January 2012
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The Best Things I Did in 2011
In no particular order…
Bought a fake-sunlight alarm clock
Stayed at the Hotel Triton in San Francisco and discovered my favorite sushi place in the world around the corner
Went to Austin twice (even though SXSW almost killed me)
Continued volunteering with New York Cares, from reading with kids to sorting library books to knitting with senior citizens
Worked my butt off doing PR for...
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My Top 10 Most-Played iTunes Songs of 2011
These songs weren’t necessarily released in 2011, they’re just what I listened to most often during the past year:
West Coast — Coconut Records
Go Outside — Cults
Jerk It Out — Caesars
Yoü and I — Lady Gaga
Shine On — The Kooks
Can’t Lose — We Are Scientists
A Little More Time — Zox
What I’m Looking For — Brendan...
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My Top 10 Most-Visited Posts of 2011
I took a look at my Google Analytics to figure out the 10 most popular posts of the year on this here blog, and they are totally weird and random:
How Americans See a Map of Europe
Mario or Train Conductor?
Zach Galifianakis Minus Beard
Scariest Halloween Costume Ever
Tumblr Spam Is Now a Thing
Ice Cream Face Tattoo
Randall’s Wild Wild World of Animals (featuring the Honey Badger,...
December 2011
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thesecretdiaryofareader asked: Please let us know your opinion 'bout Kindle Fire in the future :)
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The 10 Best Catholic Saints
There is a Catholic saint for pretty much everything. Here are 10 of my favorites:
Saint Amaand of Mastricht — patron saint of bartenders
Saint Bibiana — patron saint of hangovers
Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio — patron saint against intestinal problems
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary — patron saint of hobos
Saint Eugene de Mazenod — patron saint of dysfunctional...
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My Top 15 Longreads of 2011
Longreads.com has been doing a great series of roundups on its Tumblr, highlighting the best longreads of the year, chosen by well-known writers. I’m not well-known and not really a writer, but here are mine (I couldn’t narrow it down to five):
“Travis the Menace,” Dan P. Lee, New York Magazine
“Looking for Someone,” Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker
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Is This the Sanest Man Running for President? →
[Gary Johnson] happily outlines his main—and most radical—position: to slash the federal budget by 43 percent. That’s the number it would take to erase the deficit right now. This can be done, he says. Ya think? And he’d do it by, among other things, eliminating the Department of Education (he says he’d give all those billions to the states, minus 43 percent, and let them...
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WatchThis is what it would look like if I went to the gym.
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Fun Christmas Facts I Learned This Weekend
My old lady friend Clare, from my New York Cares knitting project at the senior center, grew up in Switzerland. I don’t know when she came to New York, but she still has a crazy-thick accent, which is pretty great. She was telling us about Christmas when she was a kid and apparently, Swiss Santa comes to your house on December 6 (St. Nicholas Day) to give you constructive feedback on your...
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“When I was little, my parents took me to FAO Schwarz but they didn’t want...”
– A girl at my New York Cares knitting project
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“One of my sons has this girl who is a vegan and I told her she has to bring her...”
– My old lady friend Clare, in a thick Swiss accent
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What You'll Find on the Instagram "Popular" Page
- Scenic landscape with a lens flare
- Sunset
- Famous bridge
- Grammatically-incorrect word art about boys/love/other high school problems
- Tiny Japanese puppy wearing clothes
- Hot girl with tattoos
- Hot Asian girl with huge fake eyelashes, who might be 14 years old
- Food porn with pink sprinkles
- Taylor Swift
