2014
I got appropriately drunk on New Year's Eve, so much so that I took a genuine mirror selfie, no camera phone flip screen because those always turn out 50% more ugly. Why is that, by […]
Tragedies
Soft Serve
I don't think Stephen Malkmus looks like a lesbian but he couldn't go without comment considering that he is an aging indie due and his band has a new song called, "Cinnamon and Lesbians." I […]
Getting Some Color
I thought I was being smart planning a full ten days away (frugalness was the only barrier to staying longer. Two weeks is probably best to understand a place more and get comfortable) because I […]
Thanksgiving Abroad
New or not, I don't know, but Twitter recently started periodically texting when people I follow follow someone else. Not neccessary. Yesterday I was notified that a surge of respected literary types followed @avlskies with […]
Developmentally Disabled
Upon my second interaction with a 40something woman two decades into Williamsburging who used "retarded" in our first conversation about being pushed out of the neighborhood, she used retarded again in the same context. It […]
Safeguarding Spaz
Meeting new people isn't one of my strengths, but I invited a woman who was leaving a book party at the same time I was and who was headed back home on the same train […]
Unlicensed
Once again, proving how deep in denial I am, I watched, The World's End, a comedy chock-full of late '80s-1990 UK "alternative" music (Inspiral Carpets, The Sundays, Soup Dragons) because the group of now-grown men […]
Millennial Much? LOL
I think I'm going to go express my outrage (the now-extreme roof top rules are the result of an out-of-control 20-something rager) on the elevator notice in hand-drawn emoji. (And yes, I know LOL is […]
Just Can’t Get Enough
There are a lot of truths. A lot of things that don’t matter, but make me restless to think about. Time-wasters. If I got them out of my system, then what would I focus on? […]
Face It
Recently, I was thinking about words we'll eventually lose like retarded to describe something stupid. I have a hard time letting retarded go, even if that reeks of hipster ableism (I'm still not 100% clear […]