I can totally relate
On May 5th, I sent the following…
Me: I can begin on the project immediately. Based on the scope of the work to be done, I need until the 30th to complete everything.
Client: Let me check with my boss to make sure that timeline works for us.On May 22nd, I received the following
Client: Great news! You can have until the 30th!
You must get tired of hearing what a beautiful thing this car is. But I’ve met a lot of beautiful women in my life, and despite their protestations, they never tire of hearing it. But when deep beauty is encountered, it arouses deep emotions — because it creates a desire. Because it is, by nature, unattainable.
We’re taught to think that function is all that matters, but we have a natural longing for this other thing. When I was driving the E-type, I passed a ten-year-old boy in the back window of a station wagon, and I watched his eyes follow… He’d just seen something he would want for the rest of his life. He’d just seen that unattainable object speed by, just out of reach — because they do that, don’t they, beautiful things?
Then I thought about a man of some means reading Playboy or Esquire… flipping past the flesh to the shiny, painted curves of this car. There’s no effort to stop his eye. The difference is, he can *have* a Jaguar. Oh, this car. This thing, gentlemen. What price would we pay, what behavior would we forgive…? If they weren’t pretty, if they weren’t temperamental, if they weren’t beyond our reach and a little out of our control, would we love them like we do?
Jaguar. At last. Something beautiful you can truly own.
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in Mad Men, delivering what’s probably the best piece of writing this season (via createthisdestroythat)
That’s some good shit.
Joey on Flickr.
Day 1 of my week with Joey. She’s already getting on my good side by cuddling up to me!
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Very much looking forward to my week with Joey. NYC [20120525]
Summer on Flickr.
Summer means day drinking.
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My summer drink, 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon. Spitzers Corner, NY [20120527]
Summer on Flickr.
Here’s to Summer 2012.
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Kicking off summer the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. View of the Standard Hotel, Hudson River and Hoboken from STK Rooftop, Meatpacking, NYC [20120525]


