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essl

  1. Watching Gilmore Girls. S05E04. Sebastian Bach just sang Believe It or Not from The Greatest American Hero and I kinda loved it. /cc @H_FJ
  2. Just voted for @Mike_FTW to jerk a polldaddy.
  3. I ♥ Ghostery. It just blocked 16 different tracking scripts on one page. twitter.com/essl/status/20…
  4. Please help my friend and colleague Christine Osinski fund her project Staten Island: Notes From West Brighton. kickstarter.com/projects/80914…
  5. What Love Looks Like — Diagrams about love and life by the amazing Louise Ma. love.seebytouch.com
  6. @mulegirl Thanks! Was it for sale?
  7. NSFW (or safe for anyone, anywhere) is this black velvet Mr.T painting… mrtandme.com/post/237464053…
  8. Taxinomics: A Night in the Life of a Cabbie nymag.com/daily/intel/20… via @karenmcgrane
  9. Re: She Bop. “The song was considered controversial, as it dealt with the subject matter of masturbation…”
  10. Hanging out with @VictoriaMia and @MarsEssl, listening to Cyndi Lauper’s She Bop, and making graphic design. The good life.
  11. @IreneGallo I destroyed mine a few weeks ago. Apparently they are not dishwasher-safe.
  12. Eating ice cream and setting up my Fitbit.
  13. “I wish Starbucks would just give it up and start serving hamburgers.” — @VictoriaMia
  14. On Mr. T’s birthday I like to take a moment of silence and pity all fools everywhere.