Somebody Stayed In Tonight...

Ah, sad old abandoned Lindsayism.com, it's like when you start a new relationship and lose your own identity for a while. Every single day I save a bunch of things I read and enjoyed that I couldn't put on Videogum because they don't contain a "video element." Here are some from todayish.

* The Paparazzi Proof Tower: 2008's low-stakes version of the Titanic. (And yeah, like anyone followed by the paparazzi wants a shared pool.)

* The Face Your Manga app is big, duh. I started to do one and then thought I don't want to make my own, I want a friend to make mine and for me to make theirs. It's so fraught from both sides, it's like, real art or something! Also: why so many different kinds of mullet?

* Last night a friend visiting from San Francisco bought me a shot of this stuff: Fernet. It's very old and surely very famous, but it was new to me. I thought I would be all cool so I grabbed it out of her hand and threw it back. It tastes like 1000 aspirin dissolved in 1 ounce of Robitussin without the sweetness or point. I know this story sucks, but I've been obsessed with it all day. I was like a lemon baby for a full five minutes. I was like Laura on Little House when Mr. Edwards gave her the malaria medicine. I could go on for hours. (And I have, in internet-time.)

* Spencer Sloan never ceases to find new ways to be the best. Related: coincidentally obsessed with any and all movies based in the '80s in New York these days.

* Wine in a box: will it ever catch on for real? I buy my boxed wine at Vintage on Smith Street. Perfect for picnics and outdoor movies. (2008 bonus: you can say you're being "green" when really you're being cheap! There are so many new things like that in 2008.)

* Have you ever forced yourself to care about something because you had to, and then after a while you started actually caring? That's me with Mad Men. It's like what old grandmothers said about arranged marriages back in whenever: "You will grow to love him. The love will come." I am so deeply obsessed with Mad Men right now it's starting to taste like violence. (I started to use a crass term for "deeply obsessed with" but I just can't do it.)

* And one more of those plug-type links: Gabe's stuff makes me laugh out loud several times per day, every day, most recently late this afternoon: "Come over here and get your viewers."

Comments

[Syar]

Wine in a box just doesn't sound cool or all that fun. Over here in Australia, it is WAY popular with the poverty stricken students who like to party, and they call it goon.

Apparently if you mix it with cordial, it tastes better.

[Josh Rosen]

Lindsayism.com is still my first love.
I might occasionally stray, but like Cúchulainn to Emer, I will always return.
[SMOOCH]

[Jeff]

I have a friend who carries a bottle of Fernet with him in a vintage Executair 880 (google it); it's main power is to keep you drunk all night without you waking up with a horrific hangover. Take a shot or two as you're leaving the bar and you'll be good to go(if the bar as any).