July 28, 2005

Welcome to 2005!

I FINALLY got a new cell phone! YES! And it's only been out with Cingular for a month! Nokia 3220. Color screen, camera, video capture, all kinds of fun stuff!

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Hmmm...

Craigslist Missed Connection

Darnit Monica!!! - m4w - 38 (financial district)
Reply to: anon-87338540@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-07-27, 3:01PM PDT

Why can't I get you out of my head??? I think about you constantly, day and night. We are such good friends, but I am selfish and wish it could be more. I wish I could just sweep you off your feet and treat you like the princess you are. Sigh...

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July 27, 2005

Jesus, anyone?

Maybe this is funny only because it's my friend, Zache, but I find it damn hillarious. The tongue! hahahaha.

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Cheap Wines

For when Two Buck Chuck won't cut it. Can I be a cheap wine expert? Now I don't know jack about wine but I remember after drinking way too much boxed wine for far too long my cousin opened up a bottle of some Robert Mondavi reserve, a red, and I took a sip and it was so good by comparision I nearly died. On my trip to Sonoma, I really liked Hop Kiln's A Thousand Flowers and it was just $12.50.

Posted by Monica at 09:00 AM | Comments (0)

July 26, 2005

No Ping Pong Table

Here's a cool article on the CollegeHumor guys who also started BustedTees.

The partners went for a retro design and asked attractive girls they knew or met in bars to model the shirts for online ads, which they promoted under the name Busted Tees. So far, the company has sold about 100,000 T-shirts online, at a profit of $11 each, and another 75,000 through retailers, at a profit of about $2. There were other benefits as well. Mr. Klein, who does design and photography, is now dating one of the models.

Nice.

Posted by Monica at 10:29 AM | Comments (0)

July 25, 2005

How small can it get?

The iPod, the iPod Mini, the iPod Shuffle... the iPod Flea. How do you ya like them, Apple?

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July 23, 2005

You can call me to talk, you know

R We D8ting? This is a great article about a woman's experiences with text message love.

I turned off the phone, dumbfounded. How had this happened? How had we managed to speed through all the stages of an actual relationship almost solely via text message? I'd gone from butterflies to doubt to anger at his name on the screen, before we even knew each other.

That was it, I decided: no more text-message flirtations for me. From now on I'd stick to more old-fashioned ways of getting to know a guy. Like e-mail.

God, I hope I never experience a break up over text messages. Seth dumping me over IM was bad enough. It's just plain rude to break up with someone over the least expressive medium possible.

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Summer movie season starts, finally

I'm so excited that Wong Kar Wai's new film, 2046 will be released on August 5th.

Posted by Monica at 09:20 AM | Comments (0)

July 20, 2005

The screenprinted t-shirt is not dead

Way cooler than a tuxedo tshirt.

This one is pretty sweet too but where's the crackpipe?!

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July 18, 2005

New Year's Eve Sex

I was chatting with a friend while I was checking my Em and Lo horoscope for the week.

Me: when is your birthday? i forgot
VirgoBoy: sep 9
Me: no shit... i must like the virgos
VirgoBoy: we're good people
Me: virgo (Aug. 23rd-Sept. 22nd)
Put your feet up and stay a while. You've been enjoying the thrill of the chase for so long now, you forgot how much fun it can be to crank back the La-Z-Boy, crack open a tall one, and let the hotties come to you for a change.

VirgoBoy: yessssss

Posted by Monica at 01:04 PM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2005

My last day of being mopey, I swear

I'm sick of seeing you cry
And wasting all your time
On someone who will never care enough
To make you feel loved
To make you feel safe
I would drop my life to take his place

To show you just how good
Being touched could be
Commit these words to memory
For when you find yourself
Pinned under his demands
I am still an option that you have

So carry me around
Like a picture in your purse
Pull me out when things are at their worst

You can show up at my house
Completely unannounced
We'll have that movie kiss we talked about

Where there are no words
Just a soft and gentle score
Our ears will ring from all the strings

We'll let the screen go black
And watch the credits run
And see the names of every one

Who we ever met
And who we ever missed
Each one had a role in this

It's just another film that won't get made
I'm sick of seeing you cry
--Her Space Holiday "Tech Romance"

Posted by Monica at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)

Er, yeah...

I was just checking the usage statistics for this site and this month one of the top search strings was "korean woman armpit." Yeah... you weirdos!

Posted by Monica at 06:51 PM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2005

Loneliness so beautifully described

A Haruki Murakami story has been made into a movie and it going to be showing in San Francisco in a month. It's called Tony Takitani.

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Fine, I believe in love again

I'm going to see The Lovemakers tonight! Yeehaw!

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July 14, 2005

Sigh

I am Strong Sad. I'm also on Break Up Strength Vodka Gimlet™ number 2. :(

Posted by Monica at 11:27 PM | Comments (0)

You Call It Temporary Exile

Jed and I broke up on Monday.

The past few days have, remarkably, gone by without any crying sessions or drunken memory lapses. Mostly I've just been lonely and without a real drive to hang out with people. It's that feeling that makes you lay in bed and stare at the ceiling without really thinking of anything, like that scene in Garden State. I went to Ocean Beach on Tuesday and laid in the sand because the warm sunshine will always cheer me up. Wednesday my brother was gone all day so after a jog around the panhandle, I tried out some retail therapy on Haight St. I made my usual stop at Amoeba and picked up an armload of CDs. I stopped by the new accessories store, So Good, and got a faux iced out skull and cross bones necklace. Then I ate jarred pasta sauce with angel hair and wasted some time staring at the ceiling again. I tried to read but couldn't concentrate so I watch 3 hours of a 3.5 hour movie. I don't think I was in the mood to appreciate such a long film. After a phone call with a friend I went back to staring at the ceiling.

Staring at the ceiling, ceiling, ceiling, cielo...

I think I fell asleep at 4 AM.

Posted by Monica at 07:18 PM | Comments (0)

July 13, 2005

Jason Munn, poster designer

Cool! Local designer Jason Munn, who made an awesome Rilo Kiley poster, has a new website up now. Check it out. He also sells some posters too.

Posted by Monica at 10:38 AM | Comments (0)

July 12, 2005

Otis, members only

Sorry, You'll Have to Leave, As You're Not a Member: Otis club/bar whatever is by invite only so you'll never know how lame and elitist it really is.

Posted by Monica at 11:07 PM | Comments (0)

SF: Too rich and too poor

"...an economy oriented to entertainment, tourism, and "creative" functions is ill-suited to provide opportunities for more than a small slice of its population. Following such a course, it is likely to evolve ever more into a city composed of cosmopolitan elites, a large group of low-income service workers, and a permanent underclass--or into what San Francisco is already becoming, what historian Kevin Starr describes as "a cross between Carmel and Calcutta." --"The Rise of the Ephemeral City" by Joel Kotkin

Posted by Monica at 10:53 PM | Comments (0)

Ah, the internet

Providing a new forum for the self-expression of technologically savvy crazies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. (Except when the internet is temporarily down.) I guess my brother is right to worry about dating girls with Livejournal accounts.

Posted by Monica at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)

July 09, 2005

Sexual Harassment Tshirt

Hmmm, so Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel is in trouble for apparently sexually harassing his employees. If it's true the question will be: sweatshop or sexual harassement? Damnit, Dov, you idiot, you had such a good company with awesome products, why'd you have to go and let your penis do the talking?

Posted by Monica at 09:27 AM | Comments (0)

Hardcore typographers!

Arial or Helvetica? Quiz
Ah, a typographer's subtle and meticulous work is almost never appreciated.

Posted by Monica at 06:07 AM | Comments (0)

July 07, 2005

You have to still wear deodorant

Ovulating women favour dominant men's smell
Women are most likely to cheat on their long-term partner when they are at their most fertile, and they tend to choose genetically superior men for their fling.
So, um, why don't women choose "gentically superior" men the rest of the time? That's what I wanna know.

Posted by Monica at 01:39 PM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2005

Mixed use building

How could people not like buildings like mine where a large business and residential spaces are in the same building? Look at Santana Row, it's all apartments with retail shops and parking garages. I like it a lot. Plus, I can tell people, yeah, I live in that building with the supermarket. Imagine if I lived right above a Trader's Joe's...

Posted by Monica at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2005

Asian kicks ass at eating

Takeru Kobayashi wins the Nathan's hot dog eating contest again. Sonya Thomas placed second.

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Schweeeeeet!

Hot Hot Heat AND Eisley at the Fillmore, July 31st. Tickets on sale on Sunday, July 10th. I'm so there.

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July 03, 2005

Pedestrians go wild!

Crosswalk Button Hack: Change the Don't Walk light into Walk because terrorists always following the signs and never jaywalk.

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July 01, 2005

Capricorn

You're not exactly famous for indulging yourself -- and that goes for anything in any category. You're the epitome of self-restraint, especially when you're on a mission, and your goal is in sight. Right now, though, anything even remotely resembling moderation just won't work for you. Don't you dare feel guilty about it. If anyone has earned a break, it's you. Take advantage of this chance to let go and have some serious fun.

Posted by Monica at 10:49 AM | Comments (0)

Wisdom and granny squares

It seems that during the last few months I've been gaining a lot of respect for elderly women but for really strange reasons.

1. BRIDGE Who knew Bridge was such a freaking tough card game? How the heck do you bid properly and play your cars right? It's no wonder you hardly ever see young people playing bridge. Only older people have time to figure it all out!

2. CROCHET Yikes. I bought a crocheting kit on a whim and tried to learn to crochet. I could not figure out how to hold the hook, the stitch counting, or the abbriviations. What? I even had my brother try to figure it out and after getting his fingers tangled in baby blue yarn, he gave up. I even ran out and bought another book on crochet just becase I'm so stubborn.

Old ladies, I give you mad props.

BTW, the new Miyazaki movie, Howl's Moving Castle? Not so good.

Posted by Monica at 10:02 AM | Comments (0)