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i'm simone, i live in new york city & i have an rss addiction.
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Yeah, I just reblogged another quote from this interview, but this is good enough to blog too. I love Sorkin. I want him to do another tv show, especially an HBO show. And I could not agree with him more here. I too am a big fan of oratory, and the last eight years have been missing it, at least from a presidential perspective.
Aaron Sorkin [GQ]
Sports Night was one of the first shows I actively sat down and plowed through on dvd. LOVE IT
(via peterwknox)
Playbill News: Ghostlight Will Release Vintage Recording, “Patti LuPone at Les Mouches”
OMG. Exciting.
Also that is why they call it LuPwn-ing, folks. Because seriously, it’s not a big deal for her to belt her way through ‘Rainbow High’ (and a million other songs) 6 times a week. She’ll just add a late night caberet show for shits and giggles. Ain’t no thing.
Jumping in the Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday fray.
This is my normal facial expression. I have been told it’s intimidating. Thoughts? Opinions?
why yes, friendly spam i have.
in fact my last day is friday. huzzah.
are you trying to tell me something?
so the guy in the deli near work i sometimes go to (but haven’t been in a while) just spoke to me in spanish. and then apologized when i gave him a really puzzled look. this is the second time in a week someone has spoken spanish to me thinking i would understand. odd.Cerveris and Gemignani to Star in Sondheim's ROAD SHOW (Formerly BOUNCE) at Public Theater
Even though the last incarceration of Bounce was apparently a little bit of a cluster-fuck, and regardless of how this version does, any ‘new’ Sondheim show is cause for celebration. Especially with Cerveris and Gemignani. Huzzah!overheard outside the m&m store in times square, where there were two 'm&m's' posing for pictures.
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tourist 1:
we should take a picture with them.
tourist 2:
i don't know...
tourist 1:
come on, then we could make it our facebook picture.
I would just like to point out ...
that, as a college graduate, with a B.A. from Georgetown in political science, I was rejected by Bath & Body Works. Where I applied. To work. As a cashier.
Thank you, education.
The B.A. from Georgetown is probably why you were rejected. There is such a thing as being overqualified. Also you probably wouldn’t have stayed around long enough for you to be worth the investment in training you. And like so many situations, I think Ann Patchett says it best in Truth and Beauty:
“I started looking for work as a waitress, but I couldn’t get hired. My resume included a master’s degree and several publications, including a short story in the Paris Review. By the fifth resturant I figured it out. I gave myself one year of junior college and seven years of solid food experience, operating on the assumption that no one ever checks references anyway. I was remade at TGI Fridays…”
spotted
jack mcbrayer aka kenneth from 30 rock at [title of show] last night.
good choice. good choice.