Author Archives: Chris

Macrocosm

Doug told me this quality establishment in downtown San Jose closed down since I moved away. But I knew in my heart that a purveyor of pizza, faxes and key duplication could forever flourish. You really can have it all.

• #california#doug#photo

Squashed

  • Amanda: I think if you also put small cubes of butternut squash in it
  • Amanda: it would be like, crazy delicious fall salad for all times
  • Chris: I didn’t know what butternut squash was 3 years ago. Now I need it in all things.
  • [excruciatingly long pause…]
  • Chris: not sexually
  • Amanda: of all the vegetables one could potentially fuck, a roasted butternut squash is probably not a bad choice. no judgement.

Previously: Face!

• #amanda#chat

Thanksgiving 2012

With Jill & Oj

• #california#jill#photo

  • Natalie: Am I smokey?
  • Jeremy: You better believe it. I’ll tell you what else you are: You are a slow drink of whiskey.
  • Natalie: Say some computer things… Right now.
  • Jeremy: Listen, seriously, those new herbs you’ve been taking? I think you should stop.
  • Natalie: I’m a slow drink of whiskey?
  • Jeremy: Among other things, yes.

— From an episode of Sports Night

• #quote#tv

New day

Getting to the office at 12:01am.
Does that make me the first one in?

• #california#work

An apt title for my memoirs

  • Daisy: What mistake did I cause?
  • Daisy: Are you blaming me for you doing dumb things??
  • Chris: yes
  • Daisy: Alright every glass I break [at work] is your fault now
  • Chris: haha, how many is that?
  • Daisy: Like 5. I don’t break THAT many glasses. But the ones I break are stupid expensive
  • Chris: tonight?
  • Daisy: No. Ever
  • Chris: the blame can’t be applied retroactively
  • Chris: fine, let me open my Fail Journal
  • Chris: and blame all these things on you
  • Chris: ... I don’t actually have a fail journal. The first and absolute fail.

• #chat#daisy

Road trip

  • William: then i’ll hit the road
  • William: hop trains, drink whiskey
  • Chris: good to do it in that order

• #chat#william

All you see’s
a bunch of “what the fucks”
 Dude is dating so and so,
blabbering ‘bout such & such.
 And that ain’t Jersey Shore.
Homie, that’s the news.
 And these the same people
supposedly telling us the truth.

— Lupe Fiasco (“Words I Never Said”)

• #custom#music#quote

‘Because it’s ugly!’ whinge the pedants. It’s only ugly because it’s new and you don’t like it. Ugly in the way Picasso, Stravinsky and Eliot were once thought ugly. And before them: Monet, Mahler and Baudelaire.

— Stephen Fry

• #art#quote

San Francisco – November 2012

SF MoMA

Late night pool with Justin at GitHub’s office

• #california#justin#photo

  • Teacher: Do you at least know the river which flows through Cairo?
  • Vitus: No idea. But I could look it up in an atlas for you.
  • Teacher: Thanks, but I know the name of the river.
  • Vitus: So teachers always know more than their students?
  • Teacher: Yes, that’s usually the case.
  • Vitus: In that case, do you know who invented the steam engine?
  • Teacher: Of course I know that. It was James Watt.
  • Vitus: And why didn’t his teacher invent the steam engine?

— From the movie Vitus (2006)

• #quote

Stealing space at Doug‘s office in downtown San Jose

• #california#doug#photo#work

Mission accomplished

“How can I make this the most annoying for you?”

• #california#photo

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready. It goes on because it’s 11:30.

— Lorne Michaels, creator & producer of Saturday Night Live

• #quote#work

Returning from Bulgaria, December 2011

“In and out of haze. In the clouds, glimpsing out a plane. Living out tomorrow, I forget about today.” —Illmaculate

• #bulgaria#photo#travel

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