Monday, August 29, 2005

The Self Portrait.



Jay and I took these a while ago, and I am still constantly amazed by how fun my digital camera is. I have always been a big supporter of the Self Portrait. In the day, typically I would do them with a disposable and you would just hope for the best. But now, with the magical wonder of technology, my camera screen flips around so you can aim and get better self portraits. High thumbs up here.



And this shot is a recreation. Jay is doing a pose from someone who liked to hop into pictures and make that weird face. I have what would have been a great picture of Julie and I, and then this woman jumps in and makes that absurd face. Yeah. But, we had many laughs over this one.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Overheard in NY

My good friend, Pete McKenney, told me about this website: Overheard in NY. And its pretty damn hilarious.

Just some samplings:

Teen girl: Michael Jackson paid that white woman to have his kids, 'cause he wants his kids to be white.
Teen boy: Michael Jackson never gonna have white kids. It's like if you got a glass of Ovaltine, and you put water in it, and you just keep on adding water, what do you get? Very dilute Ovaltine.
--F train

Girl #1: Yeah, I think those are real trees. Otherwise, I don't think they would grow like that.
Girl #2: Yeah, I think you're right.
--Bryant Park

Man on cell: Hey, I just got out of work and...wait...dude, are you having sex?...While I'm on the phone with you?...You...you're having sex with Amy?...What would...you mean you think the fact that it's Amy makes it all right to pick up the phone?...No! No! That makes it worse!
--2 train


Drunk guy #1: So yeah, I'm boning her and she starts to ovulate. I've made girls ovulate before but this chick went crazy.
Drunk guy #2: Ew, she got her period while you were doing her?
--Astoria

Chick: Wait, I really did sleep with that guy? I need to update my
Excel spreadsheet.
--Montien, 3rd Avenue

Girl #1: So he told me that no matter what happens on June 31st, he will come to my house and we'll discuss our wedding.
Girl #2: I wish my boyfriend would be there for me.
Girl #1: It sounds nice, doesn't it? Except there is no 31st of June.
--Washington Square Park

An art gallery has an exhibit of old record covers.
Hipster girl: People dressed so retro back in those days.
--Soho

Sometimes I think technology and convience can be used for the powers of good.


Vend this!

Books in vending machines? Ok, to be honest, I think this is kinda brilliant. Imagine getting on a long train ride and thinking, Damn, I wish I could read and enlighten myself instead of glaring at my seatmate for hogging all the room. A book would take my mind off of their elbow in my side.. Now, my friends you can. Not stuck with trashy fashion mags or what not. Plus $2.45 a book! Not often do I think the convience-need-it-NOW culture do we have works.... but in this case, I think its pretty damn cool.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

I heart Scrubs


Dr. Cox, getting one-up on JD: I love this moment so much I want to have sex with it.


Dr. Cox, going two-up on JD:
This moment's so great I'd cheat in that other moment from before, marry this one and raise a family of tiny little moments.


Dr. Cox: Oh, gosh, Shannon, thank you so much for clarifying my point by repeating it word for word. And now, in a reciprocal gesture. Can I be included in the planning of your coming out party?
JD: Is that a gay joke?
Dr. Cox: No, it's a cotillion joke. My God, Newbie, it's been two furiously frustrating years. How is it possible that you still don't get me? I would never compare you to the gays! I like the gays - I like their music, I like their sense of style, I especially like what they've done with Halloween - but our thing is that you are a little girl.


Dr.Cox: I suppose I could riff a list of things that I care as little about as our last week together. Lemme see, uhh.... Low-carb diets. Michael Moore. The Republican National Convention. Kabbalah and all Kabbalah-related products. Hi-def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hot spots, 'The O.C.', the U.N., recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys. Jeff, that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much! The Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show host! Everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everything everything, everything that exists, past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions....Oh! And Hugh Jackman
JD: (IN HEAD) Hugh Jackman's Wolverine! How dare he!


Dr. Cox: Oh, my God! I just gagged and vomited at the same time. I gavomited.

Dr Cox: Relationships don't work the way they do on television and in the movies: Will they, won't they, and then they finally do and they're happy forever -- gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren't right for each other to begin with, and half the ones that get married get divorced, anyway. And I'm telling you right now, through all this stuff, I have not become a cynic, I haven't. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate-covered candies and, you know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don't care, 'cause I do...believe in it. Bottom line...is the couples that are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but, the big difference is, they don't let it take 'em down.

Monday, August 15, 2005

If I liked the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles more....

......I would buy this shirt.

It's called Heroes in an Art Shell.



www.threadless.com

Friday, August 12, 2005

Pillowcase promotion





So I am starting a little cottage industry business for myself. I started this as doing gifts for my staff and for weddings, but I am looking to sell as well. No obligation from my dear readers, just a show off of the handiwork I am proud of. I embroider and also buy some funky designs of fabric. Why should your bed be boring!? You may not be getting any, but hey, your head is happy on a customized pillow! I need to think of a good business name for it too. Any suggestions?




Addition to the collection, the different designs:



Thursday, August 11, 2005

List of things I am currently obsessed with...


...on minor or major levels.

*the upcoming Serenity movie and the Serenity comics
*Six Feet Under
*Jason Mraz -- Mr. A-Z
*Poker
*Traci Botzenka, antics with
*Kites
*Posting pictures to my blog
*Organizing my apartment, thinking about but not really doing it
*Pillowcases, making and hopefully selling
*Reid State Park
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and all its companions and theories that get me all in a tizzy
*weddings, see too many
*Lipstick, red
*Summer nights, driving and preferably being a passenger in a car
*Big 20 candlepin bowling in Scarborough
*Torrey's pumpkin cookies
*Jobs
*Netflix
*sarongs
*Twinings Blackcurrant Tea

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Econo lodge high class

So, you know coming into it that an Econo Lodge is not going to put mints on your pillow and have little French soaps. But, when you see a Beef Jerky Vending machine, you know you have hit the cream of the Econo crop.


Side note: I was at a wedding in Wayland, MA last weekend, and driving from the church to the reception, I took a very wrong turn and was seeing the sights. And had I not been driving, I would have taken a picture of a sign in front of a church that said: "Do you even know where you are going? -God"

Monday, August 08, 2005

Peter Jennings

So, put aside all the things I say and think about hating mainstream corporate news. As a child, ABC news was a mainstay in the house. 6:30 was devoted to ABC news. I hated it then. But I would still sit there reading or cuddling with my mom who would read from the large stack of library books we got every week. Peter Jennings' voice was in the background talking about Regan or Oliver North. I always liked the end of the news show -- where it was more of a personal interest story, because he always sounded a little happier then. During 9/11, while other people I know were glued to NBC, I would watch ABC at home, wanting Peter to give me a sense of safety, of home. I never really thought that anchormen could do that. I truly thought, and still do, he is a good man. Yes, he probably read whatever was given to him, but the child part of me did not care. He was home, was the shelter, the safe filter to hear scary things I could not comprehend as a child.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Things that I would be happy never doing again

1. Eat potted meat
2. Going to see West Side Story
3. Going to see or watching the movie "Grease"
4. Spraining my ankle
5. Makeout with a guy nicknamed "Sausages & Cereal"
6. Get yelled at on the phone by angry parents of college students who were denied housing and are adamant because they are athletes they need to live in the dorms.
7. Vomit
8. Get stranded in an airport for a night
9. Watch the movie, "Booty Call"
10. Hit a raccoon with my car.