort of discussion with someone and mentioned that I used to live in Williamsburg. We discussed the people there, the tourists, the shows, the constant pretense… but when she mentioned the costumes, I realized she meant colonial Williamsburg. I decided to let her keep thinking that I used to live in colonial Williamsburg and was constantly awoken by reenactors carousing by...
I know many others said this first.
So this is wonderful. →
I mean, where else combines photographically excellent hipster porn with Walter Benjamin and William Gibson? Initially I was going to query you as to why there is not hipster boy porn for the discerning lady, but then I remembered that emaciated is not a look that translates well to film for men.
I just took an online test to determine my ideal...
It told me to be a CEO or in a band. Thanks, internet.
It's basically 'Valkyrie' meets 'Hotel for Dogs. →
DC Ennui
To be pronounced correctly or as in-you-eye, but then it does not rhyme.
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I just went out to dinner at the closest approximation I have found to the grand st. pupusa place. The first time I went, I had a wonderful time. We piled into a corner to drink and eat fried things. This time…. oh dear. No one else ordered delicious Tecate. Awkward silences stretched for days. At one point, I...
What Business?
And What Carpet?
Your post in inscrutable, gumdrop!
I got something too
M -
Pickles should be free. Like coleslaw and rides in revolving doors.
As a scientific experiment I searched this and found:
revolving doors are the spawn of the devil
…Which I am not ready to disagree with
And this…
Which I think we should make.
Love!
acleek
Brisket, two ways.
Mark just sent me the following link:
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=2835
Because he knows that I do not do well with long-form thought, he gave me the highlights through gchat: guy I know walks in to a Texas theme restaurant, walks out with affirmed Jewish identity. I am left… confused.
As a non-jew who is from the Hill Country and who has been, once, to Hill Country, I...
We know the person who made this!
Someone I know
is “excited for The Killers concert.”
You do not know her, but can you pretend to so that we can giggle and ponder whether we are humans or dancers?
II
ashley: haha ok done
me: so the thought will be
we post communications to this
within the letter structure
because we like structure
ashley: haha ok can do
just not till a little bit later
i got tons of letters stored up
me: and pictures of bunnies