December 2010
10 posts
What honesty looks like in practice
[A guy and a girl have been having a conversation at a party for about 15 minutes when the guy’s friend comes over and says how they should probably take off for this art opening]
Him: So, do you think I could get your number?
Her: Sure. But just so you know I have a boyfriend.
Him: Oh, really? [Takes out his phone.] That’s okay.
Her: I mean, I didn’t mean to suggest that was...
TRUE STORY
manabouttown:
“Dragan climbed on the jumping board, told me to hold his beer and simply ran to jump. There was no time for me to react or to try to stop him, he just went for it” says Milovan.
“Dragan jumped high and plunged down to the sea, but didn’t make as much splash as we thought he would,” explained Milovan.
The reason could be because DRAGAN STEVIC ENDED UP JUMPING STRAIGHT ON THE...
I have this theory
A few years ago there was this two week period when I ran into my friend’s little brother all the time. First it was on the Upper West Side, a few days later it was in Brooklyn, a week after that it was on the subway on the East Side. Each time it happened we’d say a brief hello before going on with our day. Until the time we ran into each other on Canal Street. We just walked right up...
WTF
“Today, another group says they’ve found something else in the echo of the Big Bang. These guys start with a different model of the universe called eternal inflation. In this way of thinking, the universe we see is merely a bubble in a much larger cosmos. This cosmos is filled with other bubbles, all of which are other universes where the laws of physics may be dramatically...
Merry Christmas
Just fyi, everyone. Mirabelle cannot walk past those sidewalk displays of Christmas wreaths for sale without trying to piss on at least one of them.
A true thing that really happened
I had been standing in line to get a drink when a guy in a suit struck up a conversation with me. We were at an event and I was working, but I had nothing to do at that moment so didn’t mind the company, especially because I was feeling a bit low. It had been a hard day, I hadn’t had time to eat dinner, and on top of that most everyone there seemed so rich it made me feel poor. There...
One of these art projects is better than the other
I wish this guy
Could be more like this guy
Pleasure>Irritation
Biking irritation: When two cabs in a row honk at you even though you are in a freaking bike lane and besides not blocking their way whatsoever.
Biking pleasure: When those same cabs, stuck in a succession of red lights, get left in your dust.
Milestones
Yesterday I ran into a guy who was the year below me in high school who is now a state senator. But not only that, “Where do you live?” he asked me, which I thought was reasonable enough until I remembered that politicians ask these things for different reasons than the rest of us. Because when I told him he came back with this: “So you’re in my district.” In other...