guess who used to live in my neighborhood? neneh cherry! oddly enough, i found this fact out from a comment on a long island city website, and now i have confirmation from this 1989 article from the new york times.
i was relaying this most exciting news to darkpony this morning, and i said, "it's weird that she lived here since she is british." (note: british people are allowed to live in long island city.) darkpony politely pointed out that neneh cherry is not british but just uses a cockney accent in the middle of "the buffalo stance."
this post was originally going to be a rant about those rubber bracelets like the lance armstrong "livestrong" bracelet and how i'm not such a fan of those, especially after i saw some woman wearing three bracelets that said, "i heart boobies," on them. anyway, the funny part of this story is that i was showing darkpony something on my computer when he suddenly became distracted. well, you know that little google search box that is up by the browser window? mine had a search for "i heart boobies bracelet," but i think darkpony only saw the "i heart boobies" part. i tried to explain to him that i was looking this up because i saw this woman on the subway, and i wanted to see if this was an actual bracelet that was related to fighting breast cancer blah blah blah...but he was not buying it. oh well. busted!
here i am just trying to enjoy a night of watching the olympics, and then a commercial for lipstick jungle comes on. as i briefly look up from my laptop, i catch a glimpse of someone who i think is mary tyler moore, yet her face is melting and her eyes are missing. seriously, facelifts ain't right, kids!
not much. i was in san francisco last week and discovered that it is only the 15th most populous city in the united states. i know! right? mind is blown. who knew? it's the second most densely populated city, so that's why i was fooled i guess. though i did keep seeing the same people...
oh, my chair finally arrived. ray! now it's covered in sticky paws to keep them little rascals from scratching it.
finally, i totally rammed my knee into this marble thing that is part of our bathtub. yowsers! that hurt and i had quite a bruise for a while.
obviously i've been doing something totally awesome all summer which is why i haven't been posting. let's pretend like i was at some artists' colony rather than sitting in my officle doing nothing. boo hoo.
anyway, i'm back because we have an important issue to discuss: the olympics. more specifically, swimming. and really specifically, goggles. has anyone else noticed that everything about swimming- the suits, the pool, the lane lines, etc.- have made technological advances over the years, but the goggles- and swim caps for that matter- are pretty much the same as when i was last on a swim team some twenty-three years ago?i believe that the goggle industry is as corrupt as the oil industry. for reals!
