via • linkDebora Drower, Har Mar Theatre on the night before its demolition, Roseville Minnesota, 2006
Har Mar Mall was built in 1961, and derived its name from the couple that owned it, Harold and Marie Slawik. It’s where I saw ‘Natural Born Killers’, where I bought my first copy of ‘Lolita’, and from where Har Mar Superstar took his name.
This is my best friend Kasia. This is the conversation we had earlier:
Kasia: So, I’m getting ready for a costume party right now where we’re supposed to dress as whatever we dreamed of being at age seven.
Me: What are your choices?
Kasia: Well, it’s between Patsy Cline or Jafar.
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It’s a well-established fact that the greatest structure in the entire Twin Cities seven-county metro area is the White Castle-cum-Accordion Dealer/Jewelers.via • link
Fuck, Dawson. The World’s Blandest Girl chose Handsome Sassy Boy over you. It’s not like they ran out of nacho cheese down at the Taco Bell or something.via • link
“There’s nothing more humiliating than bleeding on your laptop from nose-picking while wasting time playing Internet backgammon.”
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Being duped into thinking you like something despite ample and repeated evidence to the contrary due to nostalgia for childhood or wanting to play-act some vision of the kind of life you’ve never had or never genuinely enjoyed.
Candy corn is bullshit candy, but I inevitably end up eating it every Halloween season. And every time I do, I think, Oh, yup. Still sucks. Fooled me again.
See also: office christmas parties, canoeing, fruitcake
link“New Orleans is a city where people make eye contact. There’s a more open sensuality there as well. I’d take that in my perfect city, minus some of the other aspects of that town, such as its tragic poverty, corruption, and crime.”
David Byrne on liveable cities. (via)
For true.
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via • link“First of all, the cocktail menu is labeled “Liquid Suggestions,” which, if dysentery ever writes its memoirs, would be a worthwhile title. The menu divides cocktails into “His” (“Willful Beverages both Handsome and Refined”) and “Hers” (“Downright Gorgeous Cocktails demonstrating both Elegance and Complexity”)—rampant and random capitalization theirs. “Of course,” it reads, “we encourage you to be less than shy about joining the other team if something catches your eye.” (Wonderful advice, incidentally, for kids heading off to their first year of college.) At Le Bar, it’s easier said than done: A man in the mood for bourbon with raspberry vodka, sweet vermouth, and bitters will have to sidle up to the bar, straighten his tie, and summon his manliest baritone to ask for the “Raspberry Womanhattan.” More likely, as occurred in my party the other night, he’ll just recruit a woman to do the ordering for him while he hides behind her, perusing the single-malts.”
Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl on The Cocktail Gender Divide
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