I am working a lot, and slowly getting acquainted with the life I now live as a New-Yorker; an early-20s-Brooklynite. I'm a server at a very high volume pan-asian restaurant in Midtown West Manhattan "Times Square" (though it's really not. West 49th and Broadway ( Read more... )

I just moved to Brooklyn ( Read more... )

"Your imagination is a vital tool, and so many things in our culture are there to take the place of your imagination. So have faith in new ideas."

-Carrie Brownstein

My pungent sarcasm is getting out of control. I'm into it. I also think I've found a fairly solid political ground to stand on, though it still continues to shift here and there. I've noticed myself getting charged over certain conversations, where I have no choice but to put my two cents in and give a different standpoint. I've been learning more ( Read more... )

"'you know,' she said 'the thing with you is you is that you somehow manage to take a tiny percent of yourself, the smallest fraction, and turn it into your only equation. In this life there's so many sides to everything and that includes you. You've so many things waiting and yet you insist on only building from one part of yourself. You wouldn't ( Read more... )

I don't want to fight in the holy war
I don't want the salesman knocking at my door
I don't want to live in America no more

Because the tide is high
And it's rising still
And I don't want to see it at my windowsill

Taken word-for-word from my book

Sun Sign, Moon Sign: Discover the Key to Your Unique Personality Through the 144 Sun-Moon Combinations

by Charles and Suzi Harvey

Themes:
self confident; intuitive; abundance of ideas; passionate and adventurous; courageous; dictatorial; reckless nobility; social conscience yet self-centered; ambitious; hero- ( Read more... )

I hate shopping malls and designers. I could care less how much money you spend on a meaningless name, especially when that person doesn't give a damn about you. And you probably spent all of your last paycheck to buy that bag, or those sunglasses- so people would say and think nice things about you. Oh shit, you're right. Your parents buy ( Read more... )