I have a friend who needs to offload a burningman ticket. I know they've changed it so tickets are still on sale, but they bought it long ago and can't go now, so if you know anyone who still hasn't bought one: Holla ( Read more... )

93% Barack Obama
91% Chris Dodd
90% John Edwards
89% Hillary Clinton
86% Joe Biden
80% Mike Gravel
79% Dennis Kucinich
79% Bill Richardson
39% Rudy Giuliani
30% John McCain
29% Tom Tancredo
25% Mitt Romney
21% Mike Huckabee
18% Ron Paul
11% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizI know I like Obama. I just don't know if I like him *enough*. I ( Read more... )

Like every other girl born in the late 70’s/early 80’s, I’ve watched Dirty Dancing an embarrassingly astronomical number of times. I’m a dork, I know. But considering my inherent love for dancing, it shouldn’t be surprising that I was all smitten with Baby and her secret love for the bad boy mambo instructor. Whatever else, you have to admit the ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday I had a very hipster-ific evening and meant to write a little about it. Here’s what I recall.

Topics discussed during conversation with Mom over pizza at Lanesplitter’s:

• Issues with my current job and plans for finding a new one.
• Anxiety that comes with identifying yourself in a new way and/or changing behaviors that ( Read more... )

Yesterday a package from Jeremy arrived on my front porch with my sleeping bag (which he borrowed), a CD and $50 enclosed. Nice, right? Tonight on the drive home through the usual sluggish Bay Bridge traffic, I gave the CD a listen and was pleasantly surprised by the hip hop/rock hybrid contained within. The lyrics from the song that grabbed me the ( Read more... )

Hey, all of you who read this: I’m doing a little bit of informal social research. Please take a moment to answer the following question for me:

What are your Top 5 *ultimate* goals for your life, in order of importance?

Disclaimer: Goals should be defined as objectives that you intend to make steps towards achieving. They should not be whimsy, ( Read more... )

I started skimming through a book called “Hipster Haiku’s” written by Siobhan Adcock. I can’t decide whether or not I’m ashamed that they make me laugh so much, but they do. For some I’m laughing at the hipsters and for others I’m laughing because I share the sentiment expressed. Could it be that unbeknownst to me I’m a bit of a hipster?!? Naaaahhh ( Read more... )

For the record, I *love* the WikiMedia Foundation and all it endeavors to accomplish. Here's their QOTD, which I found striking. The sentiment has been expressed many times, but I particularly like the way it's put here:

“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me ( Read more... )

I have no reason for posting, except to show off this fabulous picture of me in a corset…

Look! I’m hot! Go me!

I found a printout copy of this photo the other day (the original is no longer in my possession) and decided to scan it in. It’s from back when I was college. I only wish I had known then that I could be that hot, because I honestly had ( Read more... )

“No, Hope. It’s not about you. You think every fucking thing is about you because you’re so pathetic and have no life of your own.”

“Goddamn it, Natalie. Why are you so hostile? What did I do to you? Why do you hate me so much?”

Natalie laughed nastily. “Pure projection. You’re the one who hates me but you won’t admit it, you repressed bitch.”

“I ( Read more... )