June 2010
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“A little fatter.
A little friendlier.
Chicago. :)”
– My friend Joe.
This has been the longest day at work ever, and I can’t focus for the life of me. I want to just be on the plane right now. Gah!
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Man, I wish Gay Pride didn’t hurt so much the day after!
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THIS IS GAY PRIDE WEEK! WE ARE GAY PRIDE!
I got my wife beater and short shorts and dancing shoes on! My vodka soda water bottle in hand! Picking up a new pair of sunglasses on the way. IT’S GO TIME, BOYS!
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Watch“I’ve had enough bullshit for today.”
—Elaine Stritch, The Carlyle Hotel, June 23, 2010 (via)
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OMG OMG OMG →
When I was asking Google to tell me what year I saw the II concert, I stumbled across this. If I wasn’t saving money for Chicago, this would be the most delicious Gay Pride event ever! (Also: EN VOGUE is playing tonight!!!)
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I'm Stuck in the Tardis...
mikedressel:
Strongly agree! I am happy to see that the contentious assertions on the popular weblog The Awl have been modified in regards to this season’s “Doctor Who.”
Last night I went to Bemelman’s after work, because that is what working professionals do after they work two 12 hour days! And like always, I went in hoping some other attractive working professional would buy me a...
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Stars They're Just Like Us: Senator Ron Wyden...
I swung down to the Mid-Manhattan NYPL on my lunchbreak and, as I walked back up Madison Avenue, I knew I was going to run into someone famous. I just knew it. I hoped it would be some Hollywood starlet, fashionably wasted, stumbling out of Talbot’s after a coutoure shopping binge. Alas, that was not to be.
Instead: I ran into my former senator, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)! Stopping to say...
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“I will admit to you that the reason I’m going ahead with this attempt now is...”
– from John Hinckley, Jr.’s last letter to Jodie Foster (via phyllis-stein)
Oh. Maybe this is what Jodie was thinking of. (I do look a little creepy.)
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A weekend in the country with Stritchy!
Frank Rizzo, from the Hartford Courant, caught Elaine Strich’s opening performance in Hartford last night and almost perfectly describes the double-edged sword of emotions that overtake you during the performance. On the one hand, IT’S STRITCHY!!! On the other hand:
It was usually the sure-footed Stritch who was unsteady at the helm.
She’s 85, for god’s sake.: I know, I...
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Stars They're Just Like Us: Jodie Foster Edition
On my lunch break, I was out shopping for my upcoming Chicago trip. Leaving Urban Outfitters (I know!) on a major high (two summer blazers for $20 each!), I noticed Jodie Foster walking towards me. She was extremely skinny and clad in mom jeans, a worn-out t-shirt, and large sunglasses.
Now, I’m a Jodie Foster fan as much as the next guy (my favorite of hers is that chess movie, which I can...
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“I just want to make sure that by the time it gets into her (Stritch’s) hands...”
– STRITCHY AND JUDI DENCH ARE DOING THE AUDIO BOOK OF DAVID SEDARIS’ NEW BOOK OF FABLES, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, and from his diary!!!
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Can you feel the 'excitement' in the air?
I was setting my DVR for the Tonys pre-show, aka the Creative Arts Awards Tonys (aka the non-famous people), which is being co-hosted by my friend Greg Jbara and being broadcast on NY1 (or webcast here), when I realized that they are also showing the Red Carpet at 6pm!
WHAT WILL CATHERINE ZETA JONES WEAR? WHO WILL SCARLETT BRING AS A DATE? WILL DENZEL SAY SOMETHING FUNNY? ALSO JUDE LAW!!! OMG...
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Recycled 'Rag(s)'time
When you’re watching Ragtime perform tonight and you think to yourself that you’ve seen those costumes before: yes, you have. It reminds me of when, in high school, we used to rent from New York the costumes of the shows we were doing. Many of them were, in fact, used on Broadway and in touring companies. Which was extremely cool as a 17 year old in suburban Portland but is just a sad...
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“Be safe. You going on Lex. Watch your back, n_____.”
– Heard on the street outside my apartment at 1am. Just an hour after I walked 15 blocks down Lexington Avenue from the MetroNorth.
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Elaine Stritch, “A Parade in Town”...
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SEND IN THE CATS?
Bernadette Peters, perhaps afraid that Stritchy will hog the spotlight (it’s not worth fighting, Bernie! She already has and will continue to!), Someone backstage at the Walter Kerr is already undermining Stritchy’s performance in A Little Night Music! La Musto hears:
Stritchie can’t climb stairs that easily anymore, so in lieu of beig carried up to the bathroom, she’s...
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Christopher Eccleston is vastly underrated as the Doctor.
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“With cycling the best advice i can give you is miles, miles miles. If you are...”
– James Nord
Each lap around the park is 6 miles. To achieve 100 miles a week—in order “to see anything from it”—I’ll have to do 3 laps every day. Oh sweet Jesus. Related: in order to keep up the pace, I’ll have to bike in the rain tonight. I only wish it was a wee... 