January 2008
163 posts
I wrote about the Vettes for BlackBookmag.com!... →
“If there will be others, I want none of them.”
– When girls get mad, they get bitter. And bitterness leads to feelings of loneliness, self imposed isolation, and misplaced rage.
We want none of it.
Passive Agressive Haiku #6: An ode to Limerence...
Games are so banal Words: bullets; silence: empty You will always win
dictionary.com word of the day 1. 29 // 7:45 AM
canorous \kuh-NOR-us; KAN-or-uhs, adjective:
Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.
Every track on We Are Scientists’ album is canorous.
Play list tip off #2: We Are Scientists
Nick at BlackBook Mag gave me We are Scientists’ album, “With Love and Squalor” and I’m hooked. Every track rocks.
Passive Agressive Haiku #5: Payin' those dues
Sure, I’ll mail your mail
Yes, I’ll fetch your dry cleaning
I just want to write
Some missed connections I wanted to read, so wrote...
You: Jackass who cut in line. Me: Bitch who stared you down. Let’s have a punch out sometime. You: Fucker who broke my heart. Me: Crybaby trying not to cry. You: Unkempt hair and too tight t-shirt. Me: Lots of bling and no heart. Guess we all have our problems. You: 5’2, thinning hair line. Me: 6’1, big boned, and looking for my prince charming. Let’s do this.
Posted by Erin E
Limerence is international, folks
From an email from a reader in Sweeden:
Hello again! I actually live in Sweden, so I’m not connected to America in any way. I’m just stuck in this game, and I’ve been researching it for about 6 months now, so that’s how I came across your article.
My experience with it would be that I liked someone, I truly did, a lot. And I did act on it, for the reason I felt that...
Dictionary.com word of the day // 1.28 // 8:37AM
NEOPHYTE \NEE-uh-fyt, noun:
1. A new convert or proselyte. 2. A novice; a beginner in anything.
A complete NEOPHYTE to public speaking, she froze at the podium and absorbed the icy stares of her peers.
AWKWARD titties
I went to a bar with three of my girlfriends to blow off some steam from the week. As we sat in the corner drinking Cosmopolitans, two older men in their 30s stumbled into the bar and sat next to my friend Tricia. One guy staggered his way over to her side and pathetically attempted to sway and woo her as the rest of us giggled at his ill attempts to win her heart, or her time.
After 10 minutes...
Passive Agressive Haiku #4: Served with an extra...
‘Server’ is a crap
Euphemism for waitress
(Boldface typeset ‘wait’)
Play list tip off #1: THE VETTES!!!!! →
This Louisiana band sounds kinda Fly Leaf-esque, I think.
AWKWARD EXPERIMENT #1: Why answer a craigslist...
And, because this is a scientific experiment, we’ll be following the scientific method, of course.
I. Define the question: Is it possible to convince someone you’ve never met, they’ve missed you? II. Gather information and resources: Sammy D and I will read as many craigslist missed connections as possible to select the one that could, feasibly, have been us (aka: I can’t answer anything...
WatchBest DUI video ever.
Hey Craig, I missed your connection
“There are a lot of cute guys here,” I said to Erin, looking around at the collegiate cuties on the platform of the Boston T subway.
“Like… A LOT,” I added, my peripheal vision spoting a Jared Leto look-alike walk onto the platform.
“Look right,” I directed Erin. She did, nodding in unspoken agreement.
A few moments later, after the subway arrived,...
“We’re groomed to be so confident that we can never be vulunerable.”
– Heath Daughtrey, Vice President of Enterprise IT
Speaking on the Dynamic Women’s Business Conference panel “Power Couples” on why women and men in business struggle to confront issues in their relationships because their work environments teach them to never be vulunerable.
Dictionary.com word of the day // 1.25 // 8:33AM
CATERWAUL \KAT-uhr-wawl, intransitive verb: 1. To make a harsh cry. 2. To have a noisy argument. 3. A shrill, discordant sound. Around the corner was such a CATERWAUL that he had to close the door and shut his blinds to block out the noise.
Passive aggressive haiku #3: "Let me buy YOU a...
If I buy you drinks,
You don’t have to work so hard,
It’s in the bag, bud.
Passive aggressive haiku #2
Pillow talk is cheap,
Whispered words, unauthentic.
Come morning, you run.
wordsmith.org's word of the day//January 24//2:48
white-shoe (hwyt, wyt shoo) noun
Pertaining to a business or those who run it, typically conservative, rich, and elite, in fields such as law, finance, etc.
One advantage to living, and working, and basically not ever leaving Harlem, is that you won’t typically run into stuck up white-shoes.
Are YOU in limerence? →
Wrote this column for The University of Washington’s student newspaper, The Daily, this fall. Found the article on a couple people’s blogs, so figured I should post it on my own.
Awkwardly Awesome word of the day:
To-Nar:
Totally+ Knarly=To-Nar.
Someone told me the word tonight, and I told him I’d pay it forward. Pst: pass it on.
Dictionary.com word of the day // 1.23 // 8:37AM
EFFUSIVE \ih-FYOO-siv, adjective: Excessively demonstrative; giving or involving extravagant or excessive emotional expression; gushing.
His EFFUSIVE attempt to win her attention was vomit-provoking.
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Link of Love #3 →
“Worst Email Ever” from the founder of “Overheard in NY.”
Dictionary.com word of the day // 1.22 // 8:38AM
PERMEATE \PUR-mee-ayt, transitive verb:
1. To spread or diffuse through. 2. To pass through the pores or openings of. 3. To spread through or penetrate something.
The buzz of celebrity scandal PERMEATED New York City today when it was announced that Heath Ledger had been found dead from a drug overdose in his Soho apartment.
Dictionary.com word of the day // 1.19 // 8:32AM
QUIETUS \kwy-EE-tuhs, noun:
1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation. 2. Removal from activity; rest; death. 3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet.
In the blink of an eye, she put her fingers in her mouth to create that piercing harsh whistle that was the QUIETUS of our ruckus in her household.
The politics of fashion: Why Anna Wintour will not...
I love the ANDROGYNOUS look.
Seen across the decades in music, fashion, culture and night life (think Madonna, David Bowie, Prince and Michael Jackson) blurring the lines between “boy” and “girl” has always been an attractive, almost hyper-sexual thing to do for both genders.
Except for one thing. It is only the male entertainers who blur the gender lines. You never see...
Oh baby, baby... Britney's dead →