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how to impress a gamer

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Step #1: Enter the gamer shop in Brookline where he works.
Step #2: Pick out a bunch of Japanese erasers for your kids.
Step #3: When he tells you that “more are coming in this week: little samurai figures…in seven different colors,” respond, “Just what my kids need: a little Kurosawa.”
Step #4: Watch his brain explode as [...]

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miss me?

Friday, June 19, 2009

Sorry, end of the school year, grading, you know how it goes. But lucky for YOU, AFers, when AF gets behind, you’re in for a “bi-weekly highlights” post. Here goes:
* Bassie’s begun working on her first television script. It’s for the show Phineas and Ferb (which is quite possibly the only program that keeps me [...]

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when I go to a quaint little cafe in back bay* and order yogurt with granola…

Sunday, February 15, 2009

…I do not want you to bring out the yogurt topped with what is clearly a broken up Nature Valley Oats and Honey granola bar. I know it’s a recession people, but let’s still show a little effort, okay?
*I will, this time, allow this establishment to go nameless, since I rather liked the lentil soup [...]

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Um, because, like, really? Wow.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

I am home right now because of a fork. Yes, yes, I will explain:
You see, on the way home from work, I thought I would grab lunch at b. good. It’s healthy; it’s fast; it’s… on the way home. So I went there, got a Southwestern Chicken Salad since it contained half the carbs [...]

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the new iphone’s here! the new iphone’s here!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Well, new to me. Also, I always like to work in a good reference to “The Jerk”. Anyway, I’m sort of in love. And just like a woman in love, I am more irrational than usual, especially regarding how great my iphone is, how it’s so much better than my old phone, how I could [...]

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barbaric female beauty ritual

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Trust me, this was not my idea:

Not that I’m opposed to it; I really don’t care. I mean, I had my ears pierced when I was 8, then when I was in college I just let them close up because I just never wore earrings. Now, I could go all into the anthropological oddity of [...]

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some people!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Place: jcrew, Chestnut Hill Mall
Time: 11:55 AM, Thursday
Personae: jcrew worker (male), jcrew worker (female), tree hugger/environmentalist/stay-at-home dad (male), under-cover operative (me)
Dad: (preparing to pay for merchandise) I’ll just take this in the bag I brought in…
Male worker continues to ring him up.
Female Worker: That bag? I threw it away already.
Dad: (peevishly) I brought it back [...]

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the message board that time forgot…

Monday, November 10, 2008

There I was today, sitting in a tucked away corner of the only decent coffee shop in Waltham, drinking my latte, with nothing to do but peruse the large message board that lay within my sight line. It was chock full of goodies, like ads for private Japanese tutors and yoga classes. But the more [...]

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this is what happens when i don’t unload my camera in a timely fashion

Monday, November 10, 2008
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class warfare

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Why is it totally social acceptable, even preferred, to walk down the street in Brookline with a Starbucks in your hand, but would be totally sketch for me to walk down the street with a Cherry Zero can? As I consider taking the can with me to Coolidge Corner (I could really use some caffeine [...]

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