Sirens have nothing on my song.

So long...

2009-07-23T00:23:33Z

In case anyone missed it,

I don't write here anymore. I have a different blog now.
I just use this to keep up with friends and communities.

One of the more accurate Overheard NYC

2009-07-23T00:21:46Z

Guy: That's the new American dream--fuck up your life so much that you get your own tv show.

-- Battery Park

Home

2009-07-01T03:12:13Z

Teacher, looking at photo: Ahhh, was this taken in Russia?
Student: No, that's Coney Island.

--Stuyvesant High School

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The Two Kinds Of New Yorkers: Encapsulated.

Thin 20-something: Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Heavier friend: Unless you melt some mozzarella on it!

--BBQ, The Bronx

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2009-04-22T16:52:34Z

Apt. hunting in the city really bummed out my morning.
I found a few good things to do there, but I don't want to return.
Hopefully one of the DC programs accepts me. Apt. hunting there will be even worse.

Boo on all that.

Overheard for a friend...

2009-04-22T03:50:44Z

Genetics and evolution teacher: So as you can see, something like, say, a mermaid, couldn't possibly exist.
Student: God fucking dammit!

--The Beacon School

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Girl #1: Oh my god! That condom wrapper says "oriental flavor." What does that even mean?
Girl #2, looking at litter: I think that's a Ramon noodle seasoning pouch.

--Central Park

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The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Narwhals/

For Rita With Love by Pat Ingoldsby

2009-01-21T17:30:30Z

You came home from school
on a special bus
full of people
who look like you
and love like you
and you met me
for the first time
and you loved me.
You love everybody
so much that it's not safe
to let you out alone.
Eleven years of love
and trust and time for you to learn
that you can't go on loving like this.
Unless you are stopped
you will embrace every person you see.
Normal people don't do that.
Some Normal people will hurt you
very badly because you do.

Cripples don't look nice
but you embrace them.
You kissed a wino on the bus
and he broke down and cried
and he said 'Nobody has kissed me
for the last 30 years.
But you did.
You touched my face
with your fingers and said
'I like you.'

The world will never
be ready for you.
Your way is right
and the world will never be ready. We could learn everything
that we need to know
by watching you
going to your special school
in your special bus
full of people
who look like you
and love like you
and it's not safe
to let you out alone.
If you're not normal
there is very little hope
for the rest of us.

Reality by Rabia al Basri

2009-01-19T14:06:09Z

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

- Rabia al Basri

Banned Commercial

2009-01-16T14:54:54Z

I still wouldn't watch it at work...

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There's no place like home

2008-12-04T13:53:04Z

Turkey day...

2008-11-30T20:47:29Z

Good god, I hate holidays.

Bah, humbug.