January 2008
WatchI love ImprovEverywhere. Their new performance is amazing.
HTML hell
Gah, I was fucking with my custom theme to get the content left of center, which I managed to do, but as I was finagling with the header’s position, it was swept to the far left. Now, no amount of number-changing will move the damn thing.
Any ideas?
Watchlivejamie: The Dramatic Chipmunk has a new friend. Oh god.
Stickam
Today is Pam’s b-day, so we had a countdown and mini-party. Then, Jason, Dre and I sang several songs to miss Karen. It was wonderful. Now I’ve got 47 sketches to go!
"Stop Following Me! (On The Usefulness of Tumblr)"
juliaallison:
I like Tumblr because it makes me less OCD about my posts. The platform fosters stream of consciousness sharing, with all the good, bad (and yeah, a bit of the crazy) that brings…
I won’t change my blogging style just because someone thinks I pop up in their RSS feed too often.
Ditto on all accounts.
My e-mail to Ann Black
I’m tired of being locked out..
Dear Ann, Hello, it’s Cameron Dunn, the pre-interior design student. I’m not sure if you are the one to point my concern and frustration towards, but I do know that you may be able to do something about it. Believe be, I know the rules of the Materials Library. We aren’t allowed to store things in there, and we most certainly are not...
“It’s the kind of of cold that when you open the door, it fills the frame...”
– Diego describing Chicago’s -15 degree temperatures!
(via askvero)
The wind is so, so loud, whistling past my horrible windows and crack-ridden brick.
It was in the 40’s today, and it’s dropping to about 5 tomorrow. Great.
I’m trying to convince myself that the piles of ideas I create, and the multiples stories I narrate in my head daily are NOT reasons why I should be an illustrator. They will eventually help me be unique in a field of designers. Right?
WatchWeek 5 - Things + African Culture Fest
My imaginary bffs
I wish I had a group of friends that met late at night. That had some secret society. That didn’t really drink, and when they did, it was classy and entertaining in a great way, not in a “laugh-at-them” way as they puke. They would have a book club. And secret names for each other. We’d take days off from the world and explore, and create adventures. We’d...
“This asinine story-line cannot be real. No one has this little pride.”
– Said a commenter on the JL JA situation. I don’t know how, but I stumbled across this shitty “media” “website” called GAWKER. None of the stories are interesting, and the overall motif is glum and narcissistic. They even have “comment’erns” who troll...
“An erection does not constitute personal growth.”
– From Mreeco
I just spit up my water laughing at that. -Julia Allison
Two disconnected things.
Thought #1
Eating an english muffin with peanut butter as an awesome experience, because you feel like you spread it evenly, but then while you’re eating, there are little pockets in the nooks and crannies that surprise you. It’s great.
Thought #2
Small Pleasure = Waking up early, doing stuff, then jumping back under the covers and napping with your clothes on. This too, is really...
Teen takes on donor's immune system →
Wow. So, basically, this girl received a liver transplant, and they found out that after a year, her bloodtype has changed to match the liver, and the stem cells from the liver penetrated her marrow and she now has, essentially, a donor immune system…
Quick question
Are women even allowed to admit they enjoy looking attractive?
Tell me when the last time was that you heard a woman say - openly, without shame - that she enjoyed being attractive?
I said as much to my mom last night and she said I was shallow, which of course infuriated me.
This seems obvious, but I’ll just state it again, for clarity: men don’t have to choose between enjoying...
“The problem was that when I came back, in order to get back into bed, I had to...”
– Ursula Vernon
Advice to Sink In Slowly →
“Beginning in 2006, the graduates of University College Falmouth have been creating posters with words of wisdom for the incoming freshman class. The posters are given as a gift to the students, and hold such great nuggets of truth like, “Don’t Fuck Your Flatmate”, or “Let go of what you think you know.” It’s like those horrible, inspirational posters from the 80s’, except these posters are...
How to deal with envy
So, as you can see from the below posts, I respect Martha Beck’s wisdom quite a bit. Aside from her books, she has a monthly column in O magazine, which I love. One of the most useful articles she ever wrote was on envy… in essense she said that the fastest way to dissapate envy (which SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS) is to acknowledge it.
Out loud.
To the person you’re envious of.
Ah HA!...
Dear Friends, some alcohol ads for you →
Awesome music video. →
An IKEA is opening 25 min. away from me in March. Oh Happy Day.
Heath Ledger is DEAD!?!? →
Oh my goodness!! — awesome-everyday
Fucking dumbasses, that's what I think.
Also.
I don’t think any drunk stories are funny. I will probably laugh at your stupidity, but only in a mocking way. Alcohol, for most of my friends, is no longer a social lubricant. If you think back to every day you’ve “gone out”, how many have been alcohol free, oh liquor-dependent friends of mine.
Don’t pretend you aren’t, that just makes you seem...
It’s frustrating that because of common decency, you can’t always say what you want.
I’d rather be decent than outspoken.
WatchReally stupid video.
Late at night..
… there is always some sort of music playing from someone’s car or Baba Budan’s or a party down the street, and it bounces back and forth between the buildings ‘till it reaches my window, and lulls me to sleep, be it rap or country, trance-like beats or acoustic noodling. One time it was some girl fiddling on a stoop, which made my heart sing. Nothing could have been...
