tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55980802012-02-16T14:11:00.462-08:00... you know who you areTheresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-79088229266800344772007-07-27T15:54:00.000-07:002007-08-03T18:44:13.789-07:00

I'm way behind on my magazine reading this month for a number of reasons — it's summer, doing a bit of traveling and, of course, Potter — but I managed to get around to reading last month's (or was it the month before?) Wired magazine last week and came across an essay I want all my friends to read.I've been a Dodgeball user for about 9 months now and it's sort of lame because I only have one

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-70412982080089483092007-07-25T18:06:00.000-07:002007-07-25T18:56:34.606-07:00

So I finally got around to watching my TiVo of the YouTube CNN Presidential Democrat Debate last night as I cleaned my apartment. It was the perfect accompaniment to some much needed tidying up. It wasn't the sort of thing that you really had to watch, or even really pay attention to... Plus, I figured it was my attempt to multi-task like a member of YouTube Nation might do. It worked out well.I

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-80359239950086024902007-07-20T11:50:00.000-07:002007-07-20T20:17:45.790-07:00

I was awakened at around 4:30 am because my bed was shaking. Then I heard that sound, the sound that only an earthquake makes. I guess it comes from the resettling of buildings, trees, the ground — everything that is normally still. It's sort of a simultaneous groaning and creaking kind of noise. It's eerie and somewhat unsettling, or maybe the unsettling bit is the part where you've just felt

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I realize that this is just crazy, two posts in one day, but I had to post a quick note about my (somewhat pathetic) enthrallment last night at the treat that PBS' Mystery gave me. I can't remember the last time I saw Julian Sands in something, and, boy, have I missed him. My favorite movie as a teenager (and maybe of all time, it's up there) was A Room With a View. When I first saw it, at the

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-15686238129227163332007-07-16T17:37:00.000-07:002007-07-16T19:15:59.190-07:00

I was searching the Gothamist blog looking for a review they did of one of P.O.V.'s films, unsuccessfully (even though I know it's there), when I came across this interview with Brooke Gladstone (pictured right, from Gothamist.com) of WNYC's On the Media. I was shocked to see her picture and register the fact that she is not 70 years old — as I'd always pictured her in my head (which I feel

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-87871760233629742362007-07-09T19:17:00.000-07:002007-07-09T19:55:01.014-07:00

Finally logged onto Etsy.com over the weekend and it put a little dent in my wallet. So much cool stuff! Yipes. I was in New York for the past two weeks and I spent an evening with some friends in New Jersey over the Fourth. They have some great artwork they purchased at a friend's gallery here in SF, and it made me think about my own apartment's sad lack of art.So I logged on to Etsy and totally

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So my friend Bruno sent me this invitation to have dinner with Barack Obama. Well, not really, but Obama's campaign came up with this amazing idea to ask for donations on their website (could be as little as $10) and then you are put into this drawing for a free dinner with Barack Obama. If you win, they fly you in, and you and three other lucky folks get to have dinner with Obama -- he even pays

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-66038128814447295002007-06-06T11:16:00.000-07:002007-06-10T22:08:54.676-07:00

Bloomberg took a while to make a statement about the foiled JFK bombing plot revealed over the weekend. And his comments yesterday took some people by surprise. I loved what he had to say. So nice to have a reasonable guy in government and not the fear mongering crew we've got in Washington."There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons.

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I just got off the MUNI after a LONG ride (why does it stall inexplicably for 15-20 minutes before entering or leaving the Van Ness tunnel EVERY TIME I ride it?! good grief!) where I enjoyed reading my new issue of New York magazine and wanted to blog about this great article which detailed the story of the "Splasher." This guy/girl (no one knows who it is) is going around the city and painting

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-39270064427282978182007-05-29T17:15:00.001-07:002007-05-29T17:29:01.329-07:00

So I'm on vacation this week and decided to head over to Green Apple books on Clement to check out their used book selection. It was so great. I found 7 books and I hadn't even stepped inside yet! They were all on the super sale outdoor rack. One of them was by a guy I used to work with in New York. I was so excited to see his book and thought, wow! I'll have to write him and tell him that I saw/

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I have to say I'm riveted by the coverage of Queen Elizabeth visiting the States this week. President Bush even made me laugh when he joked with her about one of his usual misstatements in a speech he made in the Rose Garden yesterday. (He said we celebrated our bicentennial in 1776, instead of 1976. She gave him a look and he made a joke about how she gave him a look that only a mother could,

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-16433301354444267732007-04-08T15:01:00.000-07:002007-04-08T20:31:04.335-07:00

A few notes about what made me laugh out loud this week on my comfy couch:- This week's Liz Lemon gets the guy and Kenny does his best Sydney Bristow imitation episode of "30 Rock." Nobody I know watches this show, even though I talk it up all the time. C'mon people! Watch this show. Watch it now! It's funny. (Oh, if you really haven't watched the show before, check out this one first. It's my

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-1678638663296968052007-04-05T15:03:00.000-07:002007-04-09T08:52:05.953-07:00

I'm a little behind on my NYTimes reading, but this article from (2!) sundays ago that I just got around to reading today freaked me out. In my early 20s, I had many dreams about what I would do with my life, who I'd marry and the number of kids I'd have (six!). I had some big dreams (most of them involving me being big, I guess)... but one of my more common daydreams back then was to marry my

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-62097433791857197142007-03-27T16:19:00.000-07:002007-03-27T18:10:38.986-07:00

Pop Candy: Links to this interview with BSG executive producer Ron Moore discussing Sunday's finale. The final five are "fundamentally different." He says it twice.Boing Boing: Lawrence M. Small, the guy who sold out the Smithsonian's video collection to Showtime, has resigned without severance — "after an internal audit showing that the museum complex had paid for his routine use of lavish perks

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Today I had a conversation about activism and journalism, and the imprisoned SF blogger, Josh Wolf, came up. Wolf is a 24-year-old self-described anarchist and independent journalist, who attended a G-8 protest that occurred in the Mission last year and videotaped the event. He ran into trouble when federal authorities requested that he hand over his footage to aid them in an investigation of an

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-76587631131093392892007-03-25T12:24:00.000-07:002007-03-25T13:05:36.133-07:00

I listen to a lot of podcasts on my shiny new green iPod Shuffle. (It's so darn cute, isn't it?) But of all of the podcasts I download, my absolute favorite is Slate's Political Gabfest. Three Slate writers — Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz — gather every Friday in their D.C. conference room to talk about the news of the week. The podcast has a simple conversational format that

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-1174779550545956152007-03-24T17:32:00.000-07:002007-03-25T13:13:02.449-07:00

I'm a commuter cyclist here in San Francisco, so I'm not exactly crazy about cars, and when I first read about this amazing example of citizen journalism on Steven Johnson's blog, I bookmarked it so I could keep up with this developing story about the streets of my old stomping ground, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Transportation activists and community groups were upset about a proposal to turn 6th and

Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182473055228364215noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598080.post-1174770134126304902007-03-24T14:57:00.000-07:002007-03-24T18:07:04.167-07:00

I've thought about — and actually started — this blog a couple times over the past ten years. Recently, I read this article in New York magazine, and I started to think about it again. When I look back on all the links to articles, blog posts, etc. that I've sent out to friends over the years, it seemed like it would make more sense to do it on a blog so it would be archived. So here goes...

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