December 2011
17 posts
portlandia
“‘Portlandia’ is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small differences: the need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist, with outsized militancy, on the importance of those shadings.”
-“Stumptown Girl” by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Me: don't you sometimes think the only people on Facebook are you and your friends?
Pete: never.
“It’s too cold for small pieces of fish.”
– Nate
reality.
me: but don't you love me $1,500 worth?
nate: yes...but over two or three years.
“ray charles has killed more jews than happy marriages have ended in divorce.”
– louis c.k.
sleep no more
this past tuesday, i attended (participated in?) sleep no more, the insane, interactive theater experience created by the british theater company punchdrunk. it was unbelievable. wandering through 100,000 square feet over 5 floors of the mckittrick hotel (not a real hotel, by the way), i did whatever i wanted - rifled through desk drawers, turned lamps on and off, tried as hard as i could to find...
