March 2011
1 post
If you don't know me in real life, then none of...
Recently I made it to 11,111 Tweets. I had a party to celebrate. The day after I was so exhausted from tweeting 100+ times a day that I jokingly retired. I started tweeting 16 hours later. In that time I kept drafts of tweets on my iPhone. Here they are.
1) I slept on my couch. 2) My couch is soaking wet with spilled bourbon. 3) I am wet and smell delicious.
I want pizza.
Cleaning up is easy...
December 2010
1 post
If I don't return this chair to IKEA today then I...
IKEA pieces are supposed to fit together, and I’m not supposed to be this lazy.
October 2010
4 posts
“If you talk about “banging that chick,” I will bang you over the...”
If I didn't have a dog at home, I imagine I'd...
But I do have a dog, and he takes up half the bed as it is, so sleeping in a car together would be very tight.
Apparently, if we post it, Twitter owns it.... →
(via @snarkyvegan, @jumblejim)
“”If we did all of the things we are capable of, we would astound...”
– Thomas Edison
September 2010
11 posts
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that...”
– Emily Post. cf. “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.” —Jean-Luc Godard via Jim Jarmusch, Golden Rules of Filming See also: Tim Gunn’s Golden Rules and related, his 5 Ways to Make It in Fashion (e.g., be polite)
“Good exists. Bad exists. There is some disagreement which is which.”
– If I were asked to utter some last words, a few final thoughts to capture all I’d learned in 29 long-short years, this would have to suffice. Given enough time before the gallows, I’d add:
“Maybe we are cups of water from the same sea. Sometimes you still feel lonely.”
(via cursivebuildings)
If you could retire right now, would you?
After 21 years in office, Mayor Richard M. Daley will not seek a 7th term. Who knows who Chicago will pick next, and for right now I do not care, but I’m struck by something Daley said in his announcement:
“The truth is that I’ve been thinking about this for the last several months. And in the last several weeks, I’ve been increasingly comfortable with my decision. It...
Win people to your way of thinking
1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. 2. Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.” 3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. 4. Begin in a friendly way. 5. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately. 6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. 7. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. ...
“The corporate leadership in this country has made it clear to us that no one in...”
– Kiyoshi Martinez: Twentysomething: How my generation works
“If you don’t like the game, maybe you should stop hanging out with the...”
– @localcelebrity
August 2010
5 posts
If I make it until 3pm without biting, picking, or...
Maybe even a pedicure, but I don’t want to get too crazy.
“If you cannot find the source of a quote, make one up. Nobody’s reading...”
– FakeAPStyleBook on Twitter.
“If you want to know how my week was, then look at my nails. Short and bitten? I...”
– My nails this week? Most are long. Two are bitten. I’m crossing my fingers they have time to grow for a full hand of long nails by next week.
(Hi. It’s been a long three months. I’m sorry.)
May 2010
1 post
1 tag
April 2010
8 posts
“If 80% of success is just showing up, 90% is showing up early.”
– Woody Allen told us that 80% of success is showing up. Bobulate’s advice is to show up early.
If the ad is still up, then it is still available....
I love Craigslist. Since college, I have found every one of my apartments using it, from Portland to Boston and now in Chicago — my latest apartment being my favorite because the ceiling fan and light in my bedroom are controlled by a remote. I’m living in luxury, thanks to Craigslist.
But I also hate Craigslist. Selling anything on Craigslist is such a hassle. Couches, computers,...
March 2010
9 posts
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
– The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
“Sometimes after you leave, when I’m in bed at night, I start thinking about the...”
– A 91-year-old woman named Jean (interviewed by Erica Kennedy)
It’s becoming more and more clear to me that life is just about that: to love and to be loved. If you have that, you don’t need anything else. And if you don’t have that, nothing else matters.
(via juliaallison)
“Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first...”
– Matt Damon as Mike McDermott in Rounders (1998)
“If I move to Chicago, we can get a crappy part-time job together, and then...”
– My BFF describes our life plan in a similar fashion to “Phase 1: Collect underpants, Phase 2: ???, Phase 3: Profit!”
February 2010
10 posts
“If you can steal an artwork by taking a picture of it, then it isn’t much of an...”
– John Perreault on museums and galleries and artists who try to stop you from taking pix of their artwork. (via matthewgallaway & stuffsbymomo)
1 tag
If I sound relieved, then it's because I am.
Last Valentine’s Day, I was single before sunrise. I missed his beard brushing up against my chin, I missed his mumbling, I missed how he’d make the bed before crawling into it, but I didn’t miss his ex being in my life.
This is the first Valentine’s Day — all day — that I’ve been single since I was 14.
If I sound relieved, then it’s because I am.
1 tag
1 tag
“When the outcome drives the process, we will only go to where we’ve already...”
– Bruce Mau in his ”Incomplete Manifesto,” discussed at Signal vs. Noise.
“Tuesday and Sunday are our slowest evenings. If either of those would work, I...”
– From an email with a potential venue for In The Flesh Chicago. I like love so I picked Tuesday. More details soon.