Eryn
I took yesterday off. I highly recommend doing this. A Thursday off is especially good, because you basically only have a 3-day week to deal with, and then you only have to work a single day after your day off before the weekend, which is totally managable. I’m full of these elaborate schemes and philosophies [...]
You need Times Select (or a real, newsprinted newspaper) to read it, but Sarah Vowell, my pick for Mayor of NYC, is guest columnist-ing at the Times all through February.
…it has been said that God is currently angry with America. But according to God’s publicist, the Supreme Being would like to clarify that He’s not [...]
lover don’t turn yr head
The first thing we noticed about Evan Dando on Saturday night was that his hair was clean. Really clean. When he played at Maxwell’s 2 years ago, he was wearing an old man cardigan and a hat over a scuzzy ponytail. This time his hair was all shiny, and he had bangs. He kind of [...]
I am wearing a really ugly sweater. Not ugly in a good way. It’s also scratchy. This was one of those mornings where I woke up way too late, couldn’t decide what to wear and then ran around all panicked putting one thing on and then taking it off and throwing all my clothes on [...]
some things from today, and some from not today.
“My Father’s Abortion War,” an essay adapted from Eyal Press’ forthcoming book (which looks really good).
The fabulous Elizabeth Merrick is interviewed in Venus.
An interview with Steven Colbert – out of character and totally on point – at the av club.
Really good news: Daniel McGowan has been released into the custody of his sister, despite the [...]
things about men, mostly
I really really want to believe that I was NOT hearing a musak version of “Get Up, Stand Up” in Au Bon Pain just now, but I guess I shouldn’t live in denial. On this same lunch break, I got asked out by a dude who was hawking his CD’s on the corner. I’m always [...]
i might need to get cable.
This American Life has some amazing news!
Last week Showtime made it official: we’re going to produce a series for them, a television version of This American Life. We shot a pilot last year, and the full series will begin broadcasting in the fall or winter of 2006. We’ll continue making the radio show while we [...]
sunday
Yesterday at Bluestockings was one of those great, busy days where there are a million people buzzing around high on books and caffeine and that certain Sunday afternoon feeling, and everyone is in a good mood. Then it was off to eat dinner uptown with my favorite cousins and back down to meet someone for [...]
I’m listening to “The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainwright, which I swear is just about the greatest song ever. It is Friday, and tonight I have to go out and be a girl, and feign interest in something that I already know is just not going to work. When really, I just want to go [...]
Trying to get back to work and not get caught by one of the overly earnest kids freezing their asses off standing out on the sidewalk trying to get people to give money to Children International or CARE or the Northshore Animal League or some other deserving organization that I don’t have $120 for, even [...]