I googled "DIY loft bed" this morning.

Hmmm...

So yeah. We are (probably, fingers crossed, no jinx) moving into another apartment in the same complex (see the very lucid recap from the current and future roommate here). I know I thought I was too old to give friends beer to entice them to help me move, but hey, when it involves no driving, just carrying boxes 50 feet, I think that's fair. So ( Read more... )

Because the Virgin Megastore in Chicago (a block from where I work) is closing, everything is 25% off right now. I went and hit the sale during lunch, and came away with only a set of blank note cards in cute Scandi prints and the Criterion Collection release of Unfaithfully YoursThings I wanted, but they didn't have ( Read more... )

-It's wedding week at Slate, lord help us all. From an article on bachelor parties:

"The ideal BP would closely resemble a salon among Thomas De Quincey, P.J. O'Rourke, Christophers Hitchens and Moltisanti, Robert Mitchum, Stanford White, Keith Richards, and Frank the Tank, with entertainment provided by the 12 most open-minded Rockettes ( Read more... )

Friday: Get off work late! Run home, shower, run over to meet
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-I do not understand why there's an "English version" of Os Mutantes' Bat Macumba when there are no lyrics changes. The lyrics consist of "Bat Macumba" and "ay, ay, ay" and "ah oh ah". And yet, there is.

-Because there's water main work going on, I will be without a ceiling for most of today. The entire bottom half of the building (including our ( Read more... )

Something that came up this weekend at Dan and Laura's bday party: Slate on the Higgs Boson rumors.

I need to stop overbooking my weeks. I'm currently skipping what is sure to be an incredible Dinosaur Jr. show because I'm crashing from burning through the last three days at full speed. Even yesterday, my alleged "free night", included a few hours of cleaning and fairly intense yoga, followed by a 5:30 wakeup to get some cardio in ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to
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I was looking up articles about the allegedly-already here cicadas, when I came across these three bullet points in this order:


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