col’s blog

been running around like a madwoman the past 2 months. certain things have fallen to the wayside: fitness, relationships, personal grooming, sanity. so it is with great delight that this weekend i shall resume normal life. i will sleep! i will exercise! i will cavort with pals!

and very importantly, i’ll get my roots done.

hat tip to miss laurs!

I used to love newspapers. I subscribed and read. Not cover to cover, but pretty extensively. Several papers. Now I don’t read any. I cancelled the WSJ over a year ago. I let my weekend subscription to the NYTimes lapse over 6 months ago. I plan not to renew with The Economist when my subscription’s up.

There is something about the physical bulk of printed papers and mags that grosses me out. In the information age, info is ubiquitous ─ why would I want such a huge portion, assembled by someone whose taste and interests don’t necessarily mirror mine ─ hoisted on me each day or each week? I am a smart person who quite enjoys creating my own survey of the day’s stories. I pull stories off the web. I make my own media.

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this song and video are so f-in good! the roots at the office. oh man, i love it. it’s totes on repeat en chez col.

Approach with caution be cautious when talking to bosses
I feel I’ve been through a metamorphosis
I’m mutated by unknown forces

“e.i.” by nelly. andele andele mami, E.I. E.I Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (because i’m getting ready for mexico.)

two weeks from now at this time, if the fates have it, i’ll be boarding a plane to ixtapa/zihuatanejo, mexico. soy encantada. people keep asking me where in mexico that is, and in my geographical ignorance, i haven’t been able to answer … until now. it’s on the southwest side of the country. it’s a small fishing village 15 miles away from ixtapa and 35 miles from zihuatanejo. i fly to texas first (3 hours, 45 mins) and then texas to mexico (2 hours, 35 mins). i will not bring a computer. i will not check email. am hoping it will be an upscale sort of walden for me (if ever there was an oxymoron).

from the wikipedia page on troncones:

It is a small beach village of about 700 residents. Mostly Mexican but more and more American and Canadian citizens are staying full time.

There are miles and miles of sandy beaches, you can swim here though care must be taken because of the undertow and sometimes big surf. Ask around for more swimable beaches of Manzanillo Bay, Majahua and Play Buena Vista.

It is famous as a surf destination, (the most famous is to the north at La Saladita). It is not a built up beach resort, like Ixtapa, there are some good restaurants and hotels but not high rises. There are vacation rentals and bed and breakfasts.

hot, smart, tough, and a bit sad. the thin lines between space time love and hate. that’s what the long blondes’ second lp couples invokes. feeling all the complications of dating, independence and being a timeless, sensitive woman in a world that favors egoic alpha males … it’s what my ears like to hear. not linear. it’s messy… sexy messy. new wave, brit pop, punk, rock … chrissy hynde meets logan’s run meets the harajuku girls. when she made uk music mag nme’s cool list, long blondes front woman kate jackson said, “they probably thought they didn’t have enough girls. it was so overrun with boring boys, they needed someone to bring a touch of glamour.”

well said sister. i love this record. it’s got the montage-collage sound of the world we’re living in right now. not old, not new. very now. makes me long for an atari as much as a guitar hero. makes me wanna dance, drink, give someone the finger and have a scandalous affair before settling into a state of complete zen detachment. it’s like liz lemmon saying: “suck it monkeys!” in one episode and then having a baby jones in the next. we’re all inconsistent …. it’s just that some of us deal with it better. some even make it look good.

just booked my trip … memorial day week. headed for surfing, healthy eats and a bungalow on the beach. troncones, here i come!