December 2007
19 posts
Outta here!
Just filed my story for Wednesday. I’m not a big New Year’s person but there’s something so sad about being in the office on New Year’s Eve, which is why I’m leaving right this second.
It's 6:38 p.m. and I'm still at the office
The Observer stops for no man. Or new year.
The more you know about your daily mid-afternoon...
A tall soy chai latte from Starbucks has 170 calories, 2 grams of fat, 65 mg of sodium, 1 gram of fiber, 32 grams of sugar (eek), and 75 mg of caffeine. That’s not HORRIBLE but I should probably switch to green tea.
Flipping and flopping into obscurity
I almost can’t believe that Conde Nast hasn’t pulled the plug on Flip, their horribly misguided effort at targeting teen girls online, yet. It seems obvious that no one is using it. In the “most viewed” tab on the homepage, the most popular flipbook (a staff-made one about Lauren Conrad) has 4627 views. Not too impressive!
Now it's really over
After today, everyone I worked with at Gawker will be gone.
The Q Train, 10:15 a.m.
This morning the subway was practically empty because most people don’t have to work today. Sadly, I do. This is who was in my immediate range of vision on the train this morning: 1. To my right, a father and son. The father probably weighed about 300 pounds and the son (who looked to be about 13) seemed to be well on his way there. They were sharing a muffin and both of them were spewing...
“But steering clear of the enemy in Hollywood is not easy. In a...”
– Awkward Encounters in the Hollywood Trenches - New York Times
Belated CD Discoveries, Part II
Wow! How could I have slept on this Dave Fischoff album (Secretly Canadian, Nov. 21, 2006) for so long! It’s super!
Belated CD Discoveries, Part I
This Amy Millan CD (Arts & Crafts, June 12, 2006) is great!
Dusting off the past makes me sneeze
I was feeling restless this afternoon, so I took out the vacuum cleaner (see below) and vacuumed the living room, and then I decided that the time had come to go through the CDs that live under my desk. They’ve been sitting in dusty, precarious piles since I moved here, and as I’ve gotten more I’ve just added to the piles, mostly because some PR agencies and record labels still...
Super furry animal
Emptying my vacuum cleaner filter is one of the grosser activities of life. HOW DOES ONE ANIMAL GENERATE SO MUCH HAIR. I love Lee but sometimes I wish she were bald.
1 tag
And... we're done
Doree: TAKE THAT, GIANTS!
Koblin: :(
Koblin: oy
Koblin: haha
Doree: whee!
Poker? I didn't even know her
We are trying to figure out if Sam just won $30,000 on a scratch-off poker game. That would be kind of awesome.
Overdue (no pun intended) thoughts on Juno
Sam and I saw Juno today. I liked it more than he did but I realized that one thing that annoyed me was Jennifer Garner’s relationship with Jason Bateman hewed to that same old tired Judd Apatow-ish trope: uptight, perfectionist woman somewhat inexplicably with the cool, funny musician guy. When are we going to get the movie where the chick is the one who sits around and gets stoned all day...
WatchShe’s also part bunny.
