Archive for 'new york, new york' Category
Santa, Baby.
14 December 2008Dressed 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 [...]
Yes, we can
24 November 2008When one of my younger cousins started kindergarten, he was in a class so big that it made the town realize that they had to open another elementary school to avoid overcrowding. Eventually someone did the math and realized that 6 years before that class had been born, we’d had the worst snow storm our town [...]
nice knowing you
18 November 2008Time Warner is (allegedly) coming to connect my apartment to the outside world this afternoon. I don’t think this bodes well for my social life, considering how hard it’s been over the last 18 days to step outside the place and that was before I had access to constant House and Law & Order viewings. [...]
Once bitten…
13 November 2008So, so many awesome things happened on monday night that I am only just now finding out about. For one: I couldn’t go to PJ’s show, and I assumed when I saw the next morning that he had called me after midnight just to say how much he loved me and that he wished I [...]
More on PJ’s record deal
3 November 2008I love this page because of the pictures cycling across the top. It’s PJ’s job to be in pictures like these now. I am jealous. The Ted Leo leg of their tour was sadly canceled (I am the most sad of all, as I had almost convinced Peej to ask Ted Leo if he would [...]
By the way
27 October 2008I’m moving Saturday. Or, at least I think I am. At press time, I have neither the keys to my apartment nor movers to put all of my stuff into it, but I’m confident that The Universe will resolve both of these problems shortly. What I do have is roughly 400 pounds of assembly-required [...]
Opens Friday
1 October 2008The movie has a genuine, unforced sweetness. Its charm is in the details, the attitude, the slowly building chemistry between Cera (a master of stone-faced irony) and the beguiling Dennings. Lorene Scafaria’s script, based on a young-adult novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, has real wit. Nick and Norah’s sharp, self-conscious repartee has a [...]
I like the assumption here that they have actual jobs
30 September 2008New York Magazine hearts Titus Andronicus.
Secret Shame
25 July 2008I love this idea, especially for publishing folk that snottily pride themselves on having read everything– what’s the most embarrassing book you’ve never read? It’s probably something you refer to all the time, silently hoping that no one will ever ask you for plot details. I have two. Ready? Deep Breath: The Great Gatsby.Clearly this [...]