Happy Easter!

First things first-- I will take my foot out of my mouth. I got a voicemail last night informing me that Ms. Cascino did, in fact, JUMP OUT OF A PLANE! Way to go Cary. I'm glad you and Matt are both still alive.

Second, there's this cool thing here that I think some of you (Tara? Matt?) may find interesting. It's a digital book log. I just found it this morning and put in some of the books I have on hand in my apt. I think you only get 200 for free, and I haven't checked on prices yet, but I'd love to digitally catalogue all my books (including the 8 boxes in my parents basement)... I'm thinking it'd be better to just do it in Excel for personal use, but this does make it easy and shareable. You just type in the title or part of, and it pops up possibilites and you click the right one. Easy to get all the info on the book w/o having to type it. Plus, you can share your list, making for easy book swapping and the like. Here's my list.

I haven't written in forever, so I hardly know where to start. Luckily, my life is pretty boring, so I don't think this will take long. Dan and I went to the circus, and with some others I saw a taping of the Colbert Report. (Quality. That show has gotten really good.) I'm working on a story for a class on NY Comedians, so I've seen more Stand-Up in the last few weeks than I could possibly care for.

Two weeks left of school, and I have NO IDEA what I'm doing this summer. I don't know if there's an internship in my future, or even if I'm sticking with my same job. So no news there, I guess.

Mikey, Dan & I will be in DC on May 13 for CUA gradumation (Dan's sister Amy and Chris Dinolfo). I hear they've got Wolf Blitzer this year. Who's pissed/jealous? I mean, I came to Catholic so that I could stalk Wolf on the White House lawn, and he promptly left as CNN's WH correspondant and got his own stupid Sunday show. Then Geoff had to listen to ASHCROFT and the rest of us had to sit in the rain and listen to that 98 year old nun talk about god-knows what.
Oh well.

So that's about it. Hope you're all having a lovely holiday. (And aren't stuck inside doing homework like me...) Eat some ham, dye some eggs, and overload on sugar. Martha says it's a good thing.

xoxo, E

Happy Spring, y'all!

Thinking of times we spend together...

I'm so excited

How many of us are going to buy this t-shirt?

Grups-'R-Us

LOVE the article. You know, I see so many "grups" walking down 14th Street: those folks that make sure their clothing never really fits properly or that their hair never really looks clean. They would NEVER go to STARBUCKS because it's just TOO commercial, so they walk around instead with a half-caf, soy, no foam, sugar-free vanilla latte and a vegan pie from Sparky's. Even if we are not yet grups, we all strive to look cool and tortured and INTENSE and not care what other people think (because, honestly, fuck 'em), while we secretly hope that we're listening to the right music and reading the right book (myself included). Frankly, it's exhausting to try to fit-in-without-looking-like-I'm-trying-to-fit-in-and-secretly-wishing-I-still-smoked-because-smokers-look-like-hip-artists-and-counting-the-days-until-my-ipod-comes-in-the-mail-so-that-I-can-have-the-coolest-play-lists-EVER. And by the way, my favorite bit of the article:

"'I even remember meeting this guy who was around my age, who was wearing an expensive blazer, and on the lapel was a London Calling button. Who the fuck wears that? That’s what I wore when I was 18 in art school! And you’re the same age as me? And you’re wearing it again?' He pauses, then adds, 'And you know what? Giving your kid a mohawk is fucked up, too.'"

Fucking brilliant.

P.S. The spell-check does not like the words grup, Starbucks, or fuck. What does that say, I wonder? Ahh, back to the not-so-gruppily-subtle superficiality of America's Next Top Model.

What's between us and Gen-X?

Grups, apparently. I really liked this article, actually-- you should all check it out. We're about 10 years removed from the generation that refuses to grow up, and I'm not sure any of us are any different.

I think Adam Sternbergh hit the nail right on the head though. Everyone's terrified of not being "passionate--" much more than the fear of not being cool. Plus, who wants to wear a suit anyway?
(Well-- except Matt)

Read it, yo. Tell me what you think.