May 2008
54 posts
Made up word of the day
Man + Perspective= Manspective. It’s a strange thing.
Last day at the Daily News and I'm writing about... →
A solid clip should I ever be assigned the penis beat.
Reason #953489508 heels suck [but we keep on...
I looked at the clock. It was 6PM, and my very first day as an intern had ended. I prepared myself for the journey home on the city bus. I had never taken the city bus before. I never needed to, having relied on the Philadelphia subway and train to get me anywhere I had to go. Needless to say, the public bus system was an adventure. By the end of the day I was exhausted and looking forward to the...
Dictionary.com word of the day // 5.29 // 12:39 PM
**this one had to go up. Not only can I hardly pronouce it [and I feel German attempting to?] but it is just a kick-butt word in general.
SCHADENFREUDE \SHOD-n-froy-duh, noun: A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.
Tonya Harding took much SCHADENFREUDE pleasure when she watched the career of Nancy Kerrigan crumble as her knees fell to the ground in pain.
**Hope...
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
– Part 1 in my summer reading list.
A famous quote just read from “On Becoming Fearless…in Love, Work, and Play” by Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post.
*Posted by Sammy D
The new Post Secret is Passive Aggressive Notes →
Once I was told I was being “passive aggressive” when I made a snide comment on a male friend’s facebook wall.
We’ve all gone down the passive aggressive route before. Whether it’s in the form of a post it note, ruled paper, e-mail, facebook message/status/Twitter status/Myspace status, whatever suits your style, the opportunities for passive aggressive...
An open letter to "the letter" C
Dear Coach (and soccer moms and daughters who tote you),
I want you to know something: I don’t even like you; I don’t like your kind, and the people that associate themselves with you. From now on, I’m severing our friendship. I don’t like your many C’s – I feel like you’ve sold out. Don’t you remember the happier times? Times when we would stroll the...
dictionary.com word of the day//9:51 AM
cadge \KAJ, transitive verb: 1. To beg or obtain by begging; to sponge. 2. To beg; to sponge.
It is far better to cadge for forgivness, than to ask for permission.
“If you’ve actually had the experience of being towel-whipped, then you...”
– Benjamin Nugent, author of ‘American Nerd’
All Hipsters are Nerds, but Not all Nerds are...
Great excerpt from the Salon article, ‘Beauty and The Geek’:
What’s the relationship between hipsters and nerds? A lot of the fashion accessories that we’ve come to associate with hipsters refer nostalgically to old prototypes of what nerds are supposed to look like. I first remember seeing it in the early ’90s, when I was in high school. Kids were starting to...
The uglier, the better
Why women date ugly men (and probably prefer them).
Ruby red slippers squishing my toes
“Home is where the heart is.” I know that it’s cliché [and I hate clichés], but there is no phrase I believe in more. I assume that for most 19 year olds, “home” is the house they grew up in, the house where one or both of their parents live. But for me, home has only ever been one place: State College, Pennsylvania. Thirteen years, two houses, six schools, three significant deaths, one...
Dictionary.com Word of the Day // 5.21 // 11:07AM
BOULEVARDIER \boo-luh-var-DYAY; bul-uh-, noun: 1. A frequenter of city boulevards, especially in Paris. 2. A sophisticated, worldly, and socially active man; a man who frequents fashionable places; a man-about-town.
These days, it seems the BOULEVARDIERS of New York City have escaped to more sophisticated corners, leaving only hipsters and wanna-be socialites and party picture sluts who...
New office policy: No fish, please!
I’m an intern at an advertising and media communications firm in downtown Philadelphia. Typically I don’t bring in food for lunch, just my trusty homemade raisin and peanut trail mix and a water bottle from home as a snack. Some days, as an excuse to leave the office, I’ll hit up Rite Aid and score chips or snacks as an inexpensive meal. In an effort to save money before my trip to...
I caught the love bug but the medicine wasn't him....
You name him, I’ve dated him. The overly attached, mildly obsessive emo kid. Check. The self involved, my-shit-don’t-stink Pre-Med. Check. The anime loving, World of Warcraft playing uber geek. Check. Then came the Marine. Well… the soon-to-be Marine. We went to high school together, but he graduated a year before me. He actually dated a girl I was really cool with in high school, and for a split...
AWKWARD in the Washington Post →
The word AWKWARD is blowin’ up, and you saw it here first. (like MTV News!)
Speaking of The Sims
In Chuck Klosterman’s “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto” he talks about the popular video game, The Sims, and ponders the relevance of living an e-life that is for all intents and purposes, completely irrelevant. He talks about how The Sims illustrates that “even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living” but then admires the...
Dictionary.com Word of the Day // 5.11 // 7:22AM
PARSIMONIOUS \par-suh-MOH-nee-uhs, adjective: Sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess.
In today’s day and age of rising gas prices, being PARSIMONIOUS is a virtue - changing your route to work to avoid the $4 morning Starbucks fix is the only acceptable thing to do.
Word of the day // 5.8 // 9:47 AM
MOIETY \MOY-uh-tee, noun: 1. One of two equal parts; a half. 2. An indefinite part; a small portion or share. 3. One of two basic tribal subdivisions.
The MOIETY of our love is not halves but like thirds, except he is the little dog who keeps sneaking bites of my heart from the corner of my eye, its juices bleeding down his chin like tomato sauce.
This Modern Love →
The #1 winning essay in the NY Times essay contest for college students, “Modern Love.”
I began reading this essay with high expectations. The NY Times described the essay, “Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define” as being, “an eloquent, clear-eyed account of her generation’s often noncommittal dating scene.”
I saw it as a lie, or as an exaggeration of a...
Nothing Glorious About Glory Days
By Erin Hicks It would seem this year is the year of the musical. With “In The Heights”, “Alter Boyz”, and “Sweeny Todd” getting major accolades, the gaping hole Rent is soon to leave once it takes off from the theater circuit in June surly won’t have any problems being filled with new musicals trying to establish themselves as not lame. That said, “Glory...
Word of the day // 5.5 // 9:14PM
FUSTIAN \FUHS-chuhn, noun: 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language. 3. Made of fustian. 4. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.
When we met I couldn’t believe my ears at listening to her FUSTIAN mouth. Her words overflowed her lips like a child who...
AWKWARD foods I'm into at the moment
I joke with Erin E that she’s an AWKWARD food eater. The girl will put ketchup on bread and mix it in egg yolk as a snack, I swear (OK, not that bad, but she does put ketchup on saltines. The truth.)
We get stuck in our ways with our foods. They may not be home cooking worthy, but I love them for their convenience, for their use as an additive to a vehicle of taste, and because they are...
“Life is like the subway. People sit next to you for a few minutes, and in that...”
– *Erin E talking to Sammy D about life’s little wonders during one of those epic talks where such things inevitablycome up.
Depression is worth a dime a dozen // an AWKWARD...
I’m not the type of person to feel depressed.
Sure, I feel sorry for myself at times, and sometimes I feel disengaged from my current activity. But hardly ever depressed.
I am the Gumby of emotion - I always snap back, no matter how far you stretch me. But for the past three days, I’ve lost my elasticity.
I’ve woken up, had breakfast, and gone back to sleep. I’ve sat...
Sammy D's new haircut →
Philadelphia blogger Dan McQuade knows my kind of haircut. Check out my AWKWARD new ‘do.
“It’s a spiritual enema. My stomach is getting pumped by Jesus.”
– *Erin E talking to Sammy D about going to church. Neither of us are particularly religious. Sammy believes in karma; Erin in positive and negative energy.
"Where is My Mind" side by sider
This Moment is More Precious Than You Think--De La...
Walking down New York’s fabled St. Mark’s street at 2pm on a dark Monday, I craved a beer, the kind that feels you up, and when mixed with whiskey, empties you out just as quickly. I craved a menthol Capri—the deceivingly slender cigs for masochistic smoking wannabes who enjoy the raspy voice and burn of a seasoned addict after inhaling just one. Not wanting to be here, not wanting to be...