| someone: | will you be doing anything with ***? |
| me: | i, uh |
| me: | i didn't even think about that |
| someone: | you are SUCH a dude |
| someone: | you need to do something for her if you're still hooking up and texting or whatever |
| me: | we've only hung out three times!! |
| someone: | connor that's a relationship |
| me: | three times! |
| someone: | there's a good chance it will be moe than three times by the 14th! |
| me: | that's in two weeks! |
| me: | I would still consider myself (and her) single, idk. |
| someone: | you are single yes |
| someone: | but you still need to acknowledge it |
| someone: | if you're texting or whatever by then |
| me: | I mean, I guess, yeah. |
| me: | goddamn it. you're right. |
| someone: | even just an e-card |
| me: | LOL |
| someone: | e-cards can be very endearing |
Connor B. Simpson
On dating and e-cards
The Awl: How To Bring A Bike On The New York City Subway
I wrote something for The Awl.
You can read it.
Sleep tight, ya morons!
Jay likes bikes. People like bikes. Therefore people should like Jay, too.
The guy currently singing Bon Jovi says his name is Socrates.
Bobby: I don’t believe this guy’s name is actually Socrates.
Meredith: Maybe he’s singing the song as a series of questions. “Wanted? Dead or alive?”i’m imagining this guy as Socrates from Bill & Ted, singing karaoke for the first time and wearing strappy sandals.
maybe it’s actually Saukrates, the marginally famous Canadian rapper.
My friend Adrian Lee wrote about the history of the bar scene in Halifax for OpenFile. There’s sort of an old legend that Halifax has more bars per capita than any other city in North America. Anyway, this is the third part of the series, and it looks at how restrictions from the city are choking up the live music scene. Adrian knocked the whole series out of the park. But the show posters they used with this piece are my favorite part, featuring an old NOFX show, plus shows for East Coast punk and hardcore legends Sharp Like Knives and Risky Business.
Everyone should follow my friend’s cool Hardcore / Emo / Punk radio show
Listening to Out of Step is a really cool thing to do on Sunday nights.
Whenever people talk about internet piracy I think of the bootleggers who would sell VHS tapes of movies on Washington Ave in South Philly. I never bought one, but would see the tapes at friend’s house. They were these really shitty quality videos, usually someone with a camcorder would sneak into a theater and tape the screen like it was a grade school soccer game. I don’t know how there was a robust market for those shitty videos, but those guys were always hustling. Before I left for college, I heard about some kind of big bust and those VHS tapes disappeared into vague childhood memories.
It wasn’t until a few years later I’d see small, Asian women hawking pirated DVDs from black plastic bags. The cycle began anew.
the only other film in which she came CLOSE to being “a good actress” was the awful Changeling, in which she cried, “This is not my son! This is not my son!” for two hours.
Is this all it takes these days?
