December 2008
43 posts
“ERIN: Let’s go to Philly and do something unexpected and artsy and see...”
– Depressed talk? No. Wallowing in silly white-bread misery? No. Bitching, moaning, crying, whining? Quadruple no.
But contemplation? Always.
Yes, there was a minor earthquake in my town. And... →
A Craigslist lesson on honesty
Reply to: [redacted] Date: 2008-12-19, 5:21PM EST Australia? Canada? South Africa? New Zealand? I love you girls and want to meet you and take you out on the town. From there you will enjoy my wit and wisdom. It will feel great to be with a mildly handsome and somewhat intelligent bloke. I know what you’re thinking! There is probably something better out there. And, to be fair, you’re...
The gameshow "Password" versus real life
I was watching the “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” esque game show, “Password,” hosted by the omniscient Regis Philbin, and realize the game is actually an extended metaphor about life for these reasons:
1. The show: You play with a partner. Real life: We (try) to find a partner we can play with for life. Or not, because 2. The show: Halfway through, you can swap out your partner for...
Awesome made-up word of the day
Douchebauchery, noun
Def: Crazy behavior, exhibited by someone that is generally described, by friends and otherwise complete strangers, as a douche.
“Erin: “Sam, I want to see you on New Year’s Eve. Do you have...”
Digital photography killed the Polaroid star
An article in The Times about the Polaroid.
AWKWARD loves Polaroids because the pictures that come out are, inevitably, yellowed or crinkled or unintentionally sepia toned or way too bright or really dark or imperfect in some other way, which makes them all the more perfect.
My Mom doesn't know the name of my blog
Mom: Hey, that's funny. You should post it on Awesome is Awkward
Erin: Awkward is Awesome, Mom
Mom: Same thing
Erin: I guess you're right, actually
Too old for fruitcake? →
The saddest article today.
“Sammy: “Sometimes I just want to be that girl who goes to work. Watches...”
Why I Drink More Than That Guy At the End of the... →
I call myself a feminist — but I also call myself a drinker.
Are all drinkers feminists?
NY Mag thinks so — and makes a point which resonates more with my 22-year-old experience than any intro to women’s studies course ever has or will.
“My point here is that the closing of the gender gap isn’t about men—needing to compete with men or wanting to feel like men. It’s about...
“ Girls still find themselves, in a thousand large and small ways, forced to...”
– -Alyssa Harad in ” Because Junior High is Still Hell”
Why girls can’t have sex like guys: We’re too damn guilty about it.
Meet Tavi :: Your New Favorite 12-year-old Blogger →
I’m not sure whether to love her or hate her.
Meet Tavi, a 12-year-old blogger who lives in the ‘burbs but is destined to be the next Kory Kennedy or NYLON “It” girl.
She’s the next Lolita; the next Anna Wintour (check the uncanny resemblence between haircuts?!); or the equivalent of Kevin Rose to fashion bloggers everywhere. Hell, maybe she’ll launch a DIGG...
“In the heat-death of their togetherness; bored and disgusted, each submits to a...”
– James Parker on the essence of ESOSM, from “The Existential Clown” in December’s The Atlantic. Though Synechdoche, New York was good, ESOSM is, and always will be, my favorite Kaufman flick, and this is why.
I guess we don't have to like the same movies...
Me: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is my favorite movie, you see it?
Christian: (Sounding generally unhappy) Ya.
Me: Wasn't it great?
Christian: ...
Me: (Oh God. Here.We.Go)
Christian: I think Jim Carey should have cut the bullshit and stuck to talking out of his butt.
“It is very difficult to forget someone over the Internet than in real life I...”
– anonymous reader weighing in on why she can’t get over her limerant. Damn you Facebook and MySpace and Tumblr and LinkedIn and Flickr and Twitter and.. Google. Damn. You.
Butter, Booty and Bountiful Organic Food: How to... →
Can’t spend any money this holiday season? Link your loved one to this. It’s worth a billion bucks, at least.
Limerance--another reader reaches out
I wrote this article about limerance—you know, that thing you feel for another person that isn’t quite love (because you don’t really know this person), and it’s not really like (because the feeling is so strong, sometimes it consumes you). You wonder why the other person won’t return your feelings. You swear the connection you feel is so real, it can’t just be...
Are we Generation Awkward? Harvard Thinks So
“Kumquats. Ice dancing. Middle-aged people in love. College students who wear pantsuits. Addressing someone with the wrong gender. That guy in section who responds to the reading with passion and insight. Realizing you’ve been mispronouncing your roommate’s last name for the past three years.”
—from “Generation Awkward” published in the Harvard Crimson. Thanks for...
When a girls gotta be a Mean Girl against herself...
For most women and girls alike, being a jealous bitch is a natural trait that we have even if we are the most confident street strutter that we know. We have all dated guys or liked a guy and had some skank who was maybe ever so slightly a few clicks above yourself on the hotness level come around and of course your guy thinks she is “awesome” or “a really nice girl.”
...
This week's to-don't list
1. Stop whining about small town’s, because it could be worse. I could live in Wichita.
2. Stop bitching about hating my job, because at least I have one.
3. Stop threatening to commit suicide, because for some reason, my roomate doesn’t think it’s that funny.
4. Stop hating on the movie ‘Twilight’ because it’s totally awesome and vampires are sweet.
5....
“You’re the cake. Everyone else is icing. And you have to be fucking strong.”
– Sammy D on finding substance
Saturday night Youtube watching brings tears and...
Me: I played piano. I could have been Tori Amos. I want to be Tori Amos.
Sammy D: I want to move to Europe.
I want to be a model.
I want to launch a website.
I want to open a café.
I want to open a bar.
I want to be a DJ.
I want to fall in love.
I want to have a dog.
I want to run a marathon.
I want to go on a hot air balloon.
I want to go on roller coasters.
I want to travel.
I want to go to San...
Missed Connections @ 3:09AM with Erin E & Sammy D
We found this Craigslist Missed Connection - posted for Temple University, Sammy D’s alma mater - particularly heartwarming. In unison we said: “awww.”
Cecil B Moore/Barnes and Noble, If only i had said hi - m4w - 21 (Temple University)
Reply to: pers-912596860@craigslist.org [?] Date: 2008-11-09, 10:13PM EST
Wednesday afternoon I held the door for you, and you smiled. I...
dictionary.com Word of The Day//12.05.08
dissever \dih-SEV-uhr, verb:
to separate or part; sever
(Instead of writing my own sentence, I’ll use the one on dictionary.com because it’s beautiful).
He had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world — to vanish — to give up his place and privileges with living men.— T. J. Lustig, Moments of Punctuation’: Metonymy and...
“We all have ways of coping. I use sex, and awesomeness.”
– Jack Donaghy (via dazzlingdelta) (via soupsoup)
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog It" →
The blog title says it all: if you didn’t go to this blog, you wouldn’t know about this stuff. You wouldn’t have that crazy material to say to your friends later like, “Hey guys! Did you know that the Queen’s cloak train has handles?!”
And they’d be like, “No, Sammy, I didn’t! OMFG I can’t believe that!”
It’s amazing....
Passive Aggresive Fan Mail: An Ode to "Circus"
Dear Britney Spears,
I’m writing to you to tell you no matter what you do, I’ll always love you. I don’t care if you get fat, bald, pregnant, anorexic, brunette-ed, brain-fried, intoxicated, drugged-out, or over-partied—I’ll remain faithful to you. I thought I’d out grow you as I did so many other 13-year old vices: The brand Junco, Airheads candy, and Pogs, but clearly that’s not the case. If...
“I can’t look at what’s there and use that to persuade myself we...”
– *Sammy D to apartment mate Jesse North, ~10:15PM, Monday, Dec. 1st
Body Fluids?
From the press release:
“WHITE IS DIRTY WHEN UGLY is the first collaborative solo show at Envoy gallery in the lower east side by Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny. The themes of alienation, disaffection and discontent in our corporate culture are presented in a new series of works on canvas, revealing an organic, spontaneous way of art-making: decoupages of drawings, text, newspaper clippings,...