tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33083702747418289902024-02-20T01:03:57.280-08:00List-ingGreeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630867258650953316noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308370274741828990.post-89648585638522787482008-03-25T11:22:00.000-07:002008-03-25T12:16:25.937-07:00"I'll be left alone forever with my magazines"magazines i should subscribe to because i already buy just about every issue.<br /><br />-<a href="http://men.style.com/details/">Details</a> (this i seriously do buy every issue, they are the gayest of the "mens fashion" magazines without actually being "gay")<br />-<a href="http://www.esquire.com/">Esquire</a> (usually just makes me feel poor, but at least like I'm getting some kind of <span style="font-style: italic;">culture</span>?)<br />-<a href="http://men.style.com/gq">GQ</a> (decent fashion advice(not that i ever really follow it) and usualy one or two facinating articles but genaraly a little too "manly" for me)<br />-<a href="http://seedmagazine.com/">Seed</a> (i'm a science nerd and an elietist snob, this is the only magazine that really satisfies those two things at once)<br />-<a href="http://www.altpress.com/">AP</a> (where i get my fix of Emo/Pop-Punk boys, mildly pathetic but i'm ok with that)<br />-<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/">Paste</a> (indi/alt-folk and way "highbrow' though if not for them i would have been way behind on the whole <a href="http://www.sufjan.com/">Sufjan Stevens</a> thing so i feel i owe them)<br />-<a href="http://www.spin.com/">Spin</a> (somewhere between the maninstreemy-ness of MTV and the more interesting parts of rock, though it's veering towards uninteresting)<br />-<a href="http://www.out.com/">Out</a> (occasionally interesting, sometimes annoying, though i do enjoy there new "nipple count" feature)<br />-<a href="http://readymademag.com/">ReadyMade</a> (i own every issue of this magazine and thier book. and i met the woman who started it. i <3 this magazine a lot!)<br />-<a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a> (i finally stopped buying it when i realized that at least one of my roommates has a subscription)<br />-<a href="http://www.menshealth.com/cda/homepage.do">Men's health</a> (it makes me feel like i might some day get off my ass go to a gym and maybe eat real people food, even if that hasn't happened yet)<br />-<a href="http://www.believermag.com/">The Believer</a> (for various reasons i haven't needed to subscribe to this for a while but i think i'm going to have to start soon)<br />-<a href="http://www.goodmagazine.com/">Good</a> (this magazine lives up to it's name, and covers all the topics i'm interested in all in one magazine: politics, art, design, etc.)<br /><br />magazines i buy occasionally<br />-<a href="http://www.advocate.com/">The Advocate</a> (buying this usually depends on who/what is on the cover. but it almost always gets a flip through when i'm in the bookstore)<br />-<a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/">Mental_Floss</a> (i am an unashamed trivia nerd.)<br />-<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">Rolling Stone</a> (interesting, if sometimes heavy handed, articles. i buy it more for their journalism then their music coverage)<br />-<a href="http://www.sciam.com/">Scientific American</a> (science nerd. i am a sucker for a headline about quantum anything)<br />-<a href="http://guys.nylonmag.com/">Nylon Guys</a> (mostly a glorified catalog that makes me feel A-ugly and B-poor. though it often has very hot boys on its cover)<br />-<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a> (yes i want to be that snob. though i only buy it if one of the pieces is by someone i know of)<br />-<a href="http://nymag.com/">New York Magazine</a> (their highbrow/lowbrow-despicable/amazing index is one of my favorit magazine features of all time)<br /><br />Magazines i want to subscribe to<br />-<a href="http://www.buttmagazine.com/">Butt</a> (arty, punkish, weird and printed on pink paper. if it didn't ship from Europe and cost 30 Euro i would be all over it)<br />-<a href="http://www.straight-to-hell.net/">Straight To Hell</a> (i'm not ashamed of my pervy-ness. so a little "one-handed" magazine can be quite nice)<br />-<a href="http://www.id-mag.com/GeneralMenu/">I.D.</a> (in my next life i want to be a designer, for now i will just be content to ogle pretty things. both human and non)<br /><br />PS - bonus points to who ever can identify the band who's lyric is this post headingGreeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630867258650953316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308370274741828990.post-22779728177340308742008-03-17T10:41:00.000-07:002008-03-17T10:55:11.153-07:00Things I am Waiting for<span style="font-family: times new roman;">the various things i am anticipating at the moment</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">- an E-mail (granted this is probably never coming but that doesn't make me want it less)</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">- to hear about a job (i'm not sure which way it will go, i really want it but i'm as hopeful as i could be)</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">- a book from the library (</span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Been-Sleeping-Your-Head/dp/0465037666">Who's been Sleeping in Your Head</a><span style="font-family: times new roman;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">- a $9 tax refund from New York State (for all of about 3 days worth of work.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">- someone to win the god damn democratic primary before i pull all of my hair out (i would perfer it to be Obama)<br /></span>Greeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630867258650953316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308370274741828990.post-60778466079867885962008-03-14T18:31:00.001-07:002008-03-14T18:36:03.540-07:00help me?Self help books i am considering reading on the recommendations of friends:<br /><br />- <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-to-Win-Friends-and-Influence-People/Dale-Carnegie/e/9780671723651/?itm=1">How to win Friends and Influence People</a> by Dale Carnegie<br />- <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-New-Earth/Eckhart-Tolle/e/9780452289963/?cds2Pid=16448">A New Earth</a> by Eckhart Tolle<br /><br />The chance that i will read these books:<br />- Slim<br />- None<br /><br />Reasons:<br />- I hate self help books in general<br />- I doubt i will be able to take either seriously<br />- Flashbacks of shelving the self-help section in my 9 months working at a bookstore in BrooklynGreeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630867258650953316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308370274741828990.post-30971869117717751622008-03-12T16:14:00.000-07:002008-03-14T18:29:11.840-07:00To List<span class="pg"></span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/list">–noun </a><br /><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/list">a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.</a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/list">–noun<br /></a><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/list">a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record</a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Things that i like, that i probably shouldn't:</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />- Bad puns and wordplay (see: title of this blog)</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />-</span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo"> Emo</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> (especially </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/EmoBoysKissing/">emo boys</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />- self deprecating humor and cynicism</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />- </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.ikea.com/">Ikea furnature</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />- <a href="http://www.craigslist.org/sfc">Craigslist</a><br />- Bad television<br />- Trashy books, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels">fantasy novels</a>, <a href="http://www.davidlevithan.com/bmb_landing.html">teen fiction</a>, <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Half-Life/Aaron-Krach/e/9781555838546/">gay fiction</a>)<br />and aparently<br />-Making lists<br /></span>Greeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630867258650953316noreply@blogger.com0