history of subway maps

new ones on the way!



definitely the 70's were the most aesthetically pleasing

carrots

carrots are magical oblong gifts from heaven. just had the opportunity to place them in pasta curry! i'd love to.

deep in the creep

can we try hugging without shirts for a second?

"it's almost like we saw each other swimming in the pool and hadn't seen each other for awhile. these could be swimsuits."

humpday: a meditation on anxiety and friendship. so genuinely anxious and good.

small girl seeking sloppy dog

must love everything

bbs

every time i see the "babies" trailer, i get a little more pregnant

dear curry ann

yeah, young harrison ford, i get it

a movie review

recently in maryland i saw 2 films: the girl with the dragon tattoo and it's complicated. it's weird to see them back to back because both of these films are revenge fantasies - but one is swedish with a lot of chain smoking and one is californian bourgeois-cafeteria, and in place of cigarettes there are chocolate croissants. dragon tattoo had a lot of rape, like multiple rape(s), nazi rapes, mouth rape, etc. it made me come to terms with the fact that i can't hang with suspense in movies for too long because it will inevitably lead to peed pants. no joke suspense is really hard. also more than 1 rape per movie is too much ok? im sensitive.

it's complicated was a revenge fantasy by a middle-aged woman, i mean the backbone of the story is how it's hard to be a middle aged woman because you are always so lonely. fuck. but then her ex-husband and children gather around her and just need her and her food.


it's weird to be in a place where i am getting stoked to pro-create and start my own little american family, but culture keeps trying to do me like all this will lead to is, at best, this meryl streep movie where my kids expect credit cards and shit, and that being in your 40's is starkly solo. do you guys feel me? what could be the secret then? is it rooftops and dogs and sunshine? because so far in life those things seem unbearably good.

pineapple quesadillas

i just made these and accidentally it was the best.

in a blender: pineapple, onions, orange and yellow peppers. blend that.

add it to the inside of a quesadilla. put hot black beans and onions and garlic in that. enjoy! top with hot sauce or plain yogurt or whatever it is that lights you up!!*


*i am currently lit up but in the bad way. my mom just told me to get health insurance esp. for "the baby" for in case i get pregnant. do you ever get told things by your parents that you feel like they are willing you to do? to ask it another way, is my mom trying to get me impregnated? the baby quilts indicate that this might be a possibility.

hey taxes, what are you?

the world of people and things

come with the dust and are gone with the wind





are there states of being that bob dylan did not put into song?

smell quest

once jon moses told me about a smell quest he was taking.
there was a homeless man that lived in his library and every time he was roused and moved freely, the smell quest would begin.

a smell quest is when you smell something that is new or interesting, but i want to make the point that the quest is not necessarily a terrible smell, and i think we all know the difference. a terrible smell is when you come back from vacation and there are maggots (growing? do they grow? where do they come from?) living in your kitchen trash can. a terrible smell is when once i left a croc pot of stew in the refrigerator and then went to africa and then left the croc pot still and eventually meghan moved the croc pot to the back porch and then i had to before moving out of the house throw away the pot with the stew that was no longer stew but a rabid snutty-toothed walrus anus, in bowl format.

those are terrible smells. i think that bodies are capable of producing bad smells and even really bad smells, but they are also capable of producing just fairly interesting smells that are not technically "good" like how bunnies are good but not terrible, because when you arrive upon the quest there is intrigue, not gagging, and the mark of a truly terrible smell is when your gag reflex kicks in, am i right. also, please know that i am not in the medical profession and surely if i was i would know about terrible body smells.

ok so, all this is a preface to the fact that lately i have been on a number of smell quests and i don't know what is going on. this morning i woke up and kept smelling skunk. like i thought there was one outside of my window because it was so strong and crazy. and then throughout the day i kept smelling tumultuous fart. like raw eggs on toast. what is going on?

does the age old policy, the one who smelt it dealt it apply? because if these smells are me, i am entirely out of the loop with my body. if these smells are not me, then seriously, what on earth? how can i be on a smell quest if i do not know who is directing the journey?

what have you been doing?

um, just touring the south


there are a lot of great things afloat, but what i really want everyone to think on as a community is this, what if cupcake trafficjam was not merely a blog with occasional pictures of dogs and vaginas, but a way of life, a living, breathing CUPCAKETRUCK?!?



upon google image searching "cupcake truck" i see that this is already an international phenomenon, but no other cupcake truck seems as visibly committed to psychedelic chocolate, which upon further reflection is probably the name of my new business byeeeeeeee

mommies

NPR reports that Maternal deaths, or deaths related to complications from childbirth, have declined globally. Inevitably part of this decline can be linked to actual instances of childbirth declining globally. The data places Italy at number 1 for least deaths per 100,000 live births; next comes Sweden, Luxembourg, Australia, Austria, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Canada, and Spain. Which is to say, if you are from the US, maybe visit one of the top ten when it comes time to get that baby out, as our country ranks number 40, behind Lithuania, for 39 deaths per 100,000 live births.

new york today

lately there's been a lot of down time in the suburbs which is always kind of the best but also really confusing to travel back and forth. at some point it feels like, if i am spending chunks of time in maryland, then why not just live in maryland? but then i come back to the city and have a day like yesterday, where i can use my feet to walk anywhere i want to eat any delicious thing imaginable like coffee and an empanada for 2.50 and talk about movie scripts and get late night tacos where the downstairs is an elitist club where legitimately modely scandinavians are pouring in and out but im stuffing taco in my face and then dancing and then in the subway people are talking to rats and break-dancing and the subway works past midnight and spring is coming so there are 1,000 babies on scooters in the sunshine. which is all to say, im really in fucking love with you right now, new york. thanks for being such a babe

sometimes i go through weeks where i can't bring myself to eat hardly anything but then ill have make-up weeks where there is endless food tom-foolery. today there was food near or in my mouth all day long: garlic beans and eggs with onions and hash browns and tomato with some salt and a slice of cheese and yogurt with brownie bits in it. april fool's i can't stop eating!!?!

sometimes it seems like people in my neighborhood are having really gratifying sex but i am concerned that it might not be that but actually an endangered cat

time for taxes

hey ma


alright

guys

its march 25. what has even happened to the days? i don't even know. what is everyone up to?
here are some things that have been happening. 1) im wearing a sweatshirt 2) but its almost spring! 3) im going back to silver spring 4) but only for a little while this time, then im coming back to be someone's assistant/slave! 5) which is great news! 6) i know, i know im 26 now but 7) what even is a career? look at these hungry turtles!

datenite

i obviously have not yet seen "date night" but can already tell that this is an important relic we can leave future generations. more so than health care, more so than personal legacies, i am proud that my grandchildren might one day be able to zootn'reboot date night starring steve carell and tina fey on their mini-trons. also hot tub time machine.

But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

-Annie Dillard

if she was only ordinary ...

school's


out

ahhh i have to surrender my computer!

here is a melody of everything i meant to put here before but now i can't because i don't have a computer anymore. please enjoy responsibly. american dreams all around. if you want to sell your crusty laptop, please let me know. if you want to sell it for bananas, please definitely let me know

im not sure

but i think i just read that unemployment covers 1/26 of your salary? this means that while unemployed i will make 12 dollars.

best GIF ever

i've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.



ignore this terrible drug.

found: miss new booty

this is super pretty, but it's wrong in like 100 ways. or rather, instructions for food consumption cannot really be summed up in a triangle. i watched a ton of planet earth last night, including the last disc, "future" which was super chaotic and but chock full of really interesting brains. my biggest take-away was that, as resources become increasingly scarce, food intake will move from westernized, personal choice to basic availability - but what will be available in the future has a lot to do with personal choices right now.

i never thought about it like this before but its almost like you need to make a list of the top 5 things that are important to you - is it whales? seriously, is it? because krill are disappearing. i mean, there are a lot of different paths to take here and there really isn't a super clear route. that's why you will need to make a list. if you are able to distill things that are most important to you, then there can be food choices. oh yeah and protein or whatever but supposedly a lot of people get more protein than they even realize like from beans.

this example list if from 'FOUND' i really like the earnestness with which this person addresses their wine intake:

los abrazos rotos

march

i'd love to

found: jonah lehrer's blog

Bergson defined comedy as what happens when the mechanical is foisted upon the living, when man is momentarily machine-like

what do whales eat?

has anyone ever watched the "future" disc in the planet earth box set?

when people come together there is the possibility for play, for discourse, or for separate madness. bodies placed together in a room can interact in so many different ways.

c.a.r. + a.c.m.

which one?

nerd class

pastes

andrew just taught me about wheat paste!
look out life, im about to get everything so stiiicky

green roofing

camera 1


camera 2


so awesome.
project by goode green

NYT Science Channel.

So great

Might I recommend A Minute With Wolves?

honey lets go everywhere