pretty pretty pretty good

This is me according to Amazon.com.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:27:41 -0500

This is me according to Amazon.com.

moviesinframes: Home alone, 1990 (dir. Chris Columbus) This...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:46:18 -0500

moviesinframes:

Home alone, 1990 (dir. Chris Columbus)

This winter, with my post grad school freedom, I might just watch Home Alone every day when I get home from work.

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:04:23 -0500

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GPOYW — Kenan made this for me today. Original seen here.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:43:00 -0500

GPOYW — Kenan made this for me today.

Original seen here.

"There’s still something very significant that we have not yet learned about Juliet Burke."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:41:35 -0500

“There’s still something very significant that we have not yet learned about Juliet Burke.”

- Carlton Cuse. (via planettampon)

this sends chills down my spine.

About to have a little Sunday fun day with Laura! We’re...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:56:11 -0500

About to have a little Sunday fun day with Laura! We’re going to check out the new Whole Foods (it’s gigantic) for lunch and then do a little shopping before she heads back to Michigan.

I will soon be the proud owner of this :D (via notalkingplz)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:22:24 -0400

I will soon be the proud owner of this :D

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:21:58 -0400

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hooings: I LOVE PANTS

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:42:18 -0400

hooings:

I LOVE PANTS

I doubted Kenan’s no-kiln-needed clay, but now, I am...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:46:01 -0400

I doubted Kenan’s no-kiln-needed clay, but now, I am impressed.

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"Sometimes I will be talking to journalism students and they will ask how I get people to open up to..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:43:39 -0400

““Sometimes I will be talking to journalism students and they will ask how I get people to open up to me, and the answer is that I’m legitimately curious about what those people are saying. I honestly care about the stories they are telling. That’s a force that talks to the deepest part of us. There is something that happens during therapy when the therapy session is going well: If someone is talking to a therapist about something unresolved — something they don’t understand — and they suddenly start talking about it, it just flows out in this highly narrative, highly detailed form. Most people are not articulate about everything in their life, but they are articulate about the things they’re still figuring out.””

- - Ira Glass, as quoted by Chuck Klosterman in his new book, “Eating the Dinosaur” which I am beyond excited to read. I love that guy. and his indie glasses.

Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman, Book - Barnes & Noble

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hooings: Recipe: Best-Ever Veggie Burgers from Northstar...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:43 -0400

hooings:

Recipe: Best-Ever Veggie Burgers from Northstar Cafe
(Restaurant Reproduction)

one of my favorite food blogs takes on one of my favorite food discoveries of the past year! be sure to check out the extra tips in the comments!

I think this counts as my discovery!

Tristan is visiting for the weekend and wanted to borrow some...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:58:24 -0400

Tristan is visiting for the weekend and wanted to borrow some shorts. He said he feels like Trace from Flipping Out.

Attn: Chicago Tumblrs

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:13:10 -0400

I just moved here last week and am finally getting around to setting up cable and internet. My two choices are Comcast and RCN. The reviews online are horrible for both. What should I do?

Hey, it’s the bridge I now walk across to get to work. No...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:59:34 -0400

Hey, it’s the bridge I now walk across to get to work. No big deal.

(This is me trying to be a cool young professional Chicagoan and not the excited Michigander tourist that I really still am.)

Starting work on Thursday!

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:27:13 -0400

I’m beginning to freak out a little.

postpunk: The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s #02: The Smiths -...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:21 -0400

postpunk:

The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s

#02: The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The problem with list-making is that the list says more about the list-maker than anything else. This makes sense—it’s my interpretation of the decade after all. The reason why this is problematic is that we’ve been riding a streak of big fat gothy fatalism: the vicious cycle of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, the middle-class autopilot of “Once in a Lifetime”, the bolts from above of “Temptation” and the desperate deal with God of “Running Up That Hill”. At this point, a reader might understandably assume that I’m a stunted teenage mopester, and then there’s this song: the biggest, fattest, most fatalist anthem by the decade’s most frustrated romantic.

But there’s no fighting this song. It’s the spiritual successor to “This Charming Man”. Morrissey’s anxiety of meeting the charming man in his charming car have given way to desperate escapism, and the dopey self-doubt of “I would go out tonight” is now “take me out tonight”. Notwithstanding the song’s second-person addresses, “take me out” is a pretty passive attitude, and Moz wants to see lights and life. Perhaps the numbness is a pretense—it’s not the stimulus but the passenger-seat company that enlivens Morrissey. Marr’s lush, orchestral backdrop is appropriately cinematic for the passing cars and the fading candle of the coda, but Morrissey’s nuanced performance is central. For all the dread Moz has for home or anywhere outside the car, there’s a ringing trepidation to each “take me out tonight” that betrays his excited declarations about the pleasure and the privilege of a traffic fatality. I suppose the bottom line is that he’s just young and nervous and angsty and kind of stupid and proudly idealistic, but how many times have we attentively listened to the ending, waiting for the precise second when “there is a light and it never goes out” ceases to be audible, gasping to ourselves as the light finally extinguishes? Okay, so maybe I am a stunted teenager, but it’s awfully hard to escape the sentiments after hearing something as poignant and righteously emo as “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”.

I love Jet’s 8-corner pizza even if it is just two...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:48:22 -0400

I love Jet’s 8-corner pizza even if it is just two four-piece pizzas in one box.

"You know, it’s lewd and obscene but really funny, and I’m going to use that color..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:27:10 -0400

“You know, it’s lewd and obscene but really funny, and I’m going to use that color whenever I can.”

- Jeff Lewis in reference to the paint color “pearl necklace”

one of my favorite pictures of all time. (via notalkingplz)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:15:10 -0400

one of my favorite pictures of all time.

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