Harassment | SelfAbsorbed.ME : 'It's Your Life, We Just Write it Funnier'

Games on the Job

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

An anonymous friend of mine just started a new job which involves a training program. Knowing that she’d been looking forward to launching her career, awaiting this day like a kid craves Christmas and studying the company’s stats the entire week beforehand, I asked her in a joyous voice after her first day: “How did it [...]

Clean Rage

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

5 Comments

Today I’d like to quickly discuss an American travesty. An issue more directly influential in our daily lives than Palin or Obama or NYC’s theoretically fabulous ‘fashion week:’ Laundry cards. Correct. What city dweller doesn’t have a laundry card dispenser in their residence or down the street? I guess the idea, years ago, was to eliminate the need [...]

NYC 101: Intro to Hipster’s Lit

Friday, August 15, 2008

7 Comments

On Friday I went to Lit, a bar on 2nd between 5th and 6th. At first glance, there is nothing “Lit” about it–the front facade is just black with no sign to indicate a name, just tacked up scraps of paper announcing the DJs playing this week. I guess this is a bar you have [...]

Promoters: Always Persistent, Now Mean

Thursday, July 17, 2008

4 Comments

Promoters: the species of social leeches endlessly harassing us for our free time. I love writing about these New York party organizers because I find their tactics (mass text messaging, Evites, mass emails, personalized emails, facebook harassment, casual texts, guilt-trip texts, phone solicitation) endlessly fascinating. I thought I’d seen it all. I thought [...]

Hamptentions?

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

0 Comments

I’ve been putting it off forever, but I guess I can’t really stake claim as a decent nightlife writer if I continue to pretend the Hamptons doesn’t exist. Memorial Day weekend is the beginning of the H-Madness that will continue in an obnoxious frenzy until Labor Day. Why it’s fun to lug yourself to Long Island, [...]

You Ain’t Partying Here No More

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

0 Comments

If your New York relationship was good (and by good I mean was able to last longer than the customary three months), it can be exceedingly difficult to let go of. City breakups are rough, and if you partied together, splitting up can also lead to a lot of awkward encounters and hardcore game playing. So [...]

Flying Money & Fromoters

Thursday, April 24, 2008

9 Comments

Once you’ve lived in New York five years, you think you’ve seen the maximum douchiness this city has to offer. Alas, no. Go here to see the sad insanity I witnessed this past weekend. The party foul was conducted by a promoter; someone you’d think would be classy and know better. This segways into my [...]

The Felix Tradition

Monday, April 14, 2008

1 Comment

Many New Yorkers like to nurse their hangover with more liquor, the logic having to do something with ‘keeping you liver working.’ The exact science of this theory I cannot explain, but it’s popular among Manhattan’s expat crew: Italians, Frenchies and Brazilians who all seem to body surf their way into Felix Sunday afternoons to [...]

Getting Literary with Spam

Friday, December 21, 2007

4 Comments

I realize most of you already have email Inboxes filled with spam. Yet this amused me: Good day, gentleman! (I have a unisex name and therefore get a lot of info about penis enlargers, male order brides, etc.) I still live with my parents under the same roof and I am sorry to say this,but I am [...]

Sloppy with a capital ‘S’

Monday, November 19, 2007

3 Comments

My girl Bartok’s in town and after our group of friends consumed half a liter of sake and two bottles of champagne, our evening was off to a promising start. Around 2 A.M., after we all got bored of watching YouTube videos while inebriating ourselves, we decided it might be appropriate to detach our asses [...]

SelfAbsorbed.ME : ‘It’s Your Life, We Just Write it Funnier’

Tag Archive | "harassment"

Games on the Job

Clean Rage

NYC 101: Intro to Hipster’s Lit

Promoters: Always Persistent, Now Mean

Hamptentions?

You Ain’t Partying Here No More

Flying Money & Fromoters

The Felix Tradition

Getting Literary with Spam

Sloppy with a capital ‘S’

Blogroll