January 2010
The smartest thing I've ever done
Going to bed at midnight tonight. Coming down with a cold. Working a million days in a row. Sweet dreams, Broccoli, stella, B62 bus, world.
Brooklyn 11211: Saturday January 30: Williamsburg... →
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“You people, you don’t know nothing. You people don’t know shit.”
– Gianni, a waiter at I Trulli for 15 years. This is how he starts all of his stories
scanwiches. →
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“Look, this is an industry of whoredom. I mean, you take some 16-year-old laying...”
– Kelly Cutrone,on the fashion industry More specifically defending her decision to place admitted high class call girl Ashley DuprÈ front and center during fashion week
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Here's who I am sick and tired of:
TAVI.
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“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big...”
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher In the Rye A book that has impacted thousands of adolescents since it was first published in 1951, including myself at 13, all of us remarking “I feel like he knows just how I feel.”
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“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on...”
– J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010
Peace.
Bluegrass in Brooklyn!
So, the flyer I posted earlier is for a bluegrass show in Red Hook featuring none other than my newest obsession, Morgan O’Kane and his pals from the Bedford L subway playform!!!! I found out about the show last night when I found them playing again in the same spot and struck up a conversation. I scrambled and got my shift at work covered and am SO excited that I get to go tonight and see...
“I’ve never taken and assignment. I’ve always photographed what I...”
– Magnum photographer Dennis Stock, responsible for many of the most iconic images of the 1950’s Beautiful advice for my photographer friends
Band Member 1: Are you going to put your organ in the back?
Band Member 2: That's what she said.
(Pause, they notice me walking past)
Band Member 1: Oh God, I'm really sorry you had to hear that.
“The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license...”
– Sydney J. Harris
Morgan O'Kane's Bio...(banjo man from the Bedford...
From Myspace- Morgan O’kane is an exuberant and intensely talented musician from Charlottesville, Virginia. His distinct sound is an evolution of his work with“scum billy” band Casa De Chihuahua and time spent playing in the New York Subway system. In 2010 Morgan is emerging above ground, equipped with a suitcase, kick pedal, banjo, a sense of urgency and a debut full length recording, “Nine...
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OH MY GOD
So, I’m still working at Vino on mondays, and I love it because mondays are slow nights at the bar and being at the shop is really good experience… I learn a lot about the wines we sell both here and across the way at I Trulli (where I tend the winebar) and it’s a low-key way to come back to work from having the weekend off. Anyway, this guy just came in… he was probably in...
PUPPIES ARE GOOD FOR YOU! AND THEY'RE CONFUSED! →
That’s why in my house it’s the more the merrier… (i can sense my parents rolling their eyes four hours away)
Mayor Succeeding in Diabolical Plan to Make Us All... →
“Life expectancy for New Yorkers has increased to an average of 79.4 years. That’s a gain of nearly five months since 2006, and the longest average life expectancy ever recorded in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg proudly announced today, along with Thomas Farley, the cyborglike health commissioner with whom he is working to keep us alive even longer by limiting our trans fats, salt,...
Apparently it is too rainy today, even for wine lovers. Vino is dead and I am boooooored.
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catsforgold.com →
therealmckoy:
Shiny pretty things turn into whiny kitty things. ACT NOW!
Brilliant.
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“My life is like the Three Stooges in Spanish.”
– Marissa Tomei as Caroline in “Untamed Heart”, my new favorite movie
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“I am going to fall in love with you. You don’t have to love me back. I am...”
– Marissa Tomei as Caroline in “Untamed Heart”
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something i'm learning about →
And no, not from watching Law and Order
