Carousel -- Week Ending 17th April 2009
[ 17 April 2009 ]
Man are Stupid, Women are Crazy by this guy Peter I met the other day. I thought this essay was reeeeeally interesting… what do you think?
Why I Love America by Inga Muscio!
Gwyneth Paltrow’s guide to New York. Sweet & charming.
My awesome friend Eden wrote about her infatuation with homo thugs the other day. & I liked it. Yes I did.
Nubby asks, What is Your Definite Major Purpose?
NYU Student Conducts Most Adorable Robot Experiment Ever thereby proving how totally awesome New Yorkers are.
I love you Scarlett Johansson. Even more than I did before.
“I’m not normally the type to dignify toilet paper rags with a response, but in this case I feel it’s my responsibility to comment.
The AstroTwins now have a blog where they write about astrology as it relates to celebrities & current events. Good times!
Fashionising reports on lingerie as outerwear as a trend. But if you’ve been reading for a while, you already knew that. Hee.
Remember how I said last week that my friend Jordon was photo-documenting the Atmosphere tour? He’s still doing it & his photos rule. I like this one & this one plenty. He is good, no? He also started blogging about it, you can read about the madness here at Promises To Keep, Miles To Go Before I Sleep. &!!! It was his birthday the other day. So show him some love!
Dhrumil is the business. The other day on Twitter he said… “Kinda funny how the “FML” saying has taken off. One thing is for sure, negativity does connect people, but only in the most superficial way. FML = “Hey, you think your life is crazy/bad/rough… check MY life out. I can top you!”“ Then he directed my attention to L My Life. SO GOOD. Look!
Today, some Jehovah’s witnesses came to my house. I hate being bothered by them, so I decided to have some fun and invited them in to some tea and brownies. I had just baked the brownies by my special recipe – with lots of weed. We chatted for about half an hour and they left. About an hour later, I went out to the store. On my way, I saw the three of them laying on a bench and laughing at the sky.
Exploring the Style Behind ‘Grey Gardens’ from The New York Times.
Five Rules For Life is totally excellent & you should submit something! (I like Terry Shannon‘s especially!)
Reinventing Date Night For Long-Married Couples is about how to keep a long-term relationship fresh. Makes sense… & this is old, but still relevant: For Couples, Reaction to Good News Matters More Than Reaction to Bad.
Trust Me. You’ll Look Cool In This. is a piece about TopShop’s style advisers.
Hoop Creatures Invade Sydney’s Customs House! Best photos! MMMMM, colour!
Steve Pavlina makes some great points in The Joy of Solving Problems.
One of the reasons I’m doing well financially today is that I solved the problem of being broke about 10 years ago. It was definitely not an easy problem to solve. I had to go through a lot of difficult intermediate steps to become strong enough to solve it. I made many adjustments to my attitude. By lifting those weights, I grew stronger mentally, and my finances soon followed.
Consequently, I know that if I ever found myself broke at some point in the future, I could solve that problem again, probably much more quickly than I did the first time. Even though I have more to lose these days from a financial perspective, I don’t fear losing it. I know I have the strength to bounce back. My real gain wasn’t money. My real gains were inner strength, knowledge, and skill.
Finally, Soundset happens next month & you should consider going. The line-up is incredible! I am most stoked about seeing The Pharcyde (!!!), Cunninlynguists (!!!), Immortal Technique (!!!), MF Doom, P.O.S., Blueprint, Blue Scholars, & Atmosphere. Uh huh.
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Gala there is soo much to read this week!!
I looooooooove Tweenbot! Saw that article this morning having clicked through from a Flavorpill newsletter. Hilarious! And adorable. Hope lives!
Awww, these will be perfect for staying in bed all tomorrow morning and reading. :>
Forgive me for lacking a sense of humour, but a guy giving people food laced with drugs because they were annoying him? Not really all that funny. I’m all for celebrating what’s awesome about our lives, but that anecdote didn’t strike me as something to be celebrated.
Lovin that cute lil robot :-D
Many thanks for the mention, Gala. When will I get your “Five Rules”? I would love to have them!
:)
Regards,
Jon
www.FiveRulesForLife.com
Interesting piece about Topshop mania…Gosh, it made me feel claustrophobic…they sound evil!!
Five Rules For Life is so amazing and inspiring! I really love it. :)
I SO wanna go to Soundset. SO much. Shame my next travel plans are for 2010, hittin Canada & Alaska, to coincide with SXSW! ;) Ahhh welllll… Pode sonhar!
“Man are Stupid, Women are Crazy”
I love the title of this, since I’ve been saying that exact phrase for years when I’m feeling extraordinarily bitter about my exes.
Oh wow, I am just tired enough to put down my awesome last name in then name section. Hey, Gala, do you think you could edit that out?
I adore Inga Muscio, for real! I read Cunt back in high school, and it probably changed my life. I’m so glad you included that link to her essay! I highly recommend Cunt to anyone who hasn’t read it. I think it falls into that “punkass feminism” category that I love so much.
JD Andre — I’ll see what I can do!
Savannah — No sweat baby :>
Mary — I love her too! Her book didn’t shake me up the way it did some people, but I think that’s probably because by the time I read it I had been exposed to a lot of very similar writing online years prior. It’s definitely a good one though!
I LOVED Nubby’s piece on Definite Major Purpose. So incisive and inspiring!
Five Rules is very inspirational. Great idea J.D.!
THANK YOU for the Scarlett Johanssen piece. I’m so, so glad she wrote that. Also, for the GOOP find! Female celebrities seem to be kicking ass this week! :)
Great Carousel, Gala! I LOVE tweenbot! What a gorgeous idea! In my experience living in NY so far, I have seen so many acts of kindness (many acts of indifference also), but surprisingly FEW acts of anger, unkindness, violence and general negativity. I’m SURE it’s there (and plenty of it), but not in this article and video.
I’m also grateful for the five rules blog! I just sent it to my sister who’s going through a difficult time. I’ll have to draw mine up and submit them. It’ll be a great way to start my new blog next week!
-Scarlett is my girl crush. It used to be Angelina (still is actually but Brad’s kind of got her now), but now it’s that little firecracker bombshell. Love that girl to death.
- Prince Paul, El-P, MF Doom, Immortal Technique! Um…that’s my dream hip-hop festival line-up. They’re just missing GZA and RZA of the Wu Tang Clan and Jean Grae.
- As a hustler of clothing, the Topshop style advisers piece actually carries over for most any clothing store. Just in my case we cater to the older crowd and they’re harder to sell to than twentysomethings. If I ever open my own store I want an army of style advisers. Style Assassins.
- And Inga Muscio’s “Why I Love America” captures all that I love about America too. It’s a mishmash cultural stew.
And yep, those New Yorkers are awesome. My boyfriend is a testament to that.
Aaaaahhhhh Soundset! I’m dying to go to this too!
How exciting you’ll be in MN.
the Mormon weed story made me spit out my tea with laughter.
Immortal Technique is BORING live. Oh my days, for real, not good.
That being said, the rest of the line up is bananas. All 4 members of Pharcyde coming back together? DREAMS ARE MADE OF THAT.
Abjekt — REALLY. I wouldn’t have guessed that. I am secretly probably most excited about Cunninlynguists. CAN’T WAIT OH MY GOD.
i LOVE tweenbots! i really want to see one for myself one day in washington square park, haha.
The act of giving an unaware subject food laced with drugs totally trumps the humor of the image. I find the act cowardly, appalling and pathetic.
I also found the problem solving article by Steve Pavlina quite inspiring, good job spreading the world! Also a fan of lingerie as outerware :) Quite amazing
thank you for the support, gala!
Gala – I look forward to it!
Thanks for the positive feedback everyone. I invite you all to submit your “Five Rules”.
Regards,
Jon
www.FiveRulesForLife.com
luvd this week: Why I Love America by Inga la Gringa, Nubby’s post, how you say people are “the business”, the brownies-haha, Five Rules for Life and The Joy of Solving Problems!
These totally made my night. iCiNG is the business:)
Sharon’s comment that
“The act of giving an unaware subject food laced with drugs totally trumps the humor of the image. I find the act cowardly, appalling and pathetic.”
should be supplemented with the point that it’s most likely a pretty serious crime, depending on where you are. It’s basically poisoning someone.
Five Rules for Life made my day. Thanks for the link! :)
This week is the best collection of articles you’ve ever had. It’s like a gigantic melting pot of inspiration and happiness. I totally haven’t been into the whole negativity of “FML” so I’m glad you’ve posted L My Life. There was a “Superjail!” episode (really bizarre show on Adult Swim during the early, early morning) that was all about not being a “negaton.” (negatons = negative people, of course) I mean, I guess the episode was supposed to be satirizing Scientology, but I’m tired of NEGATONS! wow, I really need to stop commenting on your posts on Fridays after a few drinks.
in response to my OWN comment: Of course, “negaton” is a valid physics word, too- not just a term for buzzkills. also, I am going to bed now.
Thanks for spying our invasion on the Sydney space Gala, it was too much fun!
Love all the other goodies you offered up this week! YUM!
“Reinventing date night..” is a helpful read, thanks!
Also, Scarlet is a writer? I had no idea, but she’s good! I’ve had a major girl crush on her since HJNTIY :)
Thanks for introducing me to lmylife.com. I was finding all the FML’s popping up everywhere (especially on Facebook) irritating. LML is a much better alternative, I say!