December 2008
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Listening to Bon Iver all day is like going to work in a slanket.
co-worker: I used to be a hopeless romantic too...
casey: ...but then you read 'The Mystery Method'
patience brings reward.
I could always live in my art, but never in my life.
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The Saga Continues...
So apparently it’s the [effing brand new] needle on my record player that is funked up. Anyone know a good place to get replacements in NYC?
If someone can fix my record player, I will cook...
“God is closest to those with broken hearts”
- Jewish Proverb
[i’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating]
My brand new effing record player is already effed up. Thanks a lot, plane ride back to NY.
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Airlines and plane travel make my life miserable in every possible way.
My 8-year-old sister drew a picture of an oddly shaped bagel. The following explanation ensued:
Lauren: Morgan, bagels aren’t hexagons
Morgan: This is a Metric bagel.
loving each other began this way: threading
loneliness into loneliness
patiently, our hands trembling and precise.
[yehuda amichai]
I’m not Timothy, Professor,” said Timothy, gravely but not without a...
– From my favorite Michael Chabon short story ‘Werewolves in Their Youth’ [full text here]
This American Life 'Ruining it for the Rest of... →
It’s on WNYC right now, fyi.
I hate kids, but...
I love when NPR interviews kids. They have a piano wunderkind on there now, who says he wants to be a zookeeper and clean the poopie of the animals. jeez. I hope that if/when I have kids I can hire a team of editors to keep whatever they say/do cute and within the allotted timeslot. Oh man, he just started playing shalom aleichem…
DDL movie marathon + box wine + homemade dinner = happy casey
Today is the kind of day in which...
you bring your comforter to the couch, make some tea and watch something from the criterion collection.
Woody Guthrie - Hanukkah Dance / The Hype Machine →
Random survey: Do you wear cologne/perfume every day?
Apparently, this is the norm. My co-workers all do, and they all were suprised to hear that I don’t. I think it’s ridiculous, personally. I smell fine [right?].
Just booked my flight to DC...
and it only cost $155 [roundtrip]. That’s a one way ticket on the train at this time of year. That kind of feels like a reward for being environmentally irresponsible, no? But, in the end, I’m too poor to care. Sorry, nature.
I spend all day at my job making charts. I stayed late at work yesterday and monday to make charts. I was explicitly told not to be creative in my work, and just use what I’m given to work with.
I have a degree in media art. WHAT AM I DOING HERE???