Tire tracks, again....
Road Rash
Fall's Biggest Decision
I've known what I want to be for Halloween for awhile now. I will post my costume later (hint: it's not Lady Gaga. I've come to terms with the fact that I am not meant to wear a leotard).
Since that's decided, I've been giving others bad advice about what they should be for Halloween. I told one friend it would be brilliant if he went as Mankini from E!'s "The Soup."
"Who?" he said. I explained:
image from eonline.com
"Just a dude who wears a bikini top, hence 'Mankini.'"
"No, I don't really want to do that," he demurred.
"It's a great idea," I said. "Be Mankini!!!!!!"
My friend Emily is doing an internship at a nursing home, and she said she has to wear a Halloween costume to work. "I need to be something that old people will think is cute," she said.
Thought about it for awhile.
"How about.....the Grim Reaper?"
Quoted Vol. 5
"In other words, Anthropologie is a world populated by women who want to be the actress Zooey Deschanel -- bangs, wide eyes, fresh flowers in their bicycle baskets, their beds spread with bird-motif sheets, and an artisanal bun always in their oven." - Hank Stuever, "Man Shops Globe: An Inventory of Malarky," The Washington Post
Donut Day Redux
I think next time it is my turn to bring in the donuts on Donut Day at work, I will just bring this in:
Giant Donut Made Out of Felt for sale at the Crafty Bastards Street Fair in DC
More Stuff to Buy For Dogs
Do you think it is cruel to make your dog wear one of these vests?
Source:FunStuffForDogs
Just wondering because I saw a woman walking a vest-wearing dog and I thought it was a little unfair. "I don't feel like using a purse today, so Fido, you are going to carry all my valuables. Hope that's cool."
Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
It's hard being friends with a saint. Let's say you agreed to meet in front of Comet Ping Pong to go to a record fair at 1:30 p.m. Time goes by, and soon it's 1:40, 1:55, and you start to wonder what's up. Turns out your friend had a met a homeless person who asked her for money, and she responded by buying him lunch and they are eating in the Chinese restaurant across the street. So you walk over to meet her, and she says, "Take a seat. This is Andre, he's been telling me stories about how he wants to be a mortician."
I'm a Christian and I try to be a kind person, which for me means being friendly with cashiers, maybe helping someone on crutches with a broken foot open a door, etc. Nothing that takes me out of my comfort zone too much. But my friend Serena sees the humanity in everyone and can strike up a conversation with anyone, without artifice or pretense. She goes out of her way to help people. I think that is inspiring. It's the radical version of Christianity that Jesus taught.
Anyway, the record sale! I'm sure you were wondering about that. Lots of cool music geeks pouring over crates - not sure what they are looking for specifically, but they were hard at work.
Some little girls were playing ping pong outside and I heard a snippet of their conversation. "Those things in there are called records. Not CDs," one girl said sagely as the others nodded. "And the music that is playing? They're playing it on records."
