burnt sienna

Photo Credit: ygnaz

The day after Halloween is always a sad one. Walking down the street in a hungover haze, with last night's eyeliner smeared under my eyes, face paint caked under my fingernails, and a mound of responsibilities to get back to, the world seems less bright. The pumpkins have lost their grins, beginning to sag, some broken and chipped, others on their sides now having served their purpose.

And those beautiful autumn leaves that the sun shone through yesterday, that are responsible for color names like "sienna" and "currant," are just "brown" today. They crunch without satisfaction, sending dust into the air, but mostly lay lifeless, no indication of once being green or having experienced golden years.

Today, stores will pull out their ornaments and lights, prop up plush turkeys, and begin advertising those Black Friday. Soon, instead of candy corn frappes, it's pumpkin spice lattes and peppermint mochas. For me, it's some Thanksgiving blend coffee that tastes no different than a seasonless cup. And it shouldn't taste different, because nothing has empirically changed. Except it has.

The sun sets at 4:30, cans of sweet potatoes laden in sugar line the produce section, and an impending winter can't be ignored anymore. Flip flops are thrown to the back of the closet, pea coats flung on the bed to be dry cleaned, and windows shut at night.

renditions

 

In theory, self-explanatory. In reality, worth a brush off, isn't it? 

when it rains

stuff gets wet, towels don't dry, windshields won't wipe

Uninspired

And kinda hoping a vacation/break/running away will work. I've got very little to say other than that. Let's hope something gets something else going.

Somebody Kill Me

Washington Post

NEW YORK -- The production company behind "The Jersey Shore" is looking for Persian-Americans.

495 Productions and Doron Ofir Casting have announced that they're casting a "Persian version" of the MTV hit reality show about young Italian-Americans partying at the beach.

The casting call, which Gawker.com first reported, seeks applicants who are 21 or older, "appear younger than 30 and are outrageous, outspoken and a proud Persian-American."

A spokesman for 495 Productions didn't reply to questions about whether the show had any TV network deal.

"The Jersey Shore" is in production for a second season. Numerous attempts have been undertaken to mimic it, including a Russian-American version set in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach that doesn't yet have distribution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040803480.html

And if that's not enough to scare you, then please just spend a minute looking at the below. Eye bleach not included.

Actually, I can't leave you with that. Eye bleach below:

Bitch got punched!

Update
Looks like them Russians are trying it too.
http://www.popcrunch.com/brighton-beach-brooklyn-plotting-jersey-shore-inspired-russian-reality-show/

Caution Ahead

The roadblocks are DRIVING ME CRAZY. Please pick a direction, I'm wasting gas driving in circles.

How honest can you safely be on the internet?

You're doing it wrong

...like I can't do anything right. I feel like I wasted three days. What a depressing, un-empowering day this has already been.

Sounds like "Bah"

Happy New Year, hooray 2010! Yay new decade (except technically?). Whatever.

Yup, that's South Park's rendition of Paris Hilton.

No I'm not a "stupid, spoiled whore," just kind of stupid. Really stupid. Unqualified, slow, lost, in WAY over my head. I have no freaking idea. Stick to what you know, right? Well, shit overlaps and I want to learn. I just apparently don't get it.

Here's the microcosm of the macrocosm: I feel stupid for trying to think of a way not to stupidly say I feel stupid. Bah.

Get it?