the wit of the staircase

totally agreed. prague is not underrated. it's not overrated either.

there is nothing about prague that is underrated. maybe 10 years ago. not saying it's a bad city, it's great, just not underrated.

to me, underrated means the quality of said city are disproportional to the interest in traveling there. this is not the case with prague anymore.

how about Bordeaux? Not the surounding idyllic country side, but the city itself. Or maybe Rotterdam or Utrecht (which get little love do to Amsterdam).

i bought a pair. i was going to buy them eventually anyway. i spent way more time thinking about it than i should have. i felt silly at the time. i still feel silly.

i keep clicking on this thread hoping the backpack with be a different color.

yeah, my goal for this trip is to avoid his restaurants. i like buddakan. i like alma de cuba. pod makes my head hurt. i haven't been to stripped bass but i keep hearing great stuff.

wawa it is then.

the good kind.

errr, it doesn't matter. just rattle off a list of places you like.

my girlfriend lives there so i'm up there quite a lot. we always seem to eat at the same places. i need new ideas.

it's vegan if the girl isn't harmed before or during period sex.

no i don't go to tulane.

but more important than any of this, do you know of anywhere in town that can do a chainstitch? you have no idea how happy this would make me.

also, stop hanging out with with tulane kids. the overwhelming majority of them are intolerable douchelords.

are you the guy with the nudies cuffed to your knees? if so, stop that.

still reading against the day. i may not ever finish it. just finished acker's essay collection during lunch. i'll probably finish god jr by dennis cooper sometime today.

By the way how old do you think a person has to be before streetwear looks just totally ridiculous on them?

12 maybe 13. but 14 is really pushing it.

i'm 28

new orleans

i would do one or the other, minus the detergent, but not both. it kind of defeats the purpose of the "ocean wash" if you're just going to wash it out after.

i hate this book. i can't express how much i hate this book. i loved it when i was 15 though.

is this a trick question or perhaps a riddle?

"On the various flight and vintage jacket forums, where "men" put up digital pictures for their "buddies" of how they look in flight jackets -- children dressing up, no, cross-dressing as adults -- one can read expert instructions on aging, softening, antiquing new jackets to give them that flown-in look, for those whose knowledge of American history and masculine imagery are but flights of the remotest fantasy. There's putting 'em in the washer, sanding, nail polish remover, heat treatments. Avoid these forums, their self-appointed, fatuous "authorities" and instructions like syphilis if you want to know anything -- tanning, history, technical data (Nietzsche might say rulers are only for the small)-- about this important if esoteric niche of Americana. A disgrace that manly pursuits are contaminated by the unmanly. Welcome to the afterbirths of political correctness. Mass eunuchry -- a different kind of gun control."

i love lost worlds.

for some reason i'm in a hurry to finish the new pynchon novel. i don't think it's supposed to be read in a hurry.

From the French phrase 'esprit d'escalier,' literally, it means 'the wit of the staircase', and usually refers to the perfect witty response you think up after the conversation or argument is ended. "Esprit d'escalier," she replied. "Esprit d'escalier. The answer you cannot make, the pattern you cannot complete till aterwards it suddenly comes to you when it is too late."

your honeycombs and whiskers will be fine. but dry cleaning will turn your jeans into a skort. dry cleaning isn't actually what the obvious name suggests. it's a skort maker. don't listen to these people. they are trying to trick you.

if you come across a power adapter for your computer, buy it. mine died last night and i had to get one off ebay.

Is that myers anti-germicidal anti-bacterial etc .. ?

nope it just smells good.

i use