January 2010
19 posts
December 2009
41 posts
Mandy's Mummies →
A new travel(only) blog to supplement this thing. Right now it is research-based, hopefully will be less boring when it’s experience-based. I’ve been reading people’s accounts of trips and it has been very useful in my planning, I would like to contribute to that. Also I need a way to keep in touch with people I may not want to send to this blog (ie. people other than close...
there is gangster, semi-gangster, baggy, semi-white and white
– my uncle on buying jeans
mandy: i'm want to start a travel blog that i can update on my trip. but what do i call it? i need a title.
mom: "my travel blog"
mandy: thanks... but that's a little obvious.
nana: "mandy's mummies"
His sham beatific image, questioned by almost no one until it collapsed, is...
– Tiger Woods, Person of the Year
More important, might contentment be overrated? Seriously, isn’t restlessness,...
– NYT - New York Ranks Last in Happiness Rating
I went to bed contemplating being a “team member” for the first time. I woke up having dreamt of (friendly) wild zebras roaming CT. I’m (officially) going to be a photographer for the Penn-Yale-IFA/NYU ‘10 field season in Abydos, Egypt. I should have tickets in hand by mid-Jan for a ~Feb 21st departure. No zebras, but camels and donkeys abound.
I fucking love this wheelchair!!
– overheard
me: so you're enjoying Colombia?
Stephanie: yes its been great
Stephanie: you would love it here
me: I know! I want to come
Stephanie: you should!!!
me: you told me I'd be kidnapped!
Stephanie: well its a likely possibility
I’m guest lecturing at CUNY tomorrow. I’m not excited. I have to be in Harlem at 10am and have nothing planned. Also, my laptops at my office so looks like I’m going to wing it. How long does it take to get to 135th st? wah wah wah whine whine whine
http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html →
funny
on the beach : amandakirkpatrick.com →
Now with thumbnails!
I’ve been editing this project for a year or so, and never have come up with a name I felt anything for. I have finally decided on On The Beach after the Neil Young album. Goellers and Cutchogue just aren’t title-y enough. Fuck I hate titles. Almost as much as I hate code language web programing shit.*
* I have huge respect for the people who make all this...