January 2012
Jan 28th
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No Snacks After 10 PM
Jan 26th
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A Simple Guide to Sexy Lighting
Have you ever wondered?  Have you ever wondered, Gee, how do I get the lighting in my room to look more, uh, more, uh—huh. Sexy? Don’t worry. I’ve got you covered. And, no, the answer, surprisingly, is NOT different-colored lampshades. You don’t need any razzle-dazzle to spice up your plain-ass room! You don’t need gels or filters—GELS? FILTERS?...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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December 2011
Life Events, for Facebook Timeline
Made my first Tumblr blog Convinced [Tagged Friend] to make a Tumblr blog Joined Twitter Posted my first tweet Had a homoerotic dream about [Tagged Friend] Watched a shitty movie the whole way through on Netflix Was apparently influential about “Matthew McConaughey” on Klout for a period of time Followed a link to a Rage Comic posted by [Tagged Friend] and questioned [Tagged...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Have only seen Ten and now I’m about ten (heh) minutes into Certified Copy, but it is clear Kiarostami enjoys exploring the mother-son tête-à-tête dynamic.  The way the dueling dialogue between his characters plays out is so exhausting because it feels so true; it’s bickering I’ve witnessed between my nephews and my sister, my cousin and his mother, strangers at hair salons,...
Dec 28th
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Natalie Portman grew up to be "the swan"
Mom (calling from living room): Laurie. Laurie. Laurie.     Laurie. Me (emerging from room): Hm? Mom: Who is this little girl who grew up to be a famous actress? What’s her name? Me (staring at TV screen of young Natalie Portman crying in The Professional): Natalie Portman. Mom: She’s “The Swan,” right? (to my dad, matter-of-factly) She grew up to be “The...
Dec 27th
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Highlight of this Christmas was when my grandma clinked her glass against a small plastic tree decoration on the table and said demurely, “Salud, arbolito.”
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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PLANET ENO
Been listening to Brian Eno a lot lately and thinking about how “Eno” sounds like it could be the name of an alien planet; it’s rather befitting that his name sounds so cosmic because so does much of his music. 
Dec 25th
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During the short amount of time I had the computer’s volume low, I heard my dad in the other room recount a nightmare he had of our dog breaking into pieces: “I was shouting, ‘Oh no, my dog! My dog!’”
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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AHHHH, while unpacking I found a letter I had to write to myself in high school that one of my teachers mailed back around the time her students would graduate from college. An excerpt: May 9, 2008 You better encompass all of these aspects and experiences, Laurie, because if you do not surely you are crying by now. I say cry because committing suicide is messier—but if you do, at least make...
Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 1st
November 2011
Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 26th
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tphd: GO TO A BUSY RESTAURANT DRESSED AS WAITERS AND PRETEND TO WORK THERE FORCE STRANGERS TO TAKE PICTURES WITH YOU AND COLLECT THEM IN AN ALBUM CALLED “PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW” TANDEM COLORING BOOKS (COOL STUFF FOR COUPLES TO DO) “COUPLES’ HAPPENINGS”
Nov 25th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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Listen Bill Withers - I Don’t Know Went on campus...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 17th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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• Don’t let it become too precious. It needs to be warm, but feel tenuous—how do you visually convey that? • Don’t want clutter, don’t want whimsy. • No whimsy.
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 6th
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Nov 5th
Last night I dreamt I sat in on an art class that was being held in a museum. The professor was introducing her student’s “inspiring LGBTQ performance art play,” the set for which was basically a queue formed by velvet roped stanchions leading up to a movie theater concession stand.  The actors filled the queue until it was bursting with people; everyone was shouting and...
Nov 3rd
Nov 2nd
              Paz de la Huerta posing as Michele Abeles at Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards, Webster Hall, New York, December 8, 2010. Photo: Roger Kirsby. “[A] celebrity is essentially a stock image, endlessly reproducible, generic, available, disposable. We put stock in these images and put them everywhere. The paparazzi step-and-repeat (that is, the backdrop made up of enthusiastic...
Nov 2nd