it all should be different now...but is it?

There comes a time when certain behavior just gets...old.

Now, I've tried to make myself the level-headed observer throughout most of my post-adolescent life. I'm the first to admit that I've done my fair share of crazy behavior. Everyone has. There are certain things you just have to get out of your system when you're young.

So yes, I partied a fair bit when I was in my late teens and twenties. I recall Williamsburg loft parties where rats chased each other across the floor. I've escaped random gunfire in Alphabet City. I spent many an evening huddled around a fire pit in the courtyard of an East Village squat, when still there were such things. And yes, hanging around such places, I saw firsthand how insane chemically-crazed people could be. But there was something about that whole behavior when you're young that makes it not really that...annoying. Out-of-place. Whatever.

It must've been around my mid-twenties when I grew tired of all the craziness and decided to grow up bit. So I did. Now, ten plus years on, I still find myself with some friends who just are stuck in that same old early twenties mindset. Like, just drinking and drinking and drinking, and acting progressively more obnoxious along the way.

What else can I say besides...haven't you gotten tired of it by now? I sure have. A long, long time ago.

My phone broke this morning

It was overdue for me to get a new one anyway.

What's everyone's opinions on this:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2282504,00.asp

Should I buy or is that a PoS?

What I am looking for in a phone: clear talk quality, ability to have a headset, should be easy to me to keep up on my SMS and email, a camera phone would be nice but not needed...

I still can't shell out $399 for one of the lower-end iphones. Still can't do it.

In the meanwhile, I can still check voice mail if anyone needs to get in touch with me.

pictures, ears, pot roasts, and geese

I had my passover brunch today. After everyone finished eating some of us walked to City Park and took pictures of geese. In doing so I finally figured out how to use my camera. I can now take pictures close up, woo. Pics are here. None actually of me up there yet, but maybe in a couple of days.

It was a lovely day, really too nice to be inside. Maybe better for a picnic, maybe next year if it's this nice I'll have a passover picnic. I always like to do something this time of year for passover, if nothing else because it gives me an excuse to cook for people. by myself I'll live off of boca burgers, english muffins, frozen pizza, and fruit that you don't have to cut up and/or peel. But today I made chicken/ matzo ball soup and a buffalo pot roast. And dandelion green salad. mm mm. Of course all of this stuff isn't the easiest to bring out to a picnic, but hey next year will definitely require some re-thinking on my part to make that possible.

Other than that, my life has been incredibly blah lately, a combination of waking up, going to work, going home, going to bed, waking up etc. Maybe it's this viral ear infection I seem to have picked up (and that stubbornly seems to stick around). Maybe it's because it's spring and I feel like I should be accomplishing something, with it being so lovely and sunny and warm and everything . But there's always something impeding whatever fresh and new I try to do. I think about going for a bike ride, but my tire is flat. I re-arrange the bedroom to just the way I like, and then I break my mirror. I go across the street for a mojito cupcake, and I find that the icing is unpleasantly sticky and warm. The bookstore is out of my favorite xtra-large ruled moleskine notebooks. I walk into the record store and realize, distressfully, that I gave away my turntable months ago, and would have no place to store a CD if I ever bothered to buy one. Then I think that wow, I am nearly a textbook case for there having to be a "National Record Store Day" in the first place, how depressing. I wear what looked to be comfortable shiny gold shoes to my friend's art opening, and develop nasty blisters on both of my pinky toes -- and I walked maybe a total of 3 blocks.

I need to get out of this boring slump. Maybe I'll consider dressing like Blythe. Not like I can find those clothes in a 14/16 X-X-tall, or can even sew them (oy). But I can at least consider it, okay?

Real World Audition Tape Fame Whore Alert

From jezebel.com.

If this is real (and I suspect that it is), no wonder why the terrorists hate us.

Seriously. Just click on it. CLICK ON IT. And behold...

Vitamin supplements may increase risk of death

From the Guardian UK:

The review, by the Cochrane Collaboration which regularly pools data from trials to evaluate drugs and treatments, found supplements vitamin A, vitamin E and beta-carotene are detrimental to health. In 47 trials with 180,938 people and a low risk of bias, the "antioxidant supplements significantly increased mortality", the authors wrote. When the antioxidants were assessed separately and low risk of bias trials were included and selenium excluded, vitamin A was linked to a 16% increased risk of dying, beta-carotene to a 7% increased risk and vitamin E to a 4% increased risk.

Evidence for vitamin C and selenium was more equivocal, suggesting there was no benefit to taking these pills compared with a placebo.

rest of the article here.

Well, that just settles it then. Combined with the nasty food poisoning I got when trying to eat something "healthy" at a certain restaurant that used to be a leather bar near the Bluebird Theatre...why bother watching what you eat? If it's going to kill you anyway...

I think I'll get a veggie burger and fries from Watercourse for lunch. Ok, ok, I've been on a combination Weight Watchers / no eating stupid digestive diet plan the past few days. It's hard to get the healthy out of your system once it's already there.

David Bowie, "Life on Mars"

One of my favorite songs. I just found the video courtesy of YouTube, posting it here for your viewing (and listening) pleasure.

J-Street

Caught a bit of this on NPR this morning:



or, jstreet.org.

Sounds potentially promising. At least, I'm glad that there are many out there who are similarly creeped-out at the right wing hijacking the American viewpoint on Israel.

I think I'm going to have a Passover brunch on Sunday, speaking of...it's a lot easier than a seder.