Buddhist Marketer

Anittah “Progress” Patrick

Before:

Currently:

Next steps:

• Dude, how do I clean a 7′x10′ flokati?
• Paint bookshelves and nighstands-turned-benches a dove gray
• Distress dressing table glass to give it an “old mirror” look

etc. etc.

What Happens In College

Email received Sunday, November 24, 1996:

Whore!! :)  You left without even saying goodbye! I didn’t get a chance to try out my roofies on one of your unsuspecting Yale friends.  I’ve got to come visit New Haven sometime… Who was the one that spent the night? Was that the Scarsdale one? She seemed to be spending a lot of effort on her makeup Saturday morning…

Uh… just so you know… the general reaction of Harvard males towards Yale females was quite favorable.  We thought that on average the female Yalie was prettier and less intelligent than her Radcliffe counterpart. :) Tell your administrators to keep up the great work! (shit, no wonder you’re #1)

< name > … picked the wrong school!

Apartment Decorating Costs

• Previous balance, $28.18
• Two throw rugs and lots of curtain supplies from Ikea, $291.36

Running total:  $319.54

Open Source Office To-Dos

Desks from CB2 arrived today.  (Click here for Office Decor Part 1.)  Assembled one, sans keyboard shelf (cuts a little low IMHO), as well as two of the Eames-inspired (sorry, Vlad …) that arrived from AI Friedman.

Quasi-prioritized next steps:

1. Drop by A.I. Friedman and ask ‘em WTF is up with the second dark brown Lider chair … it wasn’t delivered :(
2. Assemble two other desks
3. Assemble two other blue Liders (and once the second brown one arrives, put that puppy together, too)
4. Finish up setting up the Cubitecs for each workstation
5. Figure out workstation lighting (recommendations?)
6. Buy some felt in a color that’ll coordinate with the workstations
7. Fashion Trig’s styrofoam packing, excess corrugated cardboard, duct tape, and felt into a bulletin board type thing for each desk
8. Find a purty purple-toned wallpaper-thing with which to line Boss Desk drawers, spruce back of short Billy bookshelves, and back of Pax wardrobe thingies
9. Assuming personal effects have been moved into new apartment, skip to Ikea and git two black-brown Pax wardrobe things with flat black-brown doors (not sliding doors), two full shelves and one half-depth shelf, a clothing bar, and a pull-out shelf thing
10. Also git two more short black-brown Billys, one pair of solid doors, and two pairs with glass (or whatever’s cheapest)

I am so excited.  I don’t care that I can’t actually pay for any of this.  It’s important that I invest in an office that looks good because if it ends up that I don’t use it all the time (…) I’ll want to trade desk space for equity in woman-owned/operated start-ups and/or ducats.

Or at least, this is the story I tell myself :)

BTW, the Lider chair may not be Feng Shui-approved (the shoulders are exposed…  a big no no), but dag is it comfy!!!

5 Easy Steps To Facebook Down-Friending

From the mailbag:

How do I change my Facebook settings so that I can’t get updates from this one dude w/o defriending him?

Ah, yes.  The ole, “We’re still friends, but, um, you talk too much, and/or say things that ne m’interesse pas.”  (sp?  ‘tevs)

1. Hover your mouse over that one dude’s latest missive
2. Slide over to the right hand side; see how the “Hide” option appears?
3. Click the downward-facing triangle to the right of the “Hide” button
4. Roll your mouse over “Hide That One Dude”, where “That One Dude” equals the name of the person in question
5. Click!

I recommend that if you are one of my Facebook friends, you perform this function on me straightaway.

Williamsburgh Savings Bank Party Tiiiiime

According to Katherine Dykstra’s “Bank On It” in the June 25, 2009 New York Post, Magic Johnson and crew have tapped Jennifer Blumin, “whose Manhattan-based company converts old spaces into high-end event venues”, to manage One Hanson Place’s 15,000 square feet of event space.  From the article:

When One Hanson first approached Blumin, whose other venues include Skylight in West SoHo, where buzzy fashion parties and product launches regularly take place, she wasn’t sure about the project. But that changed when she saw the Fort Greene space. With 75-foot ceilings, marble floors, a mezzanine balcony and ornate wooden teller stations running the perimeter of the room, the site is majestic, to say the least.

“My jaw was on the floor when I saw it,” says Blumin.

Having attended the Whitney Art Party the other week at Blumin’s Skylight, I know that any event that she oversees here will be A+. But she’s not targeting Manhattan douchebags who’d prefer to throw something on the island but Capitale’s already booked; nope, she wants to book clients who believe the hype:

“We’re not making excuses for this space, like, oh, it’s only a 10-minute subway ride from Manhattan,” says Blumin. People will have events in Brooklyn, she adds, “because they want to be in Brooklyn.”

The day rate on the space is about $15,000, although Blumin says she gives preferential treatment to Brooklyn brides.

Hmm; time to move back to Clinton Hill?

From the 2009 Whitney Art Party

Weak Beatz Killa

Shout out to Champaign-Urbana native Jan Lo a.k.a. DJ Lomang for killing it in Beijing this past Saturday.  For those who do not know:

Jan Lo (aka DJ Lomang) has been dropping that unadulterated booty-jiggling music on dancefloors across the US since 1998.

Yes, yes that was his Gangsta Moose Mix that I put into the rotation for my ten year reunion’s Friday night playlist.

And yes, yes this is a picture from Saturday night in Beijing.  And yes, that is Ghostface Killah.  And yes, he did tell his manager afterwards, “Yo fuck that. We ain’t performing in Shanghai unless DJ Lomang comes! For real. He needs his own room in our hotel. All the same shit! Otherwise fuck Shanghai. We going straight to New Zealand…”

And yes, this is a picture of me and my slightly-excited armpizzle (Bree; am I wearing one of your shirts here?  Or was this a shirt from my lil sis?) with none other than the DJ himself back in the ‘07 when he was still killin’ it stateside.

Congrats, Jan!!

What to do when your flight is delayed three hours

Play tag!

1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Wow, facts about me; this is my least favorite game ;)

1. I was a thumbsucker
2. whose security blanket was a blue striped turtleneck I gripped from my mother
3. and promptly named ‘Fuddy’.
4. In nursery school at The Church of Christ, Everett ‘Exit’ Peters poked me in the eye, which prompted classmate Keegan Rauen to beat him up (or do the three-to-four-year-old equivalent of beating someone up).  Keegan, as it turns out, went on to become a state-level wrestler.  I promptly dropped out of nursery school.
5. I also dropped out of HeadStart.
6. I like to swish carbonated beverages around in my mouth in order to feel the bubbles going wild.
7. I am working on growing my hair long again.

Now I tag seven other peeps:

1. Ari, who needs something to do during the holiday lull at the office
2. Bomee, who is an infrequent blogger and needs to step it up a notch
3. Cait, who was the first person to ever introduce me to to sushi
4. Mills, who is a brand-new blogger who may not yet know the term “meme”
5. Rachel, who introduced me to the wonder that is A Beach Vacation
6. John, who is the awesomest Earlham grad tech geek dude ever
7. Jenn, who stopped blogging as soon as cooking school ended and that’s lame