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March 184
February 125
January 157

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January

The Futureheads say Fuck You to record...

Pitchfork is reporting that the next Futureheads album will be self-released. Bad idea? Maybe not. ...
Jan 31st

An Open Letter to People Who Don't Hire...

You are fools, all of you! Thank you for your time, my resume is attached. Heather D
Jan 31st

Dov Charney stops molesting girls long...

Sweet. American Apparel has come up with the totally original idea of combing thrift stores for...
Jan 31st
Brooklyn-based Etsy Raises $27 Million in...
Jan 31st
Dear “Then We Came To The End” by Joshua...
Jan 31st
Woa! Oh looking at this makes me imagine all the...
Jan 30th

To be young

There is a homeless girl wrapped in a blanket at my subway stop. This would be normal if I were in...
Jan 30th

All I ever really needed to know about...

 … I learned from Yelp? Apparently so. There’s a great thread on the NY Yelp message...
Jan 30th
This morning a construction worker was blown through a glass window and fell to his death in Clinton...
Jan 30th
In LA even the shrubbery is fair game. (via curbed LA)
Jan 30th
Reunited and it feels so good!
Jan 30th

Someone call the Thought Police to come...

I’d like to find some people who are interested in doing some political street art and make...
Jan 30th

Gag.

The Juno soundtrack is number one this week. I love it when Middle-America catches on to something...
Jan 30th
These limited edition Shepard Fairey posters go on sale...
Jan 30th
9:15am, 4th & Lafayette. Alone in the office. Eating...
Jan 30th
Toothpaste for Dinner makes me laugh. And yes, I also love...
Jan 29th
Well thats random. At almost the exact same time I posted my...
Jan 29th
Ork posters seems to be mostly restocked on the super-cool neighborhood posters which sold out so...
Jan 29th

I am going to hug the worlds largest dog...

If you’ve been up at night, unable to sleep because you are dying to know what ever happened...
Jan 29th

Just in case the idea of the future...

Researchers in Australia are working on a radio controlled contraceptive implant for men which could...
Jan 29th
The Catholic Church has moved St. Patrick's...
Jan 29th

In case you missed it, American Apparel...

It’s been a few weeks since the girls of Jezebel posted video of themselves trying on various...
Jan 29th

Is working in the music industry right...

I was just talking about this with a friend in the office. Its like we fucking know the ship is...
Jan 29th

Sweet!

Dear Heather, Thank you again for your interest in the Design Coordinator position. We have examined...
Jan 29th
Warch Watch
Eugene Mirman is my favorite Park Slope resident and comedian, and this is just one of many reasons...
Jan 29th

Guilty Pleasures

Anyone who’s ever been to a suburban American mall is probably familiar with the store Hot...
Jan 28th
Why is it that Paris Hilton looks like a somewhat normal...
Jan 28th

Crunch, NYSC, YMCA, or bust.

Even though it hasn’t (and probably never will) snowed here it’s still been cold enough...
Jan 28th
Work won’t suck today because I got my first new pair...
Jan 28th

Its fucking Monday again?

This shit is lame.
Jan 28th
OH. MY. GOD! NKOTB!
Jan 26th
example of the massive size of this dog — honky-lips...
Jan 26th
I love big dogs. The more ridiculous and oversized and bear-like they are, the better. I had a great...
Jan 25th
This is SUCH a good idea for a valentines gift! I HAD to...
Jan 25th
Breaking: Giant life-sized scrunchies = hot new accessory...
Jan 25th

Tumblr Question

Does anyone know why photos that call out to an html from inside a post don’t show up when...
Jan 25th
Its official, LA has now gotten more snow this year than...
Jan 25th

More LOC fun:

Doing a search for “woman” in the Library of Congress Flickr page has some gorgeous...
Jan 25th
I was just checking out the menu for a potential lunch spot near my work on MenuPages and came...
Jan 25th
This Turntable watch ($65) is really cool, except I...
Jan 25th
For 7 years I had a sweet job in Denver making concert...
Jan 25th
Two pictures tell a story of valor via Greg Knauss ...
Jan 25th

Dashboard/35

Tumblr has now officially joined the ranks of my Google RSS Reader as the thing I can barely keep up...
Jan 25th
Flickr Photo Download: Ain’t it the truth? —...
Jan 25th
3 days ago I discovered last.fm. Today I discovered PostSecret. I am a music junkie working in the...
Jan 24th
Really Big iPod Earbuds (via) — joelaz Great. Another...
Jan 24th

I'm in love.

  Next time I am in Portland I am definitely staying at the Ace Hotel, which apparently has records...
Jan 24th
Remember all that talk I did about a month ago about how I was going to start all those sewing...
Jan 24th
Homemade Bacon Vodka recipe on browniepointsblog.com. This...
Jan 24th

All this talk of goals . . .

I’m going to try and talk my parents out of some frequent flyer miles for my birthday in...
Jan 24th
One of the perks of working next to SoHo is occasional lunch-hour shopping sprees. I feel disgusting...
Jan 24th

Dear Jakob Lodwick and Julia Allison,...

Jakob, You are neither famous nor an individual. Please stop posting topless photos of yourself on...
Jan 24th
I adore anything having to do with owls. In short, any...
Jan 23rd
Hector Serrano’s public art in Spain. (io9)
Jan 23rd
OMG the new Smart Car made it’s debut on American Soil yesterday here in NYC, and it looks...
Jan 23rd

Jackets look stupid without a collar...

The New reissue Members Only jackets will be $950. The gold one is pretty cool looking on the model...
Jan 23rd

Hey Brooklyn, keep it local

With the BrooklynBased.net Fix-it list. The list was compiled from recommendations of readers of...
Jan 23rd

Barbie foreshadowed the hipster look,...

Bust magazine ran an interesting comparison of Barbies face over the years. The verdict:...
Jan 23rd
Gothamist chimes in on Commentgate. To me, the point is...
Jan 23rd
— textme I took this photo of this lady last night on the...
Jan 23rd

This line's dedicated to you, crazies.

  Gawker is reporting that the obnoxiously fantastic Emily and Michelle are on the prowl for a new...
Jan 23rd
BrooklynVegan ran this press photo of the band Cut Copy...
Jan 23rd

In other news

 I’m still obsessed with finding and consuming miracle fruit. Apparently people who are...
Jan 22nd
Block Posters is an incredibly easy-to-use website where...
Jan 22nd
Bedtime. Headphones. Nyquil.
Jan 22nd
“You know you’re in Brooklyn when your pizza...”
— tonight at my house.
Jan 21st

"Re-blogging Julia"

Well this is just fucking brilliant! I mean really. Re-blogging Julia. How did someone not do this...
Jan 21st
Online vocabulary game with a conscience!
Jan 21st
FFFFOUND! — aubii
Jan 21st

Four eyes.

Now that I’m 30 and over the hipster hill, my eyesight seems to be getting worse. I’m...
Jan 21st
I also saw Cloverfield this weekend and HOLY SHIT GIANT MONSTER WITH CREEPY-CRAWLY MONSTER BABIES...
Jan 21st

I may be the only person alove not...

Every person I know who has seen Juno seems to go on and on about how adorable and heartwarming and...
Jan 21st
“I love how you can totally tell those people don’t...”
— Me to Julio on Houston St...
Jan 20th
As seen on Craigslist. “gently used” adult...
Jan 20th
Dude! Free episodes of a ton of good stuff!...
Jan 20th
Porcelain cup, rubber lid, so cute! I wonder how my coffee...
Jan 20th
"Miracle Fruit" makes bitter sour things...
Jan 20th

Man down! (Breaking news!)

It appears I’ve injured my texting thumb in some sort of bizzare onion-cutting incident. No...
Jan 18th
Oh no. No. No. No. No. No.
Jan 18th
I love this photo by Lucas Roberts from the Racked flickr...
Jan 18th

Form but not function.

Image by Ilkka Halso, who believes that once our resources are used up, we will integrate the then...
Jan 18th
Smithsonian opening a hip-hop exhibit...
Jan 18th
First cloned human embryo created from skin...
Jan 17th
The "Select A Candidate" quiz.
Jan 17th
Crazy nutcase cokehead she may be, but I love this...
Jan 17th

Hours of inter-tainment.

The Library of Congress has a Flickr now! Just glancing, I think much of my future inspiration will...
Jan 17th
I’ve been playing on zipskinny.com today. It has a function where you can compare stats from...
Jan 17th

Yeah, Chloe and I are like totally BFFs....

When I was a kid (read: 7th grade) and my parents would leave me alone in the house, I somehow...
Jan 17th

I'm sortof high. And at work. Yet, it is...

I should have stayed home today but I took Dayquil and came in anyway. Maybe I’ll leave early....
Jan 17th
At my desk wanting to sleep
Jan 16th

Stop making sense.

I’m sure there are a 1,000 thrilling things to talk about today (one of which may be studies...
Jan 16th
Gothamist: Cloverfield Review: Run, Yuppie,...
Jan 16th

The times they are a changin'.

Gawker just opened commenting to everyone. I liked it way more when I felt like I was one of the...
Jan 16th

Hey world, remember when shows were...

I wish life were still like this video. I wish I could see a show like this without 300 coked-out...
Jan 16th

Fun with methamphetimenes!

A Canadian woman has sued her drug dealer for selling her meth claiming he sold it “not only...
Jan 16th
Jan 16th
Speaking of AZNs, I’ll leave you with this; A Campaign...
Jan 15th
Streetsblog » Bikes Outsell Cars Down Under
Jan 15th
犬と一緒にするヨガ、DOG YOGA(ドッグヨガ) - JAPAN DOG YOGA...
Jan 15th
The previous post, in conjunction with this post, got me thinking. Sometimes I feel like I am...
Jan 15th

I may or may not wrap my credit card in...

Oh its been a busy week for Heather, and fuck me if it isn’t only TUESDAY. So much has...
Jan 15th

Its cool, I needed someone to be pissed...

Sorry for the lack of posts today. I noticed on my RSS reader today that there was an influx of...
Jan 14th
EMI: The Cost-Cutting Continues, This Time In...
Jan 14th
I don’t have an iron, so I improvise.
Jan 14th

This is the most productive thing I've...

Messy bedroom before: Messy bedroom after: You’d think I would have tried to make the...
Jan 14th

Awww.

“gigs and I had a fight, hence the lack of blogs.” — emilymichelledouglas Emily and...
Jan 13th
Jovovich-Hawk Collection for Target. $24.99, Those shorts,...
Jan 11th
N. 10th and Berry in Williamsburg before, and now. And this...
Jan 11th
MTV has apparently recently gone to Brooklyn to report on (gasp) actual good music, and have also...
Jan 11th

Woa more free MP3s that rock!

And its not even the end of the year! Check out Oh My Rockness’ radio page for a TON of free...
Jan 11th

Global Warming is fun!

I moved to NYC in early January of 2007. I moved in the middle of a Colorado blizzard, assuming that...
Jan 11th
Foreshadowing, in a literal sense. Pakistan Airlines ad from...
Jan 11th

Fruit, Boners, and UTIs.

Remember how I am obsessed with Pomegranate because it helped a bunch of dudes get their...
Jan 11th

More things I want

I go back and forth between obsessing over the greatness of etsy and being annoyed that I often...
Jan 11th
Dude. 3-d Tetris you can play online right now without...
Jan 11th
brooklynvegan: RIAA 'to disappear'?
Jan 11th
I found this on flickr - photos taken in puddles! why...
Jan 10th

Painty-Raid

I’ve been in our new apartment now for over 6 months, and although I feel comfortable and...
Jan 10th
Dog retrieves his best friend - a cat buried...
Jan 10th
The 7th Annual No-Pants subway ride is this...
Jan 10th
“Come to Ma — textme” I love this photo from my...
Jan 10th

textme.tumblr.com

I officially started my new “community” blog yesterday (above). It got a decent amount...
Jan 10th
"How about we go home and I fuck the shit out...
Jan 9th

Coming to an empty field near you

This is pretty cool (and a little creepy) - Travelodge has invented portable little sleeping pods....
Jan 9th

I'm in that band.

Remember how the band just kept playing while the Titanic went down? Thats what it is like having a...
Jan 9th

This could be fun. Or disaster.

I started a tumblog where anyone can send in cameraphone images or text messages. Please check it...
Jan 9th
ANTM Alum Saleisha’s Seventeen magazine spread has...
Jan 8th

Summer of Heather?

The retail blog Racked.com is reporting that the British retailer Topshop will be setting up shop in...
Jan 8th

There is hope for non-ugly...

io9.com Ran this today - A firm in Slovakia did this structure for Public Housing recently, using...
Jan 8th
I’ve possibly solved my own dieting problems with a new plan to eat disgusting things. I just...
Jan 8th

Juno

I had no idea that the Juno screenplay was written by a (now) 29-year old ex-stripper. She also has...
Jan 8th

boobs.

If someone were to be breastfed for the first couple of years of their life then it would be safe to...
Jan 8th
Corner of Houston and Lafayette (NYC) this morning. I think...
Jan 8th

New York, New York

I’ve been trying with no luck to find a serger on craigslist for under $200. I found one today...
Jan 7th
“I’ve been campaigning a lot. And you know I say,...”
— Obama quoted in nymag.com
Jan 7th

No shirt, no shoes, no blog!

Jakob Lodwick continues to post gross-out photos of himself with no shirt on so I removed him from...
Jan 7th

How to: Get A Seat on the F Train...

My laziness knows no boundaries and as such, I fucking hate having to stand on the train, so I...
Jan 7th
Gothamist: Shots Fired at Police by Man...
Jan 7th

Spanning Time.

All of the sudden everyone seems obsessed with this “new” concept of time-lapse self...
Jan 6th
Elyse Sewell (everyone's fave "estrogen...
Jan 6th

Virtual Rant

I feel very strongly that instead of making people unintelligent, the internet has served as a...
Jan 6th
We found the cutest row of houses on a street called Webster...
Jan 6th
Julio hates this picture, but I think its funny. We took it...
Jan 5th

Historic Abandon

(Longmont, CO abandoned sugar mill, via flickr) My fascination obsession with Urban Exploration...
Jan 4th
I just bought my roommate a Clocky for her birthday. It...
Jan 4th

Bitch.

I’m not the kind of person who would normally be interested in reading an Elizabeth Wurtzel...
Jan 4th
No. No. And no.
Jan 3rd

Fruit Flies are getting it on at a party...

According to jezebel.com, recent findings at Penn State show that intoxicated fuit flies will try...
Jan 3rd

I wish I could do a screencapture from...

I don’t use predictive text because the shit I write is so left-field that there is no way my...
Jan 3rd

Wake up, music industry!

When I did my first post-holiday Nielsen Soundscan reports this morning at work I noticed that music...
Jan 3rd
The problem with the Carnation Instant Breakfast variety pack is Strawberry. Who the fuck drinks...
Jan 3rd
Is it just me or does bitch look about 40? I’m 30 and...
Jan 2nd

As Seen On Craigslist

Mannequin Legs: Old and scratched - only $20! Dude. Can you say “bargain”? 
Jan 2nd

The future called and said sorry about...

You can now reserve your COMPLETELY BAD-ASS AND TOTALLY FROM THE FUTURE 3-wheeled electric or...
Jan 2nd
There goes your New Years Eve 2009. Now...
Jan 2nd

ella ella ella eh eh eh

Its a bit over the top, but a feat nonetheless; DJ Earworm has done a mashup of the Billboard top 25...
Jan 2nd

Dead Man Walking

Returning to my job in the music industry on January 2, 2008 is nervewracking.
Jan 2nd