I need to start dressing better. Yesterday a shopclerk asked me if I was from the Midwest.

Also, I'm a bit confused about this NYT article. It's ostensibly about the three women who star in the new, hideously-titled Broadway show Boeing Boeing, but it seems to be much more fascinated by the fact that all three women are eating than about anything ( Read more... )

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How interested would you be, on a scale of 1-5, in listening to a podcast called "Gay Jews Read Revelations"?

1 = I'd rather listen to Limbaugh
5 = SIGN ME UP, BABY, SIGN ME UP

it's kind of ironic that Amazon's ipod-for-books, the Kindle, is coming out at the same time as this study about how no one reads anymore, not even the backs of cereal boxes, not even warning labels. in fact, you're not reading this right now; you're actually watching television and idly thinking about voting Republican.

it's too bad because i ( Read more... )

KILL! MAIM! DEAD ( Read more... )

they're filming THIS MOVIE on my street RIGHT NOW. why am i not home to watch out my window for a glimpse of the brainy, sexy coen-y goodness?

despite my best efforts to break my wrist getting it caught between two very fierce doors, ben and i had a fantastic last day in japan yesterday. we're in tokyo now, capping off the trip the same way we started it, except not really: when we first got here, we stayed at a tiny room that stank of cigarettes in this hole-in-the-wall business hotel ( Read more... )

I tried to blog this but the funny lobby computer of my Japanese hotel won't let me. Also this is a Japanese keyboard so please forgive any glaring typos ( Read more... )

After I finished the last Harry Potter book, I was overtaken by a kind of euphoria. Initially I opened up my laptop, thinking I'd check in with the world; then I decided the smarter thing to do would be to go bouncing outside into the sunshine, enjoy my giddiness, and be content with my own opinions about the book before letting them get ( ( Read more... )

Alanis Morisette hasn't been my hero in years, but with this fantastic cover version of "My Humps" she might just have gotten her humps back on the throne.