YES: - Einstein Bros. coffee early in the morning - Twitterrific - waiting to buy an iPhone - canoeing the Clear Fork River - MLB all-star games - PBR late in the evening - American Spirits - new job (goodbye academia, hello industry!!) NO: - overzealous co-workers - shitty wine - Julia Allison… anything by Julia Allison - no fantasy baseball until Thursday - packing up my apartment - driving from Ann Arbor to Dallas - missing my family
Yes.
- The return of the confoundingly, inarguably brilliant Mad Men on July 27.
- I Love Money
- Monster Ballads
- Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
- John Coltrane, Blue Train
- Spite and Malice (card game)
- The return of Julian Casablancas
- The Dark Knight (without question)
- 2 Days in Paris (a film by Julie Delpy with Adam Goldberg)
- The Strokes and Jack White performing together.
- The Kills, Midnight Boom
- Steve Carell, John Krasinski
- Gift cards to Banana Republic, Sephora or any book store.
- Healthy pets.
No.
- Any of these bands/acts: The Wombats, Bloc Party, The Kooks, Crystal Castles, The Fratellis, Vampire Weekend, The Futureheads, Dan Deacon, Battles, The Black Lips, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Usher.
- Wasting any moment of your life with The Hills
- Tucking your blue jeans into tall boots (I don’t get it, chicas!)
- Leggings
- Rising health care costs
- Knitting Factory leaving Tribeca
- Spending astronomical amounts of time blowing sunshine up the asses of self-important former employees (and current employees) of New York-centric blogs.
- Veterinarians who fuck up a sick animal’s emergency care by saying, “Oh sorry! Sorry! I was so crazed last night! I should have communicated better to you and my orderlies.”
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- fresh flowers
- 90210 on DVD
- IKEA in Brooklyn
- free water taxis
- summer sales
- cinnamon buns (at IKEA)
- gossip girl returning on Sept. 1st
- walking 30+ blocks on a summer night
- street fairs
- bodegas that sell amberbock for $8 w/ no deposit fee
- food blogging
- prospect park bandshell
- exploiting your lying/cheating husband
- eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at IKEA
- waiting in line for an iphone
- claiming to be a feminist, while in the process sexually exploiting yourself
- walking through times square at 11:30 pm on a Saturday night
- making fun of a social networking site you are on
- using the word FAIL in real life
- angelina/brad baby hype (have your children in the US goddamit)
- criticizing a trend in summer that only existed in winter
- claiming to be a ”style snob” because you write some obnoxious blog about “fashion” (that is like me claiming to be a blogger/writer because of tumblr)
- wearing a scarf in the heat of the summer
- roots
- thinking Domino’s is pizza
- believing the world revolves around you and only you
Posted on Monday, 14 July 2008
