March 2012
36 posts
Graceland
I was overwhelmed with the need to listen to this perfect, wonderful, amazing album tonight. I have been listening to it since I was 5— my dad took me to buy the cassete for my mom (I think it was a surprise). It was magic then and it is magic now. I desperately want to see Paul Simon live.
February 2012
49 posts
340-ton boulder to begin tortuous trip to LACMA,... →
WORST. IDEA. EVER. (Thanks for the heads-up Michael!)
Brain dead after the first in a series of long long days.
Catching up
on work post Mardi Gras means that I don’t have time to do any of my favorite weekday workouts like Yoga. Bummer.
Extra bummer because I’m feeling panicky about this MCOM assignment that is due tomorrow, and after meeting with a teacher about it, I feel even worse than I did this morning.
So even though I can’t do yoga, I tried to turn my negative into a positive, and I took...
Mardi Gras Reflections →
I wish I had time to write my own but I’m so woefully behind in work that my Mardi Gras memories will have to wait. Maybe next week. Until then, here’s an awesome article by Renee Peck, who is KIND OF A BIG DEAL in New Orleans, and also the mom of one of my classmates. I hope that when my future self reads this I can think “oh yeah that was before I knew Renee well. Now...
ShortFormBlog: Mardi Gras worth a heckuva lot more... →
shortformblog:
$140 million one estimate as to how much economic impact Mardi Gras has on the New Orleans area each year
$500 million another estimate; ”There’s no way to know for sure because we don’t sell tickets,” a historian says source
» A massive party with a massive impact: ”There are a…
In my Econ class, we calculated it as much more.
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“The death of Whitney Houston has inspired some soul-searching in the music...”
– Also important: record labels/managers/etc need to stop viewing their artists as assets, assets that are told “the show must go on” even when the show really ought to stop for a while. Assets that that might be worth more dead than alive.
When you are dealing with a performer who...
Am I the only one who doesn't care about...
I feel like everyone I know is all warm and squishy or complaining about “singles awareness day”. I guess it’s just cause I’m not much into holidays- I don’t like Halloween and I don’t think about St. Patrick’s day. I don’t mind the actual day of Christmas, but I detest the hoopla leading up to it.
Thanksgiving is fine as long as we don’t...
“He clearly doesn’t understand his own dog. I just don’t see how any dog could...”
– Protester with “Dogs Against Romney” • Explaining why he joined a small group of demonstrators outside the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, protesting the treatment, by Mitt Romney, of his old dog Seamus. For the uninitiated: the Boston Globe reported that during a 1983 Romney family 12-hour road...
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ARNO (animal rescue New Orleans) has a bunch they’re calling the Star Wars Pups because they’re all named after Star Wars characters. They’re breathtakingly adorable. I wish I could keep them all.
Sunday night thoughts:
I loath it when cities riot after sporting events. Get it together!!
My toilet which has been getting steadily less water-pressury since I got here has finally just refused to flush at all. I think this is a building-wide issue— I mean not that everything stopped working today, but that the toilets have issues.
I took a stretch/meditation yoga class and it ruled.
Monday and Tuesday...
I’m looking at tumblr on my iphone- every post is about new dash screen. Can’t wait to check it out and gape in horror myself.
