December 2010
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September 2010
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If Historical Events Have Facebook Statuses
best laugh of the day! (so far…)
leilockheart:
comment: ok, i love the asteroid part. LOL dinosaurs and cockroach. Hahaha!
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August 2010
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FFFFOUND! | M O O D →
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Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years →
My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.
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September 2009
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August 2009
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June 2009
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NEW TODAY: Joining the Gym
Okay, not entirely new, since I joined the same gym over a year ago. But I only went a handful of times, and it’s been so long, it feels pretty damn new.
Here’s why I loved it:
First, it was supremely comforting to see all the people at the gym on a Saturday evening. It seems I was not the only person in Portland without a hot date.
Second, the people watching! Not only do you see...
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Do You Belong In New York?
I found this out today thanks to Time Out New York:
DO YOU BELONG IN NYC? Only until you age out. Sorry to say it, but you’re a temporary New Yorker. Sure, this city is awesome for running around and enjoying your youth, but you came here to work and play hard and plan on jetting at the first signs of crow’s feet or when your parents stop financing that party lifestyle of yours. Plus,...
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NEW TODAY: The Nest
A night out with the girls (Laura and Alisa). We started at Bye and Bye, and decided to bar crawl along Alberta. The next first stop: The Nest. Which smells like a bowling alley inside. We sidled up to this skinny “table” outside – more like a hitching post, and I guess that’s the point since it’s for the horseshoe pits – and the only guy to come talk to us was an...
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NEW TODAY: Red Room
There’s a reason I’ve never been to the Red Room – it’s on 82nd Avenue. And it’s a typical dive-sports bar (the menu consists of burgers, grilled cheese, and “freedom fries”) randomly tucked between the Stars Motel and a collection of Asian markets, with giant mugshots of famous rebels lining the walls. I’m pretty sure I’ll never return.
But since I...
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NEW TODAY: Roller Skating | Street Walking (&...
I’m in a rut. I’m not sure exactly what or how to change just yet, but I do know there’s a helluva lot of stuff I’ve never done. I’ve let myself get too comfortable, so I’m challenging myself to DO something new everyday. Most things will probably be small, maybe boring, maybe common place to everyone else, but hey, it’s new to me! Plus, I’m...
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“If you tell stories and have great pictures, there’s a great future for...”
– VF editor Graydon Carter on why “It’s still the golden age of magazines” (in “Si Newhouse’s Dream Factory,” New York, June 8).
Will consider this my personal mission statement from now on.
May 2009
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I want to live here:
It’s a London couple’s apartment that was featured in the New York Times (with a title like Design on a Shoestring: High, Low, Eccentric, I couldn’t resist the click). And I’ve scrolled through the slideshow probably half a dozen times by now. Ideas to take home to the studio I can’t figure out what to do with:
- Dark walls. Gray, brown,...
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Don't Eat the Marshmallow
I’ve read this article in The New Yorker three times now. The fascinating (at least to me) premise is that self-control may be a more important factor in success than raw intelligence.
Basically, Stanford psychologist Walter Micshel set up an experiment in 1968 to study will power, putting kids in a room with a marshmallow and telling them that they could eat that one now or get two if they...
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April 2009
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“In 2006, the world produced 161 “exabytes” of digital information -...”
– The Week, via the Columbia Journalism Review
…no wonder I have lost all ability to focus on one thing at a time. As the full article says, “Pick your metaphor: we’re drowning, buried, snowed under.” It’s making me crazy!
And a comment that reposts the forward of a book I...
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Stylish - and Bike-Friendly - Bar
Came across this new label for local New Deal Distillery’s 88 vodka earlier this week:
I got inspired to have not just a stocked bar in my new place, but a pretty one, too. Which made me think of the first bottle of wine I bought when I turned 21, which was a Pinot noir I chose for the label:
So then, I’ve got a ladies on bikes theme? I didn’t even realize it.
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It doesn't compare to real life, but when I can't... →
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March 2009
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The Real World Threw Up All Over Us →
Should I feel better that I’m not the only one? Or scared shitless that the fear and uncertainty is so pervasive?
Looking forward to the next “installment” about grad school decisions.
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