it's just a little crush.

my new favorite word is crush. i think i picked this up from my lovely friends on our VT road trip. and i don't mean crush like a creepy-secret-admirer-infatuation style crush. i mean it like dominate, destroy or just generally taking something down in an awesome fashion.

things you can crush:
beers
a platter of nachos
six diet cokes (free refills, obvi)
the competition in a dance off

my friend cadie recently had this text conversation with our new friend massaaaaaa from connecticut.

c: get it.
m: got it
c: good.
m: crush it.
c: crushed.

so get out and spread the good word. CRUSH. also, how refreshing does an orange crush sound? or better yet, a diet sunkist? oh yea.

*side note: when you google "orange crush" a related search option is "orange crush weed" which apparently is a type of marijuana. who knew?!

the awkward years.

i feel like a 12 year old child today. awkwardly curly hair, plaid shirt, brought a pb&j and a sliced apple for lunch in a ziploc. sitting at my desk. alone. ally wants to know if my mom is picking me from work. sweeeet.

this is me in middle school on the left. not really. i was way worse and had a lot more butterfly clips and random braids in my hair a la mary kate and ashley from their 'two of a kind' days. if you weren't friends with me at this point in my life, you were most definitely missing out.

spidey at your service

so much for web slinging, spiderman has a new form of transportation. and this type can benefit you as well! i present to you: spiderman on a rickshaw.

for a small monetary donation you and your sweetheart can take a romantic ride down st. marks in this cozy bike taxi driven by one of america's greatest superheros. and if you're as lucky as this couple, he will even pop a wheelie in front of cafe mogador.

saving the world one buggy ride at a time. thank you peter parker, gotham city salutes you.

spotted in the east village.

cat in pound cake.

seriously. this is what we witnessed at the bodega saturday night. as if the food at those places isn't questionable enough, the folks at roger's garden are allowing this feline to prance around the place.

and if it's sitting in the pre-packaged pound cake who KNOWS where else pretty kitty's been. go ahead, try the egg salad. i dare you.

the employees at this place seemed ultimately fine with the issue, some kind of weird "take your cat to work" thing, or else the cat sitter fell through.

thankfully i was only there to withdraw money from one of those lovely atm's with the ridiculous $5 fees.

spotted on houston. meow.

santa baby.

sorry for the lack of posting, but it was christmas vacation! i'll start out with some belated christmas spirit...

spotted en-route to nyc at the will rogers world airport, chris kringle in lounge wear. apparently santa decided to forgo his sleigh post-christmas for american airlines. he also traded in his standard suit for some red sweats, a monogrammed 'S' baseball cap, and appeared 50 pounds less jolly. is this the REAL santa on a flight back to the north pole via o'hare? fugitive in disguise? brad pitt?

regardless, i believe it was because of this man that i made my 10 minute connection in chicago. a TRUE christmas miracle.

proof that even in oklahoma, things are not always OK.

only in gotham city.

when i saw this beauty parked on broadway, my initial thought was "batmobile." but then i realized this car was obviously playing homage to the delorean a la back to the future. so sleek. and who wouldn't love those convenient gullwing doors?

-5 points because in reality it was a hyundai and marty mcfly was not the driver. +10 points because it had subs and was blasting "empire state of mind" so loud i could hear it inside of topshop.

spotted in soho.

boy meets geisha girl.

oh look, it's just your typical all-american couple out for a cozy mexican din in meatpacking. girl in full on geisha wear, guy a weak version of boy george complete with a (look close) blue sequin yarmulke.

perhaps acceptable on halloween but this time of year the only excusable costumes are limited to tacky christmas sweaters and santa hats.

love may be blind, but i am not.

spotted in meatpacking, photo courtesy of wall street betty's stealth iPhone skills.