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Just ate so much I think I wanna die

Sunday, November 22nd 2009 10:31pm

Just ate so much I think I wanna die

Sunday, November 22nd 2009 10:30pm

THE BAZAAR® at SLS by Jose Andres

Dinner Tonight: The Bazaar by Jose Andres.

HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS I am so excited. We’ll probably go with the chef’s tasting menu: I’m debating whether to buy a bottle of wine when we get there or just enjoy a cocktail with our meal.

SO EXCITED

(No special occasion…just celebrating life, good food, and our recent successes at work. Also, it makes me LOL when Kevin says stuff like “And WHY didn’t you tell me how much this was going to cost when you made reservations??” I just LAUGH and laugh and laugh and say something about how Andres charges by the molecule!)

Sunday, November 22nd 2009 1:33pm

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kapi:

It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City — Bruce Springsteen

Probably one of the most overlooked and underrated Springsteen songs, and one of my favourites. If I were to ever get a tattoo, it would have a line from this song in it.

I was listening to this just yesterday and thinking “man, if people only KNEW”

Sunday, November 22nd 2009 11:23am

The East Side of Los Angeles on a Sunny Day (via Vimeo)

PRETTY! Gotta love tilt-shift effects.

Saturday, November 21st 2009 3:30pm

Workin’ on a Saturday!!!

‘Scool…we’re just chillin, painting our nails orange, sitting in the sunshine, and representing a little East Coast flavor. It’d practically be a party back here if there weren’t a temp worker across from me calling in collections to delinquent students. SO FUN!!!

Saturday, November 21st 2009 3:24pm

legrand:

Mitch Hedberg’s Koala Bear Infestation.

Cutest infestation ever…let me hold one of you, and feed you a leaf.

Saturday, November 21st 2009 2:10pm

"Officers responded to the stampede of students and union workers by extending the metal barricades around the entrance and using nightsticks and Taser guns to force the crowd back. “The officer (in front of me) had a Taser gun with a loaded cartridge and a finger on the trigger,” said Richard Stevenson, a fifth-year political science and African American studies student. “Officers were moving the barriers with their legs, and they moved offensively.” Stevenson said that an officer hit him with a baton and tried to tase him. Other students also said they were tased and hit with batons by police. There were no reported injuries, according to university spokesman Phil Hampton."

The Daily Bruin | Protest of fee increase gets raucous at UCLA

RAUCOUS!!! Yeah, you heard right! Shenanigans going down in sunny Westwood. STILL wishing I was there right now.

Thursday, November 19th 2009 3:56pm

thisrecording:

the end of richard brautigan

Thursday, November 19th 2009 1:44pm

Dear Co-Worker:

THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE MAKES ME WANT TO DIE

Stop talking to adult women like they are SEVEN-YEAR-OLD children with MENTAL DISABILITIES. Stop saying “this is cut-and-dry, don’t worry about anything” about very complicated decisions regarding major investments of time and money.

And if you “laugh creepy” one more time I will THROW MYSELF OUT OF THIS FOURTH STORY WINDOW. It doesn’t sound like much, but trust me, I will not survive that fall.

Thursday, November 19th 2009 12:48pm

UCLA students seized control of Campbell Hall this morning and have barricaded the doors! Holy shit you guys! I really want to go down there today!

via www.latimes.com

Thursday, November 19th 2009 11:10am

Real Time Photo Capture/statistics related to this week’s low-fi GPOYW:

although you may not be able to detect it here, I am also currently:
sneezing 10x/min,
watching 10x/hr’s worth of “The Wire” youtube clips,
tearing the foil tops off of 2x/per person’s worth of Trader Joe’s “Indian Fare” microwavable/vegan meals,
blogging at rate of 3/hr red-wine-induced posts.
(Also wearing Herzog shirt at rate of hopefully 1/reblog-like per hour.)

Wednesday, November 18th 2009 9:22pm

balltillifall:

These Mondo Tee’s Director/Band series are pretty awesome.

Oh remind me about my GPOYW ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.

Wednesday, November 18th 2009 9:09pm

ianbroyles:

you could be miiiiiiiiiiiine, yeah!

I get this joke. I get it SO HARD.

Wednesday, November 18th 2009 7:13pm

Gen Y's main reason for travelling? So they can brag

jhnbrssndn:

abbyjean:

Generation Y and baby boomer travellers looking for a holiday “brag factor” are influencing a new shift towards weird and wonderful tourism experiences, a conference has heard. Accommodation entrepreneur Grant Hunt told the Global Eco Conference at Alice Springs yesterday that business had to start treating tourism as a “fashion brand”.

NO SHIT?

REMEMBER YOU GUYS that one time I went to Belize and I was like “OMG THIS IS THE BEST PLACE NOBODY’S EVER HEARD OF” and I came home and tried to make everybody all jealous because I had been somewhere awesome and ridden ponies and eaten conch shell meat and caved through some Mayan ruins and took a zip-lining tour and stuff??? YEAH I’M BETTER THAN YOU and have been for some years now. Just a reminderr.

Wednesday, November 18th 2009 5:26pm