February 2010
19 posts
"You know what? It's Friday night, why not?"
One of the best restaurant conversations to overhear is two women “deciding” to order wine in the afternoon. It’s always the same conversation with the same tones: absent-mindedly: “Maybe I will actually order a glass of this…wine” “You know what? I think maybe I just will do that too!” It’s just so comforting and precious. The ones next to me...
A Way to Not Fear Death
Each time in the future when I start to contemplate my own mortality, I will take some small comfort in the fact that with the blank horror of death will come the sweet relief of never having to hear about where in their house anyone keeps their Oscar ever, ever again. And I will fear death slightly, but measurably, less.
I thought of another iphone app!
The “ultrasound” app: you hold it up to your friend’s stomach and it shows an “ultrasound” photo of a thing you choose, like a fetus or paper clips or something gross! Inspired by that ubiquitous GE hand held ultrasound device commercial. (Which I know is for hospitals, but I could put it to good use with all the hypochondriacs I know.)
Can someone do a podcast of that Tumblr reading...
Because I want to hear my friends read, but my friends understand that I don’t do crowds or lines. They should probably have chosen Madison Square Garden for this thing!
Wait for the beep
The whole thing today about how thieves could use Foursquare to burglarize people’s homes reminds me of that ’80s and ’90s hysteria thing where everyone’s mom would insist that they say “We can’t come to the phone” instead of “We’re not home” on the family’s outgoing answering machine message because saying “We’re not...
Rich Four Four Spent 9 Hours Watching the New... →
And it’s amazing.
