Comments on: 24-Hour Party People

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:43:23 +0000

I mostly did it because Colin had to write the article that day, and I wanted to make sure he was able to get enough sleep that he could remember what a great gal I was.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:41:02 +0000

Thanks, mama. I’m going to post this all over his Facebook wall.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:35:37 +0000

That’s the problem with always being the one with the camera–no one thinks to grab it and turn it on you, even when you’re wildly more talented than everyone else.

It’s also the reason I have approximately 2.2 million pictures of Kam and 2 of myself.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:33:22 +0000

1. Agreed, and that’s probably why they chose him for the dirty deed of hanging out with us. To confirm your beer hat theory, he was also chosen to document a bar crawl a while ago, and he said that the three of us were “far more socially apt” than the readers who showed up to that. Which is hilarious, considering.
2. NO.
3. Hey, thanks. He’s a music writer, so this wasn’t really his thing, but don’t tell anyone I said that.
4. You are sooooooooo much nerdier than I had even imagined. Hott!
5. Yes. Even though it will still be 90 degrees in November.
6. Stop transferring your feelings onto me.

By: Tina (mrsvina)

Tina (mrsvina) — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:33:12 +0000

I choose to surround myself with people who are a little prentious… they are the spice of life!

I’m not going to lie, I have been known to check out some bulge when the guys do backbends.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:33:04 +0000

It ain’t no secret, baby. You know I have you on a pedestal.

Was that Dave Barry thing a backhanded compliment? I used to read him as a teenager and thought he was hilarious, but I only seem to hear people making fun of him nowadays, if I even hear his name at all. Poor Dave.

Roald Dahl, eh? Tell me more.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:23:59 +0000

1. AND a Wisconsin grad. If I cared about the Big 10 at all, it would have been ON.
2. Thank you. I appreciate that it makes me look like a lumpy glob of an old lady.
3. Thank you! If magazine writing only involved articles about partying all night, I’d sell my first child to get into it.
4. I’ll bet the DC ones are even better. I wonder if we’d like the things half as much if the blossoms stuck around for more than a week.
5. Are you calling me pretentious and/or bitchy? If some stranger has something going on that’s so outrageous I can judge them without even talking to them, they probably deserve it. And if it’s not a stranger and you’ve given them the benefit of the doubt, they deserve it doubly. Think how boring life would be without preconceived notions and stereotypes. You’re taking yoga just to peek up the shorts, too, admit it.

By: a

Sat, 17 May 2008 08:35:38 +0000

Pshh, you should have not given in.

By: kylie

kylie — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:24:11 +0000

why aren’t you a journalist for time out new york? clearly you are better at it than colin.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:01:16 +0000

WTF? You didn’t save my comment from the first time this was up? I can’t recreate it, you know. (Mostly because I totally forget what I said.) There was something about wanting video of you singing Pat Benatar, though.

By: ael88

ael88 — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:38:36 +0000

My thoughts as I read this, your longest post of all time:

1. Colin is the least reportery-looking reporter ever. I imagine he watches football and wears beer hats.
2. Those brats’ parents probably abandoned them at the park that day. Have pity.
3. Your recount of the day’s events really is better than Colin’s.
4. I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU GOT TO SEE STEVEN PINKER: LIVE! He’s on my list of Favourite Academics.
5. Will you let me try on that cape when I come to NYC? And will you let me wear it in public? And will you take pictures and put them on ~~LiveJournal~~ Unapologeticallymundane?
6. Don’t lie. You couldn’t wait to get naked with Meghan in that sauna.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:10:09 +0000

You may be famous, but I’ve always suspected I’m secretly just as awesome as you are.

That’s cool, ’cause it just means that when you’re the female, sexy version of Dave Barry in 10 years, and I’m the non-anti-semitic reincarnation of Roald Dahl, and we’re both on book tours, we’ll be able to say of each other:

“I read her before YOU did.”

By: Tina (mrsvina)

Tina (mrsvina) — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:41:42 +0000

My thoughts as I read this epic post:
1. Ew, you really had to spend almost 24 hours with a Michigan grad?
2. That cape is majestic.
3. Your narrative is better than that in the magazine.
4. Those Cherry Blossoms are redic. I was in DC for the blooming once when I was very young and it is one of the most vivid memories of my life.
5. I love how you scope out and judge people (Meghan and the Blackberry)… I do the same thing all the time, which leads me to wonder if I’m pretentious or a bitch, to which I reassure myself that it’s their own fault I’m judging because they are oblivious to other people, which is DEFINITELY worse.
I’m taking yoga this quarter and that class is basically people watching… from the three girls that look like they are 12 who gossip the entire time, to some amazingly/freakishly flexible girl that I want to kill, to the straight boys that are obviously in it to peek up shorts during “downward *ahem* dog”.