April 2009
33 posts
Just misread a Onepot dinner invitation featuring “Ruth Forman” as “George Foreman” and thought to myself, “irony has gone too far”.
There is a hobo on the corner of 6th & Pine dancing about in the largest towel I’ve ever seen.
Are Google profiles the new home base? http://www.google.com/profiles/dzandone
Hotel for Dogs
About a month back I came across a surprisingly ordinary article on eccentric personalities. Well, ordinary until I read down to the bit on Francis Egerton:
Francis Egerton (8th Earl of Bridgewater) inherited his title along with a very large fortune in 1823. He became famous for his unusual dinner parties which he threw for dogs. All of the invited dogs would be dressed in the finest fashions...
Things That Seem Like a Good Idea At the Time Number 8,765: Headbands.
Either I have two new strapping young lads for neighbors or hoodlums have arrived to strip the empty apartment next door of its wiring.
My expected wait time on the unemployment phone line is 30 minutes. Like waiting for a table of 1 at the most depressing restaurant ever.
Truth or Dare is like a box of wine. Someone always cries.
– Whitney, shattering my birthday slumber party dreams.
Because Tights Are Not Pants
Alex: Wear jeans and a cute top. Stay comfy.
Me: I have no cute tops. Why not a dress? Do dresses make me look weird?
Me: ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING?
Alex: No, no. Just be comfortable.
Me: The deceiving thing about dresses is that they are actually more comfortable because of the absence of pants.
Me: NO PANTS PARTY OF 1.
Unemployment: Day 14
I am featured on the front page of ArtsJournal. http://www.artsjournal.com.
TLC: The (scare the) Living (daylights out of you)...
I am currently watching episodes of I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, alternately titled Welcome to the Terrordome: Your Remaining Years of Fertility.
Did you have sex? You could be pregnant.
Life of celibacy? You could be pregnant.
Gain weight? Stay the same? Pregnant. Super pregnant.
Basically, if you take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide or simply exist on this planet, you will...
3 tags
The Different Kinds of People That There Are
Lindy West hits the nail on the head with hands down the best piece I’ve ever read in The Stranger:
People Who Don’t Watch TV
Symbolically not doing something for the sake of not doing it is almost never evidence of sophistication. It is evidence of not knowing what you’re fucking talking about. Are we really still having this conversation? Television is a part of the cultural...
4 tags
Thanks, Gwenyth
When I am unemployed & on the couch in my undies with questionable hair, it’s nice that Gwenyth Paltrow takes the time to email me about environmental toxins.
The billboard atop the Lusty Lady reads “Spring Beaver”. I remember their puns being a bit more inspired.