20
Jan
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photo credit: hermitsmoores
Today is a weird day in my building. At 6 in the morning I was woken up by two men screaming at each other. Well, first I was woken up because there was this repeating thudding noise that somewhere in my brain I was trying to decipher—was it a woodcutter chopping wood? Someone slamming a door? It totally incorporated into my dream, in which I was somewhere in SE Asia on a bumpy road, sharing a bus seat with three people and hoping my iPod was on board.
At any rate, the dream dissolved when the one man started yelling at the other guy telling him to stop making the banging noise, which the accused man seemed to have no idea about whatsoever.
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Tags: apartment living, neighbors, new york city, noises in the night, sleeping well, strange dreams, thin walls
9
Jan
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photo credit: rwentechaney
Here are some things that happen when you’re 33 but think you might be more like 28 and act like you’re about 23.
On a Tuesday night, your friend M. who now lives with her husband H. in way-off Malaysia comes to town, and you learn she has sold her first screenplay. This is exciting news, and along with the fact that we haven’t seen one another in a year, insists on celebration via excessive drinking (of course), burritos, and staying out late.
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Tags: acting like a 23-year-old, ellen jamesians, laryngitis, levon helm, middle age, mimes, mute, okkervil river, speechlessness, terminal five
21
Dec
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photo credit: David Hepworth
Hello! I am comfortably arrived in Florida, bag unpacked, Christmas shopping very nearly done. I also had the enjoyment of an amusingly bizarre flight experience last night.
We all know I love me an airport. Recall, if you will, the Great Baggage Brouhaha of Summer ‘09. That was fun, educational, and, need I remind you, I got my $15 back. Snap.
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Tags: airplane stories, airport security, crazy fliers, crazy people, f-bomb, flight attendants, gerard finneran, poop on serving cart, snow globes, tsa, woman with dog
20
Oct
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I just got word of this cheap art festival—this weekend in NYC—where everything is $50 and under! This is a good deal, my friends. If you like art, that is, or free refreshments. And who doesn’t?
So go stimulate the economy by snagging some deals!
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Tags: $50 and under, apartment decor, art, art festival, art jamboree 2, bargain-basement prices, beautiful things, broke and unemployed, free refreshments, greene street, new york city, october 24 and 25
