Happy Birthday ta-ta-ta-traaacy!

happy birthday ta-ta-ta-traaacy! now we've known each other for 12 years!

Is Jay-Z an occultist?

Word?!

The Tyranny of Tabs

I hate hyperlinks.

Any hyperlink embedded into articles I'm reading, I'm always compelled to open it in a new tab. Read the next article, and then there are more links and more tabs are opened.  In five minutes, I'm swamped with dozens of tabs in one browser.

It's annoying. Before I know it, I will have wasted hours after just trying to read a few articles.

It gets worse if you're part of any social networking site. There's suggested links, twitpics, youtube videos, etc. 

And so, my friends, I give you "The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions." (via swissmiss).

"You lie!" + Kanye outburst

Seriously, watching this made me laugh for the first time today.

Repeat Assault: India Arie

I went to the John Legend concert last night, t'was AWESOME! I got to Estelle perform "No Other Love" with him too.

But the cherry on top was India Arie. That girl sang her ass off---so frikkin talented, inspirational, moving, and enchanting.

And now I can't stop listening to her song "Therapy." (BTW, "Ready for Love" is one of my favorite songs of all-time, and hearing it love was A-MAZING and hauntingly beautiful. Her mom came out and sang the last few lines of it too.) You have to applaud her for lyrical talent--who else can use the word "overpopulation" in a song?

Repeat Assault: Merry Happy - Kate Nash

"I can be alone, I can watch a sunset on my own."



One of my favorite songs and lyrics.

What Would Barry Goldwater Do?

I'm all over Goldwater these days. Don't be shocked if you catch me talking like a retired, former Senator from Arizona.

via the Washington Post archives, Goldwater had this to say about then-first lady Hillary Clinton in 1994:

On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: "If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe."

Can you imagine Goldwater cheering her on with the rest of the Traveling Pantsuits?

Is ennui inevitable in every relationship?

Can two people really love and be "in love" with each other forever?

The only example of everlasting love I can think of is...

"Thanks for the adventure. Now go have one of your own."

awwwwww... that's Love.

Godmother extraordinaire

I have the best god-daughter in the world. She's the smartest and most mature 8-year-old I've ever met. And thanks to me, she knows how to spell paleontologist.

I just unearthed this great photo of the two of us bowling. She looks so happy. Ahhhh, to be a kid.

That's what she said.

I'm aware of my crassness.

Goodnight

The Second Coming

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats

BART: What's on your iPod when you're looking at the window?

For those lucky enough to get a seat on BART during your commute, what do you like to listen to while you gaze out the window?

Sometimes while I'm riding, in my head--where all the good stuff happens--I pretend I'm making a music video of the East Bay. You can find similar projects on YouTube, so I know I'm not crazy.

Presently, I'm romanticizing the commute with these:

1) Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

2) Hometown Glory - Adele

3) Summertime - Nina Simone

4) Sideways - Let's Go Sailing

5) Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie