February 2009
94 posts
Lent
Whitney: She gave up alcohol for lent
Me: WHAAAAAAAAAT WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Whitney: I don't know, she's crazy
Me: She does know it's forty DAYS and not like, hours right?
Jared from Subway
Me: I wonder whatever happened to Jared...
Michael: Definitely porn.
Me: Ha! If that were true, what would the title of his first one be?
Michael: Five-Dollar Footlongs
The Sweetest Thing
On Monday evening, Chelsea and I braved the cold and dragged our tired asses out for her last-night-in-the-city dinner at Tao. We hailed a cab on 2nd Avenue and climbed in. The driver was on the phone - as NY cabbies typically are - and he nodded as we told him our destination.
After a minute or two, we stopped at a light and he turned around to face us.
“I’m actually talking to my...
“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
With a man who would always love you, no matter...
When I was ten years old, my father and I took a trip to Paris, leaving my younger brother and mother in London where she was filming a movie. My dad believed in one-on-one time with us, and sometimes that extended to a weekend away. We stayed at a great hotel and he said I could order whatever I wanted for breakfast (French fries). We went to the Pompidou museum, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre -...
“You have problems. But probs not as many as me because I can be bought with a...”
– WPL
“Let me know if you ever get bored of texting semi-witty responses and actually...”
– Text from a guy tonight who might actually have a semi-valid point
“The way you look tonight” by Tony...
Tina Fey: It has been said that to write is to live forever.
Steve Martin: And the man who wrote that is DEAD.
Guy on Millionaire Matchmaker: It's just not fair.
Patti Stanger: Well, that's the price you pay for having a penis.
“Wow, your credit card looks really worn out.”
– Guy @ the TKTS booth. You know it’s time to stop spending when…
“I like being single. I’m always there when I need me.”
– Art Leo
The 20 Male Poses of Facebook: This is just effing... →
HAHAHAHA
“Wow. Your story was really good, but really dark. I was expecting to read a...”
– Michael, re: my first short story for class
Today I had:
Soy Milk
Soy Beans
Soy “Butter”
Soy Cheese
Soy Chips
I am going to turn into SOY!!!!
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em.”
– John Waters
"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." →
My writing teacher suggested we read this article by Elmore Leonard about his personal rules and techniques for writing good stories. They’re quite simple, but really worth considering.
“Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours...”
– Catherine O’Hara.
I’ll be spending my evening working on Batman layouts for work and my first writing assignment for class. This is my life and I love it.
James Morrison - Wonderful World
“Sara! What would Rebecca Bloomwood do?!”
– Whitney
[Radiohead - All I Need]
“Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you, he likes you....”
– He’s Just Not That Into You
My Annual Valentine’s Anthem
From the archive: 2/14/08
Me: I am SUPER pink today
Whitney: Oh dear, I think you secretly love V-day because you get to wear lots of pink
