Everyone else did it awhile back, and I inadvertently filed mine away for a different day. You know the rules:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, ( Read more... )

Dear Mets Fan*:

Thank you for participating in the online random drawing for the opportunity to purchase tickets to Opening Day, the Subway Series and the Final Regular Season Game to be played at Shea Stadium.

We are sorry to inform you that your entry was not selected in this drawing.

Text message of the day:
Quote of the year... "I'm always on ( Read more... )

Let's give a hand to the Times. This was just forwarded to me, and it's bringing me joy as I munch through my lunch.

In terms of punctuation, semicolons signal something New Yorkers rarely do. Frank McCourt, the writer and former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School, describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a “New York sentence.” ( Read more... )

From my former newspaper:

Meredith Vieira of NBC’s “Today” show will take the Penguin Plunge into the freezing waters of Lake Champlain today at 1 p.m. to benefit Special Olympics Vermont.

***UPDATE: Also from my former paper, talking about Vieira's plunge:

“It’s a shocker when you first go in. But it’s kind of nice. You realize what it means to be ( Read more... )

- Trying to figure out what is in the boxes stacked somewhat haphazardly in my new bedroom: bad ( Read more... )

It sounds as if I'm going to be able to start moving into my new place around the 21st or 22nd. Which means plenty of time to bring things over and set up shop, as it were.

The bad news? It makes me think about how I don't sit in my armchair as much as I should...

...but maybe I would sit in
( Read more... )

I bought myself a Christmas present last night, but it is one that I won't be able to enjoy until July.

But looooooordy, how I'll enjoy it!

Two tickets to see Ricky Gervais perform in New York. AAAAAAAAAH! Love him. Love his humor. Will love his show.

Anyone want to join me for a summertime trip to Gotham?

Dear Me,

Thank you!

Love, Me

Dear World ( Read more... )

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid50992.aspx

I am going to make my DJ debut on Monday night at River Gods in Cambridge.

Details will be coming within the next couple of days, but if you don't have anything going on and you're up for a laugh, keep your evening open for DJ Vix.