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the ways things are

Posted by tripp 30 Aug 2010

I’ve realized exactly what gets my goat. (Not every little niggling thing, but the bug thing that I can’t seem to wrap my head around). It goes like this:

We have traded quality for quantity in the 21st century.

I want to use the money I make and the time I have to improve the quality of my life: the food I eat, the experiences I have, the interactions I have with others.

Instead, I find that my options are to sign onto X-Box or go to the movies or drink in a bar. I’ve been ruminating on this for weeks with a decent amount of frustration and anger.

I don’t want Ikea furniture and plastic-made crap in my apartment. I want open windows and wood and a garden. It’s the future, right now.

I’m clearly doing something wrong here. And it’s solvable. But even once that’s solved, my question remains: how have we reached this point as a culture? How is it that we don’t all have amazing lives, every day? That we aren’t using money and technology to make life more fun? Instead, we have TMZ and Starbucks.

I’m not trying to be cynical here, this is a real question. What can we do to improve the situation? What can I do?

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‘the great affair is to move’

Posted by petunia 18 Jul 2010

i need to get out of heeeeere.  here my house, here this city, here this state.  surely as a result of being homebound for a week and a half now, my wanderlust has turned into something fierce.  tomorrow morning i have what should be the last post-op appointment with my surgeon, and if he greenlights me to return to normal, mobile life, i want to get the F out of dodge.

i miss new yooooork (sorry, everything today sounds like a whine).  why do i feel like the city is like the one who got away for me?  i’m still crushing and loving.  i’m so tempted to drop the doggies off with einar and ship myself north in a greyhound on, like tuesday.  and maybe i will.  until sunday, at least, when i will head to richmond for a work-ish conference.  i am honestly far more excited to check into the wyndham virginia crossings for four days than i am to work on an SOL test review committee, but i’ll take what i can get.

i love hotels.  i think i’d probably be happy checking into a nice hotel in the middle of nowhere, as long as it was a nice place in which someone would come make my bed for me every morning.

have i pontificated recently on my love of the DVR?  in my infirm state recently i have managed to enjoy a thousand hours of stored up television from the last 6 months.  i adore stockpiling a whole season of episodes of just about anything and then consuming them in an unhealthy binge.  i am coming close to scraping the bottle of the barrel though now, i’m afraid.  about to begin work of art: the next great artist, which will put to the test my love of the top chef/model/runway/haircutting/dogstyling format for reality shows.   v. curious how artists will be pushed to create art within limited time constraints, and then be judged.  predicting either a serious hatred for this or a big time new guilty pleasure.

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‘days plural went past like a stampede’

Posted by petunia 15 Jul 2010

a facebook friend (isn’t that a funny distinction these days?) posted a flyer on his wall that’s straight 1991, swirly faceless dancer, euro-bubbly font with no caps, dj in lower right corner with one headphone off his ear.  no cartoons or cute things though.  i suppose that there will always be places in the world where rave-type flyers are seen as stylish and cutting edge.  i remember carter collecting them what seems like 2 or 3 lifetimes ago, and using them to decorate…something, maybe dorm room her sophomore year?  whatever the year of the astroturf was.

a friend-friend (felt the need to distinguish) wondered this week if i have a fear of intimacy.  i rolled that around in my brain for awhile like a marble and decided it’s not a fear so much as feeling like i don’t even want to bother.  disdain is slightly to strong of a word.  maybe apathy.  an apathy for intimacy.  i like the sound of that; i should copyright it now.

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best graph ever

Posted by tripp 20 May 2009

from indexed: Thank you for being a friend.

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‘that guy’s being awfully forward with that donkey’

Posted by petunia 19 Jul 2008

as todd sat watching “clerks 2″ on demand this afternoon, i had a lightbulb epiphany as i finally figured out who rosario dawson reminds me of. DW from the arthur books. discuss.

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Baron Cohen prepares for comic take on Sherlock Holmes

Posted by tripp 16 Jul 2008

Baron Cohen prepares for comic take on Sherlock Holmes.

let’s be frank: kottke beat me to this, as did rex and everyone else, but mf — this is stupid. agree, disgree?

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the nerds have won

Posted by tripp 15 Jul 2008

with over a week to go, Comic-Con is sold out.

I don’t think this is actually surprising to anyone, after the attendance the last few years and the re-positioning of the con as a pop-culture event, as opposed to a comic book one. Still though, nicely done. I’m pretty glad I won’t have to navigate the crowds this year.

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