PERPETUAL STATE OF FLUX

Jul 23

Is Aerosmith retro?

So, we just hired this amazing young man, a brand spankin’ new college grad who sits in a cube right outside my office. This morning I came in and said something to him about “being old” and he replied “What are you, like five years older than me?”

To which I had to reply something old and matronly sounding like “Oh, Bless your young heart”.

Cut to five minutes ago, when someone walked by and stated they were off on vacation the rest of the week. I stated that I needed a vacation. That what I really wanted was a permanent vacation.

Then I looked to my new friend and asked him, “Who had that album, Van Halen?”

To which he replied, “Not sure, that’s before my time.”

Then we had a two minute debate over whether Van Halen is retro?

Him: It’s pretty retro.

Me: It’s not Zeppelin.

Of course, I should have known Permanent Vacation is the title of an Aerosmith album.

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It's early still...

alexbalk:

but I think Neel may have already won the kicker of the day award.

Neel’s on to something but he forgot Tom Colicchio. That’s a serious oversight.

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living vicariously through nancy botwin.

meg: how are youuu?
me: the real questions are: who is that sexy spanish mayor and do you think nancy botwin is going to get with him? let's hope so!
meg: yes! she is definitely going to hook up w/him. she has the BEST life.
>My cable box is on the fritz (sp?) and my onDemand is all pixalated and shit, but I suffered through it cause this is SO GOOD. This season is particularly hilarious (Celia all cholo-d up? Al Brooks?). AND now the Mexican Mayor? Fucking hot.

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On Dating

I can’t really weigh in on this. Always late to the party. But since it’s pretty much taken up six pages of my dashboard (I quit after six), it got me thinking…

I understand being lonely. I understand that dating in New York City is pretty horrendous (or so I’ve heard). I also understand trying to figure out the why. Why don’t you have someone? Why you are striking out? Why can’t you get past a second date?

Not speaking to any one person here but despite putting a band-aid on an open wound, what good are these theories?

In the end, dating isn’t some huge mystery. It’s simply finding someone you like and who likes you back. Of course, there’s more to it once you find that person but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Dating is a numbers game. It sucks to put yourself out there only to face rejection time and time again. It may seem like the problem is that all the young girls are dating older guys but the real problem in that scenario is compatibility. Priorities. Typically, 24 year old men and 24 year old women want vastly different things. But in the end, it simply comes down to one thing - you simply haven’t met the right person.

So, not that anyone is listening to this old broad’s “sage wisdom” but save the energy spent on the theories for the energy you need for dating. Take the rejections in stride but don’t try so hard either. Nothing sends women running into the arms of an older man faster than the air of (bitter) desperation. Besides what’s the rush? You’re young. Have fun!

I’m sure someone has mentioned that those “old guys” were probably once young 24 year old men frustrated that all the young girls are dating old guys.

If all else fails, move to Iowa.

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Jul 22

TMZ - Estelle Getty dead at 84.

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“The current generation, the one that now ranges from diaperhood to college, including some who are probably still wearing diapers in college, are all a bunch of coddled little wusses who are going to become the most disgusting, most entitled, most misguided critters that America has ever seen. They are going to kill us all.”

Choire Sicha, who continues:

“The current adult generation, those born in the ’60s and ’70s, well, we grew up before seatbelt laws—the first came in 1984—before car seats, and back when nursing mothers were prescribed drugs that you’d kill to be able to get today if you were desperate to get off your face. The vast majority of us grew up in giant gas guzzlers in which our parents smoked with the windows all the way up, and when the cars crashed, which they very nearly always did, we just bounced around inside.”

(via katiebakes)

Well said, Sicha. I have the most amazing parents in the world but it could be said that they raised a bunch of panic prone dorks with all the worrying they did. AND still I’m lucky to be alive. Okay, that’s hyperbolic but Mom definitely would have ended up in the clink - always leaving us locked in the car while she ran in to do her grocery shopping. I never went into a store without getting lost. Granted, it was tough to get anything done and keep track of us after birthin’ all them babies. My sister and I both recall our parents “forgetting” to pick us up from swim practice. I had no quarter to call home. It was dark when Dad arrived. The janitor had long locked up the school. My sister Katie’s experience was a bit worse…Mom had carpool duty the day she forgot. SO, on top of the shame one feels from their parents forgetting them she had to share that shame with her friends.

Now I see, they were probably hoping one of us would get abducted.

I also remember, riding my bike on a state highway (helmets? who wore helmets?), swimming in Lake Minnetonka at a young age with no supervision - HELL we never were supervised.

It’s an endless list of indiscretions - each one I fondly remember.

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I've been a little bored lately

but all that’s about to change. The new Facebook is here!

…

Nope. Still bored.

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Jul 20

I got a haircut today. Wanted bangs in the style of Jane Birkin or one her two daughters. Instead I end up looking like Veronica Lodge (apparently even comic book characters have blogs).

Leave it to me - hoping to look like some ethereal French beauty (right, I know Birkin’s a Brit) only to leave looking like a cartoon character.

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Jul 18

(via dummyhead)

But are you in your room?

I mean, Dave’s room?

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LAME

CNN digs up an old and poorly maintained website by Scott Peterson, calls it a blog and has Larry King call up Laci’s mother to get her reaction.

via Metafilter.

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PERPETUAL STATE OF FLUX

There are no words.

Is Aerosmith retro?

It's early still...

living vicariously through nancy botwin.

On Dating

TMZ - Estelle Getty dead at 84.

I've been a little bored lately

LAME