February 2009
102 posts
The only reason I occasionally enjoy riding in a car is that it’s one of the best ways to listen to music.
RT @readerville: Book of the Moment: The Story of a Marriage: by Andrew Sean Greer http://tinyurl.com/alru84 yeah FSG!
In the most intense food coma of my life after an incredibly decadent dining experience.
On my way to a very elegant dinner @ CIA, upstate. finally going to my parents’ alma mater for the 1st time.
January 2009
214 posts
I don’t know how to keep this book situation of mine under control. They’re everywhere…
I think it’s really cool that my cousin is the #2 gymnast in the nation.
Just returned from @92YTribeca and the shenanigans of a Gogol Bordello related event.
RT @MuseumModernArt A note that Monday is the last day for the Pipilotti Rist installation “Pour Your Body Out” http://tr.im/dq5p
RT @rachelsklar New York men are so lucky. The women here are about a thousand times hotter than the men.
FW exclusive: Matt & Kim take FW contributer Scott Tomford down memory lane. http://tinyurl.com/acexez
My plant is dying…I knew this would happen as soon as i was appointed its care-giver. Any advice on attempting resurrection?
RT @luxlotus Jonathan Baumbach reads from YOU or The Invention of Memory at Brooklyn College, Feb 18: www.newyouproject.wordpress…
RT @vromans @sarahw: John Cheever remembers Updike (no, not a typo): http://tinyurl.com/arvg22
When will The Cremaster Cycle come back? http://tinyurl.com/b9mkvr Won’t be holding my breath.
Back to Matthew Barney…personifies the dichotomy of the beautiful and the grotesque? http://tinyurl.com/bpdcbg.
Example of why one should never use profanity in any article/editorial/etc. http://tinyurl.com/cfeqj2 Cannot take the writing seriously.
RT @chapmanchapman however it is one of the best band stories I’ve heard in a long time. (re. last tweet)
I think Bjork should become queen of Iceland. Then Matthew Barney would be king, and that would be utter madness.
Sadly, a little disappointed by Bon Iver’s Blood Bank EP.
Wanting to read Lush Life, but alas it will have to wait. Too many other things to read.
RT @LaurenElkin Happy Birthday [to my favorite author] Virginia Woolf!
Upset about the apparent demise of the “artifact” section of NY Mag.
“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, p. 17
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Accepted the fact that I must let go of my handicapped red bike. the last remnants of eugene in my life are disappearing.
Just saw a bunch of HS kids wearing UO logo’d apparel on the subway. It was odd.
RT @ami_with_an_i @largeheartedboy Derek Walcott’s poem, “Forty Acres,” written for Barack Obama: http://is.gd/gHBz
Wishing that @roflcon started at 2. It’s cramping my saturday morning style.
Time to go rest my head on my pillow and close my eyes.
Backlog…hrumpf.
RT @LaurenElkin roland barthes’s brother publishes his papers http://tinyurl.com/72g5rv
RT @luxlotus @largeheartedboy Jonathan Baumbach’s playlist for You or The Invention of Memory: http://is.gd/gMBK
Off to have drinks with K to celebrate a successful first day!
worried that I might kill the plant that the former inhabitant of my new workspace left me. No green thumb have I.
First day! Everyone at FSG is pretty sweet so far.
That 10 yr old journalist from Florida needs to get his interview with Obama. So adorable! It’s a crime that he didn’t get into the inaug.
RT @rachelsklar NYer post about Michelle’s great Inaug Day outfit: http://tinyurl.com/955yhj Sewed in pashmina to keep her warm
RT @luxlotus Love going out at five because then you can be sloshed by nine and its fine.
Just got home from my last day as an intern. It’s the end of an era. Yippeee!
“Northwest Missouri State University has initiated an electronic-textbook program.” http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/249994
This is absurd. http://tinyurl.com/8mk65b. Does this teacher not understand the books he’s teaching?
RT @mashable My pic of the day: Bon Voyage, Mr Bush! http://mashable.tumblr.com/…
I love book blogs. Thanks to @luxlotus for pointing this one out: http://justthebookstore.blogspot.com/
RT @MandySue411 “Rosa Parks sat so MLK could walk. MLK walked so Obama could run. Obama ran so we can all fly.” via Newsday
RT @chapmanchapman: RT @nytimesbooks Transcript: Inaugural Poem http://tinyurl.com/9gv9pu
woops…here’s the correct link to the text of Obama’s speech. http://www.drudgereport.com/flashosi.htm
RT @davealevine Text of Obama’s speech: http://www.drudgereport.com…
I wonder what Bush and Obama are talking about in the limo right now.
RT @Lady Murasaki @maudnewton “in today’s sharp sparkle… anything can be made, any sentence begun” — Elizabeth Alexander
We shouldn’t have to work today. It’s not right. This inauguration should be the inaugural Inauguration holiday.