{"id":1354,"date":"2010-03-08T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2020-11-04T03:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:03:14","slug":"new_new_yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"new new yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

it\u2019s probably moot to point out the decline (in my eyes) of modern blogs, given the difference in the number of posts between when i started this blog (2004<\/span>\u20262003??), and now (seven years later).\u00a0 no, this isn\u2019t an entry saying \u201cfuck it\u2026i\u2019m shutting it down<\/i>\u201c, but i do find it interesting that the conversations been brought up more often lately with some of my friends who do still have their own journals.\u00a0 tho many of them have evolved into either photo journals or topic specific sites\u2026the personal online journal doesn\u2019t seem to be as prevalent amongst my friends as they once were.\u00a0 between facebook, twitter, etc\u2026the actual online journal itself seems to be an inefficient relic, given the (intentional) immediacy of facebook and twitter and all the other on-the-second sites out there, not to mention the network aspects of a journal.\u00a0 networking is the intention of those sites, whereas a journal (to begin with anyway) is an island in a vast sea that has to be discovered.\u00a0 but then again, who knows the permanence of those other sites\u2026whereas i get to determine the permanence of this one.\u00a0 so that in and of itself will always give it an advantage, even if i\u2019m too lazy to post regularly.\u00a0 anyway\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i went out and did stuff\u2026yea.\u00a0 seven years down and the day-to-days get reeeal boring when written out.\u00a0 a better writer could make my daily rhetoric fascinating.\u00a0 but i\u2019ve found in my years writing this journal that i in fact suck pretty bad as a writer.\u00a0 i thought i was a super writer in high school\u2026but then again, i probably thought my emo poetry also had depth and convoluted meanings too.\u00a0 lulz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

amongst the fun had in the past weeks tho included a big crew dinner at excellent pork chop house<\/i>, binge drinking at john and amy\u2019s, scratcher\u2019s<\/i> for sean\u2019s big 3-0, morning coffee with steph, and candela candela<\/i> for di\u2019s berfday\u2026and subsequent e.vil roaming with the left over crew.\u00a0 as an aside too\u2026since it\u2019s always fun to point out how small this city is.\u00a0 alyson had brought her friend lily to di\u2019s berfday dinner, and it was pointed out how she was from cornell too (this is not uncommon, given the size of cornell).\u00a0 what was funny however tho was after the usual name exchange, lily goes \u201ci remember you\u2026<\/i>\u201c, and i\u2019m thinking\u2026\u201dfrom\u2026.?<\/i>\u201c.\u00a0 \u201cfreshman year.\u00a0 you were on my floor.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 yea\u2026what the shit.\u00a0 full disclosure however\u2026alyson\u2019s husband also happened to be my freshman year roommate\u2026and the connection there between him and lily is probably easily made.\u00a0 still fascinating, this network we live in however.\u00a0 we then proceeded to try and recollect other names and faces from our freshman dorm\u2026with limited success\u00a0 after all these years, i\u2019ve only ever kept in touch with greg<\/a>.\u00a0 everybody else eventually fell away, and by my second year, 99% of my friends were cornell architects.\u00a0 damn that dungeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

fun things on the horizon\u2026one of the animator\u2019s i became friends with during my time in amsterdam (he\u2019s actually hungarian) has made the jump across the ocean, and is now a giddy new yorker.\u00a0 so i get to play tour guide again.\u00a0 woot.\u00a0 it\u2019s always good to start fresh new yorkers off on the right foot.\u00a0 we don\u2019t want them going down the path of shitty and retarded.\u00a0 like hanging out in meat packing\u2026or thinking murray hill is a viable area to have fun in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

it\u2019s probably moot to point out the decline (in my eyes) of modern blogs, given the difference in the number of posts between when i started this blog (2004\u20262003??), and now (seven years later).\u00a0 no, this isn\u2019t an entry saying \u201cfuck it\u2026i\u2019m shutting it down\u201c, but i do find it interesting that the conversations been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5844,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}