http://unapologeticallymundane.com Entirely Unembarrassed to be Fascinated by the Boring Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kamran: What makes you so interested in abandoned food? me: I don't know. I really like food, and I always wonder why someone would just leave it there. I would pick that shit up and dust that shit off. Kamran: I would do that, too. me: Really? Kamran: Yeah, I mean pick it ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/27/lost-and-lonely-leftovers/ I could tell yesterday that you weren't totally blown away by the celebrities I've rubbed elbows with, and early this morning, I realized why. I forgot to add the most important ones, the ones I was actually filmed with. And in Meryl's case, the one that I actually ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/26/no-wait-ive-actually-seen-way-more-famous-people/ My friend Sonya, my doctor boyfriend, Kamran, and I took a bus from Kamran's office in Rockefeller Center to Union Square last Thursday night and then cut down a side street to get to the East Village for dinner. As we were passing by the movie theatre on Broadway, ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/25/guess-who-took-a-picture-of-don-cheadles-sexy-thighs/ Yea or nay? http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/23/boob-job/ This delightful bit of graffiti was on the wall of the L platform at 1st Street: It's funny that I didn't, you know, notice that the Unicef logo on the truck was obscured by the overhead lighting, but I don't get paid to pay attention, yo. http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/20/seen-on-the-subway-pure-booze/ My friend Emily wanted to celebrate her birthday by forcing us to hang out with her allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll day the Saturday before last, so my boyfriend Kamran and I picked up three vats of rainbow sherbet and a pack of rainbow Twizzlers and took the bus down to Tompkins Square Park ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/18/i-became-a-homeless-hatin-neocon-and-its-all-emilys-birthdays-fault/ From the Products That Shouldn't Exist and the Too Good to Be True files, my boyfriend Kamran brings us NIGROIDS, the sweet licorice-flavored expectorant throat lozenge from the folks who brought you The Cadbury Egg, which usually comes in candy form and not truck form. There's absolutely no mention of the name being racially-tied ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/14/due-to-their-laxative-effects-please-keep-your-nigroid-consumption-to-ten-pellets-per-day/ My mom died of brain cancer my senior year of high school, and since she was a teacher at my school, the principal gave me a sorry-your-life-is-ruined gift of a senior photo package worth some hundreds of dollars. It was a pretty cool present, I thought, since I'm generally ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/13/but-everyone-looks-awful-in-their-senior-pictures-right/ The thing I loved most about LiveJournal versus other blogging sites is that it lets you reply to comments and e-mails you when someone replies to your comment, which encourages conversation and community. When I left LiveJournal and began hosting my own blog, I found a workaround in Brian's ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/12/how-to-get-more-comments-on-your-blog-entries-at-least-from-me/ Stella Zotis is totally my favourite designer on this season's "Project Runway". Not because I'm into her aging rocker clothes or anything but because of this: Of course she's from Queens, right? I'm too lazy to download, convert, and trim the clip myself, but I also ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/11/im-into-leatha/ Let's not kid ourselves–chocolate cake that takes three minutes to bake in the microwave is only meant to be consumed out of desperation in the midst of a munchies crisis in the hours between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Or by obese people at any time. And yet ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/09/unsurprisingly-microwave-cake-tastes-like-microwave-cake/ Clearly I don't brag about myself enough here, because I never told you that I totally won an extremely important and incredibly lucrative writing contest earlier this year. The contest was sponsored by the Gotham Writers' Workshop here in NYC, and the idea of it was to submit a ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/07/im-a-nationally-recognized-for-real-writer-sorta/ So I pretty much live in the hippest neighborhood in all of New York City–and certainly in Brooklyn–yet I never actually do anything there, because I'm too busy hanging out with Kamran the Boyfriend in his richie-rich when-you-look-out-my-bedroom-window-you-see-the-Chrysler-Building neighborhood. But on Sunday, that all changed on July 27th when ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/06/mgmt-at-the-mccarren-park-pool-party/ The weekend before last, Boyfriend Kamran and I decided to explore the new Brooklyn Ikea and buy a tiny dresser for me to overflow with the zillions of polka-dot shirts that I'm currently storing folded on a chair in the corner of his apartment. We've always had access to ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/04/a-first-trip-to-the-new-brooklyn-ikea/ These are the sorts of things we do on weekends to amuse ourselves: Zig. Zig zag. Zig zag ZOOM! Kamran's flailing arms aside, my favourite part of the video is the beginning where I have to tell that woman she can walk in front of the camera. I swear New Yorkers are ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/08/04/if-you-leave-a-stupid-ad-in-a-public-place-we-will-have-fun-with-it/ I got to Grand Central a little late yesterday morning, and there were a few too many people crowded on the platform. I took my place behind them and pulled a magazine out of my bag to take my mind off the heat and, you know, my loathing of ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/07/31/the-robin-hood-of-rudeness/ I used to be the lactose tolerant-est. I was raised to think there's no point in eating a meal if you don't follow it up with ice cream for dessert, that Dannon's Fruit on the Bottom yogurt provided great surprises at every turn, and that chips simply don't exist ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/07/30/controlling-what-comes-out-of-my-bum/ My boyfriend, Kamran, recently moved from a regular, old associate office into a partner office at the law firm where he does patent whatnot, and late Saturday afternoon, he took me to work to show me how far he's come. From the old days in a dark little office where things ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/07/28/from-the-poo-to-the-empire/ My best friend Tracey pointed this out to me on her visit a few weeks ago, and boy, am I glad she did. Everyone knows that nothing makes food taste better than a smattering of JOYOUS MELTED CHILD. http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/07/25/the-strange-things-you-find-in-your-local-bodega/ In honor of my very first New York City friend moving back to NYC for the summer after leaving us for grad school in Santa Barbara last year, I bring you . . . An Entry I Meant to Post Months Ago but Totally Forgot About Yaaaaaaay! Meredith was throwing a ... http://unapologeticallymundane.com/2008/07/23/super-sexy-dance-party/