Yeah,
I've changed the name of
this blog.
From .only living girl in new york.
(blah, others with the same name)
to
.i had seven faces.
I know it's a song line
from a band that isn't
cool
anymore
but the song works for me
and this blog.
My cat has an eating disorder.I was looking up a
crossword puzzle answer
(God, I am so addicted to them)
for Texas-New Mexico border river
when I found this
on Google maps.
(click for bigger image and look on Route 18)
Weird, right?
Seriously,
someone tell me what I have to do
to get a job.
Acing the interview apparently isn't enough.
I'm at my breaking point.
I just don't understand.
Burger King here I come.
I know it's
sooooo far away
but if you're in the area
go check out
Road to Freedom
and
After 1968
at the Bronx Museum.
It's only a few blocks from the
B/D
and you won't get shot
or mugged.
Promise.
It's amazing to see what people
sacrificed
to give us what we have now.
I've been on the subway
once
in the last 5 days.
I'm really proud of myself.
Especially because it was
fucking humid today.
And I jacked up my hair
and had to wear a hat.
Twas uncomfortable.
Leslie Buck, designer of one of the most recognizable pieces of New York iconography died.
He went to the big street side coffee cart in the sky.
I imagine it's like this.
The above picture
(take from SMKjr's Flickr - and has great street art photos)
is from a mural on Houston Street
which now changes on a regular basis (?)
by Shepard Fairey.
Who?
You know him, really.
You know this : OBEY
And you know this: HOPE
And in typical New Yorker fashion
people are bitching
and complaining
and general hating on Fairey.
I like him.
I like him a lot more after watching Exit Through the Gift Shop
(I seriously loved that movie)
I like his work.
He has a great visual aesthetic/language which has
evolved and grown with time.
(and he can be forgiven for going to RISD - the sworn enemy of the MICA student)
I didn't pay for the mural.
And even if I did,
even if it was taken out my taxes.
I'm all for good public art.
Most of the time it sucks,
this mural does not suck.
New York isn't exactly the most
beautiful city in the world.
What's wrong with a little
expression
and making the world a little less conventional?
Honestly,
this is the first time in
a really long time
I've been affected by a TV
advertisement.
But I love
the new Kotex ads
and it actually makes me want to buy
and support
a company that recognizes
how silly tampon advertisements are.
(they also have crazy-totally-wouldn't-fly-in-the-US ads in Australia)
Is it just me
or has anyone else
noticed the massive
increase
in pot themed
television programming
this year on this day from last?
I forgot to talk about this
before
but this is the reason
I've loved Dave Grohl
since I was 12.
Of course,
it did lead to
a very real hospitalization
due to a coffee overdose.
That's the way to go
coffee overdose.
Delicious heart failure.
Jeez,
made an update from
my phone
which disappeared.
Went something like this:
(11:30pm-ish)
Weird smell and
massive amounts of firetrucks
and ambulances.
Look out the window and see a
massive
cloud of black smoke
coming from a few blocks
north.
Hope no one got hurt.
Sad.
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UPDATE: The fire was massive and took over 250 firefighters from 60 departments all over the city to put out but lucky (amazingly) no one was hurt. Article with crazy pictures at the New York Times (no subscription needed to see it).
UPDATE 2: Gawker has a post with crazy video inside! And a rescued cat!
I've been in the
Upper East Side
a lot for interviews
and museums
and whatnots recently
(weird, right?)
and also in the Bronx
and there is no reasonable
explanation
of the 6 line.
What part of this:
makes sense
Especially when you're
on the train
and one goes every other stop
(not shown - not sure why)
while the other train
makes up those stops.
If all else fails in trying to
understand
this abomination
of a subway line
just read this
weekend service announcement
and try to make left
from right.
Here's the breakdown:
This is the baby seal
that lives on the Hudson
(ew, gross, I know)
I love it.
I want it to love me.
I wonder if it came from
San Francisco?
What part of no uptown train do you not understand? I know most of the signs are in Chinese and yes that's weird and frustrating but there are also signs in English and are posted all over the turnstiles that remind you NO UPTOWN TRAINS THIS WEEKEND!
I helped the young Russian couple because they were very, very confuse and as someone who has navigated international subway construction rerouting, I know it's very unsettling and sorta scary. But the rest of you have no excuse.
The guy said to me with his heavy accent, "So everyone here is waiting for a train that won't come?"
Yes sir, they are and unlike you they have no excuse.
Subway on weekends & at night = always fucked up. Always always always.
That's all. And hooray for mobile updating!
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Drunks giving
fellow drunks
directions to the best place
to grab
a cab.
At 10pm.
Gotta love New York.
