30
Oct
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photo credit: Alan Edwardes
Screw the recession. Take it from Joe Waul, maker of the 10,000-pound rubber band ball that was just sold to Ripley’s Believe It or Not for an undisclosed price.
(Tell me—what does the biggest rubber band ball in the world go for these days? A cool million? $300,000? 500 bucks in unmarked bills? Free on Craigslist for the person who wants to come and get it?)
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Tags: 10000 pound, cognitive neuroscience, craigslist, fire survival, foil ball, google maps, joe waul, miami herald, pee-wee herman, ripley's believe it or not, rubber band ball, sawgrass mills mall, screw the recession, stunt training
15
Aug
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photo credit: dgwallick1
I’m on the train. It’s a wonder how many people feel the need to discuss mundane things for interminable periods, such as: Is the train faster than driving? It shouldn’t be. But why isn’t it? Is there an express? How much does it cost? Well, if you get it at this time, blah blah blah…
I guess the constant sound of one’s own voice is soothing to some, regardless of any meaning or profundity—something like white noise.
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Tags: amtrak new york to boston, bova north end, cape cod clammer, disney world, facebook, georgetown university, grenville deville, magners cider, new england, rat-tail coat, roscoe the chemist, southie, Spare Change Newspaper, the littlest bar, train etiquette
29
Jul
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photo credit: cazpoo
I’ve been dreading my Dreamweaver class all week, for a number of reasons. One is that the teacher, who went so crazy fast last week that people had to keep stopping her to ask for help (during which another student would lose his or her place, and the confusion would continue domino-style) also had the gall to tell me that I looked like someone “who likes pink.”
I mean, I do like pink, but somehow that didn’t seem like a compliment. Especially as she was dressed in beige and black with a very severe haircut that I have a feeling she might “live and die by.” (I, you can imagine, do not feel the same way about my own mane.)
In addition, there was homework in that class, and the class itself was 4 hours long, and, in fact, was more appropriate to someone who wanted to design her own website or websites for a current or future employer using Dreamweaver than someone like YUD, who merely wants to figure out how to make text wrap around certain pictures and get a little better, maybe, at HTML or something that may help her get another writerly job, if and when she chooses to do so.
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Tags: dreamweaver, dropping classes, failure is an option, georgetown, italian class, liking pink, m street ann taylor, nyu continuing education, our hit parade: michael jackson edition, socratic method
29
Jun
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Can you pick YUD out of this lineup?
She actually has a job today. And given her antics at Pete’s Tavern last night, she really, really wishes she didn’t.
How many wineglasses must be broken, I ask you?
I weep for the children. And then I excuse myself to puke in the ladies’ restroom.
photo credit: whosdadog
Tags: before i die i want to, broken glass, hangover, pete's tavern
8
Jun
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This can be yours! (x 21.5)
Congratulate me, kids, cause YUD has received her first ever unemployment! $405, plus her $25 Federal Addition Compensation. Now, how to distribute my Hamiltons…
(Don’t worry, Mom, I certainly won’t spend them all in one place, seeing as how the payment covers less than a third of my rent.)
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Tags: collecting, unemployment
