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Crazy guy: You know, there's a big sale going on, on stars. They're only $10,000.
Amused girl: Oh wow, that's cheap, I totally wish I had $10,000.
Crazy guy: Actually, I'm trying to put together a benefit for endangered animals.

--Union Square

http://northerndownpour.tumblr.com/post/138533094

““Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.””

-  Ralph Waldo Emerson  (via quotewhore) (via aestheticthoughts) (via passthrufire)

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Dad on bike: Look at the ducks!
Excited little boy: Can we run them over?

--Central Park

I've been likening my state of mind to being like that of a newly-healed wound--the scab is fresh, and doesn't really hurt until I start poking at it until it starts bleeding again. When you start to hate Brendon, that's when you know you need to take a step back

I think I should probably stop reading certain posts. I am being way, way too lolsensitive about stuff, and I need to realize that we're all in this together. The best thing that has come out of this whole mess has been the rejuvenation of the community, which is amazing, considering I was convinced there wouldn't be one anymore by the weekend.

This is why I'm spewing out thousands of words of Office AU fic. It's the equivalent of me binging my way through a gallon of Ben & Jerry's.

I showed this to sunsetmog this morning. Here, have a baby porcupine. :)

http://northerndownpour.tumblr.com/post/138478482

starsandgarters:

niven:

Happy Birthday, Court

 Happy Birthday, lady!  Still rocking.  Love.

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Wife with baby in stroller: Watch the coke! Don't spill.
Husband: Are you going to keep saying that out loud until we get arrested?

--SoHo

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Brunette: I would never date a guy who wears skinny jeans.
Blonde: What's wrong with skinny jeans?
Brunette: It means he's got fashion sense. I just don't need that. I would also never date a guy who's sociable.

--Downtown 1 Train

Overheard by: wearing skinny jeans and wouldn't date her either

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/019775.html

Male 30-something lawyer: I'm looking forward to this weekend. Me and my girlfriend are going camping.
Male 50-something lawyer: The only thing I have left to look forward to is a quick, painless death.
Male 30-something lawyer: Have you ever been camping?

--Livingston St, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Big Larry

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Unenthusiastic bro: It smells like fruit.
Overexcited skank: No! It smells like Abercrombie.

--56th St & 5th Ave

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Drunk hipster: God, I just loved Charlie, why did they have to kill him?
Drunk 30-something: No, I'd do Locke, even with his crazy eye.
Drunk hipster: Oh, Sawyer's a babe.
Drunk 30-something: No shit! I'd drink beer out of his shoe.

--Sin Sin Bar, East Village

Overheard by: not as drunk

Headline by: erak

Runners-Up:
· "...And Freebase the Smoke Monster" - DCGeek
· "I'd Drink Beer Out Of a Lot Of Things, Though" - Paul. R
· "This Could Totally Be Me and My Friends" - james
· "Yeah, Well I'd Lick Jam Off Sayed's Back Bro...." - Ria


Click here to see the new Headline Contest

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(train stops late at night, conductor orders everyone out)
30-something man with large black coat on: This is why I drive drunk! This is why I drive drunk! Because the trains suck! This is why I drive drunk!
20-something woman in heels: This is why I get in the car when he drives drunk! This is why I get in the car when he drives drunk!
30-something man: This is why I drive drunk! Fuck this train!
20-something woman: You tell them, uncle! You tell them!

--L Train

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Teacher #1: So I was talking to people in the admissions office, and they were talking about the answers to the question "Who is your favorite fictional character?" (pause) Hillary Clinton? Real. Gandhi? Also real. And Mulan?! I'd reject anyone who said Mulan.
Teacher #2: Maybe they meant Hillary in the sense of how she's depicted.
Teacher #1: That's stupid.

--City Center

Overheard by: Kyle

Hellooo! I just got home from American Idol, and this is probably going to be the worst recap ever, so at least I am warning you about that.

Umm, idk, Idols, yay? In interviews, Adam said that he worked with a choreographer. The choreographer obviously choreographs strippers most of that time, so that was a pretty good success. I think that the best part of the night was when some chick threw her bright pink bra onstage, and Adam picked it up and spun it around his head like a lasso. And then chucked it back in the audience. Adam handling lingere is HILARIOUS, let me tell you. It mostly just seems like he would rather you threw up something in his size because at least then he could get some use of it. This happened during the Slow Ride duet, so Allison is singing while panties are flying around the stage, lol.

Speaking of Allison, *_____* I want for her to hurry up and become old enough that I will be allowed to actively perv on her. Somehow they managed to hook up a wind machine pointing at her when she started singing So What, and her hair was blowing away from her face and hottttt. Hot, and seventeen. ;_____; And then she bopped all around stage and sound really good and stuff. And hot, especially from a distance when you can't tell that she's seventeen.

Kris was pretty boring, honestly. Everyone else was like, "Vancouver!!!" or "VANCOUVER!!!!" or "Vancouver!" and Kris was like, "... Vancouver. :)? " He sounded weirdly apologetic every time he talked to us, I don't know if that's just the way his voice sounds or what? Closing with Hey Jude was a good idea, because singing along with the NAH NAH NAHs was fun. I got all pumped for Don't Stop Believing, and now I am SO INCREDIBLY TIRED right now. Shopping is hard work. Luckily the world's smallest violin is playing me the saddest song.

In terms of the other Idols... people always say that they sound so much better live. They don't sound better; the sound is just MUCH LOUDER. There's actually a difference between those two things. Megan and Lil both looked like small people. Kris looked like a motherfucking fetus. Like, literally he kept on squishing up his face into the face of a fetus when he tried to sing. It is like that other time I went to Vancouver some other year and I saw the Body exhibit at Science World and they had very tiny fetuses in jars, and they looked like they would make for awesome paper weights. If someone put Kris in a jar, I would totally keep him on top of my desk.

Lil did actually sound better than on the show, actually. She stopped shouting so much. The choerographer seemed to have given Adam all the stripper moves though, so Lil dancing to Single Women wasn't the greatest. The (hottest?) Jonas Brother (it's just impossible to tell them apart ever since they all have curly hair) did better dancing. Lil sounded better on the other two songs.

Anoop still makes me feel like I'm in an elevator heading straight to hell. YOU ARE ALWAYS ON MY MIIIIIIIIIND. Like, No, I hope not. I am fairly sure that it's supposed to be, "talking SHIT about me," not talking STUFF about me in My Prerogative, and actually that is one time when the curse word is quite important. Family Friendly strikes again >:(. Matt actually sounded kind of bad, even though there was some kind of autotuner happening, I am pretty sure. All of the voices sounded VERY SIMILAR. Matt's high stuff still doesn't really work.

And then, I don't know? Some other people sang some other songs. All and all, it was fun but just pretty much what you'd expect an Idol tour would be like, so, you know, be prepared for an Idol tour. Don't go in expecting to be surprised.

Adam was awesome, yay! :)

In other news, Brendon tweeted, "Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings." -David Sedaris

and then Spencer tweeted, If this is what love is all about, you can count me out - F. Shazam

and like, WHAT? I can think of so many different things that could mean. Brendon's telling people to be nice to Ryan, even though he's a cokehead (lol, I just typed that as cockhead), but Spencer's saying that he wants to be honest. Or maybe Spencer and Brendon are having the kind of quarrel that husbands have and are using twitter to be passive aggressive at each other. Or, I don't know, other stuff, I really am quite tired right now. Maybe Spencer and Brendon are husbands but they're not fighting? I haven't really worked through that one, but I think that would always be a valid option.

K, zzzzzzz.

♥

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Mikey Fuckin’ Way.

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Girl to foreign friend: I wish my friend Lockdown lived here, but he lives in LA.
Foreign friend: Low down?
Girl: Lockdown.
Foreign friend: What is he?
Girl: Lockdown!
Foreign friend: Lookdown?
Girl: No! Lockdown.
Foreign friend: He's in jail ?
Girl: No, he's not locked up, he's Lockdown.
Foreign friend: So he's married?
Girl: No! His name is Lockdown. He's single.
Foreign friend: So, is he from Malaysia?
Girl: No, Michigan.

--N 6th St & Bedford Ave, Brooklyn

How on EARTH am I writing fic now? How?? Two days ago I thought I was done for.

Look, ridiculous vague Office-ish AU where Jon is Pam and Spencer is Jim!

Jon worked in marketing, Spencer in sales. Their cubes had been right next to each other, and Jon always joked that the wall between their desks was the neutral zone ("Switzerland!") of the office. Days were spent emailing stupid YouTube videos back and forth, or discussing the value of a fourth Die Hard movie via AIM, or convincing Greta in HR that Jon's cat's dental bills should be covered under his HMO plan. Jon never figured he'd stay with the company for too long, until Spencer came, and then...then work wasn't so dull after all.

"I have a game I like to play," Victoria said to Jon once. She worked in accounting with Danny, which meant her cube was directly across from Jon's. "I call it Jon Pong."

Jon snorted as he poured his fifth cup of coffee for the day. "Oh, yeah? Enlighten me."

Victoria smirked. "I count how many times Spencer gets up from his desk to go lean over the wall of your cube to give you heart eyes."

Jon had nearly spilled coffee all over his feet. Victoria laughed and sauntered off.

IDK, IT'S HELPING ME A LOT? \o?

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10-year old son to father: I'm going to punch you in the penis!

--Hudson & Desbrosses

Woman to 4-year-old: I do what I have to do to get things done. I'll even break some legs.

--7th Ave, Park Slope

Girl to friend, sounding genuinely ecstatic: Yeah, he kneed me in the thigh, it was awesome.

--West Village

Woman on cell: Did you try changing its diaper? (pause) What about smacking it around a little and telling it to shut up?

--26th & 7th

Overheard by: Liz

Spent a couple of hours moving furniture around by myself. Thank God for tile floors!

Leaving for San Diego on Saturday afternoon; tabbyola and I are going to road trip from California all the way back to Florida, with a special stop at the Grand Canyon and an even more special stop at offtheceiling's house. &rachel;

There is a 10 Things I Hate About You TV show? Huh. I will watch it! And the two newest Torchwood eps (Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack) ...right after I watch new AuNTM.

I have, like, Thrift Store-itis. I can resist buying pretty much anything if it's brand new. If, however, someone else has had it for 40 years? COVET. Which is a long way of saying that I bought some mid-century (1940s-50s) bedroom furniture (a dresser with a gorgeous curvy mirror and two nightstands) and the thrift store, and now I am very much in love with them. See also: spent a couple of hours moving furniture around by myself.

This means, though, that I have to sell the old shit (plus a desk I literally haven't touched in 2 years) on Craigslist. Which...is a pain the ass. For real.

Jude! Jude got his staples out, and he was very good, and his head is healing nicely and he hasn't bled profusely on anything for two weeks, so, you know. Go team toddler. Still the scariest fucking shit that has ever happened to me, and I want to put him in a bubble, and sometimes I want to clutch his tiny body to my chest and cry over all the horrible things that could happen to him, but, you know. That's motherhood.

In conclusion: tired, stressed, living with 6 icons because my paid account expired and I keep forgetting to update it.

ETA: OMG enoughoflove!! YOUR FAAAAACE!!! ♥

( here is a low-tech amateur ~panorama I took at the lake )

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missworld:

suicideblonde:

Kurt and Courtney with Frances Bean

1. I worked from 5.30 to 2.30(am) today. I feel a little loopy right now, and am so very tired.
2. Computer people are looking at my computer tomorrow, and I'm hoping it's the cord, because, as they told me, that too has warranty (since I only bought it new 5 months ago).
3. Did I uh, sorta mention that I have a date on Saturday? I probably didn't. I hate looking forward to things only to have them not working out or happening in the first place. But. Yeah. Date? Weird. He's nice, though.
4. Thinking about it now, I sort of feel bad that I got my friend Cori a job at my law firm? As proven again today, they're all insane.
5. On the other hand, if I work more and then ask to get my overtime hours paid? That'd be... awesome. I think?