You to Thank

The November-to-January stretch is generally one of my favorite times of year, though it's principally defined by all the stuff that doesn't always happen over the rest of the year: I see my Saratoga friends more often (besides the holidays, it seems like there's always at least one visit during the last two months of the year), I shop for Christmas presents, I go to lots of parties, I'm off of ...

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My children need wine

As Marisa mentioned, we got a lot of embarrassed looks when we mentioned that we were going to Disneyland Paris, and I do understand, it seems like going to France and then eating at McDonald's. However, it is not actually like this for several reasons: 1. McDonald's is everywhere. While Disney might generally be everywhere, there are only four Disney amusement parks. IN THE WORLD. 2. While it ...

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Five days in Paris

I thought about doing this in multiple posts but I think I'm going to try to hit it all together, since I need to get back to actual life soon and if I'm spending time thinking in detail about Paris for the next three or four days, I might find myself reluctant to leave the apartment. So I covered part of the first day when I wrote about the Lily Allen show. Before that, we went to the Louvre, ...

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Blazin

While I was watching Where the Wild Things Are with a bunch of people in IMAX (hey nerds: Marisa, Amanda, Rayme, Craig, Nathaniel, Sara Katie, Kate, and Jon!), I wasn't thinking much about when my mom used to read me the book (I have more vivid memories of In the Night Kitchen , which is in some ways much scarier, and, for that matter, Millions of Cats and Caps for Sale ), but more about ...

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Got your tape and it changed my mind

It dawned on me on Friday, after seeing Paranormal Activity , that we're having a pretty strong year for horror movies: Drag Me to Hell , Thirst , Jennifer's Body , Zombieland , and now this Blair Witch -y shoestring haunted-house movie, easily the flat-out scariest of the lot, and one of the scariest movies I've seen in years. It's not quite as good at Blair Witch Project , a movie I ...

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Dance 'til you're dead

After some will-we-or-won't-we-get-em muck, I was able to get a pair of tickets to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, a smaller venue than they usually play. I'm fine with saying Twitter isn't necessarily useful, it's just fun as long as your friends are smart and interesting like mine are, but I will say I've made good use of it as a concert-ticket alert system. Last time...

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The big three o

Often when I get together with Rob, talk will turn to some awesome or stupid thing we did when we were teenagers, only it will turn out, about half the time, that Rob wasn't actually there, because he wasn't always allowed to go out and do awesome and/or stupid stuff with us. It really hits home, though, when explaining this stuff to someone who wasn't there, and halfway through the story I ...

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Desperate to hear you make the sound that you found for me

Tonight on our way home Marisa and I saw the Weakerthans at Music Hall of Williamsburg. I was all excited that they played both cat songs this time and then I read that apparently they did that last time too, the difference I guess being that I now absolutely love both of them. I see that in fact this set was really just a shorter version of the show we saw a couple of years ago, but I know ...

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You've got a mouthful of diamonds

Marisa and I headed upstate this weekend for our second consecutive Labor Day in Saratoga. We did a lot of the stuff we usually do in Saratoga around this and other times of the year: go to the drive-in, brunch with mom, hang out downtown and in Congress Park, see my brother play a show, play Rock Band with Rob & Sabrina, go to the track (that last one is sort of new, because I never cared much ...

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Seconds and years

I went all of last week without eating dinner at home. That was probably a bad idea on many levels. One thing keeping me from home was Teresa's farewell-to-NYC thing at the Frying Pan over at Chelsea Piers on Wednesday night. I did not have high expectations for this place because bars that can hold this many people are usually a bad scene. And I wouldn't necessarily recommend going back there...

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