Archive for December, 2007
BLOGS
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007COOL & LAME
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007One thing that is both cool and lame is how often I am gchatting with someone and my question to them is “are you in america?”
THANK YOU YES
Monday, December 17th, 2007I have been home sick for 5 days and in that time I have watched every not-terrible television show that you can watch for free on the internet. This includes the Hills, My Super Sweet Sixteen, the Simpsons, Family Guy, House, 30 Rock, the Office, and then tonight I wandered over to abc.com to see what they have for me to watch and they have 2 episodes of My So Called Life, “Dancing in the Dark” and “Guns and Gossip.” I was 13 when this show premiered and I recorded all the episodes on VHS and watched and re-watched them, and having revisited them tonight I can’t say that it holds up. But here are some really good parts:
- The music guy’s name is W.G. Snuffy Walden (who got his start writing the theme for thirtysomething)
- Brian Krakow is rollerblading.
Angela’s internal monologue: “What I like completely dread is when people who know you in totally different ways end up in the same area, and you have to develop this, like, combination-you on the spot.”
Patty Chase: “Hillary Clinton is a brilliant woman and people should stop judging her by her hair.”
Jordan: “You talk a lot”
Angela: “I’ve said like 8 sentences to you my entire life.”
BEST FRIENDS
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I’d like to take a moment to update you on some advances in beauty.
The first is a 24-karat gold facial. Diana Gavrila, owner of Diana’s European Skin Care in Timonium (near Baltimore) offers them. They rub gold on your face.
Prices of the facial vary, depending on “how many delicate sheets of gold are needed to cover the face” but somewhere in the $250 to $550 range. ”I don’t want to make money on this,” Gavrila says. ”I just want to bring my clients what they see everywhere else.”
The only thing better than gold is diamonds, hence Natura Bissé’s “Diamond Magnetic.” Rub diamond dust on your body and let the diamonds draw toxins out of your skin and your soul. Use a magnet wand to activate the diamonds and then suck the dust back off. “Holistic harmony is achieved through diamond dust, micronized iron, and wild lavender essential oil.” $270
YOUTH-LED BACKLASH
Saturday, December 1st, 20071.) First, and most devastatingly, Emily Gould and Choire Sicha QUIT GAWKER. It’s unlikely that any of you care about this as much as I do, but I think Emily Gould is the best thing about the site, I was just praising her the other day, and now she’s bailing. Very curious to see where she ends up and whether she and Sicha will stick together. Maybe they can team up with Ken Layne and create a print newspaper that will crush Gawker and all other online media.
2.) I finished Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates today and felt disturbed.
3.) I freelanced a couple pieces for Metro recently, a profile of Steve Wozniak (I read all 288 pages of his memoir, iWoz, and felt disturbed) and of a young photojournalist in Nairobi.
4.) Today was my last day of teaching creative writing to high schoolers and we played Exquisite Corpse. Here are two examples of what’s in their excellent young minds:
Willy Williams ate seventeen taquitos, which contained too much death. It was extremely overwhelming and I hugged my dog in joy. His tail moved back and forth with pleasure. As he started jumping around, he tripped into a hole. He struck his head on a rock and it cracked open, emptying its contents onto the ground. “Whoopsey,” his mother said.
Cheese makes everyone in my family sick but I don’t care. I’m crazy about it, sometimes I can’t fall asleep at night thinking about hot donkeys. They just make me ouhhh…wanna touch myself. But all I could do was think about that dog in the painting that stared at me. It was just like Scooby Doo, but right now, I felt like Shaggy. Which is to say, I was ineffective, and unwashed. But my underwear is cleaner and better fitting than yours.