40 posts tagged “qotd”
Are you watching the Super Bowl today? Who are you watching it with, and which team do you want to win?
i watched an fcbarcelona match.
then went outdoors for a walk and passed by the official fcb store and drooled over a thierry henry jersey.
and then the renaldinho jersey.
oh well.
What are five words you really like?
Submitted by purplesque.
here are six:
- languid
- sanguine
- duende
- geechee
- copacetic
- jazz
What are you saving up for?
Submitted by Star.
A trip to Barcelona in a few weeks to see this exhibit that has been extended to February:
Apartheid: The South African Mirror
My friend Ana Lara saw it in December and I was entranced by her description of the exhibit and will make the trek to see it.
I will almost do anything to see a great exhibit. Once, when I lived in San Francisco, I took a trip to Washington, D.C. because there was a once in a lifetime exhibition of Vermeer's work from Nov. 1995 - Feb. 1996 at the National Gallery. It was a first of its kind show and I knew I'd probably never see that much Vermeer in once space ever again. So I went in the last days of the show in Feb. '96. The exhibit was free but you had to get passes. As I was standing in line, a beautiful, impeccably dressed black couple came up to me and offered me an extra pass that they had. I was so happy. They disappeared and I entered the bliss of the National Gallery. From the gallery's press release of that show:
The exhibition drew extraordinary crowds, and free passes were required for admission at all times. All available advance passes were completely distributed about halfway through the run of the exhibition, and lines for daily passes grew longer each morning. Beginning on November 24, hours were extended until 7 p.m. every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and from February 1, until 9 p.m. each night. [ more... ]
How far from your last home do you live? Why did you move and are you glad you did?
Submitted by Matthew 25.
2,000 miles
montreal, qc -> austin, tx
love my machina verde
made the trip 2x! with no probs
love montreal
the move was bittersweet
love austin
so glad to be here
i'm moving to another austin 'hood today tho'
from the west side to the east side.
clarksville to mlk
clarksville started out as a blk hood, now predominantly white
most longstanding working-class/middle-class blk folks from the area long gone
slowly but surely the gentrification creeps
c'est futile
p.s. i can't stop listening to rilo kiley.
What are your predictions for the World Series?
go red sox!
Who's the coolest culinary celebrity?
susan feniger and mary sue milliken aka two hot tamales
What was the best football highlight of the past week?
being at acl fest away from any mention of football AND having the UT-Austin game way away in central florida.
Which foods do you eat a lot of? Too much of?
Submitted by Allishandra.
a lot of?
-grits, grits and grits (growing we ate a brand called "dixie lily". weird.)
-vanilla soy milk
-frosted mini wheats
-special k cereal with strawberries
-deli sliced turkey
-low sodium V8
-orange juice
-grapefruit juice
Too much of?
-random junk food
-i used to eat too much candy but i've cut down, i could eat an entire roll of rolos or an entire pack of chewy sweet tarts in less than ten minutes. or an aero chocolate bar. yum.
-coffee, trying to cut back
-beef jerky - way too much sodium in that stuff
Do you own all the albums of any particular musical artist or group? Who?
Submitted by dutterman.1. Concrete Blonde
2. Sade
3. Sarah McLachlan
4. Tracy Chapman
5. Everything But the Girl
6. k.d. lang
7. Mary J. Blige
What decision changed the course of your life?
Submitted by Ally.
During my senior year of college, I stopped applying and responding to corporate recruitment programs i.e. consulting firms, investment banks and the like. I decided I really didn't want to be climb the corporate ladder so I graduated jobless and with barely a cent to my name. And loads of debt. But I'm glad I made that decision.
