when the lights go down in the city

WTF

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:21:42 -0700

Starbucks, wtf is this?

Do we really need a new piece of useless plastic in our lives? Is there a purpose for this instrument? It sort of resembles a swizzle stick, although the body is really too skinny to create an effective stirring motion, plus my particular coffee drink does not need to be stirred.

The top of the instrument fits perfectly into the oblong oval opening of the plastic coffee lid, which leads me to believe this was created to prevent those weird burp-like explosions of coffee that the lid can emit when the cup is full and in motion, say, when you're walking out of the store with your full drink.

Still, not necessary. I'd really rather do without another mass-produced, specialized piece of plastic people will only use once and not recycle.

To add insult to injury, the top of the instrument depicts a little character drinking hot coffee. I can't tell what or who this character is supposed to be - it has the face of an angry wolverine with the body of a mermaid, and bizarre tentacles coming out of its mouth/nose region (think Dr. Zoidberg from "Futurama".) By the way, the hideous character is also trademarked.

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Woke up with this song in my head

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:05 -0700

R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 (LIVE)

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How I Spent My Stimulus Check

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:20:48 -0700

Fascinating website where anyone can upload a photo and their story of how they spent their stimulus check. The personal is political, indeed.

How I Spent My Stimulus Check

http://www.howispentmystimulus.com/

"With a wedding and honeymoon to pay for, its hard to specify exactly where the money went. You could say it went to the photographer, or the caterer, or the bar bill. Or to spending money for our honeymoon in Cancun. All I know is, the money is gone, and it helped to contribute to the best week and a half of my life so that we didn't have to tap into savings or go into debt."

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Viva!

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:02:41 -0700

Steve brought me an awesome piece of propaganda for my tchotchke shelf at work.

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Bonus: My camera angle inadvertently caught a choice excerpt from the b-day card daisy gave me earlier this year.

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This is a first for me

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:21:36 -0700

San Francisco's weather forecast from the National Weather Service:

Smoke

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Rock

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:43:13 -0700

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LOL

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:11:08 -0700

Backstage with Chris

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Tchotchke from Ayako!

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:20:56 -0700

Ayako is in the office this week, and brought me this great little dog tchotchke from Japan! Thank you Ayako, I love it!!

[this is george]

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Pups on a rope

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:42:47 -0700

My contribution to rosemarypepper's ongoing "pup on a rope" series. These lil guys were outside Tartine on Sunday morning:

poodles @ Tartine

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Keeping the Dream Alive

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:31:31 -0700

Mark and tapes!

http://alexdeve.vox.com/library/post/...

I hadn't seen a tape in ages. And then, Mark showed me that it still exists. You gotta love it!

Who still has cassette tapes anymore? I have a shoebox full of them but no way to play them.

by draw.vox.com

Inspired by Alex's photo of Mark above, I want to put together a gallery of people holding one of their cassette tapes. Send me a recent photo of you holding one of your own cassette tapes and I'll add it to the Don't Forget Cassettes photo gallery on my other blog, art is the new religion.

Limited time offer: If you send me your photo AND your mailing address, I will mail you a nice thank you note via the USPS.

Let's see if anyone sends me anything...

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