Semper erit aestas.

We spent Sunday in slumber party mode, trying on fancy...

Sep 1st

“Remember that time I came to your apartment, and, well, this...”
— Ladies and gentlemen, may I...

Aug 31st

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (IN THE CITY). (via)

Aug 31st

Climb the social ladder with a little help...

Aug 31st

My FUNemployment list:

1: Get a few more bylines in various publications. (I'll write for free! I already do!)
2: Deep-clean the apartment while Roommate toils at her nine-to-five.
3: Begin drafting my great American novel.
4: Take trips I can't afford simply because "vacation days" are no longer relevant.
5: Run every day in the sunshine.
6: Be awesome.
7: Volunteer, visit museums, and complete other tasks of philanthropy and culture.
8: Paint my bedroom wall.
9: Lose a ton of weight because my ass will no longer be parked in a swivel chair.
10: Coerce my friends into joining me for two-hour lunch dates.
A TOP SECRET PRIZE WILL GO TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO CORRECTLY GUESSES WHAT IS MISSING FROM THIS LIST OF GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS!

Aug 31st

Via.

Aug 30th

“The Indian summer, The dead summer’s soul.”
— Mary Clemmer

Aug 30th

It happened earlier in those days...

…or at least, that’s how I remember it. Back-to-school shopping took place in early...

Aug 30th

“My eyes are starving for beauty.”
— Andre Leon Talley The...

Aug 29th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Bob Seger: “Night Moves” (via) “I woke last night to the sound...

Aug 29th

SUMMER SUSTENANCE: These breakfast club sandwiches at Cafe...

Aug 29th

If I had a dollar for every time I received a...

Aug 29th

Old souls.

CR: In unrelated news, I am so impressed that we had such a lively conversation last night about books.
KSG: We did, didn't we? We are so grown up.
CR: Such adults.
KSG: And then we said really intelligent things like, "I'm excited to be their age, so we can afford hair that looks like that."
CR: HAHAHA. We did. "I can't wait to be in my late twenties!" We said that too.

Aug 28th

meghanasha: My little sister is lucky enough to have found...

Aug 28th

Let's say your job has just...

…evaporated, leaving you standing on the corner of 42nd and Fifth with your mobile in one hand...

Aug 28th

Well one of those major disappointments was taken care of...

Aug 27th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)

Aug 27th

Runner's high can become a real addiction. To...

Aug 27th

Listen

Citizen Cope: “Sideways” (via)

Aug 27th

THIS.

Yesterday I confessed to Lindsay my recent feelings of ineptitude, idiocy, immaturity, and...

Aug 26th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Don Henley: “Boys of Summer”

Aug 26th

“He that will learn to pray, Let him go to sea.”
— George Herbert

Aug 26th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)

Aug 26th

A coincidence of Kennedy-esque proportions happened to me...

Aug 26th

“In the summertime, I don’t know if the stars were aligned....”
— In The Summertime, The Rural...

Aug 25th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. And four months till Christmas!

Aug 25th

Psychology.

CR: If [your girlfriend] asked you what she rates on a scale of one to ten, what would you tell her?
ZL: Eleven. Or a million.
CR: Exactly. Now inside you might think, "Hmm, in all honesty, eight." But you don't tell her she's an eight. You tell her what she wants to hear.
ZL: No, I really think of her as a million.
CR: Oh shit.

Aug 25th

Via.

Aug 25th

“Cary, I decided you were the one I needed to call when I...”
— P.A.P. delivers such summery...

Aug 25th

I am two major disappointments away from chopping my hair a...

Aug 25th

Watch

cestlamode: juliaallison: tmiweekly: The Freshman 15 Kate aka thesevagabondshoes did an...

Aug 25th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: It is so nice to have a boy around to...

Aug 24th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Beach Boys: “Sloop John B” (via) My all-time favorite summer song of...

Aug 24th

Remind me soon to share Papa Randolph’s bad ass and...

Aug 22nd

Listen

ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME: UB40: “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (via)

Aug 22nd

Splitting a post-run, congratulatory Bud Light on Hudson...

Aug 22nd

“I AM IN THE LAND OF AMBITION AND SUCCESS AND MY ONLY HOPE...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a...

Aug 21st

Watch

SOUND OF SUMMER: US Royalty: “Every Summer” Credit for this Eureka! moment goes to...

Aug 21st

Thursday night Brooklyn banter:

CR: (Takes a deep breath.) It smells like beach here.
ZL: Of course it does. We're right by the canal.
CR: Oh, of course.
(Walk a little further. Cross bridge over Gowanus Canal.)
ZL: See? Beach.

Aug 21st

New York City's best running routes.

Aug 21st

Lindsay sends the most incredible emails. How do I top this?...

Aug 21st

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER The Beach Boys “Wouldn’t It Be Nice (The Girls Can Hear Us Remix)” (via)

Aug 20th

Holy Gchat!

Roommate CCC: In other news, our Tuesday TV guilty pleasure: 90210 and Melrose Place, back to back.
CR: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
CCC: "Menage a Tues" or "Tuesday is the new Humpday." Whoever the CW has on its marketing campaigns, I would like to personally shake his hand.
CR: A gentleman and a scholar penned those lines. Inspired by Homer's muses, I have no doubt.
CCC: Calliope strummed her lyre, and voila!
CR: And on the eighth day the Lord said, "Let there be trash on the telly." Lo! The CW was born.
CCC: And then he rested. On the couch. With a beer. And a bottle of nail polish.
CR: We're going straight to eternal damnation and hell fire.
CCC: Eh, I'm currently writing a blog post about Spencer and Heidi. I'm already there.

Aug 20th

ANOTHER DOSE OF SUMMER (SUNSET): Yesterday evening in...

Aug 20th

“Pure hip hop! Don’t sell out. If you ain’t in...”
— “Marky” Mark...

Aug 20th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (SUNSET): 10,000 feet above...

Aug 20th

Brooklynite turns his running routes into...

Aug 20th

“Ah summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like...”
— Russell Baker

Aug 19th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: “High Dive” by Norman...

Aug 19th

Wall-E

Captain: Psst. Computer. Define "dancing".
Computer: Dancing: a series of movements involving two partners, where speed and rhythm match harmoniously with music.

Aug 19th

This place has my name all over it. Where in hell is this...

Aug 19th

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
— Sam Keen

Aug 18th

I brotally love you, my Bro Montana.

Aug 18th

An open letter to my baby sister whose...

Dearest Emily, light of my life, You are about to begin “the greatest four years of your...

Aug 18th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. Real Estate Brokers, Southampton 2007...

Aug 18th

“When I really miss the Ozarks, I fetch a thirty-pack of...”
— LMcC

Aug 18th

Via.

Aug 17th

My thoughts on dieting:

KAM: We need to go on diets.
CR: I know. I thought about giving up cheese, but I might as well die.

Aug 17th

Football players have the Superbowl...

…and I, a runner, have my finish line dance. I think about it more and more as the Hamptons...

Aug 17th

“Right now I’m reporting LIVE from a twelfth floor hotel bar...”
— KB

Aug 17th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (Via:Via)

Aug 17th

“I’ve often noticed that there is a moment when a man...”
— Eve Babitz

Aug 16th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER: Working on my tan at Riverside...

Aug 16th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Simon and Garfunkel: “Cecelia” (via)

Aug 16th

After ten years as a bleached blonde I concede defeat. My...

Aug 16th

“Summer’s all in bloom. Summer’s ending soon.”
— V. Carlton

Aug 15th

I’m outta here! Heading down to Newport News,...

Aug 14th

Beat the heat with good deeds (and a little...

Aug 14th

“I have come to realize that women with great hair usually...”
— Scott “The...

Aug 14th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (IN SAINT LOUIS). I’m extra...

Aug 14th

“Life is short, but the summer is long, And we could get...”
— C. Greenwood

Aug 14th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Frank Sinatra: “Summer Wind” (via) 

Aug 14th

UGH. BOYS.

CR's Gchat status message: No, my first name ain't Baby.
MHL: HEY BABY.
PAP: Every girl's first name is Baby.

Aug 13th

I make a damn fine Betty Draper if I do say so myself.

Aug 13th

Listen

Phil Collins: “Easy Lover” (This classic lite jam goes out to BNB with fond visions of...

Aug 13th

“So forget the beach and the rest of it, the quality of the...”
— Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor

Aug 13th

AN OVERDOSE OF SUMMER, courtesy of Well Plaid.

Aug 13th

Well Plaid. For your sartorial summer...

Aug 13th

En route to the Half King with Kate and Zach.

Aug 13th

“You know that counting your blessings doesn’t do any...”
— Maxwell Evart Perkins

Aug 12th

GRATUITOUS PHOTO OF YOUR (SUMMER) SELF. Nine years old, July...

Aug 12th

We squared off...

…in front of his sister Lisa’s Celica on that slow, hot afternoon, I with the throb of a...

Aug 12th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER. (via)

Aug 12th

Seventeen sounds of summer:

Boombox: Stereo
Notorious B.I.G.: Juicy
Slightly Stoopid: Round the World
Guns 'n Roses: Paradise City
Citizen Cope: Every Waking Moment
Damian Marley: And You Be Loved
Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin'
The Beach Boys: Sloop John B.
Janet Jackson: Love Will Never Do (Without You)
Slightly Stoopid: Fat Spliffs
Bob Marley: No Woman, No Cry
Citizen Cope: Somehow
Sublime: Garden Grove
Clint Black: State of Mind
Van Morrison: Real Real Gone
Ben Harper: Glory and Consequence
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Hey Tonight

Aug 11th

Summer skate. (via) 

Aug 11th

“Those were summers when the heat quivered up from the hot...”
— Colette

Aug 11th

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (OF LOVE).

Aug 11th

katiebeck: Gratuitous photo of myself...

Aug 11th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Jan Hammer: “Miami Vice Theme” (via) 

Aug 10th

“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the...”
— Isak Dinesen

Aug 10th

SUMMER SABBATICAL: This past weekend I found myself in...

Aug 10th

Beach blanket boy banter.

JFA: I thought of a great place to get married. On our surfboards. In the water.
ADS: Dude, you're such a fucking hippie.
JFB: Where would the best man stand?
JFA: Exactly. No one would be able to come.

Aug 10th

alohanico: C1RCA’s picked quite possibly the best name...

Aug 7th

“We’ll put out to sea And we’ll perfect our...”
— The Beach Boys...

Aug 7th

For your birthday I googled you a cake shaped like a...

Aug 7th

It occured to me last night...

…on the corner of Worth and Broadway, as I waited for the light to change, shifting my bag of...

Aug 6th

DAILY (DESERTED) DOSE OF SUMMER: Riis Beach, N.Y. (via)

Aug 6th

“We didn’t change all that much year to year, we just...”
— Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor

Aug 5th

Aug 5th

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as...”
— Nora Ephron

Aug 5th

Summer sustenance and sociology.

Aug 5th

DAILY DOSE OF (BOYS OF) SUMMER.

Aug 5th

Everywhere I go I hear it: "Summer's...

Aug 4th

“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aug 4th

SUMMER AFTERNOON, SUMMER AFTERNOON. Post-brunch and...

Aug 4th

A (very) abbreviated Gchat:

KSG: This is not our gender's month. I saw two girls crying on the street yesterday. We need to take our happiness back. Keep in mind how much we have changed for the better in the last couple of years and know how much we will change (and the boys we date will get cooler) in another couple of years.
CR: I really think half the problem is the fucking internet.
KSG: I know you do! It doesn't help. What do you think our parents think the problem is?
CR: None of this bullshit would happen if we didn't have Facebook and Twitter and years of photo evidence to drive us completely nuts.
KSG: I think choice poisons some. There is a great book on it: Paradox of Choices. If you had Frosted Flakes and Cheerios to choose from you'd leave pretty confident in your decision, but we you have so much info, so much to choose from, to consider, you are never satisfied with your decision.
CR: It's like we have so many options and so many ways to keep tabs on each other. It breeds false intimacy and we never really know if we're making the right decisions. Every decision has so many pros and cons that no option is truly the "right" one.
KSG: Right. That's where "ignorance is bliss" comes in.
CR: So then I drink a bottle of bourbon and throw my computer out the window.
KSG: How do we avoid this?
CR: We can't! That's the problem. We are the smart ones, and yet we have to conform. In other words, welcome to the rest of your life.
KSG: There has to be a way. We have to get comfortable with not knowing and being okay. Knowing that if our fears are confirmed, it's actually for the better to know, and we'll be okay sooner.
CR: True, but so many of our fears are based on evidence we hunt for. Like we've trained ourselves to constantly keep tabs when what we should be doing is letting go.
KSG: Or just noting without assumption, with trust and understanding. HAHAHAAHAH, is that possible!!?
CR: NO. The problem is that there will never be enough information. We get used to knowing a little...then a little more...and suddenly we're in straitjackets being loaded into the ambulance. The love ambulance. The ambulance of girl craziness.
CR: I think we could write the book about it.
KSG: Let's do it.
CR: it will be called "How To Stop Being a Google Sleuth and Save Your Love Life, One Martini and Gchat Bitchfest at a Time."
KSG: Wait, for this book do we have to be successful first?

Aug 4th

Listen

SOUND OF SUMMER: Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Susie Q” (via)

Aug 4th

Saturday’s bacchanal be damned, Kate and I had a long...

Aug 3rd

Listen

Sting: “Fields of Gold” (via)

Aug 3rd

“Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that...”
— William Wordsworth

Aug 3rd

We visited the house in Gloucester...

…every summer, the house that faced the water, the house at the end of the long dirt road, and...

Aug 3rd

“If you haven’t had a chance to drink some Buds outside, sit...”
— Waves & Box : A...

Aug 3rd

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER NEWPORT NARRAGANSETT ENVY THIS IS...

Aug 3rd

Distance runners make better lovers.

Aug 3rd

Www dot lawn dot com.

Aug 1st

Right this very instant:

KSG: Do you want to go to the Frying Pan?
CR: Oh my gosh, let's go to the Frying Pan! Do you want to go to the Frying Pan?!
TEN: Does this mean we aren't going to run today?

Aug 1st

ANOTHER DOSE OF SUMMER NEWPORT.

Aug 1st

DAILY DOSE OF SUMMER (SWILLS).

Aug 1st