I know everyone says this about everything, but I remember Big Dog shirts were a lot more innocent when I was younger.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
CLOTHING!
Specifically, German clothing!
I care about more important things than clothing, though. I also care about the weather, and going to the doctor as much as possible before I go to school and don't have Cigna. I also care about books! I am part of a new book club society with three other co-workers called WORD, Women On Roald Dahl. We are starting with Matilda. But seriously, how cool would it be if I could afford Hui Hui clothing?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Dear TRADER JOE'S,
Do know that I am a passionate fan of your Brand, but moreover, I do not mince words. So I must say that your decision to add two locations to the UPPER WEST SIDE and CHELSEA is 100% MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE. Adding locations to two very affluent neighborhoods, one of which is within WALKING DISTANCE from a current location, sickens me. If the residents of Chelsea are too lazy to walk to the Union Square location, they DON'T DESERVE discount groceries at all. And please, let's not even get into the sickening choice of an Upper West Side location - a veritable land of milk and honey for supermarkets. Whole Foods. Fairway. All those expensive Jewish-slanted places. Dozens of Gristides-type joints. Appalling.
You know where the two new locations should go? I'll tell you. THE BRONX and LONG ISLAND CITY. I know in my heart that there should be a TJ's in the Bronx (or, at the very least, in Inwood), but it's of very little relevance to me lest my greatest GEOGRAPHIC FEARS come true and I student teach there, but let's talk LIC: a fine produce and microwavable burrito center for the denizens of the SEVEN TRAIN, the "far end" of the G away from the easy tidings of Cobble Hill, the E and the V: a supermarket for the part of Queens that DOESN'T HAVE A CAR. I DO NOT "GET" QUEENS, but I "get" that this need must be filled, and I "get" that justice must be served.
I will continue to buy your pizzas and edamame, and to have heartwrenching conversations with every checkout person I meet, but DO KNOW SIRS that it will be through clenched teeth and twisted heart!
- Molly
Do know that I am a passionate fan of your Brand, but moreover, I do not mince words. So I must say that your decision to add two locations to the UPPER WEST SIDE and CHELSEA is 100% MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE. Adding locations to two very affluent neighborhoods, one of which is within WALKING DISTANCE from a current location, sickens me. If the residents of Chelsea are too lazy to walk to the Union Square location, they DON'T DESERVE discount groceries at all. And please, let's not even get into the sickening choice of an Upper West Side location - a veritable land of milk and honey for supermarkets. Whole Foods. Fairway. All those expensive Jewish-slanted places. Dozens of Gristides-type joints. Appalling.
You know where the two new locations should go? I'll tell you. THE BRONX and LONG ISLAND CITY. I know in my heart that there should be a TJ's in the Bronx (or, at the very least, in Inwood), but it's of very little relevance to me lest my greatest GEOGRAPHIC FEARS come true and I student teach there, but let's talk LIC: a fine produce and microwavable burrito center for the denizens of the SEVEN TRAIN, the "far end" of the G away from the easy tidings of Cobble Hill, the E and the V: a supermarket for the part of Queens that DOESN'T HAVE A CAR. I DO NOT "GET" QUEENS, but I "get" that this need must be filled, and I "get" that justice must be served.
I will continue to buy your pizzas and edamame, and to have heartwrenching conversations with every checkout person I meet, but DO KNOW SIRS that it will be through clenched teeth and twisted heart!
- Molly
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Yesterday Emily and I accomplished a WHOLE LOT, and it heralded back to a day last May which, in many ways, I consider to be the "best day ever" because of the synergy and productivity involved:
7:00 - wake up, walk from Greenpoint to the Marcy JMZ, get a pumpernickel bagel with scallion tofutti and tomato from Bagelsmith. For today is not an ordinary day with an ordinary commute: today is JURY DUTY.
8:00-9:30 - watch hilarious instructional videos about the law and slowly realize, after being shifted from help desk to help desk, that I was incorrectly called into Manhattan Jury Duty, while I am actually a Brooklyn resident. I am dismissed and, rather than drudge into midtown for work, I do not divulge that I was dismissed and take the rest of the Thursday to my personal gains. Such as:
10:00 - 11:30ish - Brooklyn Trader Joe's - uncrowded and lovely
12:00 - 1:30 - TAKING A POWER NAP on my couch while watching a DVD
1:30 - 3:00 - GRILLING CORN on the fire escape with the roomie - and directly before this, I picked up some interlibrary loans around the corner, that's how "on" this day was.
3:30ish - BIKRAM YOGA on N7th and smiling smugly the whole time
6:00ish - meet Meg at the New Museum for free day and saunter through the "eh" exhibit dutifully yet joyously. We get ICED COFFEE and then SEE STAR TREK, which, while I am no fan of the Union Square movie theater, was so so so awesome.
Then I went to sleep, probably before 12.
Whenever I think of this day I smile so big. The only thing that could have made it better would be if I actually had jury duty. But some day. Some day.
7:00 - wake up, walk from Greenpoint to the Marcy JMZ, get a pumpernickel bagel with scallion tofutti and tomato from Bagelsmith. For today is not an ordinary day with an ordinary commute: today is JURY DUTY.
8:00-9:30 - watch hilarious instructional videos about the law and slowly realize, after being shifted from help desk to help desk, that I was incorrectly called into Manhattan Jury Duty, while I am actually a Brooklyn resident. I am dismissed and, rather than drudge into midtown for work, I do not divulge that I was dismissed and take the rest of the Thursday to my personal gains. Such as:
10:00 - 11:30ish - Brooklyn Trader Joe's - uncrowded and lovely
12:00 - 1:30 - TAKING A POWER NAP on my couch while watching a DVD
1:30 - 3:00 - GRILLING CORN on the fire escape with the roomie - and directly before this, I picked up some interlibrary loans around the corner, that's how "on" this day was.
3:30ish - BIKRAM YOGA on N7th and smiling smugly the whole time
6:00ish - meet Meg at the New Museum for free day and saunter through the "eh" exhibit dutifully yet joyously. We get ICED COFFEE and then SEE STAR TREK, which, while I am no fan of the Union Square movie theater, was so so so awesome.
Then I went to sleep, probably before 12.
Whenever I think of this day I smile so big. The only thing that could have made it better would be if I actually had jury duty. But some day. Some day.
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