Archive for 'new york, new york' Category
Remember when annette and i drove to chicago back in July? Here’s what that looked like.
24 December 2009Road to Chicago from Cristin on Vimeo.
that’s my boy
2 November 2009My older brother leaves me a lot of excellent voicemails between the hours of 2 and 6am. The younger one almost never does; the only time that comes to mind was when he talked Ted Leo into calling me and singing “Me & Mia” into my cell voicemail, an amazing gift that I didn’t discover [...]
Life is a highway: 2009 edition
6 July 2009Hello, friends. I have been away from you far too long. I blame the two-headed monster of Paying Attention To My Job While I’m At Work and Paying Attention To My DVR While I’m At Home. Seriously, have you guys been watching 16 and Pregnant on MTV? Never have I felt so many of my [...]
I am the newbery and so can you!
5 February 2009God bless Maggie for sending this to me this morning– here’s Stephen Colbert getting mad he lost the Newbery to Neil Gaiman.
“Hey, I’ve got a great children’s book, too! It’s called F**k It, We’re All Going To Die.”
Unrelated, And Awesome: My favorite part of my office building is the board in the caf where [...]
Google Stalker
4 February 2009Google recently chucked their Dodgeball feature and then came up with Latitude, which allows people to track your cell phone via Google maps. It’s times like these when I’m relieved my parents aren’t more technologically advanced (when my dad got his first DVD player, halfway through watching an episode of the Sopranos on it he [...]
Happy Friday
16 January 2009Yesterday’s Times ran a collection of suggestions for President Obama from children. They’re all so amazing I can’t even pick a favorite one. But if I had to, it would be one of these:
Dear President Obama,
Here is a list of the first 10 things you should do as president:
1. Fly to the White House in [...]
Call the waaaaaambulance
16 December 2008Here’s a list of things that have made me cry in the last 36 hours:
1. That effing debeers commercial with old people holding hands. Old people holding hands just KILLS me. On Valentine’s Day this year, the google image was old people holding hands and I had to stop googling things until the 15th because [...]
Note to self
16 December 2008The fundamental thesis behind every blog is really that it’s supposed to be written for the reader but is really only written for the writer to amuse themself, so I don’t feel too badly about using this space to remind myself of things that are going to continue to amuse me down the road. You [...]
Santa, Baby.
14 December 2008
Dressed up as Santa in Grand Central Terminal with two thousand of my jolliest buddies. Merry Christmas!
shop away
1 December 2008You’re going to be hearing a lot from me very shortly about buying books for Christmas– as a warm-up, here’s a rundown of NYC indie bookstores. I love any place where the crowd is described as “literary nerds and just nerds.”
ETA:
There is a lot of seriously awesome hair in this video. And Frank McCourt talking [...]