February 2010
1 post
Tumblr ToDo
I fully realize how stupid this is, but it’s worked in the past. So here is my new tumblr todo. And boy do I need it right now, as I’ve relapsed like a motherfucker in more ways than one.
1. Stop with the stupid ass smoking
2. back to running 50+ miles a week
3. the one thing I need to do. focus like a lunatic on this
4. avoid “entanglements” at all costs
January 2010
3 posts
note to self
32nd birthday would be nice to spend as such:
room at the chelsea
moma in the morning/early afternoon
out to brooklyn to apc warehouse store
dinner somewhere awesome
literary drinks tour (algonquin, white horse, chumleys)
?????????
Well Holy Shit
So I wrote this last year:
quit smoking for real. have three left, it’s enough of this shit.
run marathon - qualify for boston
get back in school
start writing a lot again (class starts 2/5)
find a healthy relationship, excepting that be good with being alone
I didn’t think of them as resolutions at the time, but looking back, they kinda were. Taking stock now, I had a pretty...
December 2009
1 post
Jesus Christ I'm Funny
me: indeed. wow. have you seen idiocracy?
autumnashby: YES!
me: ok, you know the montage where the stupid people procreate like crazy?
autumnashby: Yes.
me: so i'm looking at this wedding from this dood who i went to hs with on the old facebook and it's clearly taking place in some sort of firehall or vfw and i know he's already got like two kids, and this broad he's marrying has a couple and to look at the two of them you'd be shocked to learn that either of them breathe through their noses with ease and i start to realize, looking at this wedding, as a barren, single fella in his 30's, that it's sorta like watching that montage....in real time
autumnashby: LOL
October 2009
3 posts
Hmm. Really must start tumbling more. Maybe it’s time for a(nother) proper blog.
September 2009
5 posts
so emo
since i’m feeling very emo lately, i’ve decided to channel my white boy man pain into a really bad idea. that really bad idea being rap. i’m going to sample the whitest songs i can find and rap in the least rhythmic drone possible about how much my heart hurts. first up, a song sampling the beginning of this song:
doesn’t get much whiter than that.
July 2009
1 post
me: explain to me again how twilight vampires can go in the sun?
Sent at 2: 55 PM on Thursday
Colleen: the can go in
but
wait for it
they sparkle
and it would give away their secret
me: but they're vampires
Colleen: so?
me: VAMPIRES CAN'T GO IN THE FUCKIN SUN
Colleen: silly greg
me: it's like rule 1, maybe 2 after drinking blood
Colleen: that's just a myth
me: i'm tumbling this, as proof to my unborn, never to be born children that i did not get down with this shit when it was popular, and that i was a vampire purist...should the topic ever arise
June 2009
1 post
Free Books (for facebook)
FREE BOOKS In, what will no doubt be a fruitless effort, to declutter my life a bit, I’m getting rid of some books. I’m way too lazy to be bothered with selling or trading them, and I hate to think of them gathering dust in a charity shop. As such, I’m offering them here on the old facebook before I cart them off.
Take a look at the list and email me if you want anything....
March 2009
5 posts
wheeeee
my vintage x-ray illuminator ($9.99 on ebay, thank ya very much) arrived. i turned it on tonight and it gives off this completely awesome, disconcerting light. took some photos in front of it and i think they came out well:
...
don’t really have anything to update with right now…but my girlfriend’s leaving in a month, so there should be a flood of whiney self-pitying posts on the horizon…misery yay! here’s a dumb picture i took:
b/c i haven't updated in a while
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
16 posts
Today's Yelp Sentence
That makes me want to grab one of those big strollers the daycare in my building uses to move lots of tots around in and lit that bitch on fire, take my shirt off and run screaming into the front of an oncoming SEPTA bus:
Well what can I say about this place that hasn’t been covered by everyone so far. We Elite Yelpers invaded after the event at Area 919.
“Things do not change; we change.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Redacted Conversation
me: i'm ___ __ __er
Colleen: ___?
of course ___ ___
____ you will _______
i'm ___ ____ ____ ______ ____ ___ _______ fucking ____ ___
me: uggh
_ ______ want to __
i ____ i ___ __ be ____ ___
Colleen: _ ____
suckss__
I'm Not
Going to write about it here. Well ok, except for this, because this is obviously about it. But, after this I’m not going to write about it…unless I’m drunk. In which case, I’ll probably just delete it. I know you’re coming here. I’m not sure what you’re looking for. You have to know I still hate you. You have to know that maybe I always will in...
Today's Yelp Review Sentence
That makes me want to hurt myself, other people, kittens and babies:
I’m not a very knowledgeable foodie, but I know when a meal is amazing. It helped that all the foodies I was with
Smoking and Reading Update
Smoking - it’s going, over physical cravings, still having habitual cravings.
Reading - holidays totally messed up my schedule. But, I’m back on track now. Finishing up Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, started Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End. I’ll probably wrap up the invisible man when I’m done with Koestler…Not sure what’s after...
Day 4 Chapter 17 Vol 93 or whatever
Oh sweet merciful christ, I would step on _______ (insert beloved relative’s name here)’s face to get to a cigarette right now.
The cravings are pretty infrequent, but they’re strong like bull when they come on. Happy thoughts, happy happy thoughts.
Day 1 Vol. 8
Ok. So i’m trying again. Quitting smoking, that is. Cold turkey as usual, using running as my primary motivation. So it’s day one. Day one is actually the easiest. The cravings are so specific and intense that getting through them gives you immediate satisfaction that is almost on par with smoking a cigarette. It’s the cravings on like day three or four that trip me...
forgot one
6. convince myself i can live without something i know i need to let go.
So this is the new year.....
i don’t have any profound thoughts for the new year. i have goals, that i need to accomplish and things i need to do. it’s time to get my shit in gear, figure out my life. think i’m headed down the right path, know i have to do what i’ve always wanted to do. so…on with the resolutions…err goals:
quit smoking for real. have three left, it’s enough of...
December 2008
15 posts
Just in Case
Anyone wants to fulfill my christmas wishes, i’ll take one of these in a large. k thx bai.
buy me one goddaaaaammmiiitttttt
It's Sad
Really. As someone who has been nothing but blessed, never really known hardship of any kind, never experienced tragedy, never truly lacked anything I needed and never lost anyone I cared about…that I have such a bleak outlook on life and humanity is just sad. Ok, it’s downright pathetic.
Life Goal Numero Dos
Figure out a way to make my office something along the lines of Independents Hall or a fucking coffee shop. Or a classroom.
Life Goal Numero Uno
Do something big. Make enough money to live as a crabby old man here:
image courtesy of tonino62
Places I want to Run:
Iceland - will check this off in Feb.
Across the Brooklyn Bridge
more to come….
me: it's more of a pyschosomatic thing
it just kinda "feels" like it'll pop off if i let it loll too far forward
book update
k, i finally finished on the road.
started “man gone down” love it so far, should definitely be on track to finish it within the week. had a bunch of thoughts how i inexplicably identified with the protaganist and such, but i got zero sleep last night and don’t feel like expounding upon them :(
