January 2010
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indefensible:
When we look back at past relationships, we (or at least I) tend to remember clusters of good and bad things. Time tends to diminish the bad, and puts a soft glow on the good. I don’t remember many of the bad things about the woman with whom I spent 13 years of my life, but I will always remember that never once did she come to greet me at the airport.
I always think it’s a...
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Wilton Police Reports →
Wednesday, Jan. 20 According to police reports, a metal hammer was located in the roadway off Route 7 at the intersection of Westport Road at 3:49 p.m. Anyone with information should call the Wilton Police Department.
Mysterious hammer in the road = police matter.
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Renovation work, lease approved for new restaurant... →
Oh, cool. So maybe next time I land at Scranton Airport on a Sunday night because there are storms at JFK and my plane from Chicago has to fly in circles until it runs out of fuel, they will have something more to offer me than a cart full of warm beer and old cakes.
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Roll Over, Charles Darwin! →
Take the ark. The big-boat business poses all sorts of questions. But, again, they’ve got answers. There are models and plans and layouts of the vessel. You can walk through a part of the hull. There’s biblical carpentry and weather reports. And the dinosaurs are on board. (They were probably small ones, the museum helpfully adds.)…O.K., so you get everybody aboard, 10 million creatures,...
Town considers liquor store locations →
[Dumb lady], who also resides on Orems Lane, said putting a liquor store at 203 Danbury Road would be a danger to children who live in the area. “It is a scary and dangerous thing, especially for the kids who live in the neighborhood,” she said. “I am all for putting a package store in Wilton, but it would not be good for our little neighborhood.”
Seriously? Seriously....
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10 Good Reasons You Should Hate Oprah Winfrey →
(via leckerlecker)
The Lost Boys of Tryon →
It is devastatingly tragic that this is how the state treats abused, mentally ill children. It’s even sadder when you realize this is the article right before it in the magazine. We treat children like dogs, and dogs like children.
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“People are living more isolated lives, are having fewer children, their...”
– James Serpell in New York Magazine [I genuinely believe I would feel happier and more fulfilled if I had a dog.]
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Twitter Adds Local Trending Topics
mbooth:
When I logged into Twitter tonight, I was surprised by a little pop-up window telling me about Twitter’s new location-based trending topics feature and asking me to set my location. Right now, the feature is only available in five countries and 15 cities, but apparently Twitter is working on expanding that list.
So now I can see what people in New York City are twittering about,...
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Hypotheses as to why my bedroom sometimes smells...
when I do not have a cat:
The weird old lady next door secretly has 15 cats and cooks homemade cat food for them, with the fumes wafting through our shared wall.
There is a cat stuck somewhere in my bedroom wall, chowing down while I’m at work.
My apartment is being haunted by a ghost cat with a taste for phantom Fancy Feast.
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MyBiggestRegretEver.com →
Mine? Not studying abroad in college. (That’s the one I’m willing to share with the Internet, anyway.)
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“Venus” - Air
This song is on the mix...
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On Giving
As someone who has very little money, I feel like it’s difficult to make a difference philanthropically. Over the past year, I was moved to give small, double-digit donations to various causes that moved me, including Charity Water, Donors Choose, the Australian Red Cross (after the Victoria bushfires), ASPCA and the American Red Cross (after the Haiti earthquake). But I feel like it’s...
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Speech Therapy →
Many people who represent as Italian-American speak New Yorkese…no matter where they live.
I’d say this is true. My dad has a bit of a New York accent (although he denies it, but he does the whole “so I says, then he says” thing), and he was born and raised in Connecticut — albeit, by parents from Harlem.
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“You might, if you are a young New Yorker who keeps her nails short and thinks...”
– Regina Nigro [The weird thing is, I’ve got a foot in both those worlds. I am a curiosity to everyone.]
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“You woke up this morning, looked in the mirror, and decided there was something...”
– My horoscope, which knows me so well
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