Happy Tuesday xoxo

Everything you needed to know about the Bronx but were afraid to ask.

A little bit of bacon

A little banana

Third course: plantains

Green papaya salad

Arcane dinner tasting

Absinthe round three

Absinthe afternoon

My local Starbucks is bilingual

Roar!

I used to have a car

why not make me the transportation secretary?

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Patrick Bateman will kill Broadway

American Psycho: now a musical. I hope there's a three-feet thick cameo from HL & the N.

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Sleeping beauties

Franklin reminds me to do laundry

Bagels are bugels in the LES

Vodka tonic, where have you been all night?

Oh, that's right. Right here.

The future of video gaming is browser-based

or so they say at web 2.0

Franklin gets baby-slapped

Ninja cat on the job

2 trains, 1 bus, 4 flights of stairs

and a whole lot of rum later, my chair is home.

My chair rides the bus

My chair waits for the bus

My chair transfers trains

My orphan chair rides the train

Morbid

Get your free arthritis meds here!

...and I'm the one who's been drinking

The day is beautiful

Out on the water

the coffee saga continues

Continuing with my daily struggle for good coffee (overpriced or not), a coworker and I went out this morning to get coffee. We walked to the second closest Starbucks (I am boycotting the closest Starbucks because the people who work there are jerks). The line wrapped out the door. Not excited about waiting on that, we decided to get line-free cart coffee from the street vendor parked outside of Starbucks, a bargain at $1. It could be stronger, my coworker said, but it's pretty good. Not bad, I replied. Not bad at all. And we walked back to work, where I planned to enjoy my coffee for the rest of the morning.

Until another coworker asked me if I wanted to get coffee and I explained that I just bought some from the cart outside.

"eww--you bought cart coffee?" he asked in horror.

"not the cart outside the building; the one down the street," I clarified.

"right. that disgusting, filthy cart coffee that they fill up with a garden hose? filthy. you are much too upscale for cart coffee. that's disgusting." And he walked away.

Of course NOW my coffee is totally fucking ruined and doesn't taste nearly as magical as it did ten minutes ago.

thinking today

Walking through Grand Central at 9:04 this morning, we were asked to have a moment of silence in remembrance for the lives that were lost. Nobody stopped talking though. I thought about being that crazy woman who orders that everyone stops moving and shows some fucking respect but I was pretty sure that wouldn't sit well with the police presence (who were observing the moment of silence). And as these thoughts passed through my head, I realized that I was walking too.

Creepy mannequin hand

They major in careers

but not copyediting.

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McCain camp confused by Campbell Brown

Hell is round the corner