tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58210712011-12-12T02:05:22.893-05:00Bitter Cynical Rants from One as Snarky as Waldorf and As Sexy as Statler.ADubsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-39597621302143005922008-04-09T14:00:00.003-04:002008-04-09T14:20:03.631-04:00

Salvation is killing meSo we rarely mix business with pleasure (eds. note: in the real world we actually do that all the time) on this site, but we have to break the barrier for a minute to rant about something we find quite upsetting. For YEARS now we have stood by televisionwithoutpity as one of our all time favorite sites. So much so that when we found out that it was actually started by a

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-9907356821525139252008-04-02T17:20:00.003-04:002008-04-02T17:25:25.676-04:00

All of a sudden, my vision became so clear.Everything I needed was right here,We were just sitting here wondering, what kind of day must one have to make it accepatble to be eating bottle caps for lunch (at 5:22pm no less)? And by bottle caps we mean the old school candy, not the bottle caps from water bottles that are also always strewn on our desk.We were also wondering if its socially

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-16207668010647516922008-03-31T18:25:00.002-04:002008-03-31T18:39:20.674-04:00

You cant concern yourself with bigger thingsYou catch the pearl and ride the dragons wingsWow has it really been over a month? Should we be suprised at this point at our innate ability to sporadically post?Regardless here's some random thoughts and updates for you from us here at VTB:1. Opening Day is finally here! Shame the boys in pinstripes got rained out, we can wait another day, thanks to

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-81081709188623260282008-02-28T13:21:00.003-05:002008-02-28T13:44:15.446-05:00

What's love got to do with itDear Universe,We have a bone to pick with you. We've told our fabulous readers this before, but Valentine's Day is a particularly unlucky day for us. There has been food poisoning, high ankle sprains, back spasms, cutting thumbs to need stitches, and 2nd degree burns. We've asked you repeatedly to leave us alone on this fine day. And knowing our bad relationship

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-88531717992111364432008-02-13T15:16:00.003-05:002008-02-13T15:29:20.319-05:00

no one is to blame:VTBEditor: theres nothing more that i love VTBEditor: then when i make up words on the scrabble boardVTBEditor:and they turn out to be real words TheGoodSenor: That's not a wordTheGoodSenor: don't care what the shitty Scrabulous dictionary saysVTBEditor:according to the crazy indian guys who developed scrabulous it isVTBEditor:and thats all that mattersThe word in question:

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-21313763493174950222008-02-12T10:07:00.000-05:002008-02-12T10:24:34.795-05:00

We in the car, we ride slowWe doin' things that the girls don't doThere are moments in our lives where we here at the VTB offices seriously get concerned about how we choose to spend our time when not at work. To be more precise, we are completely worried by the selection of TV we have been watching lately (or maybe its been always, we're not really sure exactly how much we feel like owning up

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-2333790127053973742008-02-08T15:34:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:40:36.428-05:00

I'm trippin', I'm caught up in the moment right?'Cause it's Louis Vuitton Don night"No, no, no, its totally OK, she smells like sugar not like stripper" - Our Fearless editor last night at Flashdancers, after one too many glasses of champagne.nuff said.

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-78398903130237552612008-02-07T15:59:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:49:50.835-05:00

stay the night but keep it undercoverHola Interweb,Its been a long time. And not for lack of things to post, but rather for lack of time. All of our time of late has been devoted to media planning and billing and oh god more billing. It can be very nervewracking to be handling millions of dollars of a major retailers advertising budget. and time consuming. have we mentioned time consuming?but all

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-5194955809508730642007-12-12T10:36:00.002-05:002008-12-10T04:40:44.772-05:00

Like the flame that burns the candleThe candle feeds the flame yeah yeahsooo where were we last night??? we were here: and you know you're jealous. we would be jealous of us too.

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Remember when you were youngYou'd lose yourselfHello VTB Fan(s),We would like to take a moment and celebrate today, a very special day in the life of your fearless edititor.No, its not that its the first day of Hannukah, although we do wish a hearty happy one to all our Hebrew brothers and Sisters.No, its not that its Martin Van Buren's birthday, although, we did appreciate the president from

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-69944008226332900422007-11-27T12:13:00.000-05:002007-11-27T12:49:07.494-05:00

And I want these words to make things rightBut it's the wrongs that make the words come to lifeok so we're back from our little stint on tumblr. while we loved the ease of posting, it certainly didn't make us post any more frequently. and regardless of our job in new media, we are kind of partial to the old school long form version of blogging. so here we are again...the colder weather has

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-1102165302827498602007-11-14T12:18:00.000-05:002007-11-14T12:20:42.748-05:00

meet me on the other sidesooo... we should probably tell the two of you that actually read this blog, that we've switched over to tumblr... its more suited to our inability to stay focused on anything for too long, as well as no pressure to actually write real updates..you can find us here:adubs.tumblr.com

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-72976071862064465202007-10-22T13:27:00.000-04:002007-10-22T13:30:43.052-04:00

'Cause baby girl's a queenOuting gives Potter passages new meaning Word. We. Rule. Long live the velvet mafia.

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-77492940584285750852007-10-18T14:17:00.000-04:002007-10-18T14:33:22.510-04:00

steady as she goesWe're in a quandry. We are torn between who we love more Blake Lively or Leighton Meester. We're leaning towards Blake, but that may be because she was in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. and you all know how we feel about pants.and yes, we're OBSESSED with Gossip Girl. Its the best show you're not watching. Fix That.

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-60438704098085947082007-10-04T16:57:00.000-04:002007-10-04T17:13:39.011-04:00

sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time isupdate: we're headed out tonight to status and play with Mrs. Robinson and Grand Master Melle Mel. And if it turns out to be a night like this, well then so be it! Either way, we hear trouble calling us away from our desk and we like it!

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it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.three posts in one week! its like our trusty VTB editor has returned back to her old form! truth be told, we put our foot down at the old office last week and have fully decided to reclaim our lives - even though these days our lives revolve around free rep events. we mean, really, we're still broke, thanks to

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-27026537781122391832007-09-24T16:47:00.000-04:002007-09-24T17:24:15.929-04:00

look what youve done to this rock n roll clownso we're sitting at work today, minding our own business when we had a large package dropped on our desk.the contents of the package:(1)2003 Cabernet from Kuleto Estates(1)2004 Cabernet from Kuleto Estates.Apparently we're a member of the Kuleto Estates Wine Club.so we'd just like to say that chicks who play soccer and live in SF kick ass. and

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-66101020459538820572007-09-20T09:50:00.000-04:002007-09-20T11:01:10.398-04:00

you can fake this only if you take this (you wanna lose control, you wanna lose control) we wish we could regale you with stories untold that involve lurid details of wild nights. but that would be fiction. you see, VTB faithful, at some point whilst we were slaving over RFP's and optimizations and cpm negotiations, our social life quietly got up and walked away and after hoping she would find

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-3268556875670063352007-09-04T10:23:00.001-04:002007-09-04T10:40:04.647-04:00

You had me several years agoWhen I was still quite naiveThanks to a conversation on Friday before the long holiday, we have sitting on our desk currently the entire collection of the time life 70's music explosion cds . its freaking brilliant.more importantly carly simon's "you're so vain" just came on. We were automatically transported to the back seat of the '87 Black Ford Taurus we sat in on

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-52436886509814365562007-08-21T12:05:00.000-04:002007-08-21T13:22:37.956-04:00

Some break the rulesAnd live to count the costThe insecurity is the thing that wont get lostOk so here's the thing Interweb, we sometimes hate our job, we hate that we now get into the office at 8am with the hopes of being out regularly by 8pm (yes, we are aware that that makes our day a 12hour one stuck at a desk mostly), but sometimes, sometimes we really love it.take today for example, thanks

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-29642329486084637072007-08-17T13:44:00.000-04:002007-08-17T18:06:44.153-04:00

I, I live among the creatures of the nightI haven't got the will to try and fightIts friday and the major campaign that has kept us pretty much chained to our desks for the past month has launched. We can all breathe a little easier now. We're also exhausted.But its friday. we may or may not be hitting hooters again after work. that may or may not be happening after we play a little guitar

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-13620816793116930932007-08-16T11:54:00.000-04:002007-08-16T12:01:26.307-04:00

She fly higher than weatherAnd she rocks it betterThis may or may not be turning into a mandy moore fan site.Thats all we have to say for right now.

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I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. But if you'll wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,I promise, I promise you I will.just like a one hit synth pop anthem, we here at VTB and your party throwers are a little awkward and not that good with words, but give over to the beat and you'll wanna dance your sweaty ass

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-51615535829535318222007-07-23T10:55:00.000-04:002007-07-23T11:30:29.886-04:00

I love when the nose beguiles the palateOooh-weee has it been an insane couple of weeks. We're back on the east coast from our trip to SF and Napa. Here's some bullet points of the highlights of this massive eating and drinking tour! Eating:Gary DankoBoulevardHomeBouchonThe Martini HouseTartineDrinking:Stag's LeapKuleto EstatesShaferFrog's LeapRelaxationMassages and Mudbaths hereA beautiful room

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-69637452205985253702007-07-02T11:56:00.000-04:002007-07-02T12:39:50.200-04:00

Show me how you do it And I promise you I promise that I'll run away with you I'll run away with youWe haven't really talked about sports in a while, but we here at VTB would be remiss if we didn't jump up and down and scream and yell and celebrate wildly (like we did this morning, horribly frightening our pets) because our favorite Blueshirts acquired both Drury and Gomez! Oh that cup is SO

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waking up to wake up some daywe here at VTB have a very important announcement to make....we've been listening to the new mandy moore album and we aren't afraid or ashamed to tell you to: we.LOVE.it.thats all.thanks.

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Tell me, am I getting in too deep?Every night I'm talking in my sleep.What a whirlwind!... we started off the weekend correctly with some serious shopping on friday afternoon and the tastiest gelato in the world (that is just happily on our block), then it was time to kick off our new-school rock and roll friday in old-school fashion by cracking the sparks.... and just like that DISLOCATED was

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-947786232135072732007-06-18T15:50:00.000-04:002008-12-10T04:40:45.563-05:00

I've just crossed the line From fashion to crime It's such a perfect fit When I am wearing it ok so we here at VTB didn't steal your coat. and we're not writing you any songs. we are however launching our newest endeavor...Say Hello to DISLOCATED Fridays... welcome back Rock and Roll Fridays...we missed you.

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Is her ass really that nice or are those just good jeans?We were extremely exhausted again yesterday morning and were in the most foul of moods. We were even in a bad mood after having a very tasty black and blue bone in rib-eye here at lunch Then we were in a bad mood AND we felt like we were preggers with a baby calf. We were ready to cancel all of the myriad of plans we had last night so we

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Try to understand that I'mTrying to make a move just to stay in the gameSome completely unrelated thoughts for you on this (now) rainy Tuesday afternoon... Went out with CG the 1st and AT last night and while munching on some tasty slides here, we kept getting distracted because Breakin 2: Electric Bugaloo was playing on the wall directly in front of us. We must've seen Breakin 2 at least 50

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-7116784505899397262007-06-11T14:14:00.000-04:002007-06-11T14:46:12.425-04:00

They’re tryin to make me go to rehabI said no, no, noFriday Night (How it could have happened):5pm - Leave work (we love summer hours)5:30 - Walk in our front door5:35 -7pm Nap8:00 - Arrive at friend's Birthday BBQ in Brooklyn8:01-10:00 - Enjoy good food and friends have a beer (ok, who are we kidding, 2 beers)10:45 - Arrive home and get decent night's sleep which we have so desperately needed

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-27970244321272569362007-06-08T10:56:00.000-04:002007-06-08T12:15:40.637-04:00

Hello God Its Me Vodkaso last night a rep of ours took us and RJL to see Chelsea Handler at Caroline's.eds. note: the last time we were at caroline's was to see Janeane Garofolo way back in the day. We laughed so hard we almost busted a gut. Really, she was much funnier than we had anticipated.this comes on the tailend of another crazy booze filled week that included another softball loss and

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-31756308691305901562007-05-29T09:37:00.000-04:002007-05-29T10:32:30.107-04:00

we can dress it up, we can dress it downAny way you want it donesoooo on saturday afternoon we took to cleaning our new abode and decided to listen to good ole z100 while dusting. over the course of an hour (which seemed more like an American Idol Rewind show than anything else - seriously, Elliot Yamin, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Daughtry x 2) we learned some very important life

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-18566001174811050342007-05-25T10:22:00.001-04:002007-05-25T10:22:20.126-04:00

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All of my insecuritiesAre summed upWhen you walk into my roomIts been a rough weekend. We don't want to talk about it. The good senor kind of said it all.Instead we're going to hit you up with some much happier bullet points:if you haven't heard GOOD SHOES yet. go. now. don't even bother reading the rest of this post. seriously. git.monday was the 15th anniversary of the Real World. when we were

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-2693279332533287962007-05-15T11:17:00.001-04:002007-05-15T11:17:22.096-04:00

you put the gray skies out of my way; make the sun shine brighter than doris dayahhh... so the move is mostly complete. all of our kitchen stuff is still in the bk, but we are firmly planted at the new digs. feel free to stop by and say hi!the funny thing is that last night (night 3 on the other side of the river) and where do we wind up? Williamsburg! We might not have shared our hatred for

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-27117507001278478452007-05-03T13:54:00.000-04:002007-05-03T14:18:46.710-04:00

New York New York Chicago what a wonderful town:So as we mentioned we're out in chi-town on a little business. We were taken last night to play Whirlyball by one of our reps. Have you heard of this nonsense? Seriously, as Lindsay would say this is either the best Highdea ever or the worst. Someone actually sat down and thought - bumper cars + basketball + lacrosse = best idea ever, let me create

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-14153420224639011752007-05-01T10:47:00.000-04:002007-05-01T11:02:31.367-04:00

Five Years Gonewe know we've mentioned the show before, but seriously. heroes. last night. best episode. in the HISTORY of EVER.And we love how five years in the future strippers dance to Goldfrapp. totally brills.in other news - thanks to a rep at a major newspaper we're headed to another rangers playoff game 4 tonight!!! did we mention how much we loved our new job?we're off to chi-town

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-6361555083858570182007-04-30T12:02:00.000-04:002007-04-30T12:28:24.205-04:00

sitting on the back seat banging on the off beatphew. that rangers game yesterday exhausted the socks off of us. we were all prepared to spend the day continuing to pack for our ever approaching move, but then overtime! and then double overtime!! Not that we're complaining. it was an awesome game and a much needed win.in other news:our softball team isn't doing so well - we lost again, making

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-65260888438893484032007-04-19T11:25:00.000-04:002007-04-19T11:36:04.083-04:00

Listen to the cheering of the people in the standsTwenty Thousand hockey bugs and each a Ranger fan!It's plain as day to seeThey want a victory!All together now strike up the band!Thanks to the wonderful folks at a large internet network who hooked RJL and myself up with some tremendous seats I got to witness last night's oh-so-awesome sweep of the thrashers!!!(from 10 rows behind the Goal!

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-82264554004466644342007-04-13T10:16:00.000-04:002007-04-13T10:18:15.363-04:00

oh my god i can't believe this i've never been this far away from home....we know we've mentioned this before, but we REALLY live in the wrong city.carl and pete back together again!

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And if there's anybody left in hereThat doesn't want to be out thereAfter watching the first two periods of a very exciting Rangers playoff win last night we left the office and headed two blocks over to catch the Kaiser Chiefs, Annuals, Walkmen show. Ok so we missed the Annuals, and most of The Walkmen performance, but the Chiefs damned near blew us away. After The Walkmen played the one song of

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-70671072647192816412007-04-12T09:49:00.000-04:002007-04-12T09:59:50.511-04:00

Cause even when I dream of youThe sweetest dream will never doId still miss you babyAnd I dont want to miss a thingSo last night after a tremendously tasty yet unhealthy dinner with CG the 1st, we headed to see Blades of Glory. Quite possibly the most ridiculous movie we've ever seen even though it did make us quite nostalgic for The Cutting Edge (Toe Pick!!!) On the other hand the previews were

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-69323234353894477202007-04-09T11:50:00.000-04:002007-04-09T12:08:35.106-04:00

Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time we would just like to note that on Saturday April 7th we ate at our 100th unique restaurant of the year. we would also like to note that our skinny pants aren't loving our eating project as they don't get to see any of these restaurants anymore since they've been relegated to the inside of the closet.

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"Wait, what's a beef curtain?"Ahh good friday VTB faithful... or should I say good Good Friday?we have settled in quite nicely to our fancy aerodynamic chair at our desk at the new job...couple of things we need to talk about, but since most of our days are spent in meetings and on conference calls and having status and status about status and pre-status and post-status we don't have all the time

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-15766342534186590312007-03-27T14:21:00.000-04:002007-03-27T15:33:01.178-04:00

Happy Belated Birthday VTB EIC Wow. so as is our habit here at the VTB HQ, we apologize for our prolonged absence. we have switched jobs (say hello to Corporate VTB V2.0) and spent a lot of time out and about celebrating our move from the mid-20's to late 20's. This past week alone included not one, but two awesome Rangers games, our first Rep. lunch and rep. happy hour, a $740 bar tab on friday,

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-23081584749569962592007-03-08T12:04:00.000-05:002007-03-08T12:14:49.493-05:00

cover’s only 20 bucks and even if the dj sucks it’s time to turn this mother out right on, so the Festival is in full effect!Last night we went with RJL to see Stellastarr rock out The Gramercy Theater. Apparently it was the first live show at the venue. This came as no surprise as the place had a completely unfinished (and not in a good way feel). the acoustics also sucked.Saturday we're

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-42451381172837266952007-03-01T12:06:00.000-05:002007-03-01T12:57:23.813-05:00

I put my new shoes on and suddenly everything is rightWhereas, today is March 1st and officially kicks off The Festival of AndreaWhereas, we're kicking the festival off correctly with dinner with Sister Mary Kate tonightWhereas, we haven't properly celebrated the festival in some 3 odd yearsWhereas, we start the new job damned smack in the middle of the festivalWhereas, we have a crush that is

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-68391415509562445122007-02-26T11:04:00.000-05:002007-02-27T18:17:29.222-05:00

And it's 4 in the morning, and I'm walking along Beside the ghost of every drinker here who has ever done wrong And it's you, woo hoo That's got me going crazy for the things you do ahh... it may be the end of february, but apparently over here at VTB HQ spring is in the air. Friday night we met the red twin for a quick drink at our living room and then headed to meet the blue twin and soon to be

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-70403710082146573942007-02-22T15:11:00.000-05:002007-02-22T16:28:42.315-05:00

There's four and twenty million doors Down life's endless corridor well well well, what a week its been over here at vtb hq! it seems that as we near closer and closer to hearing people say that we are "pushing 30" (which sadly isn't nearly as impressive sounding as, say, benching 180) the era of our saturn return finally seems to be coming to a close.with exactly three weeks left for us to find

ADubsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821071.post-71682640386539084292007-02-18T12:17:00.000-05:002007-02-19T10:12:49.386-05:00

Someone said you was asking after me But I know you best as a blogger east of broadway; south of houston - not your neighborhood.

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I'm craving for you, Im missing you like candyWe here at VTB headquarters have a post in two parts today...I. "This script was sewn together by a blind man" - CGSo last night we braved the cold to meet up with the lovely CG for dinner and for a wednesday installation of Friday Night Fluff. We settled into our seats full with Thai food, not expecting anything from the film we were about to see.

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Ladies and Gentleman...It is with great pleasure that we here at VTB would like to introduce you to the newest member of our family - WEBSTER LOWENBRAU:4lbs 4oz and the biggest lovesponge there is.

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Oh one more drink and then I'll goso here's the deal, our original wednesday night plans bailed on us towards the later part of the afternoon. did this deter us from going out? oh no, quite the contrary. Through the trusty world of IM we quickly redesigned our evening to head down to good ole 151 with our boy CS. we hadn't been there in quite a while, and as soon as we walked in, we couldn't

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I light a cigarette'Cause I can't get no sleep We can't decide whether its awesome or terrifying or both that when we went into our pre-work starbucks this morning we didn't have to order, but our friendly barista just handed us our grande skim misto.We equally can't decide whether its awesome or terrifying (it is decidedly bank breaking)that thanks to our eating project we have hit 31 different

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Bring your good times and your laughter tooSo we here at VTB would like to extend our seriously hearty mazel tovs to the good Levine family. A few weeks ago Amy made her engagement official, and just this past weekend Dr. Ev and Lainey G also got engaged! We wish both couples nothing but nachas from here on out! kickass, guys, kickass!!!

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Hop in my chrysler its as big as a whaleanyone else find themselves at their desk drinking diet coke, eating peanut m&m's while listening to Love Shack by the B-52's on virgin radio on a friday afternoon and thinking that they feel way more like the "faded sign by the side of the road" than "glitter on the mattress"or "glitter on the highway" for that matter??no??? just us??? oh well then...

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Caught your hand inside the tillSlammed your fingers in the doorphew, its been busy as hell at work making updating two blogs extremely difficult. so here we are just to let you know that other things go on in our lives besides eating. (although judging by the scale in our bathroom, its clear that not much else is going on).had an awesome saturday night, old school style, with the ranzer, cmoss,

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Nothing else compares...so a while back we here at VTB regaled you with some tales of "You know you live in the ghetto when..." Well, this morning we were neither amused or entertained when our downstairs neighbor started blaring his reggae music so loud at 7:45 that a vase on our kitchen counter almost vibrated right onto the floor. Nor were we amused that when we climbed out of bed and down the

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Ground Control to Major Tom:oh and one more thing...Today is David Bowie's Birthday! The Man Who Fell To Earth turns the big 6-0 today!!! Those of us here at VTB have revered Mr. Bowie since we were precocious little snits. We have had the pleasure of seeing him live and still hold that it would have been worth every penny even if he had just stood there and spit...those wonderful people at

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how do you know that you're right, if you're not nervous anymore?phew, would say we have the monday morning blues, what with this horrible rainy weather and strange natural gas smell thats been hovering over our fine city this morning, but we appreciate the respite from thinking about food, food and more food which is what we've been doing since we've started the eating project...we're

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You must be a girl with those shoesChelsea, Chelsea, I can't get this damned song out of my head...glasgow anthems at their best!!!

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what's on your menu?so we here at VTB think that double-oh-seven is going to be our year, if the past two weeks are any indication.. while we have once again been remiss in updating, and will get around to that soon, we'd also like you to know about our new project for the new year...check it out here:Soup to Nutz

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legend... wait for it... ary!!!Holy Mary Mother of God, what an incredible little thanksgiving vacation* we had. Wednesday night: we got to spend some wonderful QT with Amy where we shared lots of good conversation, but no carrot cake, leaving us now totally craving said dessert. Thursday: We headed to the machatunum's house for the big turkey extravaganza, we had wonderful food, and many laughs.

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I don't like the direction you were going towhoa! so much has happened in the week we were stuck under a rock, or rather stuck travelling back and forth to Rock Land for assorted and sundried reasons...the democrats took control of congress!britney told kfed she was divorcing him via text message!kfed reminded britney that he had a sex tape!word. hope you didn't miss us too much. as for the "

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whoops! we meant no offense. so apparently, there was already an imaginary socialite who blogs out there. apparently she thinks our writing sucks. we're only slightly hurt that she couldn't care for our writing, but we didn't mean any offense by taking her name - so we've moved our apparently weak attempt at chick lit writing to HERE.ok we may be slightly discouraged by the nasty comments.

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Monday Morning quarterbackwe don't have all that much time today, so we're going to hit you with some things we learned this weekend bullet point style... have a problem with that?We learned that Upper West Siders in their natural habitat aren't nearly as annoying as they are everywhere else.We learned that The Park is a good place to go if you want to spend 7 bucks on a CoronaWe learned that

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Got nothing better to do?Here it is. The first 3500 words of this year's attempt at a novel. Tell us what you think! Also, for those of you who know our editor, this may seem like a thinly veiled memoir, but we promise its more of a thickly veiled memoir. besides, didn't you always want a character to be based on you??? we're just saying.enjoy. we'll also throw the link over there under links,

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You’re a teaser, you turn ’em onLeave them burning and then you’re goneDear MTA,We've known each other for quite some time now, no? Ok granted there were a few years when we left you for the rickety service of the MBTA, but that was a brief mistake. You generally are there when I need you, at 4 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, or 6 in the evening there's always at least a chance you'll show

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plot anyone?soooo behind on the novel so i'm gonna make this brief before i try and pound out 3500 words today... here i am minding my own business, trying to find a job, while simultaneously writing the great american novel in less than 30 days, and sitting next to me are others trying to get their novel done as well. except, they aren't writing, so much as they are running some sort of support

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The taste of love is sweetwhen hearts like our's meetok so according to Trent, who is always right, it seems that Reese Whiterspoon and Ryan Philippe are getting a divorce. This is sad, because we here at VTB loved them as a couple and frankly they have some of the cutest kids, this side of orphanages in Malawi. But, on the other hand, now that Reese is single, could someone pass our fearless

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Going back to Cali Bostonwell we're back and well rested from our weekend up in beantown with the RJL, the ESL and the Lainey G. In case you're new to our humble site, or have forgotten, or could care less, we spent two years in the little burg of boston in grad school... shortly after our return, we had to write a letter to this city on the charles. and hadn't been back since we became a

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you say it best when you say nothing at allseriously. sometimes we really love our unemployed status. yes, we have very limited funds. yes, we spend the majority of our day glaring at breastfeeding mothers at the over-priced coffee shop while scouring the internets for jobs. yes, sometimes we go several hours without hearing the sound of our voice. yes, we're generally bored as hell. but...this

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Take your time, hurry upThe choice is yours, don't be lateTake a rest as a friend as an old memoria Kurt Cobain is the top selling dead celebrity. He outsold Elvis. Does this make anyone else feel old? Also, does anyone else find it amazing that people spend more money on Kurt Cobain/Nirvana merchandise than Dr. Seuss? Crazy.we also can't wait for the craziness that is going to be tonight's

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Save the Cheerleader... Save the Worldseriously Heroes may be our new favorite show. Okay it may be our new favorite Monday night show. Okay maybe not our new favorite Monday night show but its definitely up there with How I Met Your Mother (seriously have you ever read Barney's Blog? How much fun would writing that be?? and yes it became a favorite last season) and Studio 60 (they even had our

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Dance Ten Looks Threeor rather we should say looks ten, dance three... yesterday we went to go see Marie Antionette with CMoss and Duane Reade. We loved the first hour or so of what started out as pure eye candy with a kickass soundtrack, then we got confused and aren't really sure of the point of the movie. The film itself was pretty, really really pretty - the food, the clothes, the shoes , oh

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A bed to be made and a bed to lie inWe may or may not have told you (we're way to lazy to read our past posts) that your faithful unemployed VTB editor is planning her ten year high school reunion. we find this particularly entertaining news as she would never have been voted most spirited by any stretch of the imagination. We fear that this new found attachment to those things mid-90's has

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it's time we saw a miraclecome on it's time for something biblicalI had this very long bitter post planned about how much the yankees suck, about how i could find 24 friends who would happily share 220 million dollars with me to strike out, commit fielding errors and laugh about it on the bench.but then i found out yesterday that a friend of mine from college died suddenly. and ranting about the

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Anywhere you go, Ill follow you downAnyplace but those I know by heartyeppers so last night was almost as awesome as i thought it would be (for all $.75 the tix cost).we got to the theater early to revel in the vocal styings of shawn mullins. i think i may have fallen asleep before he sang that lullaby song. here are the good senor and his wife arguing the merits of mr. mullins and whether or not

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Tomorrow we can drive around this town and let the cops chase us aroundso we couldn't not shout it from the rooftops that we are going to see the GIN BLOSSOMS tonight with RJL and ESL and LJB and the good senor and his senora... who knows how to party like its 1995???** no we're not kidding.admit it. you're jealous.the past is definitely gone, but something still might be found to take its place!

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Volare, oh ohE contare, oh oh oh ohNel blu, dipinto di bluWhat a long strange weekend its been... Friday night the good brother and his new wife and i headed to little italy because the senor was convinced that the san genarro festival was still going on. alas, it was not, but while eating mediocre chicken marsala at umberto's we were treated to the vocal stylings of ernie barry(how unfortunate

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I go out walking after midnightOut in the moonlight just like we used to doAs you know, we here on the VTB editorial staff usually use this blog space as a way to either vent about our personal lives (I don't blame you for being you, but you can't blame me for hating it), or about what happened on last night's ANTM (Holy god how can one person be on the phone for 3 and a half freaking hours,

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If only I don't suffocate, i'll meet you on the other sideRecovering from the weekend with the folks. You'd think by the time you were 27 years old going home wouldn't be something that causes your chest to collapse, your ego to sink and your general demeanor shift to depression. Too bad for us it still means feeling like we're 14 again. But we've had some reasdjustment time and we're back and

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one more thingso way back in may, CG and I got into an argument over who had the best burger in the city. We went back and forth between Burger Joint and Shake Shack for hours, with me throwing in the fact that Corner Bistro has the best burger below 14th street. We couldn't convince each other of burger superiority. Thus began the great burger off of 2006. Last month joined by the muppet we

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there's no need to throw a cock block when i'm trying to get laid...Rocking! Three posts in one week, its a whole new era here at VTB!!!First things first... What are you doing tonight? Watching the premiere of Grey's Anatomy? Washing your hair? Frankly, I don't care what your plans are, cancel them. You need to go down to Don Hill's tonight at 10pm. Why you ask? Because GUYZ NITE is playing

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Take Me Out Tonight, where there's music and there's people...Typical Day of the unemployed VTB editor:5:45 am - wake up when my roommate grinds her morning coffee, grumble slightly, roll over and fall back asleep8:00 am - wake up again to the sounds of screaming children from the school yard across the street from my apartment. give up on trying to sleep any later.8:01-9:00 - turn on TV, watch

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back with a venganceok. so for those of you still looking at the site, you should be glad to hear that I'm back, it was a long hiatus i know. the summer was filled with recharging the batteries and attending the weddings of some of our closest friends and our older brother who finally tied the knot with the muppet. we continue to wish nothing but nachas for those two!!!some quick things to note

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Baby, can’t you see I’m calling, A girl like you should wear a warningSo It's officially summer. I know what you're thinking, its July 29th, summer started days ago, and technically you would be correct, but the last day of school was yesterday, officially kicking off my summer and allowing me to regain my full strength in superhero status, the kryptonite of screming sixth graders having been

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Don't make me close one more door; I don't wanna hurt anymoreThere's so much we have to tell you. But we have limited time so we'd just like to catch you up to speed on what our new neighborhood is like. So after a few weeks of living in the new pad, we have taken to regaling our co-workers with a daily installment of "You know you're in the ghetto when..." We'd like to take this opportunity to

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Every girl I’ve seen since looks just like you when I squintright. so its memorial day weekend, we should be barbecuing, we should really be packing seeing as how we're moving on wednesday but were instead sitting on the couch completely hungover watching the laguna beach marathon on MTV. Yes. We are totally aware that we need some help...Speaking of help- last night after many many many protein

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people are fragile things you should know by nowlook at this, two postings in as many weeks - we really like having lifted a laptop from our little brother and how we can lift wireless from our neighbor! isn't modern technology fantastic?!? of course my lifting one laptop from a family member pales in comparison to the 27 that were taken at gunpoint by four masked men at my place of employment

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THERE'S NO CAMOFLAUGE ON THE DANCEFLOORwow we can't believe that its been two months since we posted last. most of that has to do with: a) our lack of internet access b) the total hecticness of the dayjob c) the complete insanity of our night life.so some housekeeping first and foremost - your ever so intriguing VTB editor has spent the past few months sampling the wares of the other gender -

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i visit hell on a daily basiswhat up what up what up? we are heading full speed towards the culmination of the festival with an incredible week of events planned. which is good frankly because we here at VTB are truly losing our minds after a week that involved breaking up our very first fistfight in our classroom, finding out that our tax refund is thousands of dollars less than it was last

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don't change your plans for meor actually maybe you should. so its march 7th and there's been barely a whisper on this here blog about the festival of our fearless editor, which by now is usually in full swing. sadly, things are just beginning to kick off. they were supposed to kick off here last weekend. but let us tell you le souk le sucks. we're not even going to get into how crazy the day

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I got a gnome in the backyardthe continued trials and tribulations of having a broken dvr box continued on friday night, when your cute and lovable (but not so bright) vtb editor, having had one sparks already, thought that the most brilliant way to unscrew the coax cables (having spent 15 minutes looking for the pliers before realizing that they probably reside with the ex now) was to use my

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i got a love jones for your body and your skin tonewhoa, okay someone needs to seriously smack me upside the head and hard. its bad enough that i have a crush -the likes of which i haven't seen since I was about eighteen - but now i've been convinced by said crush to work three days next week IN THE MIDDLE OF MY VACATION... seriously people, i'm now doing some very stupid things for someone i'm

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how do i get you alone?well so here it is, tomorrow is valentine's day, and if you've been a long time reader of vtb you know that february 14th has been a particularly unlucky day in the life of our fearless editor. as always we're thinking about calling in sick hiding away, especially now that there's all this snow we can slip and fall on.ignoring the blizzard we headed out on saturday night

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Don't wake me I plan on sleeping inWell, it seems that my posting has gone from at least twice a week to once every two months or so. Oh the excuses that i could give. yeah, but i'm not going to.some updates. had drinks with the ex during the transit strike. most amazingly it was quite nice to see her and i didn't leave feeling at all confused, sad or hurt. go figure.soccer chick and i are

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Things are better if I stay.... Yes, believe it or not, I'm actually still alive and somewhat well... although I have been buried under a mound of papers thanks to this new life of sometimes teaching, most of the time disciplining young ones in east new york... but i thought i'd pop in and give an update for those of you that periodically check this site still and also ask for some advice about

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The Return of the MackWell hello. I'm making a brief appearance to catch those of you up who are still bothering to check in on your lovable VTB editor. We would love to be updating this site more frequently but the hours we spend in cypress hills with 10 and 11 year olds and pascal's triangle are making it really difficult for us to get in front of a computer. but we digress.so this past week we

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