good god who is she friends with that let her write an article so long about something so trivial & uninteresting
i liked the article & felt bad 4 this lady
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i stopped reading
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dont think its really that presumptuous or terrible to write a long article abt the effects of unemployment & dealing w/ the fallout of having p much yr whole world torn away. what that felt like & looked like how a person deals w/ it idk felt like she p thoughtful & earnest & true
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sometimes-area-woman-just-feels,17072/
― symsymsym, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
*rolls eyes*
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes in life we have 2 stop and gaze @ the eggs
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
When I had a job, I never thought about eggs
would be a GREAT opening line for a short story
― max, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous egg.
― skogsturducken (am0n), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck I gazed @ so many eggs when I took drawing classes as a kid
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, all's well that ends well, right? Except that, uh, Browning already wrote this book-or at least, a very similar one. And the Times wrote about it. As Alex Witchel reported in 2002, Browning's book Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvement chronicled "her long sadness and [her] house's decay"—the story of "a woman who has experienced loss and pain and has mended, somewhat."
gawker, lol
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
also do you get it she lost her nest egg so now she gaze at eggs HAH so clever
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just gonna put this out there:
i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of farmland in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.
― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of eggs in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.
― max, Monday, 29 March 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
eggs are such a good metaphor think baout it
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes they are white somtimes they are brown
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a good companion piece:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/fashion/14moms.html?ref=style
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:26 PM (2 weeks ago)
savages, truly
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i assume whiney hasn't seen that
the people in that piece aren't terrible -- bored housewives be bored housewives -- shit is just the new scrapbooking, i won't hate
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
which came first: the brownings or the eggs
― skogsturducken (am0n), Monday, 29 March 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i think those people are pretty terrible
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 March 2010 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
once i had naturally purple duck eggs. neat!
― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Monday, 29 March 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i seen greenish speckled chicken eggs no lie
― ice cr?m, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
guyz don't miss her blog
http://www.slowlovelife.com/
Why is it sometimes so hard to enjoy being happy? Just yesterday I got an email from an editor saying he loved the piece I had rather fearfully sent him. I was elated! Joy! Success! But within seconds, I was on to worrying about edits, and other assignments, and the dust balling up in the hallway, and the soot on the windowsills.
My mind spun through the hundred tiny vexing things I had to do, when suddenly I came to a word: STOP. Literally, it loomed up, a cherry red stop sign, filling my brain. STOP?
Yes. That’s when I realized I wasn’t letting myself be happy. Was it superstition? If I’m happy, that means I could become unhappy…. Was it fear? How hard it is to give into happiness. Was it just that unrelenting, driven, monkey mind saying ‘Not good enough! Nothing is ever good enough!’ Whatever the reason, it seemed suddenly absurd. I wasn’t letting myself fill up with the joy of a small accomplishment, I wasn’t giving myself credit for something well done, and I wasn’t simply, well, enjoying the moment. Don’t you love how the word enjoy has the word joy embedded in it? Being in the joy.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 March 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
that post continues, by the way
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 March 2010 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nyregion/29roommates.html?hpw
― goole, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Don’t you love how the word enjoy has the word joy embedded in it? Being in the joy.
This is making my head hurt, for real.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
And don't you love how the word embedded has the word bed embedded in it?
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
C/D: white people who have been to a yoga class using the phrase "monkey mind"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
, enjoy
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, monkey mind can be a useful concept sometimes
― Mr. Que, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Don’t you love how the word monkey mind has the word useful concept embedded in it? I am fucking crazy.
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
you like to fart, you are crazy
― Mr. Que, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a good blog--this excerpt and the fact that she stared at a dictionary in awe all afternoon suggests bigger problems than no job:
I kept looking up the word “entropy” in the dictionary, staring in awe at the definitions, they so perfectly captured the spirit of my deranged soul.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
its pretty shocking that any unemployment memoir in this day and age wouldn't include the phrase i spent all day online
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's just taken as a given
― iatee, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
its could all possibly be metaphors for the diff blogs she visited
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe 'I kept looking up the word “entropy” in the dictionary, staring in awe at the definitions, they so perfectly captured the spirit of my deranged soul.' just means 'I visited ilx'
― iatee, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
layup
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the blog reads like a 21st century version of the yellow wallpaper
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
captured the spirit of my deranged soul
Derangement can be a very healthy development for people whose normal range is badly trivialized.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"The tides are sculpted by storms, moons, and winds; they are by turns subtle and violent, yet utterly reliable in the rhythm of their leaving, and returning. And here is a photo i call 'Fucking Turtles'."
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
haah
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/bloggers-discuss-race-and-the-census/
― goole, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't read, mind you
Grand Hotel Courts Hip With a Dance Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/nyregion/12pierre.html
And while the bar offers top-shelf libations — Veuve Clicquot, Johnnie Walkers Black and Blue, Macallan 25 — the budget-minded can easily nurse an $8 beer or one of the $14 specialty cocktails all night long.
― I DIED, Monday, 12 April 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the best thing about that article is that "the pierre hotel" is given no explanation or set-up before being deployed as a punchline because the author simply assumes her readers will know exactly what it is
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 April 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is, they probably do
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 April 2010 09:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5439146/carles-the-hipster-of-the-decade-is-taking-over-the-new-york-times
this is kinda tendentious right
― nakhchivan, Monday, 12 April 2010 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/fashion/15skin.html
"Is it okay for women to not shave their armpits?" - New York Times, 2010
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 12 April 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
welp
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link