Maira, always.
Chickarina | Ephemera
Notes made on the way to the grave by Melissa Kirsch, author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything.
Apr 25
Dec 01
december 01, 2008 | broken clouds | 50 °F
[from wnyc.org. “broken clouds.” heartbreaking.]
Oct 29
“ The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?” To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
— David Sedaris in The New Yorker
Oct 23
“ I had no foresight I would get articles sent to me from friends where it’s become an adjective, or involved in the presidential election,” Weiner said. ”And there’s the rest of it: `Why don’t we dress that way? Why don’t people have better manners?
— Matthew Weiner on Mad Men
Oct 06
» Finally.
Sep 10
How awesome is it that this Obama ad has a soundtrack by The National? Even if the song is “Fake Empire.” This makes me love The National even more.
Aug 13
Aug 01
“ Indirect communication, experts suggest, may be turning some people into digital-era solipsists more interested in broadcasting information than in real time give-and-take.
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NYT
NYT
Jun 05
Oh New York Times! Why won’t you fix it?!
Jun 04
» 1. "fierce feminists" 2. "rampaging feminists" 3. "feminist anger"
“For months, Hillary has been trying to emasculate Obama with the sort of words and themes she has chosen.” And with the sort of words and themes she has chosen, Maureen Dowd has been trying to…what? Undo the work of the women’s movement? Remind me I’m lucky to have a vote? If a man wrote this, he’d be pounced on for criminal misogyny.
May 29
» How To Buy a Tanning Bed
Is this really something people do?
May 26
Identity Crisis
What does it mean about me that 1. I have unearthed a Best of The Doobie Brothers CD that I had no idea I had and 2. I like it? I was allowed (by the me police) to kind of like the Allman Brothers because of “Sweet Melissa,” but I don’t know how to feel about this new relationship. I also have to admit that the only thing I knew separated the Doobie Brothers from the Allman Brothers before today was that the Doobie Brothers don’t sing “Sweet Melissa.”
May 21
» Carrier
You can watch the entire trillion-part PBS documentary online. It’s about the lives of sailors on a giant aircraft carrier. I love it. It’s like American High but in the armed forces.
May 15
May 12
