frites & fries

Saturday, 3pm. Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Rain = Less cold...

Aug 1st

“Foreign policy can never be the same again. It cannot be run...”
— (Can you guess who said it...

Aug 1st

Math + Psychoanalysis Theory. (via Brown Sharpie)

Jul 31st

Link Casserole

Click the link and jump over the Jezebel to read a great gallery review of Teen Magazine in...

Jul 31st

Will people stop with this already? (Click here for the...

Jul 31st

I’ve been meaning to take a picture of the bike garden...

Jul 30th

Clever, non? (via Core 77)

Jul 30th

“‘Hello,’ said Miriam. ‘Oh … why,...”
— from Truman Capote’s...

Jul 30th

Mental Floss covers a few great musician appearances on...

Jul 30th

Things I find around the internet: Prints of vintage...

Jul 29th

Do Not Want: Customized Varsity Jacket...

What’s the point of a custom varsity jacket if you didn’t earn it and it’s not...

Jul 29th

Monroe meets Mailer. (via walkwhilereading) You can also...

Jul 29th

“I had a dream that I was a slave building a sphinx in a...”
— …so says Rush Limbaugh...

Jul 28th

“I have been thinking about asking for advice for a while,...”
— Asking advice on asking for...

Jul 27th

I also had a red velvet cupcake from the cupcake truck in...

Jul 27th

I spent part of my evening at Black Iron Burger. Fried...

Jul 27th

The storm this evening pretty much killed the tree on 6th...

Jul 27th

Vanity Fair remakes movie scenes set in the 30’s....

Jul 26th

“I don’t talk trash; I talk smack. They’re totally different....”
— Kelly Kapoor. So very true....

Jul 26th

Saturday, 2:00pm. Williamsburg/ Brooklyn. I went to Miranda...

Jul 26th

I found a pretty cool book today called...

Jul 26th

One of the cats at Spoonbill& Sugartown Books,...

Jul 25th

Words I Dislike

Only because I dislike how it sounds and the pairing with the meaning — profanity in a loose...

Jul 25th

Sunday, 4:00pm. Murray Hill, New York City.

Jul 25th

Friday, 6:00pm. Tribeca, New York City. Taking advantage of...

Jul 25th

Knocked Offs

The Musée de la Contrefaçon is a museum in Paris displaying counterfeits, right next to the real...

Jul 24th

A/C

The NYTimes wrote a rather lengthy article covering people who have decided to keep their A/C off...

Jul 23rd

It's Not Lunchtime Yet....

But if you can’t decide where to go for lunch today, enter your zipcode and let the Wheel of...

Jul 23rd

Opinions: On Women's Websites

I always get really suspicious of many general women’s webzines or websites. They seem to mask...

Jul 23rd

Link Casserole

Where Does Your Money Go? See this chart on the average person’s expenses: I was just...

Jul 23rd

The Digestive System, by Kevin Van Aelst. This work is made...

Jul 21st

You see this restaurant called Chinese Hut in Toronto? Does...

Jul 20th

Link: Ten Recommended Books That You...

Jul 20th

British artist Matt Robinson started a project measuring the...

Jul 20th

Link: Things You Should Know When You're...

Jul 20th

Gross: A Wendy’s Napoleon made from the Baconator,...

Jul 20th

Woman’s letter to the editor that originally appeared...

Jul 20th

Relationships: Dating the Restaurant...

The Good: Learning: Since I’ve been dating him, obscure food words that I had some knowledge...

Jul 20th

I guess people really do go fishing on the Hudson.

Jul 19th

The “Aquaholic”. Filed under Clever Boat Names....

Jul 19th

Spotted in the West Village.

Jul 19th

I went shopping at Bloomingdales to pass the time but 15...

Jul 18th

Link Casserole

Childhood Nostalgia + Office = Battleship Cups that you can write on (via DVice) Want: This one...

Jul 16th

Newsweek asked various designers how they would makeover Kim...

Jul 16th

Adiós Freedom

My dad is on Twitter. Seeking advice from everyone: What should I not tweet about (and blog...

Jul 16th

Miscommunication

me: I have to make an attempt to make it to my lab meeting tomorrow. I have to work on my project tonight and attempt to do laundry. self-service is non existent in murray hill
Colleen: what project?
me: my research project. I'm doing the programming myself. I have to go investigate laundromats after work google maps and yelp is not totally reliable
Colleen: what?what research project?
me: it's the one I'm trying to publish
Colleen: i have no clue what youre talkinga bout
me: what?
Colleen: i just dont know what youre talking about
is your project on laundromats?
me: what? no. I have to do laundry and work on my project this week but I need to do both by tomorrow before my lab meeting because I have no time.

Jul 15th

“How to Get Shot by The Sartorialist” (for the...

Jul 15th

Math jokes! LOLZ! I have to go back to programming my...

Jul 15th

Watch

Canada’s National Post have an illustration of 101 Muppets of Sesame Street. I couldn’t...

Jul 15th

“The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal

Jul 15th

Opinions: Bananas: Yellow on the...

An Atlantic article I read today made me remember something. Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish...

Jul 14th

“Damn pigeons! Taunting me…making little pigeon...

Jul 14th

“No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be...”

Jul 13th

Pretty things at the Brooklyn Flea Market today.

Jul 13th

Pupusas from the Brooklyn Flea Market.

Jul 12th

Overheard on the Lower East Side

Mother talking to young daughter attempting to cross the street: "This is not Massachusetts, this is Manhattan!"

Jul 12th

Henri Cartier-Bresson, from Slate Magazine’s “To...

Jul 12th

Friday, 1:00pm. Union Square, New York City. Cherries from...

Jul 12th

Saturday, 9:00pm. Gramercy, New York City. At Resto just...

Jul 12th

Want: Pizza Oven for Your Car

This is the work of a genius. (via Neatorama)

Jul 10th

Do Not Want: Taxidermy Rat Purse

Fashion accessories + taxidermy = work by Reid Peppard. If you have a strong stomach and can stand...

Jul 10th

Watch

A video found by FREEwilliamsburg, “Teaching Senior Citizens to Use the Internet.” Some...

Jul 10th

Please Ignore This: Research Status...

My current research project is so frustrating and I’ve been programming this thing for over 2...

Jul 9th

Street Music

What we need in New York: Presented for Sing London and the City of London Festival, 30 street...

Jul 8th

What are the odds that your private, personal moment...

Jul 8th

Things I Did This Last Weekend

What I did on my vacation: Ate. I really like ice cream sandwiches and ate… I wish Andrew...

Jul 7th

Jul 7th

Saturday, 2:00pm. Cape May, New Jersey. On the beach.

Jul 7th

Friday, 1:00pm. Cape May, New Jersey.Shopping List for our...

Jul 7th

Photos from Cape May. It’s pretty funny if you play...

Jul 7th

Sunday, 5:00pm. Cape May, New Jersey. I spent my weekend in...

Jul 7th

Friday, 7:00am. Cape May, New Jersey. Spending my weekend in...

Jul 5th

Friday, 7:00pm. East Village, New York City. We made a pit...

Jul 3rd

Want: Apple (or Pear) Sticky Notes

Buy them individually or buy them in sets…I mean “crates”. (via MoCoLoco)

Jul 2nd

Link Casserole

He Took A Polaroid Everyday is a polaroid site by Jamie Livingston’s friends (via Mental...

Jul 2nd

Happy Birthday Walkman!

Because it turned 30 years old. I remember when the Discman was all the rage in 5th grade, and...

Jul 1st

“Dis-moi qui tu hantes, je te dirai qui tu es.”

Jul 1st