What Philadelphia *Did Not* Look Like This Morning (Picture of people sledding on the Art Museum Steps via johnrrenna/Flickr)
(Source: anotherfashionbook)
You’re standing on my neck
Watching Daria even though I can’t relate right now. That Black and White view of the world in which you’re either a ditzy cheerleader type or a jaded know-it-all type- with little room for cohesion between the two- is wearing on me. I don’t mind people who fit certain types, but I can’t just subscribe to any one of those types alone. I’ve always been pretty grey. But then I feel, there are certainly types I will never be able to relate to. Like, there are people who find Lisa Lampanelli funny. Laugh out loud funny. I can’t relate to that type at all.
Speedy pt. 2
Speed dating didn’t happen. We got to the rather seedy spot where it was supposed to take place and were told we there on the wrong week. So instead we went for dinner and dancing. The night was really cold and there was hardly anybody in the club. But the promoter did buy us drinks and waived our cover at his other place. Could’ve been better, could’ve been way worse.
From Victoria’s Secret
I kind of want these…
Speedy
I’m going speed dating tonight, mostly for the laughs. I would love to get a wig and an eye patch and a believable Russian accent in the next few hours. But instead I’m just going to try and enjoy myself and neither take things too seriously nor too lightly.
I love to see fathers with their daughters. This is the sweetest-est.
Hair Cares
If one more person tries to come between me and my weave… Am I allowed to just like long hair without it being part of some Judy Blume for colored girls shame spiral? Because it’s going to happen either way.
NPR’s Trey Graham says social media isn’t the reason for Spiderman’s snags: That’s the same reason Julie Taymor — one of the stubbornest, most inventive art-makers working in any medium today — almost certainly isn’t paying any attention to Twitter and All That Chat right now. Neither are Bono and The Edge. What’s being said there can’t possibly be interesting or useful to them. They’re the artists. They’ll fix what’s ailing the show, or they won’t. They’ll emerge vindicated or frustrated. Neither outcome is likely to hinge on input from strangers on the Internet.
“What’s being said there can’t possibly be interesting or useful to them.” I’ve started to feel this way about those sites. It’s kind of why I stopped social media consulting for a while. I have a hard time to sell people on things I think they don’t need. It’s also why I quit retail.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on the splintering of African-American communities in the U.S.: “There have always been class distinctions in the black community but what I believe we’ve seen is an increasing distance between two large groups, which I identify as the Mainstream and the Abandoned.
”Hehe, I don’t know what the 2nd picture from the left is coding for. Emo? Gym rat? Either way, I find my self interested by this topic even though I feel like I live it every day. I haven’t done much reading for a while, but I may start back up with this book.
Steve Martin, on choices: “When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would’ve had a chance. Because that’s where my real heart was.”
I’ve reached this point of having to make a choice between money and happiness a few times before. Do I chase a passion or do I take whatever will put a garunteed $10/hr in my pocket? I usually opt for the money but as I older that line seems to be getting blurred between pay and interest level. I should and vey well could be getting paid for what I love to do.
Also, I’m in love with Steve Martin.
If Christopher Nolan Directed Blues Clues by Kick Me Studios via BuzzFeed
Mmm… I liked the original way better. This was just as confusing as Inception. But I do love the musical score, particularly at the end of the preview.
I’ve started looking for a new jewelry box. This one costs $350 from Pottery Barn. I just ordered a $1.50 pair of hoop earrings from Forever 21. There is something wrong with that picture…
Why don’t we start here
This was a particularly productive week. The kind in which the looming nature of tasks that normally seem overwhelming was substantially diminished by my desire to complete them. And so I did. Cleaning this out, throwing that away, organizing these… I still have a bit left to do. But the good thing about starting on projects you’ve put off for far too long is that the satisfaction gleamed from starting can carry you through to completion.
