What is summer with no backyard keg stand? Without Jack and...
Jul 1st
Your daily Gchat:
KB: Remember when you said, "Please don't ever put a ring on it"?KB: That was so fucking classic.
CR: Yes!
[Pause]
CR: Why did I say that again?
Jul 1st
Four weeks into my Hamptons...
…marathon training schedule, and I have already slipped from my rah-rah enthusiasm of day one....
Jul 1st
“The Summer looks out
From her brazen tower,
Through the...”
— Francis Thompson
— Francis Thompson
Jul 1st
DAILY DOSE(S) OF SUMMER: Administered by Jenny, who last...
Jul 1st
Instant film. Instant summer.
Jun 30th
Y'ALL, I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM RUNNING...
Jun 30th
Jun 30th
“Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Ere is a...”
— William Ernest Henley
— William Ernest Henley
Jun 30th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. Celebrating my 23rd birthday with a...
Jun 30th
Facebook walls: Where sisters (and their...
My sister Sweet Baby Jane sent me the top ten desirables for her upcoming trip to the Big Apple. Here it is, uncensored, with my responses in caps....
Find random dudes to get us bottle service at Marquee. OVER MY DEAD BODY.
Go on lots of NYC runs. YES.
Eat sushi like it's my job. YES.
See my seeester and my/your friends. YES.
Barf in a cab at three a.m. PROBABLY.
Do embarrassing things nightly. DEFINITELY.
Eat an entire pizza by myself. LIKELY.
Find vintage cowboy boots. (Start looking please!) GOOD LUCK.
Do one thing touristy (like go to a museum). EH.
See one famous person (other than Cary Randolph). BRING BINOCULARS.
Jun 30th
Jun 30th
On CDs and solo mind games:
CR: Don't stay with him just because you feel guilty.AMB: I know, totally. But that's what I sometimes do. It's like Dane Cook. Have you heard his stuff? "It's not that easy, Becky. All my CDs are in his truck." And that is totally what girls do.
CR: "I can't just walk away from all those CDs!"
AMB: We find any dumb excuse to stay together.
CR: Dudes are like, "Keep the tee shirt. Have a nice life."
AMB: I do that sometimes to be cool, but then I call back a few days later when I reach rock bottom, and I ask for the shirt back, when it is really just an excuse to call.
CR: "I think I might have left a strand of hair on your pillow. Can I come pick it up and talk about things?"
AMB: "I think I left a Poland Springs bottle at your place. I just remembered because I'm really thirsty."
CR: "I need to clean up my germs. Can I come cry on your sofa?"
AMB: "I need my water bottle!" Oy vey.
CR: We are the worst.
AMB: Yeah, I'd totally break up with me if I was dating me.
CR: Oh, God, I'd freak myself out so badly.
AMB: I think it would be pretty hard to play mind games with myself, but I would sure find a way to do it.
Jun 29th
PREPARE FOR AN OVERDOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 29th
En route to the beach for some Friday afternoon sun clouds.
Jun 29th
I played fetch with Marley while he surfed.
Jun 29th
Boat. Beer. Boy (not pictured).
Jun 29th
Mama Randolph: out-cooling me since...
Mom: Where did you go to the bathroom?Cary: There was one on the boat.
Mom: Oh, that's good. And by the way, it's called a head.
Cary: Huh?
Mom: A head. That's what it's called.
Cary: Come again?
Mom: OH JESUS. THE BATHROOM. A BATHROOM ON A BOAT IS CALLED A HEAD.
Cary: Oh!
Mom: Honey, you better learn to talk like a sailor and fast.
Jun 29th
“All summer we just hurried
So come over, just be patient,...”
— C. Martin
— C. Martin
Jun 29th
Juicy\Hypnotize: Felix Brown at Newport’s Blues Cafe.
Jun 27th
My new “Air Moses” (sandals) are all wrong for...
Jun 26th
TASTE OF SUMMER. (Save some for me!)
Jun 25th
FYI: The days are now getting shorter.
Jun 25th
DAILY DOSE OF (HUDSON) SUMMER.
Jun 25th
Listen
Sublime: “Doin’ Time” (via)
“Oh, take this veil from off my eyes My...
Jun 25th
deghanmay:
teaandstrumpets:
via.
Cary Randolph, is this...
Jun 25th
my favorite tumblr blogs:
allthingsalishan: breakfastatmarissas: in no particular order (side note i do not know how to...
Jun 24th
HOW MANY BITS OF SUMMER DO YOU SEE IN THIS PICTURE? I SPY,...
Jun 24th
Tony Montana and his “Fucking Red” foyer.
Jun 24th
“I was talking to a friend who wants to paint her apartment,...”
— ADS
— ADS
Jun 24th
Jun 23rd
“It’s designed to break your heart. The game begins in...”
— Bartlett Giamatti on baseball
— Bartlett Giamatti on baseball
Jun 23rd
CARY RANDOLPH'S TOP TEN RULES FOR...
Plan that shit. Don't skip out for a thirty minute jaunt and say after the first mile or two, "Hmm, I think I'll run ten today!" This never works.Run when you run best. Sure, we've all set our alarms for six a.m., vowing to complete a half-marathon with time to shower before brunch, but um, YEAH RIGHT. I run best in early evening. Find your magic hour and stick with it.
Turn down your iPod volume. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Well, you'll thank your lucky stars I suggested this when you round out mile sixteen and your ears aren't bleeding.
And on that note find a balance between the super peppy jams that help you speed up and more mid-tempo zen songs. A typical musical salad, for example, might swing from the National (zzzzz) to Phil Collins to Sublime to... Get the idea?
Hydrate thyself. Because you're probably hungover and need the water anyway.
If you plan to run more than thirteen miles, tuck a Gu pack in your sports bra. It will come in handy around mile ten when you start to ask yourself, "Why, God?"
Inform someone of your whereabouts. Look. I went to summer camp. What's the first thing you did before hitting the wilderness trail (to smoke cigs and make out)? You told your camp counselor where you were going and when to expect you back just in case a bear attacked you. Camp rules apply here. Bonus points if you find a make-out partner on or before your turn-around point.
Run in the sun. Now that I have a job and I never get to the beach except once in a royal blue moon, I rely on my weekend runs for melanoma time. That's right, I'll be rocking the racer back tan line all summer long, and you can too!
Talk to yourself. Count steps. Sing along with your iPod. Practice sign language. Play the license plate game. In other words, do whatever it takes to keep those hours entertaining.
Remember that all this bullshit --- all these sacrifices, all the cocktails left unsipped, the Friday nights spent scowling over a bottle of O'Doul's while your brosephs dive into the prosecco punch, the black toenails and chafed thighs and wind-burned cheeks and chapped lips and faded highlights and stinky sports bras and roadside vom sessions and cat calls from passing construction workers --- ALL THIS BULLSHIT will pay off in the form of one finisher's medal, one goody bag full of sunscreen packets, one tee shirt, one free bagel, and the incredible high you get when, come Monday morning, your coworkers ask, "How was your weekend?", and you can shrug your shoulders and stir your coffee and say, "Eh, I ran a marathon. How was yours?"
Jun 23rd
DAILY DOSE OF (BOYS OF) SUMMER.
I spent last Friday...
Jun 23rd
(via)
Jun 23rd
Following a three-martini dinner at 5 Ninth two Fridays ago,...
Jun 22nd
This picture says so much about my friendship with KB....
Jun 22nd
Why did I even bother going to college? Everything I need to...
Jun 22nd
“Sharper than a razor blade,
But still be burnin’...”
— S.S.
— S.S.
Jun 22nd
THERE’S ENOUGH SUMMER IN THIS PICTURE FOR ALL OF US.
Jun 22nd
Listen
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” (via)
Jun 22nd
“Your blog today made me misty, talking about Irvington and...”
— Mom This is the first time my...
— Mom This is the first time my...
Jun 21st
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)
Jun 21st
There is only one man in this world who can put the fear of...
Jun 21st
Daddy at his twentieth reunion at Lawrenceville in New...
Jun 20th
“The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green...”
— Phyllis McGinley
— Phyllis McGinley
Jun 20th
Today is the 25th birthday of one of my best friends and...
Jun 20th
But it should...
…come as no surprise that this born Yankee with a Southern accent sometimes does not quite...
Jun 20th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 19th
Hi ho, Daddy-O, it’s off to ‘86 we go. Papa...
Jun 19th
Listen
Hall and Oates - “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”...
Jun 19th
This Sunday don’t forget your father’s...
Jun 18th
“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun 18th
DAILY DOSE OF (DOWNTOWN) SUMMER. On the newly-opened High...
Jun 18th
“When things look worst, we run the most. Three times,...”
— Christopher McDougall (via)
— Christopher McDougall (via)
Jun 17th
ANOTHER DOSE OF SUMMER: With my papa on the prairie. His...
Jun 17th
"Since it is hotter than a son of a bitch...
Jun 17th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: Newport, R.I. (Click through for the...
Jun 17th
I need these for my birthday. I mean, why did I take so...
Jun 17th
Mirror, mirror on the cubicle wall...
CLS: Do you ever look at yourself in late afternoon when you are in the office and feel so fugly?CLS: God, I am so gross right now.
CR: Every single day.
CLS: It’s like, I know I am not this ugly. But I look so heinous.
CR: It’s the lighting. I do too. Everything is nasty.
CR: I feel bloated and fat and tired and old and hideous.
CLS: I feel greasy and hungry and old and just nasty.
CR: And sitting in this chair all day makes me think my ass is literally spreading out like pancake batter.
CLS: Hahahahahahaha.
CR: And I have chronic back pain. I am a total hag.
CLS: I stand up and every bone in my body cracks.
CR: Yes! Why are we getting old?!
CLS: It sucks.
CLS: But at least we aren’t fat.
Jun 17th
“It is important for a gentleman to know when to hold ‘em and...”
— The Foggy Monocle defends the...
— The Foggy Monocle defends the...
Jun 17th
THERE IS SO MUCH SUMMER IN THIS PICTURE. (via)
Jun 16th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (Photo via the Guest of a Guest...
Jun 16th
"I'm a damn good plus-one. I show well. I...
Jun 16th
KB: I really think you should paint your monogram on the bottom of your skateboard.
CR: WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!
CR: WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!
Jun 16th
Springtime Steve, introducing me to my new baby sister on...
Jun 16th
I understand that...
…first experiences do not usually make experts of virgins, but I’m pretty sure that last...
Jun 16th
I am going to marry at least one, if not...
Jun 15th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)
Jun 15th
“We definitely need to plan a big night out with everyone....”
— B. Johnston at Banc on...
— B. Johnston at Banc on...
Jun 15th
Father’s Day is this coming Sunday, but since I...
Jun 15th
I would like to compile a book of the...
Jun 15th
Listen
SOUND OF SUMMER: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: “Fishin’ in the Dark”
Jun 15th
MORE SUMMER.
Jun 14th
“It will not always be summer:
Build barns.”
— Hesiod
— Hesiod
Jun 14th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (SISTER). She gutted this fish herself.
Jun 14th
And nothing but the truth.
CR: Y'all, tell me the truth. Do I look fat?KB: Yes. Now go jump in front of that bus.
Jun 14th
This jumper I am wearing is by Black Halo. You can find it...
Jun 13th
Bleecker Street.
Cary Randolph: Fuck this shit. My feet hurt. [Removes heels.]SB: Be careful! You're going to get AIDS!
CR: Not here. I might catch "Hipster" though.
Jun 13th
DAILY DOSE(S) OF SUMMER. (Do you wear them at night?)
Jun 13th
TGIGchat:
EJ: Where are we going for dinner tonight?CR: Barbuto?
EJ: Kinda pricey.
CR: Shit.
CR: I plan on getting their cheapest white and an appetizer.
EJ: I plan on getting 16 bourbons and eating free bread.
Jun 12th
SUMMER DOSE, APPENDIX A: These are the cousins in question....
Jun 12th
For three summers in a row we...
caryrandolphwrites: …kept a house on 68th Street in Virginia Beach. With brown clapboard...
Jun 12th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
“There was dancing now on the...
Jun 12th
Listen
Thomas Newman: “Define Dancing” (from Wall-E)
Jun 12th
And good riddance to the longest week in the history of...
Jun 12th
Jun 11th
“There must have been moments when Daisy tumbled short of his...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun 11th
Listen
Fleetwood Mac: “Never Going Back Again” (via)
Jun 11th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 11th
“I shame the Devil
‘Cause I throw it down so hard.
I...”
— Stephen Jenkins
— Stephen Jenkins
Jun 11th
My birthday is in four weeks. Among other things, I...
Jun 11th
“[Your sister] left for Florida yesterday morning, and when I...”
— Mom
— Mom
Jun 10th
DOUBLE DOSE aboard the Miller Time.
Jun 10th
DAILY DOSE: The four C’s of summer: Courtney, Chandra,...
Jun 10th
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with...”
— Ada Louise Huxtable
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Jun 10th
Something corporate.
Cary Randolph: I just swapped all my neon paper clips with plain silver. I RULE.PAP: No you don’t. And on top of that, you just wasted seven seconds of my day.
Jun 10th
Skate in stereo.
Jun 10th
Why I never plan to return to Missouri...
Hair stylist Stacey: So are you married?Cary Randolph: Um, NO.
HSS: Engaged? Boyfriend?
CR: Nope and nope!
HSS: [puts down shears and comb and spins chair around to face me] WHAT?!
CR: I'm totally single.
HSS: Not even a boyfriend?!
CR: Not even.
HSS: Well, have you at least BEEN married?
CR: I'm 23.
HSS: So...no?
CR: Yeah. No.
HSS: [fifteen minutes later] God, I just can't believe you don't even have a boyfriend.
Jun 9th
This man dressed as both Hall and Oates for Halloween. That...
Jun 9th
“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun 9th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (EVENING).
Jun 9th
Listen
Bob Marley: “No Woman, No Cry” (via)
Jun 9th
Because in a family of four women,...
Cary Randolph: I want [my wedding dress] to be a straight silk column. With a racer back.Mom: You just want to look like you're going for a run after the ceremony.
Jun 8th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 8th
“I just painted my fingernails blue. You were my inspiration!”
— ALH via Facebook wall, which...
— ALH via Facebook wall, which...
Jun 8th
There are 14 weeks till Labor Day. I...
Louis Auchincloss: The Young ApolloBlake Bailey: Cheever: A Life
A. Scott Berg: Max Perkins
Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park
Joshua Ferris: Then We Came to the End
Mark Steyn: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
William Styron: Havanas in Camelot
William Styron: A Tidewater Morning
David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster
Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life
Jun 8th
HAMPTONS MARATHON training starts today! To see the full...
Jun 8th
Listen
Jay-Z v. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons: “December 4 (Oh What a Night)”
Jun 8th
KEGGERS OF YORE. (Click to join party.)
Jun 8th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (STUFF).
Jun 7th
Beach! (And I know I’m breaking my waffle cone rule,...
Jun 7th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 6th
“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it...”
— Bern Williams
— Bern Williams
Jun 6th
I burst into...
…Apotheke last night and like a magnet drew right to my girl friends where they held court at...
Jun 6th
Hello, Saturday.
Jun 6th
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald...
— F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Jun 5th
‘One of my favorite prototypes I saw was the Treehouse...
Jun 5th
MORE SUMMER. (lavenderlines:evoke)
Jun 5th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 5th
“Hey, it’s me. Your long lost sister. I was just...”
— Baby Sister in a voicemail...
— Baby Sister in a voicemail...
Jun 5th
sweetvirginiabreeze:mittenstategirl:srsly.
Jun 5th
How about some deck stairs to go with my future deck chairs?...
Jun 4th
“The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more...”
— John Burroughs
— John Burroughs
Jun 4th
These friends of mine:
Farmer: You're going to love him. He's a really fun guy!Bradshaw: You mean we'll be hanging out with mushrooms?
Jun 4th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)
Jun 4th
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: On the Severn River in Gloucester,...
Jun 3rd
Party at P.A.P.'s virtual frat house.
Jun 3rd
Coat checks take skateboards and other...
Upon his arrival to 226 last night, KSG's boyfriend remarked that I looked like...Huck Finn. A twelve-year-old tomboy, in other words. A scrappy little street urchin. And my girls were in heels and silk. Finding a more stylish alternative to the shorts-and-Purcells combo that I've been "rocking" will pose an exciting summer quandary.How do you boys survive without handbags? Where do you put everything?!
All my friends want lessons! We will start a gang. I ask only to be paid in Coronas.
He warned me about skating drunk, and that alone gave me cause to try it. All I needed were a margarita and two glasses of Chardonnay at La Bottega last night to get me primed and ready for action. Within one wobbly block in the Ninth Avenue bike lane, I was flat on the ground, gravel stuck to every extremity. Six Band-Aids later...
But I got right back up and skated all the way home!
Jun 3rd
Even in 1994 I knew where I was going.
Jun 3rd
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk...”
— Erma Bombeck
— Erma Bombeck
Jun 3rd
One thing I love about...
…parents is their near constant reaffirmation of how much they “love having kids in the...
Jun 3rd
inothernews:gilmoure:ccake.
Jun 3rd
Next to lobster rolls and my...
…mama’s gazpacho, there is really only one food that encapsulates entirely the true...
Jun 2nd
Twitter and Running Don't Mix
Jun 2nd
When stomping divots, it is best to forgo footwear.
Jun 2nd
Jun 2nd
TASTE OF SUMMER: Every July for as long as I can remember I...
Jun 2nd
“Facebook is horrible. It rips people’s hearts out....”
— JLF
— JLF
Jun 2nd
The Skateboard Film Festival
Jun 1st
Sound of summer.
Jun 1st
Prosecco and blue nail polish on the polo grounds.
Jun 1st
DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.
Jun 1st
Equine envy.
Polo announcer/commentator (with thick, cartoonish French accent): Just look at that beautiful chestnut mare!Roommate CCC: I wish someone would say that about me, damn it.
Jun 1st
“Good” runners celebrate their victories with...
Jun 1st
Jun 1st