The Highlight of Exam Week

I found this in a student's English Regents exam.

RyRy asks...

So, what is the trouble with Harry?

(looking at my instant DVD Que on Netflix)

State Department Shows its LGBT Pride

Check it out: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/state-department-shows-its-lgbt-pride/19575

This really happened... local tragedy

"Touchdown Jesus" was a local legend around the parts where I grew up. Six stories tall, he loomed over the highway on the way to Cincinnati.

Last night, lightening struck...

MTA releases Hipster-friendly subway map: http://twitpic.com/1pq5tb

This video either convince you to come with me, or to stay far, far away :)

Anyone want to tag along tonight? Free with RSVP... click the link, do it, do it, do it.....

Big Butt!

Butt!

The time is now

So I've been wanting to go to Torrisi Italian Specialities for awhile now. They serve a $50 8-course prix fixe dinner that changes every day, and I had heard was absolutely amazing. Now that the NYT has given it a slathering review, it looks like I am going to have to fight for a table, tooth and nail. The question is: who will throw down wiht me?

Here are some of my *favorite* excerpts from the review:

"The dishes are edible paintings, comestible short stories. It is strange and wonderful to eat them in the same place you were sitting before, eating a chicken parm." (I love food more than most people, but I think this guy needs a new definition of strange and wonderful.)

"The menu had the ragu named for Caruso, the opera singer. You could have tasted it over the radio and wept."

"The whole process takes roughly an hour, over bare wood tables, with paper napkins and wine out of water glasses. It is not fine dining, but it sure is fine."

"The Torrisi project as it stands surely must run its course, the way any performance does, the way any combination of kinetic energy and art must eventually fall off its axis.... Which means the time to get to Torrisi Italian Specialties is now."

So, you think you can leave work for a day??

Ever since the short-lived dream of All Points West died, New Yorkers have been waiting for someone or something to stand up and deliver a summer music lineup worthy of their esteemed tastes. Leave that to Vice, who, in partnership with Intel, launched the Creators Project. To celebrate the launch, they've put together an all killer, no filler lineup for an event at Milk Studios. The building takeover goes down on June 26, with sets by Interpol, Mark Ronson, Gang Gang Dance, The Raptrue, Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, Neon Indian, Salem, and very special guests. That's not to mention DJ sets by XXXChange, Golden Filter, and others, with short films by Spike Jonze, Animal Collective, and more. Oh, and it's all free with registration, which, guess what, is now open.

Check it out and register!

Tonight's view from Wards Island, my favorite run

VC '10

A Vassar pic I found online

Julie Mehretu at the Guggenheim

I'm down to go check this out anytime!! Let me know if you want to go. She's one of my new favorites. It will be up till October, but the sooner the better!

check out the show details:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/julie-mehretu-grey-area

Zola Jesus $10 June 19th, Glasslands!!!

Who's in?? ryry and naynay are definitely going.

BEST AND ONLY DAY OF SUMMER 09

HA!

BEST AND ONLY DAY OF SUMMER 09

HA!

Vassar 2005 Reunion, June 2010

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Rollin' with the homies...

Ballers! Scar Scar and PJ watching the Lakers whomp the Celtics in game 1 after a night of schmoooozing and drinkin' at Ports. Thursdays is gonna be dope!

work quote of the day

bloomers how does my hair look like this

me it accentuates your neck i like it

bloomers im sorry but *girl* youre the only black woman left in the office

This is what I say to myself every morning...

I'll be there... who's going with me???

NINE SHOWS ROUND OUT FREE SUMMER CONCERTS ON THE BEACH ON GOVERNORS ISLAND

Introducing
GONE TO GOVERNORS
2010 Summer Concert Series
Presented by Converse

This summer Converse will serve up free concerts on The Beach at Governors Island beginning on June 5th. For more information go to www.thebeachconcerts.com.

June 05 Yeasayer
Keepaway
Delicate Steve
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

June 19 The Morning Benders
Freelance Whales
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

July 03 Portugal. The Man
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

July 04 She & Him
doors: 12 p.m.
show: 4 p.m.

July 10 Lucero
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

July 16 Caribou / Phantogram
The Chain Gang of 1974
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

July 17 Dr. Dog
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

Aug. 08 Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band
Justin Townes Earle
Dawn Landes & the Hounds
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

Aug. 14 Neon Indian
doors: 6 p.m.
show: 8 p.m.

Big Bang Acoustics

I'm listening to Soundcheck and there's a really geeky professor on who has made audible the sounds of the universe congealing after the Big Bang. It's pretty amazing. He has a website... evidence of how geeky he really is - he seems like a guy who doesn't have time for anything but his work --- good thing, too, cuz it's amazing. His website is like an audio storybook, leading you through the formation of the universe through sound. Here's the site... (it's still not working when I make a link... but this one is worth the two seconds it takes to cut and paste!)

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/BBA_web/index_frames.html

working lunch

So, we had left over pizza today for lunch. And my coworker Tom threw out this awesome chicken caesar slice (*still in the box* & the only thing in the trashcan) and as I was going in to snatch it up, I got scolded by all my other co-workers. I mean, come on!

Damn it!

<--- EVIDENCE!! :(

When searching Google, the 3rd link for "flotilla attack" is a game called Puzzle Pirates

Wondering how the aftermath of the real-life flotilla attack will play out, thinking about how it will affect Ash's time...

Final Dayz

Fette Sau, Fleeeeeet Week!

Insanity before Pies & Thighs. and a night of Kings!
Got "bitches in my butt", "bitches in my butt."

Work Quote of the Day

Phone convo overheard at the office:

"Fucking (NAME)! That kid could fuck up a wet dream"