August 2010
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Just this guy I had a crush on
mollykay:
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“He was the guy you had a crush on for a little while, right?” my mom asked.
“Yeah,” I said, except I said it more like “yeeaaaahhh,” with the full teenage intonation, because, like, obviously. And then he became my first real boyfriend and we went to prom together and then he was also the first person to break my heart and how could my mom not remember this? Most...
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“It’s easier to configure Twitter to automatically follow anyone who follows you,...”
– How to Automate Your Twitter Follower List (via gadgetwise)
But not getting followed in the first place = preferable to getting unfollowed, as Mere & I drunkenly discussed recently (at karaoke, maybe?)…
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um.
Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor from Manhattan, said three cops forcibly ejected her from an Upper West Side Starbucks yesterday morning after she got into a dispute with a counterperson — make that barista — for refusing to place her order by the coffee chain’s rules.
Rosenthal, who is in her early 60s, asked for a toasted multigrain bagel — and...
that's my line
Johnny Weir is getting his face on. He’s at the apartment of his agent, Tara Modlin, over on Tenth Avenue, on the way to an aids fund-raiser downtown. He’s drinking a tumbler of Champagne into which he’s dumped some other kind of pale-yellow liquor.
[…] “This guy sent me a picture of his dick,” he says. “Enough,” says Modlin. “Enough, enough, enough. We don’t talk like that.” “Cocaine!” shouts...
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There's No Irony In Community Management
“So, I got an email today…”
“Oh, here we go.”
“From this girl named Michelle…”
“Yup.”
“And it was signed, ‘Happy Dating,’ which is hilarious because—”
“Because that’s someting I would never actually say.”
“Right. But I would! I’m stealing it. It’s my new ‘Happy...
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oh no you didn't
just propose an Eat Pray Love date on my website. Flag as inappropriate.
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“Kids love the pole,” studio owner Tammy Morris told the Ottawa Citizen. “If...”
– (via parenting)
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wow.
Several years ago, I toiled in the most dysfunctional office on Earth. […] Crazy World Inc. was an unhappy, whispering place.
One of my former coworkers writing about one of my former workplaces! I don’t know what to say about this piece except, um, yeah, it wasn’t all puppies and rainbows (what job is?), but it wasn’t THAT bad.
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choose your own adventure (or, how my wallet got...
I could’ve gone to our Dumbo office Friday…but I’d been there alone all week [the boys are busy fundraising and we’re currently between interns] & decided I needed a change of scenery.
I almost went to the New York Film Academy cafe—actually, I was there for a minute—but I left. Just wasn’t feeling their sandwich selection.
So I ended up at Au Bon...
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howaboutwe:
“Normally, we don’t pay much attention to online dating startups. There is plenty of money to be made in online dating, but the market is incredibly saturated, with huge, post-IPO incumbents and, as a result, very high user-acquisition costs. But we think How About We is a company you should actually pay attention to. Here’s why:”
This is VERY, very exciting. Thanks Nick!
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“A more nuanced version of the same rule comes from Keith Waterhouse, the author...”
– Drink What You Know - NYTimes.com via Peter W. Knox
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“I have to admit, the idea of you creating a fuckyeah[myfullname] tumblr so...”
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Stowe Boyd: Augmented Publicy →
The law is very weird about public identity. Many states have laws prohibiting us from wearing masks or hoods that conceal our identity from the police.
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The point is that we don’t have the right, in general, of concealing our identities. We also don’t have the right to prohibit others from taking our pictures in public: this is why we can take pictures of public spaces...
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not recommended:
-Emptying out the last of what’s in your old apartment, putting a full bottle of Absolut and a bunch of beers in the same bag, and having the bag break and the bottles smash on the sidewalk while Mercury Bar looks on.
-Locking yourself out of your NEW apartment 20 minutes later with your phone and wallet inside.
-Looking forward to a giant margarita (generously funded by your best friend,...
