January 2012
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December 2011
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Semisonic - “Closing Time”
I thought...
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Alex Baca Tumblog's 2011 in review:
Established gainful employment; wrote a few columns pertaining to things I’m not particularly knowledgeable about; could’ve blogged more; bought a bike; got into grad school; deferred from grad school; ran a 5K, but felt like I wanted to die afterward; ate at a lot of restaurants; visited some American cities (Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, L.A.); cut all my...
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“We now live in a country where it pays to be hated far more than it pays to be...”
– Drew Magary, 2011: The Year We Became The United States Of Trolling
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40 Dishes Every Washingtonian Must Try →
On this list, there are restaurants from Laurel and Edgewater, two dishes from 2 Amy’s, and two charbroiled chicken options. Come on, son—just call it “30 Dishes Every Washingtonian Must Try” and axe the ones that make it real obvious you’re phoning it in.
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“Women shop, men stockpile. That’s one theory, anyway, of how men buy clothes...”
– John Ortved, Men Shop in Bulk
This is possibly worse than the Times’ discovery that women wear dresses in the summer. I guess, because I’m not male, it means all those Delman flats, Madewell high-rise skinny jeans, James Perse V-necks, Cosabella briefs, and J. Crew merino wool sweaters...
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Shit in my personal life that should be "out" in...
Adult acne
Anything-triggered headaches
My habit of buying absolutely everything (socks, underwear, food, records) on Amazon in various states of sobriety and inebriation
My idiot waffling over what the hell to do about grad school
The fact that I feel totally uncreative and empty and just utterly pitch-less
My inability to wake up any earlier than 7:30 a.m. regardless of how early I go to...
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“I never once felt the way I’d felt with Jack—baffled and agitated, unable...”
– Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
I don’t know if I like this book or not, but I do know that I have lived and felt and tried to untangle every single shred of those two paragraphs in my own capacity.
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Tuesday things:
What I’ve eaten today:
Three milk chocolate Lindt truffles
Some almonds
What I’ve listened to today:
The Spectacular Fantastic, Outer Space is Nothing But a Lie
These United States, Everything Touches Everything
Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yo La Tengo, Electr-O-Pura
Yo La Tengo, Upside-Down EP
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Why does this week even exist?
I’m at work and I’m not happy about it.
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“Though Brownstein became a musician, she didn’t forget acting. “She’d always had...”
– Margaret Talbot, Stumptown Girl
Some people are into trains.
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