March 2010
14 posts
“Were the Ninja Turtles a marketing tool for the pizza industry?”
– Hipster Runoff
February 2010
19 posts
On Not Going To There
And then I realized that what I was imagining going back to was our apartment a year ago, with a Christmas tree in the corner decorated with the ornaments I bought at Pearl River Mart and the ones from William’s grandmother. I remembered how happy I’d been to look in the window and see those lights every time I came home. I could almost smell the old fuggy smell of our apartment, pot and incense...
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Ferran Adria Eat Your Heart Out
Me: Like El Bulli, I'm going to start my own food foundation. But I'll open it in 2013 and be like "BOOYA! look at my floating eggs!" You want in?
Whitney: YES. "HELLO, SUCKAS! COME DRINK MY FOAM!"
Me: "I farted in this jar in 2010 so you could enjoy it in 2013. Now put on this unitard and lick the wall paper"
Whitney: "That's not puff paint, it's solid gold duck semen, and it's delicious."
Me: It's a fucking CELEBRATION.
6pm Bus Conversation
“I don’t know, we have that avocado? Just tell me what’s in the fridge. Start the rice. No, I’ll put a sauce on it.”
I hear some variation of this everyday on the 5. The number 7 has more death threats, less dinner debates. The 358 has a lot of dogs on rope leashes.
“The hibernation researcher Lynn Rogers once crawled into a den and pressed his...”
– Mary Roach’s book reviews are inspiring.
Our Love is Like Gas and a Match
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Brains of vegetative patients show life
Five of 54 unresponsive subjects in a new study demonstrate brain activity indicating awareness, with one able to respond to simple questions.
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Drew: My worst fears could come true! Being trapped in a "vegetative" state but still wanting/needing to communicate. No matter what, don't pull the plug on me.
Nick: I am a neuroscientist, I will know how to check if you have brain activity.
Drew: Perhaps that is one of the more subconscious reasons why I'm dating you? Can you also tell if I've been buried alive? Also, on that note, I'd like to be cremated.
Nick: You would have been buried, so probably not. Beforehand, I probably could. I'll cremate you myself, with gas and a match.
“I’m hesitant to talk about it, because then it seems like Vampire Weekend is...”
– Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend
Gluten Free Day 4: Crusts of Breakfasts Past
Me: I would like some bread. A hunk of it. Warm and fluffy with butter. Crusty outside.
Whitney: gluten's greatest hits.