monday morning dance party!

by colleen on February 8, 2010


“love is the drug” by roxy music, apropos for the upcoming holiday.

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today with the fam

by colleen on February 7, 2010

uncle kev flew all the way from cali for the weekend to meet his new niece and spend some QT with ma, ali, bri, liam and me. (gus and duffy too of course.)

liamkev

the little prince, my beloved nudger, is adjusting as well as to be expected. he says “baby nina” and looks at her with interest from time to time. however, he is campaigning for even more attention than usual. with a face like this, i like his chances.

liamsmiles

nina is beautiful, soft, baby girl perfection. so delicate … it’s amazing. and as you can see, the world is already boring her.

ninayawn

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there’s no safety

February 5, 2010

We are all familiar with the vicious cycle of worry. We know that worrying is futile, but we go on doing it because calling it futile does not stop it. We worry because we feel unsafe, and want to be safe. Yet it is perfectly useless to say that we should not want to be [...]

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Clay Shirky @ New York Tech Meetup

February 3, 2010

Clay Shirky said some interesting things at last night’s New York Tech Meetup
• We ought to question whether we have to just accept the basic tradeoff between scale and specificity … do the most popular discussions/ items / art / communication etc. have to reflect the lowest common denominator?Is there a way to change our reality [...]

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baby girl kenny is here!

February 2, 2010

nina anne born feb. 2, 2010 8 lbs. 13 oz. mama, daddy and nudgette are well. love love love.

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unhappy hipsters

February 1, 2010

unhappyhipsters.com

And one day, a ladder appeared. Julien climbed with guarded optimism; could this be the way out for which he’d been searching all these weeks? (Photo: Stéphane Chalmeau; Dwell, January 2010)

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monday morning dance party!

February 1, 2010

this one goes out to my soon-to-be-born niece. today’s the day baby. or possibly tomorrow.
“come baby come” by K7.

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desultory thoughts

February 1, 2010

1. i discovered an amazing book in my mom’s collection: Shakespeare’s Insults: Educating Your Wit. this is just a quick, cursory random sampling from a book of gems: You herd of boils and plagues. One light of brain. Nothing but lechery: all incontinent varlets! If beauty have a soul, this is not she. He that loves [...]

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brooklyn museum: who shot rock & roll

January 30, 2010

made it under the wire to the who shot rock & roll photography show at the brooklyn museum today (last weekend of the exhibition).  we were warned in advance about the crowds, and heeded friends’ advice to get there there right when the museum opens. the other night a photographer friend said that it would [...]

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friends

January 30, 2010

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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