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Some days NYC looks like it was built out of diamonds.

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:49:36 -0400

Today is not one of those days. Today is a shoelace dragging in the puddle, dog-shitty, spilt coffee, wet newspaper-y, cigarette butt-y, chewed up cigar-y, broken trash bag-y, umbrella poke in your eye kind of day. Argh.

Lovely spooky chills. via mills, joefisher

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:37:00 -0400

Lovely spooky chills. via mills, joefisher

Hello 2005! I’ll be by later tonight - Hanne, Jillie and I...

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:00 -0400

Hello 2005! I’ll be by later tonight - Hanne, Jillie and I are starting the Love My Way viewing club: word is there’ll be tears before midnight. I don’t know anything about it, other than it’s awesome, says Hanne. I didn’t love The Secret Life of Us, fingers crossed this’ll be better … what I wouldn’t give for a block of Cadbury Fruit and Nut. And a packet of Mint Slices. And a Chomp while we’re at it.

"Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams."

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:10:38 -0400

“Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:08:00 -0400

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt … The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.””

- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Storm Over Everest, David Breashers’ new documentary about...

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:04:37 -0400

Storm Over Everest, David Breashers’ new documentary about the 1996 Everest disaster is newly viewable online: watch. For a good time I was kind of obsessed by mountain climbers (it had something to do with Simon rockclimbing and Jon Krakaeur’s book Into Thin Air - which is an excellent read not only about the disaster, but about what makes men climb mountains): “People who don’t climb mountains – the great majority of humankind, that is to say – tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills. … In fact, the ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I’d been on … And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace.” I find these guys endlessly fascinating.

"Hello, this is the school nurse"

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:05 -0400

No. Seriously. Yas has smooshed her finger in a door. Frickin’ freakin’ fruck.

I’ve been waiting for my sister to send me pics but it’s taking too long and I...

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:46:49 -0400

I’ve been waiting for my sister to send me pics but it’s taking too long and I can’t keep it inside anymore: she had the baby last night (Thursday morning in Sydney) - Piper. Yay! Harps is psyched to hold onto his “only boy cousin” title. Dyin’ for pictures, dyin’ for pictures - John? Dan? Mum? Anyone??

I think I can, I think I can: today’s mantra.

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:41:33 -0400

I think I can, I think I can: today’s mantra.

I know enough about compudahs

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:21:00 -0400

to work on them, but not enough to fix them when things like email don’t work. Which it doesn’t right now. Ever feel like events are conspiring against you? The school nurse, the compudah and Harps are in cahoots I’m sure of it: they all look at me like I’m an idiot.

"Hello, this is the school nurse"

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:29:00 -0400

Again. And this time with a Head Trauma letter from The City of New York Office of School Health. Good grief: way to go officializing two kids running into each other on the playground.

Oh, Haa-aay!!

Thu, 15 May 2008 10:40:50 -0400

Oh, Haa-aay!!: This is Awesome. Now, please come deal with Tribeca: there’s a lot of work to be done down here (via sarahisrad)

In our apartment I live no further than 15ft away from everyone...

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:41:00 -0400

In our apartment I live no further than 15ft away from everyone - why wouldn’t I choose a yurt in the Arizona desert, where at least there aren’t 20 million people right on the other side of my front door? There’s something crazy poetic about this in the NYTimes today.

“He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and...

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:58:24 -0400

“He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.”

Emerson on Thoreau. I’m experiencing a mighty mighty desire to go live in the woods, or on the beach, and I don’t think it’s just summertime talking.

Want to make/want someone to make me this. I’ll look like...

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:41 -0400

Want to make/want someone to make me this. I’ll look like a sack of potatoes, but I could care less.

Happy hands at home: nice projects/patterns/stuff here.

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:14:32 -0400

Happy hands at home: nice projects/patterns/stuff here.

The idea of eating outside tonight has me woozy. We’ll be...

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:27:39 -0400

The idea of eating outside tonight has me woozy. We’ll be celebrating the Catalan spring rite of the calçotada: which is really a birthday party for the calçot, a spring onion resembling a leek. The tubers are grilled, presented in heaps, and eaten while drinking rosé at communal tables with romesco sauce. They’ll be served with grilled lamb chops and botifarra sausage. Crema catalana for dessert. Ah, yes please, now …

Susie says I might like York, Maine. I think she’s right....

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:52:00 -0400

Susie says I might like York, Maine. I think she’s right. I think I have to get there sooner rather than later. I need some salt water in my hair. I’m thinking about drifting all the time.

Is there a worse way to let the world know stuff like this about...

Wed, 14 May 2008 09:41:00 -0400

Is there a worse way to let the world know stuff like this about you? If there is I can’t think of it. Sad.

Santa Cruz Beach Shack, 1970, Jerry De Wilde. Want to be there,...

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:49:00 -0400

Santa Cruz Beach Shack, 1970, Jerry De Wilde. Want to be there, and then.