Bummer Times

On The Plane

2012-01-25T19:37:00.000-06:00

B is for Basketball

2012-01-15T16:04:00.003-06:00

Dead Meadow

2012-01-15T16:00:00.001-06:00

So then I got an iPhone and started posting everything to Instagram. Ugh Ugh Ugh.

Kill Em All

2012-01-15T14:46:00.001-06:00

At Her Open Door

2012-01-09T09:15:00.001-06:00

Maybe, Maybe Not

2012-01-08T11:03:00.001-06:00

Wild Horses

2012-01-07T16:27:00.000-06:00

The Final Fuck You

2011-12-26T21:26:00.002-06:00

Fuck You, the Animated Version

See y'all in 2012

God Bless the Child

2011-12-26T20:41:00.001-06:00

Welcome Back National Basketball Association

2011-12-07T19:32:00.002-06:00

We Can't Stop The Waves, But We Can Learn To Surf

2011-12-05T06:19:00.001-06:00

Everything I Posted on Tumblr
bummertimes.tumblr.com
June 2009

Funny Games

2011-12-03T09:20:00.001-06:00

Everything I Posted on Tumblr
bummertimes.tumblr.com
May 2009

*in the following days, I will post an image for each month of my tumblr posts from May 2009 - present

Katy Smail Drawings For Sale!

2011-11-29T22:44:00.000-06:00

My lovely and talented friend, Katy Smail, has some drawings for sale! These are the perfect holiday gift for your loved ones, especially if your loved one has fantastic taste. She has more available than the ones I've posted above, these are just my favorite. For pricing and more information, you can contact Katy at whatktdoes@gmail.com.

Down On Me

2011-11-29T21:55:00.001-06:00

Day to Day

2011-11-26T14:28:00.001-06:00

View from my office, Dwight Howard poster and Dwight Howard signed ticket stub

Dead Cities

2011-11-23T18:39:00.001-06:00

Meditate On It

2011-11-23T10:10:00.002-06:00

"Even though your head is clear, it might be hard to take action in the direction you want to go. Keep a clear picture of the end goal in your mind. Focus on it. Meditate on it. Don't let it out of your mind's eye for a second. Eventually you'll get there."

This is from my horoscope yesterday (on Yahoo.com, no less). It also told me to put 3-4 droplets of lavender oil on my pillow before I sleep to keep my demons away. I've already been doing this for weeks.

Picture, focus, meditate, don't let it out.

Illest Motherfucker Alive

2011-11-22T06:27:00.001-06:00

Stripped Of All My Cares

2011-11-20T21:23:00.001-06:00

It's Expected I'm Gone

2011-11-20T21:22:00.001-06:00

Shaken All Over

2011-11-20T21:20:00.001-06:00

This Is All I Came To Do

2011-11-20T21:05:00.001-06:00

Leaving New York

2011-11-16T00:47:00.001-06:00

I'm stuck at the airport in Oakland waiting for my red eye plane back to New York. It stopped to refuel in Sacramento. What about my fuel? These three pictures are from a week ago when I flew to the Bay.

Did anyone else ever listen to that BARR album? I'm just now remembering how good it is.

Peacing Out

2011-11-09T22:20:00.003-06:00

Heading to SF for a long weekend

(image source unknown)

Fuck Fashion

2011-11-09T11:45:00.000-06:00

Sheep Are Counting Me

2011-11-09T06:46:00.001-06:00

7 photos of me taken immediately after waking in four different bedrooms in Manhattan and Brooklyn - 2007-2011

Black Diamond

2011-11-08T06:14:00.000-06:00

Everything is Going to Be OK, Shut UP

2011-11-07T09:52:00.001-06:00

source unknown / quenton miller

Stuck In The Middle

2011-11-06T20:36:00.005-06:00

This is my dream shower stall. Can you even imagine? Dream world.

Another Wave From You

2011-11-06T20:09:00.001-06:00

Pictures from Saturday in Greenpoint and Fort Greene

I Sell Seashells

2011-11-02T21:41:00.001-05:00

I've kept these squirreled away for too long now. All of these images are from a tome about shells I found at my friend's beach house in the Hamptons. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything quite this beautiful on the beach itself.

Where Pizza Doesn't Make You Fat

2011-11-02T18:40:00.002-05:00

...and from today's twitter feed:

Dream world: everyone has an iPhone and wants to emoji all day long

Dream world: there is no nba lockout and you have courtside season tickets

Dream world: the boy you like likes you back and wants to buy watermelon vans for your baby

Dream world: drinking doesn't cause a hangover and pizza doesn't make you fat

Follow me @bisforbummer

Say Cheese and Die!

2011-10-31T21:21:00.001-05:00

Stills from the Goosebumps episode "Say Cheese and Die" (1996!!!!) starring Ryan Gosling. Happy Halloween!

Bitch I Might Be

2011-10-27T23:03:00.001-05:00

Bill Cunningham's New York

2011-10-27T18:23:00.002-05:00

I finally watched the Bill Cunningham documentary over the weekend. I know, I know. I'm always about 90 steps behind the times. It's just as good as everyone says. I'm talking tears into a pillow good. Not sad, you know, but heartwarming and deeply sweet. My favorite line from the movie:

"It's not photography. I mean, any real photographer would say 'he's a fraud.' Well, they're right. I'm just about capturing what I see and documenting what I see." - Bill Cunningham

I think the most interesting folks out there are those who don't quite realize the genius that lives within them.

(image from Bill Cunningham New York)

I Go Hard In The Paint

2011-10-23T20:08:00.005-05:00

All Stripes Everything

2011-10-23T19:15:00.002-05:00

Dog Day Afternoon

2011-10-23T16:33:00.003-05:00

Saturday was all about dogs (and girls in black and white striped shirts). It started with my roommate waking me up with a pit bull bite puncture wound in her stomach. Then we had to protect Crystal's dog from a head butting toddler outside of the shoe store. On our way to get coffee, we found that guy up above. He had the most terrifying eyes I've ever seen in my life, and he didn't move an inch in that passenger seat. Lastly, there was the pit bull outside Blue Bottle which Amanda accurately described as requiring a permanent censor strip, if you know what I mean. And I don't even like dogs.

Girls In Stripes

2011-10-23T16:08:00.001-05:00

Kitty Photoshoot

2011-10-21T19:33:00.001-05:00

I'm Too Hood For My Own Good

2011-10-21T19:10:00.000-05:00

Nowhere, Nothing, Fuckup

2011-10-18T21:04:00.002-05:00

I Ball So Hard Motherfuckers Want To Fine Me

2011-10-18T20:48:00.002-05:00

So y'all thought I was lying when I said I was the biggest childhood Bulls fan growing up? Check out my Toni Kukoc framed basketball card and the cover of my wide-ruled 40 page theme book. Nicole and Toni Kukoc #7 for life.

They're Not Witches, Just Spoiled Little Children

2011-10-12T21:44:00.004-05:00

Outdoor faux flowers vs indoor real ferns

Skateboarding Is Not A Crime

2011-10-12T21:25:00.002-05:00

Hey does anyone remember when I was 13 years old and made a skateboarding collage out of issues of Transworld? Yeah, me either....

JUST KIDDING! I totally do. And I couldn't be more proud of this thing that is perhaps the ugliest thing on planet earth.

Worlds Squirrled Inside One Another

2011-10-12T09:17:00.003-05:00

New York Quotes Volume XXV

"To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interleave, like those lines of television cable and fresh water and steam heat and outgoing sewage and telephone wire and whatever else which cohabit in the same intestinal holes that pavement-demolishing workmen periodically wrench open to the daylight and to our passing, disturbed glances. We only pretend to live on something as orderly as a grid."

Jonathan Lethem in Chronic City

Baums Bridge Inn

2011-10-10T19:58:00.000-05:00

Indiana Sky

2011-10-10T19:54:00.002-05:00

Only Success Can Fail Me Now

2011-10-10T19:29:00.002-05:00

This was written when I was nearly ten years old; I found it in a journal that I suspect I had to keep for school. I can't for the life of my figure out why I pulled back on the 21 thing, but thumbs up to nine year old Nicole for the college prediction. I'm 26 now and have no better reason for my life then what I had written here. And are those "does not equal" signs up there? Makes a lot of sense - it really doesn't add up.

I Never Want To See You Again

2011-10-10T19:16:00.003-05:00

Last month I went home to Indiana to pack up my childhood home and took what I expect will be my last trip home for awhile. I'm clearly very behind on posting pictures, but here are some of them.

Chatting with Kyle

2011-10-07T12:19:00.002-05:00

kyle: oh my

well we can hang out

i know the things you like and we can do them

me: yay

kyle: "americana" stuff

me: what?!?!

kyle: i would say americana is your #1 interest

me: what does that even mean, kyle?

kyle: that and the internet

This girl knows me better than I know myself

Step Into Your Life

2011-10-05T19:28:00.000-05:00

My lovely friend Katy Smail sent over this horoscope from Refinery 29 today. We're both Aquarians.

Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
In some ways, you're starting over right now, but you should use your uniqueness and ingenuity to get back to the projects that you might have previously left for dead. Step into your life, because it's surely time for a new chapter. Love eludes you at the moment, but not for long

This was exactly the kind of inspiration I needed today. The rest are on the Refinery 29 website.

Shadow of the Wind

2011-10-04T23:01:00.003-05:00

After I've read a book, I will usually save my favorite passages into notebooks or word documents to savor in the future. I thought it was this very private thing that I did and that the things I wrote had no bearing outside of the book itself. I guess what I'm realizing is that many of these sentences make sense and carry the same emotional weight when they don't come with the context. I recently read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon for my book club (which I highly recommend), and I thought I'd post those bits here for a change of pace.

"Slowly I became possessed by the absurd conviction that everything was possible, and it seemed to me that even those deserted streets and that hostile wind smelled of hope" (183).

"Sometimes Jacinta asked herself whether that dreamy peace that filled her days, that absence of consciousness, was what some people called happiness" (263).

"All I know is that those two weeks I spent with Julian were the only time in my life when I felt, for once, that I was myself, when I understood with the hopeless clarity of what cannot be explained that I would never be able to love another man the way I loved Julian, even if I spent the rest of my days trying" (369).

"'Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to'" (371).

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice" (419).

"'I could ell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets'" (427).

"Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires" (440).

"We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth" (440).

"Remember me, Daniel, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go" (446).

"'We all love in our own way'" (475).

"'The city is a sorceress, you know, Daniel? It gets under your skin and steals your soul without you knowing it'" (480).

"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind" (484).

I'll Be That Pretty Motherfucker

2011-10-04T09:53:00.003-05:00

Bianca Green / braids from Refinery 29

A Pack of Wolves

2011-10-03T23:06:00.001-05:00

Hanna Liden / Sonja Ahlers

Oh Fuck

2011-10-02T20:02:00.001-05:00

Lost in the Supermarket

2011-10-02T00:45:00.001-05:00

Notes...

2011-10-02T00:39:00.001-05:00

"The dream had the placidity of memory - not to say memory wasn't painful...but it was contained, bounded by event, and most of the time recollection was a matter of choice. Not like dreams, which knew where to find you, how to get in." Ehud Havazelet

Quogue, New York

2011-10-01T23:51:00.001-05:00

Fuck You and Your Underground

2011-09-20T06:44:00.001-05:00

You know those songs that you don't listen to for years and then when you hear it again you're like, "holy shit this song is really rad - why haven't I been listening to it for the last few years?" I just had one of those moments with Blood Sausage's "Fuck You And Your Underground." Blood Sausage contained members of Huggy Bear, but I don't think they happened in the United States quite in the same way that the latter did. It's too bad, really. This song rules.

Blood Sausage - Fuck You And Your Underground

Vary

2011-09-17T16:59:00.001-05:00

I've been doing a lot of soul-searching these last few months, and I think I've finally come to the conclusion on what my favorite word is: very.

Speaking of words, I do a lot of tweeting. I try to keep it a secret like most of my other bad habits, but I figured it was time to get this going viral. You can find me at twitter.com/bisforbummer. It is a VIP affair, so good luck getting on the guest list.

I Miss What We Had; I Need You So Badly

2011-09-01T09:21:00.005-05:00

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”

A quote by Joan Didion that just made me weep. I am so sad to be losing my childhood home.

Past, Worn, Searching

2011-08-28T18:02:00.006-05:00

"and our single headlight
winks out for the last time
we talk about
the last time it felt right to make out

and I'm certain, if i drive into those trees,
it would make less of a mess
than you've made of me"

Fucked Around and Got a Triple Double

2011-08-28T17:34:00.003-05:00

Glass House

2011-08-28T17:13:00.003-05:00

She Came, She Saw, She Conquered

2011-08-28T17:03:00.000-05:00

Duality

2011-08-25T21:53:00.001-05:00

Let's Go Undercover Like Young Lovers Should

2011-08-21T20:37:00.004-05:00

I found these photobooth strips on my computer of me and my high school boyfriend in 2002, the summer before my senior year. The last 12 months of my life have been the craziest to date, and it's hard to not get nostalgic for a time when things were easier. Mostly I just miss not being afraid to take risks. But more importantly, I wish I still had that shirt. And look at my hair!!!! Can we make sure that never happens again?

"Maybe I'm a baby, but I think it's time to grow"

Obsessed

2011-08-19T09:36:00.002-05:00

I am still obsessed with the winking blue smiley face from Obsessed. Just look at it!

Goings On About Town

2011-08-18T18:39:00.003-05:00

Leaves Turn Inside You

2011-08-17T21:19:00.003-05:00

DAY /

/ NIGHT

I moved to Greenpoint just over a year ago after having lived in four other neighborhoods across this city over the last eight years, and I have to say this is one of the most bizarre places in all the land. Never have I ever met a neighborhood with such an abundance of faux flowers.

You're Cool

2011-08-17T20:49:00.002-05:00

The Wild Kindness

2011-08-17T20:40:00.001-05:00

Me in a Nutshell

2011-08-16T18:38:00.002-05:00

Ba da ba ba ba

2011-08-14T21:41:00.005-05:00

I'm lovin it. It being McDonald's, their new sauces (especially the spicy buffalo, bottom left corner), and this image (whose source is unknown).

They'll Get Shot Like A Free Throw

2011-08-14T21:36:00.002-05:00

Walking the Bridge

2011-08-02T21:02:00.001-05:00

July 26, 2011

July 29, 2011

Suzanne Coady

2011-08-02T20:05:00.007-05:00

I came to the realization awhile back that I run with some incredibly talented, clever people who constantly serve as source of inspiration to me. I know that sounds beyond contrived, but it's true. I wanted to take the time to call out each and everyone of them on here as a thank you. Seriously guys, thank you.

First up is my friend Suzanne Coady:

I met up with Suzy not too long ago for a belated birthday brunch. I had missed her official dinner for which she made individual gift bags for each guest. Here is mine:

My bag was filled with all sorts of lovely items. My favorite part, except for the candy (duh), was this crazy shrinky dink pizza man with a magnetic back. Here's the pizza guy chillin on my refrigerator at home:

The pizza guy, I realized later, is actually part of a painting that she made previously:

For those of you not in the know, pizza is my absolute favorite food. I especially like pepperoni pizza from Grandma Rose's on Meeker. I really like it when they put giant pepperoni slices that cover all of the cheese, and then I go ahead and cover it all up with parmesan. Here are a couple more of my favorite things Suzy has made:

My absolute favorite thing on Suzy's site is this gallery of cat drawings.

You can see more of Suzy on her website, Girly Handwriting. You can also visit her blog and her etsy shop.

CONFIDENCE!

2011-07-31T01:31:00.000-05:00

...say it again now!

a : a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances

Back to Normal

2011-07-28T22:05:00.003-05:00

I Need it to be on the Internet

2011-07-25T21:49:00.001-05:00

Silverfuck

2011-07-25T21:37:00.000-05:00

Don't Fight the Feeling

2011-07-24T19:14:00.001-05:00

I Never Trusted The Russians

2011-07-24T19:11:00.002-05:00

You're Just a Baby, Baby Girl

2011-07-24T15:25:00.005-05:00

I look exactly the same

Dream World

2011-07-24T15:08:00.002-05:00

I wish my desk looked like this at work (source unknown)

P.L.U.R.

2011-07-19T16:53:00.001-05:00

matching peace sign friendship tattoos #whatuknowboutthat

All Day / Every Day

2011-07-11T19:56:00.003-05:00

Girls trip to the Catskills!!!!

All Hands on the Bad One

2011-07-06T21:40:00.002-05:00

Not What You Want

2011-07-06T21:27:00.002-05:00

I Used to Know That

2011-07-06T21:08:00.003-05:00

My T4 broke, so I'm using an old digital camera. Fun, huh?

Yikes

2011-07-05T18:37:00.003-05:00

Andrew Porter for Bummer Times: LITRALLY ANDREW (http://literallyandrew.tumblr.com)

I Can't Get What I Want I'm a Failure

2011-06-30T22:57:00.004-05:00

The New York City Woman

2011-06-29T21:37:00.006-05:00

This image is from an old MacMillan textbook called Clothes and Your Personality that was published in 1974. It even has the tidy "This Book is the Property of:" stamp on the inside cover. I've been holding onto this one for ages; I found it in my high school's sewing class nearly ten years ago. There are many scans to come, but this one is my absolute favorite.

Big Names in Bball, 2003

2011-06-27T15:55:00.005-05:00

I was so excited when I found this issue of The Fader magazine from 2003 at my mom's house in Indiana. These photos were shot by Kai Regan at the Adidas ABCD Summer Camp, and as it explains, "some of the players featured in Kai Regan's photos will end up becoming NCAA heroes." NCAA? What about the NBA?

Dwight Howard may be my favorite player in the league, but what about baby Joakin Noah? I just can't with him. HQ scans here: http://bummertimes.com/letterman/

Baby Kitty

2011-06-27T10:59:00.004-05:00

Me & Panda / Me & Pugsley

Both pictures are from around 1992. I've loved so many kitties in my life.

Tropical Sunset Cats

2011-06-25T16:54:00.003-05:00

thank you A

Saying No Is So Fucking Boring

2011-06-23T13:43:00.007-05:00

I just read a snippet from this interview by Dave Eggers that was published in The Harvard Advocate back in 2000 (11 years ago!) over here on the web. You can read the whole thing over here, but I haven't done that yet. The whole thing is pretty amazing and not just because of the Guided by Voices and 90210 references ("...and that terrifying Tori Spelling person"). Below are some of my favorite quotes:

"The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it's corny or stupid. I am not good at saying no. And I do not get along with people who say no. When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, under the same bus wheels I'll stick my head if need be, you will not be happy about having said no. You will be kicking your ass about all the no's you've said. No to that opportunity, or no to that trip to Nova Scotia or no to that night out, or no to that project or no to that person who wants to be naked with you but you worry about what your friends will say."

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"No is for wimps. No is for pussies. No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message."

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"What matters is that you want to see and make and do, on as grand a scale as you want, regardless of what the tiny voices of tiny people say."

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"Saying no is so fucking boring."

Dave Eggers, I love you.

Coming Up Roses

2011-06-22T21:57:00.003-05:00

INTERNET ADDICT

2011-06-22T09:53:00.002-05:00

# Setting an absolute schedule or time limit for how much time you spend on the 'Net.
# Forcing yourself to stay away from the 'Net for several days at a time.
# Placing self-imposed computer "blocks" on certain types of services.
# Setting an absolute policy for yourself of never signing on to the net at work (unless this is required for your job).
# Establishing meaningful (but not harmful) consequences for yourself for failing to keep your word.
# Applying these self-imposed consequences until you do regain your ability to keep your word consistently.
# Forcing yourself to do other things instead of spending time on the net.
# Resolving to learn how to derive other more healthy sources of pleasure in life to replace or even exceed the pleasure you got from being on the 'Net.
# Asking for help whenever you feel you are not being successful.
# Avoiding people or environments that might encourage you to return to your addictive behavior.