Author Archives: Chris

Catatonic

Daisy drawing Jared’s cat, Whitman

• #daisy#new-york#photo

It gets so crowded,
last time I left with someone
else’s pancreas.

—Found haiku in Yelp review of The Spotted Cat Music Club in New Orleans, Louisiana (source)

• #found-haiku#new-orleans

[...] balanced people don’t usually change the world. If you want to be balanced, go and work at the bank and live for happy hour.

— Chris Guillebeau in an an interview with 99U

• #quote#work

I like you and if
you can’t handle it, you can
just, you know, fuck off.

—Found haiku in Peep Show (Season 1, Episode 4)

• #found-haiku#tv

On repeat

Kawehi performs at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Watch Kawehi in action and get her new album, Robot Heart.

• #music#new-york#photo

Who uses “withdraw”
as a fuckin’ verb besides
catholics and butlers?

—Found haiku in Veep (Season 1, Episode 4)

• #found-haiku#tv

Fare ladies

Lunch with Sara and Daisy at Puerto Viejo in Brooklyn, NY

• #daisy#new-york#photo#sara

Birthday and night

Sara visits Brooklyn, NY and hangs out after hours for her birthday

• #new-york#photo#sara

I’m most superstitious about hubris. I am terrified about having things taken away from me because I finally relax. When I wrote the pilot of Mad Men, I was saying, I’m already successful, why am I not happy? Now it’s become, You didn’t even know what success was. What if your dreams came true?

—Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men in an interview with The Paris Review

• #quote#tv#work

I am not ashamed
to admit that I have learned
a lot from this thread.

—Found haiku in Ask MetaFilter comment for What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you’ve been doing wrong all along? (source)

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New arrival

Surprise baby shower in Brooklyn, New York

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If your biz plan depends on you suddenly being “discovered” by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

— Hugh MacLeod in an article that inspired his book, Ignore Everybody

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Talk of the town

Sarah Kay featuring at Page Meets Stage in Lower East Side, New York

Previously: An open book

• #new-york#photo#poetry

The final word

Urbana Poetry Slam Finals in East Village, New York

Omar Holmon Omar Holmon

Olivia Gatwood Olivia Gatwood

Jeanann Verlee Jeanann Verlee

Crystal Valentine Crystal Valentine

Elizag Elizag

Taylor Mali Taylor Mali

Jared Singer Jared Singer

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I am passionate
about very few things, but
brunch is one of them.

—Found haiku in Yelp review of Tasty n Sons in Portland, Oregon (source)

• #found-haiku#portland

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