Just got back from “WALL*E” and oooooooooooohmiword — you have to see this movie. I admit I too thought I was too cool for Pixar. But I was wrong. The reviewer on NY1 called it R2-D2 meets Charlie Chaplain. And it totally is. Plus I kind of identify with WALL*E. If I was stuck on [...]
Archive for June, 2008
WALL*E
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday Morning Cleavage
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying to watch Meet the Press on the internet this morning, all nice and relaxed-like. First msnbc.com force-feeds me a 30-second Boeing commercial. Fair enough—I am watching tv for free, after all. The commercials only got to me after the third time, when I found myself mindlessly humming the Boeing song, lulled into a Top [...]
FINALLY…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
my new favorite person
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been absent for a long while. There are many reasons for this, of which I won’t bother you with, but one important reason is that I just didn’t have anything interesting to say. I got tired of the primary about six months ago (maybe longer?) and, one [...]
A Word to the Wise…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you live in an apartment building that has a trash compactor, it might not be a good idea to, when going about in a morning haste, pick up your keys and cell phone with your right hand, then grab a full trash bag in your left hand before proceeding to the trash shoot, where, [...]
Fung Wah-Woh
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus fucking Christ – a Chinatown bus got hit by a dump truck this morning just as people were boarding for a $10 trip to Boston, killing a woman. My days on the CTB just might be numbered. I used to take this particular Fung Wah bus all the time when I lived in Boston. It parks [...]
BidenWatch
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was uber-excited this morning to see Joe Biden finally speak out on Barck Obama’s behalf on MTP .
This campaign finance flip-flop is troubling and it’s definitely a smart decison to have the guy who introduced campaign finance in 1973 defending Obama. Biden’s so priceless — “he has changed his position,” Biden told Brian Williams, “I’m not going [...]
Dialectic
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who’d have thought that Michelle Obama and my job would combine forces to inspire a dialectical moment for me today?
Thesis: Michelle Obama is co-hosting “The View” today? Ohhhhmiword, what will Liz Hasselbeck say to her?
Anti-thesis: Damn this full-time employment. Is it unreasonable to watch streaming tv in my cubicle from 11:00-12:00?
Synthesis: Yessss — my work-provided [...]
There Goes the Neighborhood
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first Ikea in the New York metropolitan area opened today in Red Hook, Brooklyn. On NY1 this morning they showed people who had been camping out in line since Monday, the first 35 of whom get a free couch. I hope it’s the Bluurg model.
(Warning — Andy Rooney moment) On principle, I hate it. [...]
Beisbol
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Mets just fired head coach Willie Randolph!!! Not that it will do them any good…
The single most annoying aspect of living in New York is not the jumbo-sized sewer rats that scurry along the subway tracks as I struggle to avert my eyes in the morning, but being bombarded with news of the Mets. [...]
Afternoon
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday afternoon politicking:
1. Al Gore endorses Barack Obama. Check it out for your own self on Al Gore’s blog (although he calls it a “journal,” presumably because it’s more environmentally friendly).
2. Hillary’s former campaign director — the one who sent me all those e-mails way back when I was still donating to Hillary — [...]
Story of My Life
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Russert
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In shocking and saddening news this afternoon, Tim Russert has died of a heart attack. Both TLantz and I have special places in our hearts for Tim Russert. More than once on here I’ve said that all the presidential debates should be moderated by Tim Russert, whose serious, smart, pointed questions kept the candidates honest [...]
Strawberry Shortcake
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why they gotta go and give Strawberry Shortcake a makeover like that? Now she’s got flowing beautiful hair and talks on a cell phone. It’s like when I was in fourth grade and was bff with Stephanie DiChristino but then we didn’t talk that summer and when we came back in fifth grade she was [...]
4:20 Break Time
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Time for a break from my work-a-day life over here.
Living in New York, which I talk about now with all the authority of someone who’s been here for 11 full days, I feel like one of those business-person working stiffs. Every morning as I don some combination of business-casual clothing, ride the subway for an [...]
OBAMA!!!1
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sweet victory for Obama. Poor Hill.
Watching O’s victory speech at E and T’s, I got a little teary eyed right at the beginning. I LOVE that he opened with “My brothers and sisters.” And then he had me at thanking his grandmother and then that contemplative pause afterward. Hell, I felt super proud of him.
Despite [...]
