Phil Leif
“ I’m Life is good obsessed,” said Shelby Dames, a teacher from Lunenburg, Mass. “We have the Jeep wheel covers and the backpacks. We have it all. I have my Life is good coffee mug in the morning, and I drive into work with it. It makes me remember that things are not so bad.
I wonder what the sales tax is in the STATE OF DENIAL
(Life Is Good for Clothing Company and Its Devotees - NYTimes.com)
“ Suddenly my mellow was harshed. I wanted to grab each guy by his knotty lats and say, “You don’t have to live this way!” Like that tinny “oonce oonce” music that emanates from the dance clubs here, the sporty college jock look has been a reigning summer style for guys for more than a decade, and it needs to die.
Critical Shopper - Marc by Marc Jacobs - Marc by Marc Jacobs, the Perfect Fit for Provincetown - NYTimes.com
Habanera (via deumnborkborkbork)
“ Yes, my friend, someone did take your drink. And that someone is currently consuming 360 calories with your drink instead of 110 with her drink. And it was decaf.
147xxxx - Okay, customers. We need to talk.
“ I cannot supply my cod with an equivalently literary simile, but it is delicate and piquant.
FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: David Remnick
“ No one can resist mussels, not even emotionally stunted ex-fiancées and their new poorly-received-novelist boyfriends.
Shouts & Murmurs: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Humor: The New Yorker
YES
I listen to my little sister respond.
There is so much wonderful and good about Choire’s post on Radar about this latest kerfuffle that I am having trouble picking out my favorite part, but I do love his line about how “she thinks some crazy things, like that people can have their talent “stripped” from them (as if this were Dungeons & Dragons).”
Colleen can be so clever!
“NYU student Jessica Roy is leaving the New York literary world until 2009; you can find her in Paris. After asking the wrong “careerist” how to network at a blogging party, she attended one with the bliterati of Brooklyn.”
(via not colleen’s tumblr)
Combat boot, $298, and desert boot, $178, available September 15th at select Gap stores (via men.style.com )
“ Turns out that 2006 was basically wrong about everything! Crowds are morons and their wisdom is useless noise.
Internet: Hedge Funders No Longer Shelling Out Money to Hear What You Think
“ But their overall crabbiness implies they are in fact real ex-residents. Because while all New Yorkers may long for space, peace, and happiness, what they really want is to have all that here.
Atlanta: Seventh Borough? Or Circle of Hell?
Has the price of lemons this year affected your stand? REBECCA: Last year, we charged 25 cents for a half cup and 50 cents for a whole cup. But this year, we had to double our prices. My mom said she was shocked at the price of lemons. (via How City Kids Run Their Sidewalk Lemonade Stands — New York Magazine)