Jul 01 2008
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Jun 30 2008
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“ I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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— Marlene Dietrich
Jun 27 2008
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death by mr. softee jingle
There’s more truth than poetry to the above sentiment.
I love so many things about living in New York, but few have piqued my interest as much as the variety — and inherent bizarreness — of local ice cream trucks.
The traditional Mr. Softee jingle. Even having lived here only seven months, that blasted ditty is burned into my DNA, I’m sure of it. But the most truly riveting of them are the knock-off trucks: the non-Softee wagons that look basically the same, and I’m sure serve much the same product.
But Goddess knows, they don’t sound the same. Oh, the two-tone, bad-Japanese-digital-watch sound of the jingle maker is identical. But the songs! These run-on medleys are the ticket to a quick trip to the Twilight Zone!
Just the other day, The Partner and I were on 37th Ave — the Jackson Heights shopping strip — and heard one of the knock-off trucks at the curb a couple of blocks away. From the time we first noticed it until we had passed it and could barely make out the sound behind us, it played, in order, the following songs:
- Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- House Of The Rising Sun
- O Tannenbaum
- It’s A Small, Small World
- Here We Go ‘Round The Mulberry Bush
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Happy Birthday To You
As if that isn’t weird enough, each of the songs is only identifiable by its first two or three phrases. The end of each number somehow meanders off-course into a Rod-Serlingesque representation of the original; not at all quite right, yet still bearing a little character of the theme. And just when you lose the tune altogether, you’re hurled off into some other, completely unrelated song for another musical trip to koo-koo-land.
I love New York.
I LOVE New York.
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cellpr0n
handheld sexxinez
we haz it
The Partner and I got the new Samsung Instinct as replacements for our old Treo 700p cellphones. The iPhone was greatly appealing, but there was no way south of Hades we were going to dump Sprint for AT&T. Ick. Horrid network.
So far, we’re blazingly happy campers. Amazing gizmos. Fun toys. Highly useful.
Cellpr0n.
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amusing, charming culinary photos....
I found this Russian site where impossibly small figurines have been placed in culinary settings. They are all amazing. Take a look. Here are a few:
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“oh my gawd, like, you should cawl us..!”
the fierce nails
the righteous hair extensions
the über-collagened lips
the accent!
“so cawl us!”