September 2009
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Apocalypse Later
Danielle: How was breaking fast with the family?
Me: Good. They asked about you, y'know... They wanted to know if I ever hear from you.
Danielle: What did you tell them?
Me: I told them how you needed to talk to me yesterday at 2:30 AM because you watched some crap on the History Channel and were worried that the world was going to end in 2012.
Danielle: Great. What'd they think of that?
Me: Well, remember last year how you were obsessed with WebMD and thought you were always sick?
Danielle: ...yeah
Me: I told them you're just expanding your mind to see the bigger picture. Because while you used to call home every day afraid you were about to die, now you're afraid that the rest of the world is going to die right along with you.
Danielle: I call it progress
Me: Funny, I think they called it something else...
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“Peachy,” by Missy Higgins. ...
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Crazy in New York: Volume 2 - Ironic Park Slope
Brooklyn is built on the foundations of hipster culture — bricks of skinny jeans bound by the mortar of irony. Here are a few simple measures you might take to assimilate yourself into this society of blatant douche-baggery.
1. Be over 30 and dress like you’re 8.
2. Listen to bands that nobody has ever heard of. If you don’t know any, feel free to make one up by combining...
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“Let the Drummer Kick It,” by Citizen...
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Adventures in Dating... (And Other Reasons to...
CHAPTER 1, SCENE 1
Scene opens to a brunette girl in a black dress in a nice restaurant. She is compulsively picking and prodding the food on her plate with a fork.
Jeremy (Narration)
Her name is Courtney. Wavy black hair. Full lips. Killer body. She’s truly an accomplishment of Darwinian significance. And with her stunning looks comes an unfortunate, yet appropriate...
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“Kissing Families” by the Silversun...
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Watch40 Stories: The Birthright Israel Experience
(By: Jonathan Beech & Justin Kanner)
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Another song that’s been stuck in my head. ...
“About time I got out of that cookie”
– Fortune Cookie from Chicago
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Been listening to this a lot lately. “No...
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Crazy in New York: Volume 1 - Doody Duty
There’s about three thousand years of recorded human history. We’ve grown as a species from filthy cave dwellers to these beautifully complex creatures that can speak to one another from different corners of the globe within milliseconds. We are a species that has unlocked myriad miracles of natural science and beyond.
So flash forward to present day Manhattan and we’re doing...
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I always seem to come back to this song…...
“Sometimes Jon, there just aren’t enough bottles to throw.”
– Joshua Porter (2002)