Semper erit aestas.

I love having blogger friends because it means I never feel...

Aug 1st

BOOMBOXES! VIA WAVES & BOX! GET IT?! I COULD DO THIS ALL...

Jul 31st

I mean, really, how do YOU read that?

CR: So how did you get to test this new Google [email domain @wavesandbox.com]?
ADS: I got an invite. They test a lot of their things in a sandbox before they release them.
CR: Oh! Ha. I thought it was "waves and box".
ADS: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHA;LDKFJA; OIEJ;LWEJ.
CR: Which made me think, "Surfing and boomboxes? Music? Okay, whatever."
ADS: New blog name!

Jul 31st

I looked up “summer” in the Oxford English...

Jul 31st

THE DEFINITIVE SOUND OF SUMMER.

Jul 31st

A conversation I just had with myself:

Me: When do I know I have a boyfriend?
Me: When I stop wearing makeup for him.

Jul 31st

“My mind can be a total prick. I’ve named him...”
— Lindsay

Jul 31st

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via) This picture reminds me of home...

Jul 31st

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: The Bellamy Brothers “Let Your Love Flow” (via)

Jul 30th

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together;...”
— Jack Kerouac

Jul 30th

SUMMER SARTORIAL. I don’t often blog about fashion as...

Jul 30th

We were on a boat.

Eoin: What in the hell--- Are you trying to open your beer with a SCREW?
Cary: (looks down very slowly at Corona bottle.) Yes?
Colin: I don't think that's going to work.
Eoin: No, let her keep trying. I want to see this. She is from Missouri, you know.

Jul 30th

Slow your (lobster) roll.

Jul 30th

“A kid I babysit just asked me what I want to be when I grow...”
— Sister Jane

Jul 29th

SUMMER IN FLIGHT! As much as I go gaga for the Eastern...

Jul 29th

"For this Midwesterner-by-way-of-Manhattan,...

Jul 29th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER STROLL: Walking home from the beach on...

Jul 29th

“If I ever doubted that you took after me, eldest daughter, I...”
— Mom

Jul 29th

A SPLASH OF SUMMER.

Jul 28th

My dot com just received a much-needed...

…and I am going to tell you why. In 1992 Mrs. Brown assigned our second grade class to write...

Jul 28th

remarkablelulu: Block Island, RI. 2006. Can’t wait to be...

Jul 28th

Somebody once told me there is such a thing as too much...

Jul 28th

ANOTHER DOSE OF SUMMER. Photo courtesy of Mark Allen...

Jul 28th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Guns ‘n Roses: “Sweet Child o’ Mine” (via)

Jul 28th

“’I think I just did something I didn’t mean to do,’ I tell...”
— Ben Schrank

Jul 28th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.

Jul 28th

About boyfriends:

CR: How's [Boyfriend]?
KB: Wonderful. I missed him so much last week.
CR: Awwww.
KB: I know. When I left for Colorado I wanted to kill him. So it all works out, I guess.

Jul 27th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (AND SISTER AND SELF).

Jul 27th

“(347): in the middle of sex he stopped to tell me that he...”
— TXTS FRM LST NGHT:  

Jul 27th

Check out LSP's blog for gorgeous photos from...

Jul 27th

Watch

Watch. Run. Repeat.

Jul 27th

“Spread love. It’s the Brooklyn way.”
— Notorious B.I.G.

Jul 26th

LSP and I met Zach for brunch yesterday at Fort...

Jul 26th

Listen

MARATHON SOUND: Smashing Pumpkins: “Cherub Rock” (via) For the past three years I have...

Jul 24th

“Bid me run, And I will strive with things impossible.”
— Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Jul 24th

IT’S FIVE KILOMETER FRIDAY! Today marks the halfway...

Jul 24th

Calling all New York runners!

Today is the last day to register for the third annual Hamptons Marathon, which takes place on...

Jul 24th

(via)

Jul 24th

Sartorial summer sociology.

Jul 23rd

Watch

If after watching this you still don’t want to get married, like, right this very instant to...

Jul 23rd

SUMMER SARTORIALISTE: the brilliant and beautiful Jane...

Jul 23rd

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Spencer Davis Group: “Gimme Some Lovin’” (via) If within the...

Jul 23rd

Last night Liz Shayala, Kate Greer, and I trekked uptown to...

Jul 23rd

There are moments in every single girl's life...

Jul 22nd

SUMMER SKATE/CELLULAR: I would find some way to lose this in...

Jul 22nd

Hark back to those golden years...

…before iPods, before Gmail, somewhere between AOL and AIM, at the height of Carson Daly and...

Jul 22nd

“Summer has set in With its usual severity.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jul 22nd

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.

Jul 22nd

Follow-up:

CR: That was a brilliant, quotable gem. I remember you saying it, and you sounded so incensed, like it really bugged you that girls always brag about their cupcake fixations.
CCC: Seriously it does [bug me].
CR: OMG I LOVE RED VELVET CUPCAKES I EAT ONE EVERY DAY WHILE WATCHING OPRAH AND READING NICHOLAS SPARKS NOVELS AND THAT'S WHY I'M FAT AND SINGLE.
CCC: Seriously, I just have the worst luck in relationships. I don't know why, it's like God wants me to be single.
CR: So I'm just going to eat another case of cupcakes and do the Jillian Michaels ab DVD and cry into my wine glass.
CCC: But cupcakes are cute, so maybe by consuming them I'll become cute and sweet too?
CR: I especially love cupcakes with twee little icing faces. I fed one to my Yorkie, but it turns out that cupcakes are poison for dogs...and my love life! LOL

Jul 22nd

Via.

Jul 22nd

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Notorious B.I.G.: “Juicy” (via)

Jul 21st

“Every single girl on this planet believes she has some...”
— Roommate CCC

Jul 21st

A secret splash of summer.

Jul 21st

“And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique...”
— John Milton, L’Allegro

Jul 21st

GIRLS’ NIGHT IN: A SUMMER STORY We billed it a...

Jul 21st

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (SHADES). We spent Sunday in Long...

Jul 20th

“I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly...”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jul 20th

TASTE OF SUMMER. (via)

Jul 20th

“Motherfucking porch culture. Just like six or seven people...”
— Ned Hepburn

Jul 20th

Over salty bisque and...

…saltier risotto Sweet Baby Jane told me a Sunday story. In June she flew to Cudjoe Key to...

Jul 20th

Listen

Peter Gabriel: “Solsbury Hill” (via) When illusion spin her net I’m never where I...

Jul 20th

“Never trust anyone who doesn’t love the beach.”
— ADS

Jul 19th

DAILY (SANDY) DOSE OF SUMMER.

Jul 19th

Jesu Cristo! This happened.

Jul 19th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (SAIL).

Jul 18th

At Crate & Barrel. Sister needed a break so announced, ...

Jul 18th

TGIFratty Friday.

AEB: Can you make today a Fratty Friday?
AEB: Let's talk about awesome college things that we can no longer do.
CR: Drink from Solo cups.
AEB: Carry a fake I.D. and be proud to have it.
CR: Wear shacker clothes in public (e.g., returning home from the frat at two p.m.)
AEB: Think that quarter draws were delicious beer AND a great deal.
CR: Five dollar well drinks and sneaking flasks into the bars.
AEB: Start drinking at noon on a Tuesday.
CR: Or student charge our makeup at the bookstore.
AEB: While buying the amazing Sony AM/FM armband headset.
CR: Judge peers based on their Greek letters and frat hierarchy.
AEB: Or visit the library strictly for face time.
CR: Or use the phrase "face time" unironically.

Jul 17th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. Submitted by Miss Yvonne. Puppy and...

Jul 17th

“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing...”
— John Cheever

Jul 17th

Watch

My best friend in the entire world, my rock, my hero, my giver of sage advice, stiff spirits, and...

Jul 17th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Seals & Crofts: “Summer Breeze” (via)

Jul 17th

Top ten best places to steal a smooch.

Jul 16th

DAILY DOSE OF (SARTORIAL) SUMMER. Thanks to Nico, I now know...

Jul 16th

“Your blog really sucks lately. It’s all, ‘Daily...”
— Sister

Jul 16th

Last night LSP and I ventured to the Bowery for a cocktail...

Jul 16th

Not that innocent.

Conductor: All aboard!
Dude: Wait, Britney! Before you go, there's something I want you to have.
Britney: It''s beautiful! But wait a minute. Isn't this---
Dude: Yeah, yes it is.
Britney: But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end.
Dude: Well, baby, I went down and got it for you.
Britney: Aw, you shouldn't have.

Jul 16th

My sister, my fantastic, fierce, firearm-foisting Sweet Baby...

Jul 16th

“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of...”
— Violette Leduc

Jul 15th

Surely some meaning can be derived from my chronology of...

Jul 15th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER.

Jul 15th

Fact(s).

MHL: You need a lock on your girl emotions.
CR: They'd break any lock.

Jul 15th

True to its namesake Pandora unlocked...

Jul 15th

ANOTHER (AQUATIC) DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)

Jul 14th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. Via. Photograph by Steven Lippman.

Jul 14th

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets...”
— Jeffrey Eugenides

Jul 14th

Look at this fucking sandwich! This is my lunch, people! I...

Jul 14th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: “Ooh La La Summer Nights” Delbert says: “Toss on board shorts,...

Jul 14th

THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. (Photograph by Keith...

Jul 13th

A public (pool) service announcement:

Jul 13th

“The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer...”
— Denise Levertov

Jul 13th

DAILY DOSE OF (RECLAIMED) SUMMER. Transforming a dumpster...

Jul 13th

We reach for the star(board):

CR: If for any reason we get laid off, I think we should seriously consider moving to a beach for a year and being bums. We can wait tables and learn how to surf.
ERJ: Okay! But Jesus, I would have a heart attack.
CR: Well, yes, but after the heart attack comes the beach.
CR: You can find a nice sailor. It will be like Saved by the Bell, except we're old and not in Bayside.
ERJ: Why do I get a freaking SAILOR? They have the clap.

Jul 13th

Attempting (and loving) the “faux bob”. And...

Jul 12th

“Summertime And the wind is blowing outside In lower...”
— S. Jenkins

Jul 11th

I had not planned to go out on January 27, 2005, but of...

Jul 10th

“I hope that you write a kind of fucked-up lazy but hardcore...”
— AH And just like that, a...

Jul 10th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER NEWPORT.

Jul 10th

“What you need is a total brainiac who is also a lot of fun....”
— Mom

Jul 10th

Hiero(girl)phics, deciphered:

What I said: I am so spontaneous!
What I meant to say: I have already planned our wedding.

Jul 10th

My birthday theme was “Miami Vice”. Yeaahhh!!!

Jul 10th

Listen

Phil Collins: “Sussudio” Because I am now twenty-four. Because my birthday party is...

Jul 9th

“No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break...”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

Jul 9th

DAILY (DIVING) DOSE OF SUMMER.

Jul 9th

Cary Randolph: Live from New York

Jul 9th

Jul 8th

Oceanfront Running: It's a Beach

Jul 8th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: When you encounter brambles, break on...

Jul 8th

A birthday surprise:

Cary Randolph: Mom, I have to tell you something. Can you pull the car over?
Mom: What! I--- no, I can't. What's the matter? Are you pregnant?
CR: No, worse. This is important. Are you ready for this?
Mom: I don't know.
CR: Okay. This weekend I finally decided--- Are you listening?
Mom: Yes!
CR: I finally decided--- to stop parting my hair down the center.
Mom: Oh, thank God!
Baby Sister: (in the background) What?!
Mom: (to BS) She's going to start parting her hair on the side!
BS: Finally! (Sound of applause.)
Mom: That's the best thing I've heard all day.
CR: My part, like my politics, is slowly inching left of center.
Mom: That's the worst thing I've heard all day.

Jul 8th

Guess who received a birthday tweet from the Foggy Monocle?...

Jul 8th

Happy Birthday Cary Randolph!

lindsayneedscoffee: Cary is: a) a great writer b) also a fellow former Southwest Missouri girl c)...

Jul 7th

A sip, a taste, a swill of summer.

Jul 7th

When we weren’t diving headfirst into the sangria, we...

Jul 7th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: Backyard bacchanalia on the Fourth of...

Jul 7th

“While some ladies will dry up and wither with age, the...”
— The Foggy Monocle

Jul 7th

Although twenty-four brings no major milestones (still one...

Jul 7th

(Faux) flower children.

AEB: Cary, are you turning hippie on me?
CR: It's summer! Who doesn't turn a little hippie?
AEB: I own Birkenstocks and like them, so I know what you mean.

Jul 6th

DAILY DOSE OF (HOMETOWN) SUMMER. Sister Face sent me this...

Jul 6th

“People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone...”
— Ray Davies

Jul 6th

OVERDOSE OF (NEWPORT) SUMMER.

Jul 6th

I've had this experience only...

…once or twice in my adulthood: full awareness in a small, private moment, that my heart, once...

Jul 6th

The very best of summer. (via)

Jul 4th

Happy Independence Day from sunny, beautiful Newport, Rhode...

Jul 4th

SIP OF SUMMER: at the Boat Basin last night with...

Jul 3rd

My best friend's boyfriend makes awesome...

Jul 2nd

“The Old House and the Sea” “It was mayhem,”...

Jul 2nd

I’m throwing myself a birthday party. Come and play!...

Jul 2nd

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Damien Marley and Nas: “Road to Zion” (via)

Jul 2nd

The family that bullshits together...

Carefree: Tell Daddy to come visit me.
Mom: Fuller! Your daughter wants you to visit her!
Daddy: [yells something unintelligible]
Mom: [laughs]
Carefree: What?!
Mom: He said he's coming soon. But so is Christ.
Daddy: [grabs phone] And Jesus might get there sooner.

Jul 2nd

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: administered by SVS, who sent in a...

Jul 2nd

“Carefree, sorry I missed your call. We are thinking of you...”
— Papa Randolph, via text...

Jul 2nd

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

Jul 1st

DAILY DOSE(S) OF SUMMER: Administered by Jenny, who last...

Jul 1st