December 2009
29 posts
Sincerely, Tiffany →
I love doing this. I spend hours and hours typing entries into a blog that has become my baby, something that offers me nothing in return. Yet I commit, in a way that I am unable to commit to many…
It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward...
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Read: Trail of Sequin →
http://www.trailofsequin.blogspot.com
Trust me. You want to read this.
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about...
– Amy Winehouse
Part Three: The Best of 2009 →
I know, I know, this shit is getting long, but again, 2009 was a GREAT year for me. To continue on with the Best of 2009, I once again cracked open my Moleskine, only to find that I didn’t…
Part Two: The Best of 2009 →
Okay, so it’s 5:23 am on the east coast. Yes, I am aware that I am on the west coast so it’s 2:23 am but my Eastie body thinks it’s past 5:23 am and is exhausted, yet my mind fights on because it…
Part One: The Best of 2009 →
2009 was a great year in the life of Tiffany Ho. So great that I am cracking open the two Moleskine journals from this year. My, my, let’s all witness how little T.Ho has grown!
Started the…
Back Home, I'm the Cowardly Lion →
I have no balls when I’m at home. Not that I have balls at any other point in time, but seriously, when I am at home, I revert to my pre-college self, too afraid to ask my parents for permission to…
Hometown Blues →
1. There’s something strange and foreign about cloudless skies and sun on Christmas Eve. It’s going to be warm enough for a Spare the Air Day tomorrow. ON CHRISTMAS.2. I am bored. Really, really…
The Travel Frenzy →
Oh, so it was my last night in Boston after all. Against all odds (all odds = blizzard + cancelled flights for all the other suckers who couldn’t get out of Logan airport), I made it home last…
Last Night Woes →
All my actions from last night are completely excusable for one reason:
IT’S MY LAST NIGHT IN BOSTON.
Until May. Granted this blizzard lets up and Virgin America experiences no delays…
A Study of Contradictions →
I think that somewhere inside me, my idealistic, romantic self still exists, because I don’t know that I would otherwise be “saving” myself, so to speak. Lauren once told me (and she probably will…
pride is the unwillingness to be judged by somebody else, which is ultimately the worst kind of insecurity
Confession: I Care What You Think →
So I’m sitting in Photonics right now and I really should probably be studying for my Enlightenment final but I really just don’t care. And I haven’t done this in awhile. Verillo and I “study-hopped”…
listen to what you know instead of what you fear
Bare Life →
I am leaving for California in 11 days. Leaving snowy Boston… for snowy San Francisco Bay Area? What? Apparently it’s snowing in Oakland?
The winding down of the semester means it is time to…
Every word you say
I think I should write down
Don’t want to forget come...
– “Paperweight,” Joshua Radin
We’ve rediscovered the long lost art dying
Only the lonely resent angels...
– “Paradise,” Eyedea and Abilities
Can it be considered lawful to deprive mankind of its most sacred rights for the...
– Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt, in Diderot’s Encyclopédie, vol XVI
If I Didn't Have to Worry About Getting a Coronary... →
…I’d probably eat the “Fat Chicken” sub from First Bite Cafe in Allston everyday. Seriously. The thing is a heart attack on a sub. It appeals to the child in me, the one whose plebeian…
The Press Will Never Be Anything But Bad: Thank you, Albert Camus.I miss writing. And when I say writing, I mean re… http://bit.ly/8o2P0A
To Self: A Reading List for Winter Break and...
Nonfiction
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
Fiction
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Philosophy
The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas
The Birth of Tragedy...
The Press Will Never Be Anything But Bad →
Thank you, Albert Camus.
I miss writing. And when I say writing, I mean really writing. I mean that I miss writing op-ed columns and real articles (hate the Cambridge beat shit that I have to…
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate...
– Joseph Pulitzer
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to...
– Voltaire
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We...
– William Bernbach
All You Need Is Love →
I’m not quite the First Amendment absolutist, but I’ve always been pretty quick to defend free speech, seeing as I consider it one of the fundamental freedoms of a liberal society. Today, though, I…