please help me beat this stupid Jennifer person in the color contest semi-finals!

she is ahead of me, with her gauzy curtains and wussy pastels -- right now, it's 138 to 87 -- and I am not happy about that. I think it is still possible to pull ahead but it is going to take some serious help from you all!


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please please check out -- and vote for!! -- my living room in the Apartment Therapy "Room for Color" contest!

tell your friends!


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several months ago I set up an etsy shop to (try to) sell prints of my drawings...and now I have stolen from lapsedmodernist the brilliant idea of actually telling people that it exists.

so...if you like any of my art (or just like me!), please check it out...


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there's an awesome video (which for some reason is un-embeddable) of Bowie-as-Ziggy performing "Starman" in 1972...and it has the following comment thread:

DBowie59 (3 weeks ago): hahah! this I was at this! It was so funny cause EVERYONE danced!

steffe689 (1 week ago): Wow you are retarded.. You cant go see ziggy stardust hes from space ( Read more... )

ok, why have ads for some weird Japanese bidet/toilet combo thingy taken over the internet? seriously. I have seen these on like five sites over the past few days including Salon and Gawker (it's there right now! go look quickly!) and maybe the fucking New York Times.

This product is called Washlet and it is made by a company called Toto that is ( Read more... )

Not that I post very much here, but as of now, this journal is going friends-only.

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foucault is lovebrought to you by the isLove GeneratorOk, it took me getting the ones above as well as "george eliot is love," "discourse is love," and "voyeurism is love," before I figured out that this thing is not ( Read more... )

In the grad student lounge this afternoon, a fellow first-year comes up to me: "You're Abigail, right? At lunch today, we were talking about robots. I heard that you're a real expert on robots ( Read more... )

Sometime last year I got called for Jury Duty. The date was inconvenient so I rescheduled for July 1, 2004. I don't know where I got the idea that that date would be convenient; of course, it wasn't, and when I was planning my trip I had to call and reschedule again for August 16. So I was all set to be at the Quincy courthouse at 8:30am this ( Read more... )