May
18th
Mon
18th
Tonight’s quick dinner featuring Strawberry Raspberry jam from Sarabeth’s
I live in Brooklyn, NY and have a lot of interests.
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I used to work at College Humor and helped put together things called Original Videos. Now I go to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to study photography.
David Trawin and I created The Poisonberry and Sorry I'm An Asshole.
My friends have
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Morgan PearseJulia Heffernan
Dave Trawin
Justin Ouellette
Jake Hurwitz
Vince Peone
Amir Cohen
Andrew Pile
Sarah Schneider
Kate Heffernan
David Cho
Jakob Lodwick
Ted Roden
Noah Kalina
Amanda Ferri
Sam Reich
Casey Pugh
Patrick Moberg
Jen Dunlap
Jeff Rubin
Eric Lodwick
Mareen Fischinger
hehe.
Spent a good amount of time this morning looking for Season 1. Is it true that it doesn’t exist on DVD?
May
17th
Sun
17th
Happy Birthday Cait!
Miss you lots.
Kat has been delightfully adamant about wishing me a happy birthday. I got a text, note on my facebook wall, and a Tumblr post. Thanks Kat, you’re the ruliest.
And happy graduation!
Happy 20th Birthday to Caitie!!!!!!
We love our little test tube baby…
Mom and Dad
Today is my birthday! And it’s true, I’m a test tube baby (Morgan says “science experiment gone wrong”), which is just about the coolest thing ever.
Today I got up and went to brunch with friends. Then I went to Ikea to find a bed and a dresser. Then my phone died and my friends weren’t hope to help me carry them upstairs so I coaxed the car service driver into helping me carry it all upstairs for an extra large tip.
I built a bed today. All by myself, I built a bed. Then I ate a late dinner, and then built a dresser. All my myself.
I am so extremely proud of all that I got done today and the fact that I did it with zero help other than the guy who I paid to help me get the heavy stuff two flights of stairs.
i do have to say though that this is a tough holiday for rahm emanuel because he’s not used to saying the word “day” after “mother”.
— president obama, at the white house correspondents’ dinner. (via 1015)
May
9th
Sat
9th
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Mirah - Jerusalem
On repeat and in my head this week.
Morgan’s birthday present to me:
My favorite band, No Doubt, on tour again in New Jersey on June 26th. : ) I am so so so so excited.
May
8th
Fri
8th
It’s not the infographics on the page that interest me, rather it’s the trend of emphasizing a user’s popularity on the network. Lamentably, I think this metric will come to define the experience for the next generation of social networks. I fear that the internet’s utility for many people will equate to constant awareness of one’s value, and the play of meaningless games to increase the sum. This in turn will render many networks impersonal and irrelevant. Like a candidate’s bid speech for high school class presidency, I fear my Tumblr dashboard will become padded with ‘popular stuff’ sure to garner votes rather than the intimate, vulnerable and quirky bits that I’ve enjoyed, and define Tumblr’s personality.
I’m disappointed by Tumblarity, and Ashton’s follower count for the same reasons. I liked the Internet better when it was nebulous, and now I’m depressed that it shaping up to be a social pyramid.
Agreed. Measuring someone’s “worth” isn’t as simple as counting how many assholes have read your “deep” quote.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think this is a move in the wrong direction.
Hipster Grifter: CAUGHT!
Apparent con-artist Kari Ferrell told Animal NY the other day that she’d turned herself in to Philadelphia police. Surprise: She lied! A Philadelphia musician she knew lured her back with talk of a trip to Portland.
Sam Tremble (pictured) had let Ferrell stay at his house in Philly for a few days after meeting her at his band’s show in Brooklyn. She told various lies, including that she couldn’t go to the South by Southwest music festival in Austin with the band because she had surgery scheduled.
Then a fellow band member got an email warning about Ferrell’s grifter ways, from a mutual friend; a Google search turned up her warrant in Salt Lake City; and then the Observer story hit.
Deciding he could catch Ferrell, Tremble emailed her, “feigning concern for her health” and ignorance of all the news stories about her, and pretending he could take her on tour out West. No doubt wanting to get as far from New York as possible, Ferrell took the bait. Soon she was on a Chinatown bus to Philly.“Officers DeLuca and Green drove me to Chinatown in an unmarked black Explorer. They watched from across the street. When the bus arrived, I waved to Kari to get their attention. I want to say I hugged her, but I was anxious and I don’t remember. I picked her bag out of the luggage storage and started walking behind her. The officers crossed the street and stopped her. I dropped her bag and walked away. They took her aside and questioned her for a moment. She didn’t struggle.”Then Ferrell called Animal NY to say she had turned herself in. Because it’s not like that lie would be almost immediately exposed in court. Wow. For some people, lying really is like breathing. - Gawker
Finally. Finally, finally, finally someone did what was CLEARLY the right thing to do.
City Paper has the full story.
