Semper erit aestas.

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The Beach Boys: “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (via)

Oct 31st

Oh! And speaking of skating, here's a hot,...

Oct 30th

“I hate your latest post. Hate. Hate. Hate. ‘Stay out...”
— ZRL

Oct 30th

How to be a skater girl in New York...

I’ve been shredding all over Manhattan for about six months now. When I began, I didn’t...

Oct 30th

Oct 30th

Baby, we were born to run.

Oct 30th

The sister and I text each other Little Richard lyrics on a...

Oct 30th

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SOUND OF SUMMER: Peter Bjorn and John: “Young Folks” (via) This song reminds of that...

Oct 28th

I MADE UP A JOKE!

Q: What do you call a pastry covered in spaghetti sauce that loves to play in the dirt?
A: A Ragu-muffin.

Oct 28th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER WATER. Via.

Oct 28th

After reading...

hot4teacher: THIS……I thought to myself, what the hell, why not run outside today? I had a convo...

Oct 28th

Meet Jane Brewster, my oldest little sister.

Oct 27th

Party 2 Go Go Go

I am going to confess a dirty little secret that most if not all runners keep close to the...

Oct 27th

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Bob Marley: “Is This Love?” (via)

Oct 27th

“I have never understood the concept of infatuation. It has...”
— C. Klosterman

Oct 27th

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The Rolling Stones: “Waiting on a Friend” (via)

Oct 27th

I am currently at cruising altitude, eastbound over the...

Oct 27th

“‘You must know,’ said Estella, ‘that I...”
— Charles Dickens

Oct 25th

On Friday afternoon I ran...

…along the old route past the country club and the church. I remembered every mile marker and...

Oct 25th

KB and I reunited yesterday at her family’s Homecoming...

Oct 25th

Semper erit on repeat:

The Beach Boys: Girl Don't Tell Me
Citizen Cope: Hands of the Saints
The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes
Sam Cooke: Bring It On Home to Me
Fleetwood Mac: Never Going Back Again
Jay-Z: Off That
The Killers: Losing Touch
The National: Green Gloves
The Smiths: How Soon Is Now?
Third Eye Blind: Monotov's Private Opera

Oct 25th

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Freelance Hellraiser: “A Stroke of Genius” The Strokes’ “Hard to...

Oct 25th

Mizzou-Rah-Rah-Rah! It’s game day at the Alma Mater,...

Oct 25th

“None of the guys go steady ‘cause it wouldn’t be...”
— The Beach Boys

Oct 24th

Today I spent the morning...

…driving around my college town, visiting the old haunts, snapping pictures of my former dream...

Oct 23rd

Pop quiz:

CR: Thug means a) freezing rain, b) broken taxi cab meter, c) never having to say you're sorry, or d) none of the above.
EVG: Emphatic C.
CR: You pass the class.
EVG: Although I think a broken taxi cab meter is very thug, especially if you are the one who broke it.
CR: So perhaps the correct answer is C and sometimes B. But now we're veering into calculus territory and that's too nerd even for me.

Oct 23rd

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Talking Heads: “And She Was” (via)

Oct 23rd

I found these Brooks Brothers glasses (right) yesterday...

Oct 23rd

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Sting with Cheb Mami: “Desert Rose” (via)

Oct 22nd

So street.

CR: I thug on a regular basis.
EVG: Do you even know what "thug" means?
CR: I know what it means to be a thug, but the verb eludes me.
EVG: It means never having to say you're sorry. Duh.

Oct 22nd

(via:via)

Oct 22nd

N.Y. Fashion Week: in memoriam

Oct 22nd

Tonight Courtney, Amanda, Amy, Susan, and I went to the Pete...

Oct 22nd

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Smashing Pumpkins: “Landslide” (Fleetwood Mac) (via)

Oct 21st

For Saint Louisans only:

CR: [something about getting fat after college]
RT: I just live on coffee and cigarettes on weekdays. That seems to work.
BNB: Fuck the South Beach diet. That's what I call the SOUTH CITY diet!
All: HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH.

Oct 20th

Fall foliage (and footwear and frock).

Oct 20th

“Bring it to me. Bring your sweet lovin’. Bring it on...”
— Sam Cooke

Oct 20th

Autumn in Saint Louis: Does anyone else see the heart?

Oct 20th

Oct 19th

Motor City cannot get a break.

Oct 19th

“I just met you, but I would give you a ride anywhere in the...”
— C. Klosterman

Oct 19th

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Gladys Knight and the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (via)

Oct 19th

I'm in Saint Louis, tricks.

The first task on my Home State to-do was to bond with the best friend’s new bambina Mason...

Oct 16th

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The Cure: “Friday, I’m in Love” (via)

Oct 16th

Martini glasses at the Brooks Brothers and Mad Men party.

Oct 15th

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Duran Duran: “The Reflex” (via)

Oct 15th

DAILY DOSE OF MY (HOPEFUL) HALLOWEEN COSTUME. I...

Oct 15th

Last night I joined Janie Bryant and All Plaid Out and a...

Oct 14th

“You know the dating pool is getting a little shallow when...”
— KAM

Oct 14th

Via.

Oct 14th

“Here is a ghost Of a summer that lived for us ‘Ere...”
— W. E. Henley

Oct 13th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (TO BE).

Oct 13th

MOjourn.

I’m taking a long sabbatical in the home state for the next two weeks. What better time than...

Oct 13th

via Tea and Strumpets.

Oct 13th

Oct 12th

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Janet Jackson: “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” (via)

Oct 12th

via A Continuous Lean.

Oct 12th

Typical.

PAP: Tell me something cool. And something really lame.
CR: I skateboarded to Brooklyn yesterday.
PAP: Is that the cool or lame thing?
CR: I'd say it's both.
PAP: You can't say both. You have to pick a side.
CR: COOL.
CR: I'm cool.
CR: Right?!
PAP: [logs off Gchat]

Oct 12th

“Thug means never having to say you’re sorry.”
— EG

Oct 12th

DAILY DOSE OF (INDIAN) SUMMER: Sneaks and skate and city and...

Oct 12th

Moms give the best advice:

CR: You know, I wear these drapey, shapeless dresses because I think they hide my flaws and I'm insecure, but I just end up looking like a circus tent.
Mom: I know. You need to rock that body, Cary. I really wish you'd rock your body a little more than you do.

Oct 11th

I look rather pensive in this photo (taken by Kate as we...

Oct 11th

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Jay-Z: “Empire State of Mind” (via:via)

Oct 11th

"That Brooklyn bullshit, we on it."

The great thing about flea markets is that sometimes they’re great, and other times...

Oct 10th

Saturday Style Section:

I’m heading across the River today to poke around at the Flea. To get the creative juices...

Oct 10th

@ Ella.

CR: This song! "Rollin' with my homies!" (Makes wave motion.)
ERJ: Shoe to the face.

Oct 10th

Via.

Oct 9th

“From the Hudson River and to the Nile, I run the marathon...”
— Beastie Boys...

Oct 9th

Heavy.

I cruised to SoHo tonight on the Zig Zagger to meet Sara and Kristen for Diet Coronas. Along the way...

Oct 9th

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Sam Sparro: “Black and Gold” (via) For my Dear Old Varsity, who faces off tonight...

Oct 8th

Yesterday I found a barn in Brooklyn.  Related: I...

Oct 8th

On coasts and irony:

CR: I couldn't live in Williamsburg.
JS: It's too ironic. Everyone is so ironic there.
CR: There isn't any sincerity. They're too busy being ironic.
Woman at table next to us: I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt, but that is the best description of the West Coast that I think I've ever heard.
JS: Oh, no, we were talking about Williamsburg!
WATNTU: Oh! Where is Williamsburg?
JS: It's a neighborhood in north Brooklyn.
CR: But I imagine it's very similar to the West Coast. In that regard.

Oct 8th

“This is ground control to Major Tom. You really made the...”
— David Bowie

Oct 8th

Tonight I met MAM and her actor friend at Mudville 9 to...

Oct 8th

We don't dance enough.

Oct 7th

via:via.

Oct 6th

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Reba McIntire: “Fancy” (via) Dedicated to Lindsay, the fanciest!

Oct 6th

DEAR OLD VARSITY: Missouri alumni lost in New...

Oct 6th

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Architecture in Helsinki: “Do the Whirlwind” (via)

Oct 6th

This.

I didn’t shed a single goddamned tear when I was released from my grown-up job. Six weeks ago...

Oct 6th

ELAINE!

BB: Will you marry me?
ER: I don't know.
BB: But you might?
ER: I might ... I have to see Carl first.
BB: Why do you have to see him?
ER: Well, I said I might marry him.

Oct 5th

“Newport is simply the most divine place for a love affair.”
— JP

Oct 5th

An upcoming project has prompted me to (once again) unleash...

Oct 5th

Katherine Ross is the most beautiful woman to have ever...

Oct 5th

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Muse: “Supermassive Black Hole” (via)

Oct 5th

“Before her marriage she had believed herself to be in love;...”
— Gustave Flaubert. Madame...

Oct 4th

The definitive cupcake chronicle...

Oct 4th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (ASPIRATIONS).  Colton and I have would...

Oct 4th

“Some people consider Sunday evening a time to recover and...”
— A. Simko

Oct 4th

TGIGchat:

CR: [Redacted] certainly provided you with a lifetime of material. She's out of her fucking mind. Her Facebook status updates--
RTC: I'm legitimately concerned for her mind.
CR: And I want her to stop cutting her hair so short.
RTC: With her big fat ass that I smacked like it talked back to me.
CR: HOLY SHIT.
RTC: I think that's the funniest thing I've ever said. I don't even know where to go from there. Wow. I haven't LOLed since 1998.
CR: I am going to sew that onto a sampler and frame it.

Oct 2nd

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R. Kelly: “Bump ‘n Grind” (via)

Oct 2nd

Today.

I needed to be in Brooklyn. I took the 3 train to Grand Army Plaza and walked through Park Slope to...

Oct 2nd

“In New York, Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,...”
— Jay-Z and A. Keyes

Oct 2nd

Salute my affinity for the star-spangled...

Oct 1st

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Sam Cooke: “Bring It On Home To Me” (Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963). Via. Fast...

Oct 1st

I saw this today at 20th and Seventh and had to take a snap,...

Oct 1st

I want to start a vintage American flag...

They will look great in an old apartment filled with light and bright white paint. I’ll hang...

Oct 1st

“‘What’ll we do with ourselves this...”
— F. S. F.

Oct 1st