August 2010
16 posts
“I love you darling” she squeals.
That’s the extent of her English,
but she...”
– Boulangerie Deux - Chicco Chou
For the cashier who flirted with me shamelessly.
“Behind the counter, baguettes with golden crusts stand like soldiers,
In the...”
– Boulangerie - Chicco Chou
So I wrote this when I saw some guy hit on Tiff in the bakery. He seemed so excited to meet a fellow American that he returned after a few minutes to ask if she wanted to see the sights in Paris with him. He gave her his email address. Dude was 50.
notre damn
First and foremost I’d like to give a nice, big “fuck you” to whoever picked my pocket today. And not a gentle “fuck you” but the rough, rapey kind where your asshole feels like some convicts ran a train on you; the kind where you can’t walk straight for days; the kind where you shit blood for a week. You are a waste of space; your mom should’ve aborted...
“They’re both convinced
that a surge of passion bound them together.
Such...”
– Wisława Szymborska - Love at First Sight
day 1: leaving on a jet plane, don't know when...
As guys we’re expected to fit our daily lives in a 3x4 piece of leather. And now I’m here at LAX with nothing in my pockets and everything on my back. Traveling is weird. I think I like the idea of traveling, more than the act of traveling. It sounds so romantic on paper: leaving your past behind, going somewhere new and exciting, jumping into the abyss, simplifying your life,...
project americana
I’m going to take a picture of and eat a Big Mac combo in every country I go to. Why? Because I’m a freakin’ American damnit! Yea, I’m loud! I’m ignorant of your culture! I’ll speak to you in English really loudly and slowly and use huge hand gestures so you’ll understand me better! Whatup Europe?
First Mac: LAX. I’ll upload later.
“I bless her as if she sneezed, must be the weather. I dress her, I am her...”
– PMW
“Daydream delusion
Limousine Eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a...”
– Before Sunrise
Hubris: The Blood to Capacitor Exchange →
Not many people buy diamonds more than once every few years; it isn’t hard to avoid conflict gems, which fund continuing violence around Africa. How hard is it for the conscientious consumer to avoid conflict electronics? Impossible, perhaps, because anything with a capacitor is suspect….
http://www.11points.com/TV/11_Most_Profound_Quotes_...
The other day I found myself in a Panera Bread, wondering how, in the post-Atkins world, a place so bread-centric could be so crowded. And then I thought of GOB Bluth, during the brainstorming session where he and Tobias were trying to come up with a good business idea, saying, “People love to carbo-load.” As much as that was intended as a joke… maybe GOB knew what the American...
