emily and business casual hiking steve
emily
margot with the wine for us yuppies
today's specials: irish car bombs and lunchboxes
emily puts a bib on before carbombing
"I kinda like how he called Fall Out Boy 'dangerous'. It felt like how Ice called Maverick 'dangerous' in 'Top Gun'." He said. "I kind of think of it this way: How could you feel like a superhero if you didn't have an arch-nemesis?"
When you give up your apartment in New York and move to another city, New York becomes the worst version of itself. Someone I know once wisely said that the expression "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" is completely wrong where New York is concerned; the opposite is true. New York is a very livable city. But when you move way and become a visitor the city seems to turn against you. It's much more expensive (because you have to eat all your meals out and pay for a place to sleep) and much more unfriendly. Things change in New York; things change all the time. You don't mind this when you live here; it's part of the caffeinated romance of the city that never sleeps. But when you leave you experience change as a betrayal. You walk up Third Avenue planning to buy a brownie at a bakery you've always been loyal to, and the bakery's gone. Your dry cleaner moves to Florida; your dentist retires; the lady who made the pies on West Fourth Street vanishes; the maitre d' at P.J. Clarke's quits, and you realize you're going to have to start from scratch tipping your way into the hear of the cold, chic young woman now at the door. You've turned your back for a moment, and suddenly everything's different. You were an insider, a native, a subway traveller, a purveyor of tips into the good stuff, and now you're just another frequent flyer, stuck in a taxi on the Grand Central Parkway as you wing in and out of LaGuardia. Meanwhile, you read that Manhattan rents are going up, they're climbing higher, they've reached the stratosphere. It seems that the moment you left town they put up a wall around the place, and you were never manage to vault over it and get back into the city again.
click to enlarge. these are the celebs i look like according to myheritage.com - two korean actresses, a k-pop star, a thai pop star, jennifer beals, margaret cho, the president of the philippines, and posh spice. and ll cool j.
Philana: it's so funny, because i imagine this to be just the opposite of the type of conversations you have when you are with the guys
me: LOL
Philana: they are fun though
me: what do you imagine our conversations to be?
Philana: i'm not sure i imagine conversations
me: you've been there, you see what we talk about
Philana: yea. definitely not fashion, whatever it is.
well, maybe i could imagine a conversation
around fashion with them being like
"so what's up with girls wearing those boy shorts all the time"
or like "are thongs really that bad"
i don't know
If you come to SD you should aim for the first weekend in August. We can go watch a Kanye concert and holler "we want prenup."
mikey, steve-o, boss snuggles
jamie and beverly
christine
emily
with jericho
mmm shrimp chips
while we were gone, they dug a hole.
jeff hid inside, and they put a blanket over it.
they put everything back as it was before we left.
alex returned.
he got a sandwich. jeff jumped out and scared him. alex fell to the ground in shock.
he was in this pose for about 15 minutes.
The Daily Mail reports on a new study out of Britain that claims more women are speaking in lower voices to be accepted in the workplace. Although a little light on details, the study claims that women want to mimic the husky voice of actress Kathleen Turner to "compete with their deep-voiced male counterparts."
This conclusion is based on evidence that women's voices have become deeper in the last 50 years; the average pitch among women 18 to 25 apparently dropped by 23-hertz, equivalent to a semi-tone drop. (That means lower.) "Women have been striving to attain acceptance in a previously male-dominated society and they may have lowered their tone to enter that realm," Jonnie Robinson, a curator at the British Library and a dialect expert, told the Mail. "A deeper voice might be associated more with power."
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I seriously question whether this so-called trend, which started in the 1970s, according to the article, is an effort to sound "manly," but rather to sound more "professional" -- the same way you hope your parents call you at your first job so you can shock them with how serious your voice is. It is interesting that when women try to make their voices deeper, they're thought to be trying to sound more masculine, although men talk in lower tones, too, when they want to appear extra authoritative.
There also may be another force at work: body changes. Yorkshire voice trainer Francis Newton says that as women's bodies grow bigger, their vocal cords become longer. As a result, their pitch and frequency become lower.
An Actual Thread On The Pearl Jam “Message Pit” Message Board: We’re starting the “Yeahs!” in Alive WAY too early.
too asian for words
she had a bob
but not a cool bob
but a boring librarian bob
and he had a polo and khaki cargo shorts
so they didn't get anything for creativity or hipsterness
however, they had the same builds as you and steve
At Berkeley, California's premier public university, "evangelical Christian" and "Asian American" are almost interchangeable descriptions.
"If someone were to ask me what religion is practiced by Chinese immigrants, I would say money," says Steven Chin, pastor of a large Chinese church in Boston that ministers to many college students.
Christians so dominate the Korean American student world that one Stanford student posted a lengthy online lament. As a non-Christian, he said, he stood a much-diminished chance of finding a Korean wife.
2. "Taxman," by The Beatles.
A George Harrison masterpiece with a famous guitar riff (which was actually played by Paul McCartney): "If you drive a car, I'll tax the street / If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat / If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat / If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." The song closes with a humorous jab at death taxes: "Now my advice for those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes."
4. "Sweet Home Alabama," by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A tribute to the region of America that liberals love to loathe, taking a shot at Neil Young's Canadian arrogance along the way: "A Southern man don't need him around anyhow."
5. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," by The Beach Boys.
Pro—abstinence and pro—marriage: "Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true / Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do / We could be married / And then we'd be happy."
6. "Gloria," by U2.
Just because a rock song is about faith doesn't mean that it's conservative. But what about a rock song that's about faith and whose chorus is in Latin? That's beautifully reactionary: "Gloria / In te domine / Gloria / Exultate."
7. "Revolution," by The Beatles.
"You say you want a revolution / Well you know / We all want to change the world . . . Don't you know you can count me out?" What's more, Communism isn't even cool: "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao / You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow." (Someone tell the Che Guevara crowd.)
14. "Right Here, Right Now," by Jesus Jones.
The words are vague, but they're also about the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War: "I was alive and I waited for this. . . . Watching the world wake up from history."
20. "Rock the Casbah," by The Clash.
After 9/11, American radio stations were urged not to play this 1982 song, one of the biggest hits by a seminal punk band, because it was seen as too provocative. Meanwhile, British Forces Broadcasting Service (the radio station for British troops serving in Iraq) has said that this is one of its most requested tunes.
21. "Heroes," by David Bowie.
A Cold War love song about a man and a woman divided by the Berlin Wall. No moral equivalence here: "I can remember / Standing / By the wall / And the guns / Shot above our heads / And we kissed / As though nothing could fall / And the shame / Was on the other side / Oh we can beat them / For ever and ever."
23. "Brick," by Ben Folds Five.
Written from the perspective of a man who takes his young girlfriend to an abortion clinic, this song describes the emotional scars of "reproductive freedom": "Now she's feeling more alone / Than she ever has before. . . . As weeks went by / It showed that she was not fine."
28. "Janie's Got a Gun," by Aerosmith.
How the right to bear arms can protect women from sexual predators: "What did her daddy do? / It's Janie's last I.O.U. / She had to take him down easy / And put a bullet in his brain / She said 'cause nobody believes me / The man was such a sleaze / He ain't never gonna be the same."
48. "Why Don't You Get a Job," by The Offspring.
The lyrics aren't exactly Shakespearean, but they're refreshingly blunt and they capture a motive force behind welfare reform.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come.
