December 2010
39 posts
WatchVegas flashback. Delicious. And check out those guns, Jesus.
Bowen Navigation:
Me: Hey Cody, do we stay on I 20 East for a while or what? Cody snores. Me: Oh, girl, Cody’s asleep. Can you get the direction sheet from your feet and tell me where to go? Liz: Um yep sure. Ok. So we just have to drive to Louisiana and Mississippi and then we get to our motel. Sweet.
TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS
If you haven’t been here, you aren’t. Yep. Texas rules.
“I was in love wit’ this gurrrl. Her body was my cologne. But her parents...”
– Taxi driver/former drug dealer, Manhattan to Queens, 2010.
Itinerary:
Tonight: Kevin Christmas at Rockerfeller Center Tomorrow: Waking up at 4:00am and bailing to Louisville Kentucky Christmas Eve: Driving another 13 hours to make it in time for the Hess family Christmas Eve dinner in Texas. Beat that, and Merry Christmas.
“YOU BETTER WATCH OUT!……. You better not cry. You better not pout-...”
– Crazy man on the Subway platform who we thought planned to mug us after the emphasis on “watch out”, 14th Street NYC, 2010.
“Do you think I could be a hoodrat in another life? I could at leeeast date one...”
– Elizabeth Bowen, rowdy and loudy on the black-people filled Subway, 2010.
Me thinking I can say "fahrk yoo" to anyone who...
It’s even less OK when I go on to say “ya’ don’t owe it to ya’self, ya’ owe it ta me. Cus ta’morra I’monna wake up and I’monna be 50, and I’monna still gunna be doin’ this shit…” etc. etc. Good Will Hunting should only be watched on a big screen TV, read in the screenplay that I bought today, or in my head. No one in...
One of the best things I've seen so far:
A beautiful middle-aged black man riding along on his bag-strung bike singing the chorus of “Pursuit of Happiness.” He’ll be fine once he get it, he’ll be good.
“Yeah, let’s go out. I’m not dressed to make friends though. Unless...”
– Elizabeth Anne, Schleppin’ in the City, 2010.
MIGHT BE IN FOR A CHRISTMAS DOUBLE UP.
Planning to hit Rockerfeller Center ice-skating rink early in our newly acquired CHRISTMAS SWEATERS and bail to Texas for a big ol’ ranch family eggnog fest. This. Could. Be. Amazing.
I’ll keep ya’ll posted.
LIZ ON THE BOTTOM BUNK IMPERSONATING SCENE GIRLS....
“Oh my God. I just sat down and I can smell stocking.”
– Elizabeth A. Bowen, may have to head back to Suds Laundomat sooner than expected, 2010.
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas:
It’s really strange when Christmas starts to look like how you think it’s meant to look like. Like… To me, Christmas looks like watching Home Alone and sounds like every Christmas Carol ever written about snow and sleigh bells and Christmas just generally being white. It hasn’t snowed yet here in New York, but the decorations, the Sleighs in Central Park, the Home Alone...
“Oh, you’re from Australia. Like Olivia Newton-John, who stole the heart of...”
– Random freak outside our hostel, two big of a sigh after “Man” to be comfortable, 2010.
Macy's Pre-Christmas Two Day Sale:
Liz: OMG! Look at this Anna Sui dress for $60! And it’s my size! Random Shopper Girl takes hold of dress Liz: Oh hi, excuse me, sorry I’ve got this dress. Random Shopper Girl pulls dress from Liz’s hand Random Shopper Girl: Well it look like IIIIII got it now, huh? Liz: Um, give it back. Random Shopper Girl: Whatchu gowna’ do - fight me? Liz: I’ll call security....
