2008

Aug

My photo has been included in JPG Magazine’s outtakes for the Favorite Hangout category! You...

I’m running out of things to listen to at work. I lost my iPod a few months ago and can only...

I discovered Kyle Smith’s Slander and Treason column for the New York Post yesterday while...

Last night I had a dream that I met Wentworth Miller at some high school. Everyone kept following...

Watched My Blueberry Nights tonight. It was very...

Eric saw a doppelganger of my high school self at the last...

“I burn most of the things I own soon after buying them. Some...”
— Excerpt from a poem by Steve...

via yourpalmal I know it’s all in good fun, but this...

I haven’t listened to it since high school, but today I realized I miss LoveLine. I was...

One month until I’m 24 23 was a non-year. I kept forgetting how old I was, calculating...

(link) I think I’m going to make my way to Brighton...

(dsw) Saw these lovely trapeze artist pumps while shoe...

(link) from The Sartorialist

(English Russia) 1980’s photos of Russians I also...

(link) Photo by Reza Vaezpour

(BME) The first comment: “I have that mug! I stole it...

“‘Why don’t you find a female graduate student in...”
— From Margaret Atwood’s...

(link) Photo by Tricia Gosingtian

I can’t stop smiling when I look at this photo my mom...

(link) A 2007 photo of mine on JPG. It’s definitely...

(link) Photo by Daniel Gasienica Almost too clever, but I...

(link) Photo by Oliver Valle Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los...

(via planettampon) I miss this! I would totally pay $100...

Other things I have discovered about the...

- She’s Russian (I’m Ukrainian and speak Russian..) - She’s visiting DC right now...

I’m temping at a reception position today on Wall...

(link) Photo by Lucyna B.

“John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds...”
— #16 on “Funny Metaphors Used...

Organizing my room right now and found some x-rays of my...

Stoned. Gleeful. Sceptical. The aliens are coming?

After two months of unemployment, I finally finished my...

I’ve been hungry but without appetite for about a week. Finally, today, the appetite came...

Jul

There’s nothing like a 50 year-old goth/punk (“gunk”?) woman putting on liquid...

(link) A link to me on the guardian blog roll. Huh?

Interview with the very real Jack Handey on Fair Game with Faith Salie. Also, check out Live on Fair...

“I can see them at home evenings. Chaplin squatting grey and...”
— A brilliant quote from the ...

After being unemployed for months,

I finally have a temp job starting Monday and am officially signed up with two new agencies. What a...

Sat directly behind David Gordon Green at last night’s showing of Gravy Train at BAM. Never...

(link) Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I...

I just discovered that Netflix has three of the six (#2, 3,...

More kickass stills from a 1966 Batman movie at...

“We now have adult doctors and gynecologists”
— A sign I saw in an office...

Have been having a lot of dreams recently involving celebrities for some reason. The one last night...

Today I am filled with nausea.

“I’ll die if you touch me,” I said....

- from Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men...

(link) photo by Nicholas Haggard via Something Changed

Dear Zooey, I forgive you the Tin Man and The Happening. Just keep singing. Sincerely, kseniya

courtneyc: “The whole point of that aroma is not to flavor the food,” he said. “This is what...

Chuck Klosterman surveys his classroom of...

chainchewinggum: I love stories of people like Hetty Green...

Jun

FUN FACT: Au Bon Pain Co. owns Panera Bread (aka St Louis Bread Company, as Matt and I discovered...

(link) photo by Thierry Lacasse My temp agencies...

“Creating content is expensive. The cost of the tools may...”
— At some stage in your life,...

(link) So..I’ve been obsessively reading up on paper...

(link) via Matt

Today's realization:

Fiona Apple is 30. Dave Eggers is 38. Thom Yorke is 39. All my high school idols are 30 or over.

(link) Robert Downey Jr doing a ‘lip-dub’ of Elton John’s I Want Love. It’s...

I did some paper craft today. The Readymech toy turned out...

Latest search of my name indicates that the Awards program...

“The worst part of Shyamalan’s now-familiar storytelling is...”
— (link) Armond White on The...

(link) I’ve had my period suddenly start during or on...

Art of the Title

I love Brad Neely. Saw this particular episode of Baby Cakes for the first time a week or so ago at...

The upstairs neighbors have been loudly scraping their floor (my ceiling) for the past three days....

Boyz II Men playing at 6 AM (?!) on Friday in Bryant Park! (going.com) Sick. I used to play their CD...

Yesterday I found about 30 jobs I could apply for. This is...

(link) Matt has uploaded some really beautiful photos of our...

(link) A radio you customize by drilling the holes and...

How to make a Dirkon pinhole camera out of paper I want to...

Kitten Surprise. My new favorite video.

Made the mistake of flipping through Pop Star! Magazine (conclusion: whoever designs it thinks...

I still need a helmet and a lock, but this Ride the City...

Bill Maher can be a little heavy handed (Gnarls Barkley, really?), but I’m curious about this...

Мои Мир! It’s the cool new thing.

I live in a Muslim part of Brooklyn and there are women outside walking around in burkas. How do...

It was my one year anniversary with Matt last night and we went to see Jollyship the Whiz Bang at...

My mom recently found a pretty funny photo of us from my...

I finally posted my photos from our recent road trip to...

(link) Our photo from the Harveyville prom we recently...

ugly: Dinosaur World is great for the young, the young at...

Matt and I listened to a lot of crappy music during the course of the roadtrip—a lot of...

Good Morning, New York

The Midwest was lovely, but I missed you and am glad to be back.

May

Did I ever tell you about the time I was on CashCab and made a lot of faces and couldn’t do a...

Yesterday was a really good day. -Chat ‘n Chew with Matt. Their sandwiches and mac&cheese...

(link) Photo by Jonpaul Douglass I have a really hard time...

The Bird of Paradise mating dance

Dear Midwesterners:

I mentioned this 2 months ago, but wanted to ask again if there are any West...

“Come on, Stefan—you’re European; you’re supposed to rescue...”
— A nice, honest review of...

After living in New York for almost 4 years, my stay here...

Weekend highlights:

Getting a splinter pulled out of my foot by my boyfriend’s dazed, sick mother as he and his...

I just got this message from ABC when I tried streaming last...

(link) Photo by Myrte Voogt The most beautiful image I have...

Some crappy cell phone snapshots of a beautiful sunset in...

(link) Photo by Alina Andrei

“I wanted them to think I was a good journalist, a good...”
— The Wikipedia entry for...

(English Russia) Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

(link) Photo by my mum

My Coney Island photo is doing pretty well on JPG. I’m...

Liveblogging the BoltBus experience:

-trees -trees -road -too much a/c -trees -sleepy

The week-long visit to my parents in Maryland (and two...

Was reviewing my history/politics notebooks from high school and stumbled onto a section about the...

I know I’m a little late, but the Sandwich Day episode...

(link) Photo by Angie Beaulieu from JPG. After a huge push...

After a near attack by two geese at the Ride On bus depot this morning, I have successfully...

Apr

(link) Photo by greenlook

photo by Matt Carman

I am an idiot.

I can not hold on to a pair of glasses for longer than a year, no matter how hard I try. Some pairs...

Photos by rebecca artemisa urias (1 / 2)

Brooklyn Museum of Art.

A great post on UGLY about I Know Who Killed Me. Matt and I...

Fun Fact: Soviet television (not Russian, but Soviet) supposedly only showed one Hollywood...

The BoltBus ride to DC was great and now I’m torn between telling people my great experience...

Photo by Magdalena_f / Painting by Magritte

“After all, it is (and we have come to this conclusion...”
— (ny mag) I love pop culture, I...

(link) My plant grew some sort of weird flower.

I just received my 5 boxes of Polaroid film. Almost...

And speaking of Lynch-love..

I saw the Elephant Man last night and it was extremely disappointing. It opened beautifully and was...

Dear Matt,

I hate you. love, kseniya PS: David Lynch rulz.

Screen capture from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With...

This song gets stuck in my head a lot.

Pointersaurus Partner? (Pointer's Pizza,...

Reply to: comm-654637268@craigslist.org Date: 2008-04-24, 12:07PM CDT I’m an eater who will be...

cakeface: lykke li - im good im gone If I made a music video I would want it to be like this....

Kseniya is a poet AND Russian spambot. More videos at Boing Boing Spam Theater Link via...

I’m taking my first ride on the BoltBus to DC this...

Fact Sheet.

Friday is my last day at my current temp job. I’ve been here since mid-December and January to...

Photo by Daniel Minnick found via Matt

Thanks Nick Douglas for giving me credit for...

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't...

“The Tetris effect is the ability of any activity to which...”
— (wiki) Just found out that the...

Elliott Kalan's pitch for a Ziggy movie with...

Happy Birthday, mum!

Matt and I played BINGO with some old people at a Park Slope...

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

(link) Matt and I spent our Sunday brunching, lying in bed,...