A blog that was supposed be made up of bits about cab rides and blurbs about beauty products but, instead, is about other things.

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Showing posts with label something. Show all posts

2.26.2008

Links, Some

  • Something about how I would definitely fall down these stairs.
  • Something about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the anniversary. And Anne Frank.
  • Something about The Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
  • Something about liking New Jersey Turnpike tolls.
  • Something about I recently discovered and now sort of love this blog.

2.21.2008

Things, Some


  • Something about festival dailies.
  • Something about frozen dumplings.
  • Something about that stranger, leaning against the doors for the entire ride, writing alternating lines in blue pen and in black pen in a tiny notebook, and never messing up, and balancing.
  • Something about Botox and sweating.
  • Something about where they keep the carts at night and when it's cold.
  • Something about this being the block where I lost you.
  • Something about the bakery staying open for one more holiday's haul.

10.15.2007

Some Things

  • Something about sitting through an entire movie.
  • Something about being traumatized by uninvited advice from the clerk at the glasses store. (Has anyone else ever heard this nonsense that your eyes "must" be in the center of each lens?)
  • Something about propagating plants and picking the last cherry tomato.
  • Something about marveling at how long my hair has grown. (Past my shoulders.)
  • Something about doing a bit of work for Brooklyn Vegan.
  • Something about riding the subway and reading.

9.27.2007

Things, Some

7.11.2007

Things, Some

  • Something about a close-up of a cockroach and a kind word from a friend.
  • Something about I'm Not There, the trailer. (But it wasn't real.)
  • Something about using antiperspirant on your face.
  • Something about your attorney's lack of power.

7.02.2007

Things, Some

  • Something about you writing a song for me and then running away and I'm tone deaf so I've no clue how it goes.
  • Something about a yellow cab, an orange cab, and a green cab, in a line, but not in a race. The hills and the prices were steep.
  • Something about shomer negiah.
  • Something about now it's official: I own no working cameras more sophisticated than toys.

5.31.2007

Things, Some

  • Something about a crooked tie.
  • Something about a 24-hour clock.
  • Something about being mislabled and misquoted.
  • Something about wondering how many times you got it wrong when you were on the other side.
  • Something about wishing you'd just drive away and take all this stuff with you.
  • Something about The BQE and Sufjan Stevens and a symphony (but not about two arrests that took place there too).

5.18.2007

Something

  • Something about three train transfers and thinking this was a reasonable travel time.
  • Something about an Italian newspaper, a gym bag, and four and a half manila folders.
  • Something about why you have to beg to differ.

4.25.2007

Things, Some

  • Something about saying "He's the DJ, I'm the rapper," in real life.
  • Something about not having notes.
  • Something about my plants dying in your possession.
  • Something about sharing a table with strangers, and bad tofu.
  • Something about running out of bags on Bayard Street.
  • Something about membership fees, cardboard coffee cup sheaths, and structural support.
  • Something about stationary.
  • Something about using science to schedule a ride.

4.19.2007

Things, Some

  • Something about getting really excited when you pick a new password and then really sad when you remember that you shouldn't share it with anyone.
  • Something about admitting that the intern knows much more about what you do than you ever will.
  • Something about un-Happy Shabu Shabu and Cafe.
  • Something about leaving me a voicemail message while jumping rope.

4.09.2007

Things, Some


  • Something about I love you. For like ever.
  • Something about thank you. I think.
  • Something about the international sign for: I am allergic to this.
  • Something about pantomiming dying.
  • Something about the death of pantomime, not a wordless action for death.

3.20.2007

Something


  • Something about sincerity.

3.13.2007

Things, Some


  • Something about a sound-proof booth.
  • Something about sitting in the front seat.
  • Something about one-shouldered shirts and two and a half piece suits.
  • Something about waiting for the weather.
  • Something about her voice shaking. And cobblestone.
  • Something about tonight that smells like the bottle of shampoo we bought in Italy the week we shared a shower with strangers we never saw. (Now that I smell it again, I think we might have had dish soap.)
  • Something about remembering to forget the receipt.

2.22.2007

Things (One)


  • Something about all endings including driving.

2.13.2007

Things, Some


  • Something about festival dailies.
  • Something about frozen dumplings.
  • Something about that stranger, leaning against the doors for the entire ride, writing alternating lines in blue pen and in black pen in a tiny notebook, and never messing up, and balancing.
  • Something about Botox and sweating.
  • Something about where they keep the carts at night and when it's cold.
  • Something about this being the block where I lost you.
  • Something about the bakery staying open for one more holiday's haul.

1.31.2007

Things, Some

Something about sitting in the dressing room and sending e-mails.
Something about putting your feet on my seat.
Something about nonrefundable swimming lessons.
Something about your mistress, your seamstress.
Something about scabs.
Something about writing what you don't know.

1.11.2007

Things, Some

Something about Acqua Di Parma.
Something about two-part plays and two-part perfumes.
Something about being otherwise engaged.
Something about a moving violation.
Something about all bell peppers being the same shade, in the beginning.
Something about breaking my camera.
Something about hearing your speaking voice in your singing.
Something about special ed.
Something about another use for shoelaces.
Something about giving birth in the backseat.
Something about wishing you still smelled like Pert Plus.

12.26.2006

Things, some.

  • Something about standing up in the backseat.
  • Something about saving your receipt.
  • Something about drowning a pomegranate in order to set its seeds free without staining anything.
  • Something about dying a sheet set with beets.
  • Something about splitting the fare.
  • Something about dry air and bloody noses.
  • Something about knowing which end of the train to take.
  • Something about a phrase etymology page.
  • Something about how there are not any good ones.

12.14.2006

Things, Some.

Something about a nationality.
Something about a novelty act.
Something about borrowing body armor.
Something about layering.
Something about a leotard.
Something about sleeping.
Something about five rides in four days.
Something about snaps, stupid.

11.19.2006

Something About A Voicemail Message

Something about having a question about hanging punctuation.
Something about that other coast.
Something about where the fuck are you?
Something about moving there to import wine.
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