February 2010
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MS Paint Portfolio: Paul has heard 'em all
I ♥ Paul
January 2010
46 posts
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Nicely done, sir.
Sanam: Quick, someone come up with a San Francisco-themed rap! Evan: I’ve got flowers in my hair / I’ve got bitches in my underwear.
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This is so last Wednesday
KJ: Did you hear they’re postponing the State of the Union for Lost? Sanam: Are you serious? Oh god. KJ: I love it because it simultaneously fills me with disgust and with gratitude. Sanam: That kind of sums up this country actually.
Speaking of Star Trek
In one of the proudest nerd moments of my life, in December ‘09 I was a guest artist on the blog Number One. This was cool because a) I love that blog (pictures of Riker looking earnest showing up in my Reader a couple times a day = awesome), and b) previous guest artists had included many people I idolize, most importantly Ryan North and Kate Beaton.
Teaser:
See the whole pic here:...
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MS Paint Portfolio: Transport Of Delight
The setup:
And the final result:
(on a related note, newly blogging friend 2long2tweet’s first post is pretty great.)
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New York Moments 1/24/10
Walking in the park on a particularly gray and wistful Sunday afternoon and talking to my mother on the phone, wishing her a happy birthday while I tromp past the baseball diamonds. She says “Would you like to talk to Rosie” and I say “Of course,” and then I ask Rosie what the earrings she got Mum look like. Mum says “Tell her we’ll send her a picture and call...
Oh the things I write down
a text from my dad in 2006: we MADE it a ok., will call when git.S a decent hñur fñr you bloody stupid spanish phone this
An Instructional (with extraneous swearing)
Jeffrey: You’ve been invited to this chat room! Sanam has joined Jeffrey: did you guys know about this? KJ: is this a chat function??? Jeffrey: this is a group chat function Jeffrey: sanam you there? KJ: holy fuck! Jeffrey: we are all fucking retards KJ: how? how did you do this? Jeffrey: hahaha KJ: seriously though KJ: our prayers have been answered Jeffrey: when a chat is open Jeffrey: go...
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That damned Gerald Garcia...
“My mom lived on the Haight in the 60s. In fact, she lived next door to the Grateful Dead, but she didn’t like them—she thought they were too loud.”
-Elisabeth
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Sutro Baths
Sanam: What’s that hook for, do you think? Katie: Rapelling, perhaps? Aemon: For lifting the rock. Nate: Well, I think I actually know, but the answer’s going to be boring. Evan: Yeah, it’s for holding lead lines. Nate: Yup—for added structural support. Sanam: Oh. Nate: I told you it was boring. Evan: You know what was really boring, was when they were drilling the...
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tell that to Jamaica
Sanam: They also have a toboggan you can take down the Great Wall of China, but Aemon wouldn’t let me do that. Aemon: I wouldn’t let her do that—it’s just not dignified.
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MS Paint Portfolio: Mini Conversation
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Gingernut post: "Currently Loving: Julianne Moore... →
a new post over at Gingernut
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Pondering the Pachyderm
Another excerpt from my elementary school sketchpad:
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Resolutions
“It’s the big thing for 2010: No Underpants. We are the vanguard of a new movement.”
-Joe
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Mmmmmm
26 years old, and this is still my favorite meal:
Glass of milk, plain pasta with butter and salt, and a book. Heaven.
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ArathoonAbroad posts
So, I’ve just added all the posts I wrote while in NZ/Australia in 2006 to this blog (sorry if I spammed you, Google Reader users).
It’s interesting for me now going back and reading them. First, I’m very glad that I wrote them—I’d already forgotten so many little details, especially Biddy quotes and the names of people and locations, and I still find most of my...
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KOL post: "Donna Druchunas Alaska Knitting Cruise" →
a new post over at the Knitting Out Loud blog, regarding an upcoming audiobook and a cruise for knitters.
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Makes more sense if you say it aloud
During a game of Celebrity: Greg: can we just say right now, no bassists except Flea! Evan: there’s absolutely no basis for that.
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Hot gossip
Some days there is nothing I love more than working where I do:
“Also, remind me to tell you at lunch about what I discovered about Herman Melville/Moby Dick.”
-Squirrel
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old journals
A line from an old journal, writing in the bathtub while working on an organic farm in Ireland:
“…and I wish we hadn’t been so practical—because sitting in steamy perfumed water is no time for reflections on sad but sensible decisions.”
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Eavesdropping
Conversation I overheard on the subway: Man 1: …and I know, because I have eight kids! Man 2: Let me ask, you have a TV? Man 1: Yeah I have a TV. Man 2: You don’t have a TV. You can’t watch movies with eight kids in the house—you must just be having sex all the time! Man 1: I don’t have eight kids in the house! Man 2: You said you had eight kids. Man 1: Three in the...
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My velour track suit is covered in fuzz
which is sad, but totally unrelated to this quote: Elisabeth: Well I have a four-day weekend! Sanam: G-F-Y. Elisabeth: Well I will, because I have four whole days to look that up.
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Small Katie
While home for Christmas I found a sketchbook of mine that I drew in off-and-on throughout elementary school; mostly crap (I basically drew the exact same princess with different colored dresses over and over again until I switched to toucans in 5th grade), but an occasional gem:
and the accompanying illustration:
I guess my journals were filled with emotional angst even at the age of...
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MS Paint Portfolio: Printer Envelope Reminder Guy
I’m not sure why, but this little guy I did to help my boss and me remember which way round to put the envelopes in our printer…
…might be my favorite thing I’ve ever drawn.
(Perhaps it’s because the smile reminds me of Calvin’s?)
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Gingernut Post: "Perhaps it goes without... →
a new post over at Gingernut, picking sides in the great Conan/Leno debate 2010.
Said the actress to the bishop
In which Katie, walking late at night, stops, walks back half a block, giggles, and takes a picture:
proof that I’m still 14 at heart
Anyway, speaking of which, I’m outing SNP’s blog, because I love it: That’s What She Said
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Oh we like sheep
I am unable to see a pelican without announcing the following:
“A magnificent bird is the pelican;
Its beak can hold more than its belly can.”
This is my mother’s fault. Throughout my life certain moments have been consistently punctuated by very specific phrases. Many of them are sung; for example, when during junior high I took to leaving my gum stuck to my bedside table...
Duck Fat Doughnut Night
Sanam is the only person I know who thinks that This Is Why You’re Fat is a list of suggestions rather than horror stories; however, sometimes this leads to some amazing experiences. Case in point:
DUCK FAT DOUGHNUT NIGHT 2009.
confit duck leg: the most difficult ingredient to find.
scooping the fat is kinda gross…
…but totally worth it
so, so, so delicious
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Even in doughnut form?
“The duck is known for being the most vertical of creatures.”
-Sanam
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An oldie but a goodie
“Rap was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He was the first to rap—over a telephone.”
-Aemon
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I thought it was about a family trip to the beach
“It’s just occurred to me that ‘A pocket full of shells’ is referring to bullets, not seashells.”
-Katie Jane
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"Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh!"
Okay, I have a handful of these old quotes and I’m just gonna post ‘em all today and get them out of my queue once and for all. Beginning with:
“I was expecting to be embarrassed because you were making machine gun noises, but then I was actually embarrassed by how BAD they were.”
-Evan
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He was probably talking about Lisa Loeb
“She’s like a brick shithouse of sexiness.”
-Ted
(or maybe Emily Dickinson)
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MS Paint Portfolio: brainstorming and bickering
damnit, these are just not quite big enough to read… full size here
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Joe plans ahead
“If you get poo on your feet and you haven’t got anything else to clean it off with, pee on it. It’s an upgrade, because your feet smell like pee, not poo.”
-Joe
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MS Paint Portfolio: Pelican
During a fish-and-chips lunch in Marin:
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You can check out any time you like, but...
Well, I’m back in NY and just spent the last 10 minutes running my feet under hot water in the bathtub to forestall frostbite, during which I had time to reflect on 1) reconsidering my stance on Uggs, and 2) California. Going home this time around was a strange experience. Aside from a quick pitstop in April, I hadn’t been properly home since Thanksgiving ‘08, which makes this...
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after several sidecars and sloe gins
“…but, so, it’s in order of importance, so first they vaccinate the pregnant mothers; second is the kids under two; second—”
“—third!”
“—third, yes, third is everyone under the age of 25…”
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California Moments: 12/21/09
Mum, bent over an inexorable Pollack puzzle in the kitchen listening to my Christmas Mix as I enter, says “Who wrote this poem?” and I say “Robert Browning, perhaps?” and she says “No, never,” and I rush downstairs and shout up “No, it’s Robert Hayden,” and she says “That’s more like it” and I say “Should I play it...
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Daphne has convictions.
“Here and now I do solemnly swear
I will never date a man who can braid his own hair.”
-Daphne
Seriously, Publishing?
It has been Christmas and New Years, which means all of publishing has been shut down for weeks. How can there possibly be 238 things to talk about?
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MS Paint Portfolio: Texas feud
(Technically he responded “Aemon [Last Name]!”, but we don’t need to get too too personal now on this here blog, y’all.)
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From the end of Flaath of July
Evan’s Dad: Well, you’ll all have to come back next year. Sanam: Aw, do we have to? I wanted to spend next year in the rain in Williamsburg again—just me and a bunch of ironic mustaches, none of these cornfields and barns and stuff…
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MS Paint Portfolio: HTML Puns
Sanam just slit her own throat after reading that title, but I should totally get this tattoo:
get it??
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Out with the old, in with the new