June 2010
0 posts
Megan, Bigger & Smaller
There was a time in the late 1990s when, for people with a certain mind—or heart—about things, fighting the injustices of globalization was frantically important. I was fifteen when the protests against the WTO in Seattle were met with disproportionate violence and more-proportionate media attention; I’m sure there were fifteen year olds who participated valiantly in the...
May 2009
2 posts
Gang of Very Serious 6th Grade Cartoonists At the...
“You’re telling me her character, but you’re not telling me what she looks like. I can’t draw her character.”
Pause, to allow time for drawing, pencil clutched in hand, tongue sticking a tiny bit out of mouth,
“There. Her lips. I didn’t draw her smiling cause you said she’s never smiling at you.”
Just when you think things can't get WORSE
The boy from high school who you lost your virginity to (in a stranger's COMPUTER ROOM. On a COT.) facebook messages you and says:
Matt: was up, do you remember me?
1: 25amMatt changed his profile picture.
1: 54amCaroline: of course I remember you, Emmert. how are you?
1: 54amMatt: hahaha. im good how are you?
1: 54amCaroline: oh, doing alright. I hear you're engaged?
1: 55amMatt: I am, still a whirlwind, but nothing will ever amount to the first time. you were the best.
1: 56amCaroline: oh my god.
1: 56amMatt: hahah, sorry to be so graphic
1: 56amCaroline: right. I certainly HOPE that is not true.
1: 56amMatt: what i loved the most was our honesty.
1: 56amCaroline: oh, right, for sure. that was the best.
1: 57amMatt: i think my fav part was in school that next week. neither you or me gave a shit. so where are you these days
April 2009
6 posts
Michael Eric Dyson Just Loves The Sound Of His Own...
PS. Guess who we met last night: Professor Michael Eric Dyson — if you don’t know the name you would recognize his talking head from When The Levees Broke. It was pretty cool! He even gave Daddy his card and wants to have an e-mail “dialogue” with him. The perks of celebrity! Actually, he seems like a person who wants to dialogue with EVERYONE. Anyway, it was neat....
March 2009
9 posts
“To end their zombiehood the banks need more capital.”
– A silver lining! The economy is so bad, Paul Krugman got to use the word “zombie” four times in his column from February 22nd! Things could be worse. (Things could not be worse).
me: "out East"
Caroline: almost 90% of my gchats are about going to the hamptons
me: that is where we are going. yes. most people are just telling their assistants to tell their eighth generation iphones to tell my assistant (little do they know I assist myself), things like this:
[Ariel]: my friend Stephanie, who, apparently, goes to miami just for the weekend because it's raining in NY, planned this weekend
[me]: well well. stephanie sounds like a keeper.
Caroline: I found a 10th generation iphone in the walgreens parking lot last night
me: total smack phone
Caroline: I think I would like Stephanie. I think I would go to Miami with her, when it was raining in NY.
me: yeah she seems chill right?
Caroline: REALLY CHILL. her pockets are full of chill pills.
WatchThe brief is due on Monday. So that’s not in too long.
Matthew: I have a hangnail right now that is significantly interfering with my quality of life. Just so you know.
me: then I have a facebook account that's a lot like a hangnail
January 2009
25 posts
New Podcast - An Evening Of Radio Drama! →
In the interview segment I think we talked about lemonade. (Although I wish it’d been milkshakes because “I think we talked about…milllkshakes” just has kind of a ring to it).
(via andrewti)
Little Sister →
Little Sister is an answer, and a challenge, to an Orwellian Big Brother. It’s a social mapping tool; as my friend and Little Sis co-founder Skom writes,
… if you want to understand power, either to shift it or to attain it, you have to scrutinize the underlying relationships between powerful people. Combine this principle with another from the internet age — linked data is far more...
Soundcheck: "Bonnie Prince Billy Returns" →
Oh, I’m just on a little thing called a listserve, and this morning a little guy whose handle is “horse tranq” happened to share this old link. Psyched.
Bono published an Op-Ed in the Times about what he’s learned Frank Sinatra, vaguely. It seemed to be more about Bono than about Sinatra, but that’s how these things go:
In [a] later recording [of “My Way’], Frank is 78. The Nelson Riddle arrangement is the same, the words and melody are exactly the same, but this time the song has become a heart-stopping, heartbreaking...
“I am off to test a little boy with the improbably Irish name of Sean....”
– I told my mother that I was naming my sons Amir and Kwame, so I didn’t know what she was talking about.
December 2008
16 posts
