Sunday, July 18, 2010
Messing around at the (faux) Apple store
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
“Just remember, when your heart talks to you, take good notes.”
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Friday, June 11, 2010
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone there who can understand what we are saying, in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
“Essays in Love,” by Alain de Botton
“By forty, everyone has the face they deserve.”
George Orwell
Monday, June 7, 2010
“He was not happy with her, but he was unhappy away from her. He wanted to sit by her side and look at her, he wanted to touch her, he wanted… the thought came to him and he did not finish it, suddenly he grew wide awake… He wanted to kiss the thin pale mouth with its narrow lips. The truth came to him at last. He was in love with her. It was incredible… When she left him it was wretchedness, and when she came to him again, it was despair.”
“Of Human Bondage” by Somerset Maugham
Monday, May 31, 2010
“Simon took me to an Italian place in Marylebone and of course I was dazzled. I had never been to a proper restaurant before, only to tea rooms with my parents. I didn’t understand the menu, but I loved the big pepper grinders and the heavy cutlery, the crêpes suzettes and the champagne. I was also dazzled by Simon’s conversation. Again, I understood very little of it, partly because his accent was so strange, but also because it ranged across places and activities I could hardly imagine. My knowledge of the world was based on Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Brontes, and none of them had a word to say about living on a kibbutz or making Molotov cocktails. I felt I had nothing to bring to the conversational feast and blushed when Simon urged me to tell him about my schoolfriends, my teachers, my prize-winning essays. I didn’t realise then that my being a schoolgirl was a large part of my attraction.”
Lynn Barber on “An Education” that she received in her teen years.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
inothernews:
WOOFIN’ IT The first of the bi-yearly Noriwich Terrier Party held at the Alice in Wonderland statue just in Central Park on May 22. (Photo: Paul Quitoriano for The Wall Street Journal)
Clocked nearly 14 hours at work today.
Too… much… North Korea…
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
caterpillarcowboy:
snacky-snacky:
A new mobile coffee company just popped up. Looks like they might hail from Brooklyn as they’re making their public debut at McCarren Park this weekend. This is how they describe themselves:
“Kickstand is committed to providing the best possible cup of coffee to community events in NYC with the smallest environmental impact possible. We achieve this goal by using bikes not only for all of our transportation needs, but also for a portion of the power we use in brewing the coffee we serve. At Kickstand getting people outdoors and bringing them together over coffee is our primary goal.”
http://kickstandbrooklyn.com
Follow Kickstand on Twitter: @KickstandCoffee
