July 2010
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95% of Trains Are on Time? Riders Beg to Differ →
Trains on the New Haven line perform worse than the others, primarily because the cars are holdovers from the 1970s and some of the track uses overhead electrical wires that are nearly a century old and prone to damage.
I hate those damn trains.
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On Films and TV, Cats and Dogs Playing Cute →
Do I know for a fact that when, say, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton goes behind closed doors for yet another round of unproductive talks with some Middle Eastern leader, they’re actually watching videos of “Maru the Cat” push a cardboard box around? No. But it seems probable.
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“I mean, here was I practically fresh out of the egg, everything was so new to...”
– The Dud Avocado
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My Own Personal Complaint Box
In my six years of living in New York, one of my greatest annoyances has been the mysterious disappearance of my weekend paper. Although I am a so-called Millennial, deeply entrenched in the digital age, I still enjoy reading the dead-tree version Sunday Times over brunch at my favorite local coffee shop each weekend morning. However, certain amoral residents of my building have recently been...
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Once Upon a Life: Sloane Crosley →
In the end, it is difficult to be the constant in your own life….How do we know what experiences will alter the world as we know it if we’re always in our own skin? The basic issue of selecting a life-changing experience is that the life in question continues to exist. We are always learning, sometimes stumbling into lessons and sometimes seeking them out. It’s how our...
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Forever 21 Asked About Maternity Line →
I don’t believe for a second that it’s a coincidence that Forever 21’s new maternity clothing line is only available in states with high teen pregnancy rates. It also creeps me out that all their shopping bags have “John 3:16” on the bottom, which is apparently a Bible passage that says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that...
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Where Are the Darias? →
So where did all the Darias go? Eight years after the show went off the air, the super-smart, dry, withering, righteously angry girls are largely absent from pop culture. For every sassy adolescent as played by Juno’s Ellen Page, our current teen cultural landscape is clogged with heroines whose principal interests, as on Gossip Girl, are status and men.
It must suck to be a teen girl...
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Costa Rica - The End (5/12/10)
Despite the fact that there are no food options in the San José airport other than pizza, fried chicken, Burger King and Cinnabon, security is pretty tight. Or maybe we just looked suspicious. They searched my bag and wanded me (that sounds odd, but I don’t know what else to call it) when I went through security. Later, Nick got patted down before boarding and my laughter was met with a...
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Google Reader →
Is where I share the things I read and enjoyed but was too lazy to blog or tweet about. Follow me, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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drink your juice.: I just came to the realization →
The end goal has always been to go everywhere, do everything and meet everyone. That’s it. That’s what I want.
The notion of moving to a city — no matter how awesome that city is — and falling into some routine involving bars and a job and dating and identity crises… the more I think about it, the more I can see that all playing out. I just can. I know myself and I know what that would look...
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No-Stress, Low-Fuss, Hassle-Free Summertime... →
Chicken Soup
Often considered a cure for the winter blahs, this meal works for the summer blahs as well. Haven’t experienced the summer blahs yet? Oh. Who are you taking to Donovan and Shelly’s wedding next month? Who did you dance with at Stuart and Brooke’s last weekend? What exactly is the point of moving from your studio apartment into a one-bedroom? There we go....
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Pop Smart: How Ke$ha Tik-Tokked Her Way to the Top →
“I’m lying in bed naked,” whispers Kesha over the phone. Though it’s an intriguing image, she manages to come off less like a Mariah Carey-style sex kitten and more in the vein of a Jack Black-type, rubbing his nipples and licking his lips.
Best celebrity profile lede ever?
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The Slow and Painful Collapse of a Relationship... →
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Carrie is obviously the worst, since squirrel photos are awesome.
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Creep - Scala & Kolacny Brothers
This cover...
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Yet He Doesn't Have an E-mail Address
Me: BRB.
Dad: BRB? WBH.
Me: ...Does that stand for, "We'll be here?"
Dad: Yes.
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“The library, one of Carnegie’s stately granite benefactions, sat next to...”
– John Updike in Getting the Words Out [I can’t believe my family’s bakery helped inspire John Updike’s love of books!]
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Best Roof Talk Ever: Tumblr Tricks, vol. 1 →
Post a song with album art:
Copy some album art to your clipboard, in iTunes, right-click on your song, go to “Get Info,” go to the Artwork tab and command+v your art into that box. This will embed the art into the mp3 meta tags, not just into the itunes library information (which is what…
Love these tips! I was wondering how you’d go about reblogging yourself…I don’t...
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How the Internet Beat Up an 11-Year-Old Girl →
Who lets their 11-year-old daughter have a webcam in her room, pierce her lip, wear makeup and use that kind of language? Sweet Jesus, when I was in sixth grade, I still watched the Disney Channel, only put on makeup for ballet recitals and wore overalls every day because I didn’t want to have to wear a training bra.