Eryn
what i was doing in 1994
I was 12 years old. This was typed on a typewriter, and signed in ballpoint pen.
In this article about a Boston University graduation ceremony held 40 years after the fact, Peter Simon (photographer and member of the Class of 1970) points out the all around awesomeness of his generation. “Mr. Simon said that when he speaks about his photography around the country, students frequently say to him, ‘God, I wish [...]
At the bagel place yesterday, there were monstrous Mother’s Day cupcake-muffin hybrids taking over much of the counter. They must have been corn muffins, the kind that are so dense they can do real damage to anything they’re thrown at. In general, eating them is not the greatest idea, but these ones were practically pulsing [...]
what’s your flavor?
I’m used to perfume being marketed as something that should complement the essence of my being, but this commercial points out a missed opportunity: My marinade sauce should really capture my personality, too.
Who needs therapy? Lawry’s sauce understands you.
“I’m always exciting, and a little exotic.” Then sesame ginger is your sauce! “I’m earthy, with a [...]
what we talk about when we talk about nostalgia
Reviewing Pulino’s, Sam Sifton quotes Richard Price and calls it “Restaurant dressed as theater dressed as nostalgia.”
Liberty Magazine, which ceased publication in 1950, is being revived online—sort of. Robert Whiteman has 1,387 issues worth of Liberty material in his basement, and on a pulpy new website—emblazoned “The Stories Never Die!”—he occasionally highlights old articles that [...]
on “date night”
A.O. Scott, how I love you:
[T]he word vagina has no intrinsically humorous properties, but it’s uttered here as if believing that it did were sufficient to make it so.
I was just Googling the word “heartbreak” in search of ideas for a headline, and among the sites offering “Heartbroken Quotes, Emo Quotes, Sad Quotes,” “Quotes for Teens on Heartbreak and Breaking Up,” and advice on “How To Mend Your Broken Heart,” there was this little mistranslated gem at iloveindia.com: “How to Sustain Heartbreak.”
Those romantic, [...]
About halfway through, this Times article about people who take pictures of their food gets all serious:
That some people are keeping photographic food diaries and posting them online does not surprise psychotherapists. “In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretaker,” said Kathryn Zerbe, a psychiatrist [...]
In Seattle, Aradia Women’s Health Center is closing.
Writer Tillie Olson is dead at 94.
There are mannequins with giant boobs.
Tomorrow at this time Katie and I will be here. Not that I’ve bothered to pack, yet… (And are these not the scariest white children you have ever seen?)
