March 2012
48 posts
getting grumpy at the office
- Me: Sorry I turned into such a grumpus this afternoon.
- Coworker Adam: Oh I didn't think you did, but don't worry about it.
- Me: Maybe I'll start a literary-minded whiny blog and call it The Grumpus...or name my memoir that.
- CA: MIDWESTERN GRUMPUS: The Sam Howard Story
making dinner in an apartment building in South Williamsburg
[knock on the door]
Me (looking fly in my adorable apron): Hi?
Boy (in basketball shorts, knee high socks, sandals and a hoodie): Are you cooking something that smells like it’s burning?
Me: I’m cooking, but nothing is burning…
Boy: [stares]
Me: Okay! Bye!
What I should have said: “Hello young boy! I am cooking something called vegetables! They are being pan cooked with a bit of oil. In fact, I’ve jut put them on the burner not a moment ago. What you’re smelling is a fresh zucchini and a red pepper! Isn’t that a treat? I’m not sure what kinds of things burn in your house around dinner time, but there are no burning smells coming from here. I’d invite you in to see this rarity called cooked veggies, but I am afraid of the world and would like to close my door now and continue dancing to Janelle Monae. Please go bother the person upstairs blaring Spanish music at a level that is making it all the way over to Harlem.”
Oof.
How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep
Bombay Bicycle Club
How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep - Bombay Bicycle Club
Dreamy summer day song.
“The Muppets don’t get laughs at other people’s expense. It’s part of what I really loved about the Muppets. They don’t even want to destroy their villains. They want to reform their villains.”
—Jason Segel, on what makes the Muppets special (via nprfreshair)
“I’ve got a duffel bag next to my desk with eight rolls of high quality toilet paper next to my desk. Go ahead and eat something risky for dinner tonight.”
—me in an email to my roommate
With Arms Outstretched
Rilo Kiley
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
This song gets me so excited about the prospect of lazy summer days.
We all have known
Good critics, who have stamped out poet’s hopes;
Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause;
Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax;
Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs;
And damned the general world for standing up.—
Now, may the good God pardon all good men!-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from book 4 of Aurora Leigh
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via wwnorton)
“Beware the ides of March.”
—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, I, ii (via proustitute)
