February 2011
17 posts
January 2011
19 posts
popular baby names
me: yeah, that's so crazy that everyone is named madison now
and that someday, nursing homes will be filled with chads and justins
Mike: yeah i can't believe michael still hasn't died
it's the number 1 name for the 80's and 90's, and number 2 for this past decade
me: ETHAN
that name will never be okay to me again
Mike: because of ethan frome?
me: HAHAHA
no, because of Lost!
Mike: ahhhhhhhh
me: but yes, also, because of ethan frome
Mike: I'm pissed Isabella is #1 because i've wanted to name a kid that forever
but now it's popular so i can't
me: yeah
geez, the girls names are so aspirational
like tiny prayers that your daughter doesn't turn out ugly
Mike: yeah moms-of-the-us, every generation needs some "ruths"
we can't all be sophia
me: i mean, not that i'm NOT going to name my daughter after my favorite television characters
i'm naming my daughter after veronica mars and no one can stop me
Mike: is her first name going to be veronicamars?
“I also find women to be rather judgmental whereas I am gracious, open-minded and...”
– Alison Royer’s blog is kind of the best.
the best email I read today
Subject: So here’s an etiquette question
This morning I thought my neighbor on the train was dead.
What’s the appropriate response? I gently nudged, and escalated to basically shaking him while shouting. Because dude really seemed dead.
He wasn’t.
So… am I an asshole for waking a sleeper, or is this the right thing to do? Because I wasn’t the only one who...
“We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great...”
– The Art of Listening by Brenda Ueland
(via jayolson)
you truly are a special girl, Juuune! (Apriiil!)
Mike: what was your character's name in company?
Mike: because amherst college is doing Company as their interterm musical this year
Mike: and i think they made you a man
Clothes are for wearing. →
I’m probably the least qualified person in the world to start a fashion blog. Which is why this is going to be so much fun.
The New Zodiac
(via fakescience)
Popular Linguistics magazine exists now →
I’ll just be nerding the F out over here.
an email
From: Liz Caradonna To: Mike Devlin Date: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:19 AM Subject: the dream I had last night:
So you and I were both auditioning for a production of Big River. Auditioners were to prepare one of a selection of songs from the show, and I had chosen to sing “Muddy Water,” a rollicking tune that Huck and Jim sing in Act I when they first set out on their raft. You went up...
The Decemberists recorded an album with Peter Buck... →
Is it my birthday again already?