MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Filming Movies Behind My Apartment

Construction Behind My Apartment

“ Sometime over the course of a person’s first year in New York, there usually comes that moment. It can happen in the first days or weeks, or after 10 months. It can happen repeatedly, or without people noticing, at least not at first. Newcomers suddenly realize either that the city is not working for them or that they are inexorably becoming part of it, or both. They find themselves walking and talking faster.

[VIA NYT] Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York

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“ So there I was at the party, having a good time, when who should come up and start hitting on me? Laura Dern — in all her magnificant glory. There was only one problem: the drugs were starting to kick in. Hard. Really hard.

[VIA How Not To Get Laid]

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“ I’ve learned over the years not to over-interpret any two-week event. Olympics don’t change history. They are mere snapshots — a country posing in its Sunday bests for all the world too see. But, as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful

Thomas L. Friedman

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Awesome

Me: Hello?
Nishant: grrgle cough, oh I almost just vomited.
Me: What?
Nishant: don't worry I swallowed it back down.

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Chipotle sent me a package today. If you are unaware, I am a MBA - or Master Burrito Ambassador. The package included the new 2008 burrito coin and a Chipotle soccer jersey.

Oh Chipotle, I love you so much I want to take you behind the bleachers and get you pregnant.

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“ This is America. Pick a job, and then become the person that does it.

Bobbie Barrett [Mad Men]

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Generation Kill Aftermath

I love Generation Kill. I wanted to see what had happened to the Marines afterwards. [Via Wikipedia]:

Sgt. Espera was forced to leave the battalion, SSgt. Eric Kocher was disciplined and one Marine’s promotion from corporal to sergeant was canceled as a direct result of the publication of the original articles. The Marines’ outspoken criticism of their superiors was deemed unacceptable.

Wright attended the Marines’ homecoming at Camp Pendleton, California on October 6th, 2003. He has described being attacked by a group of Marines who twisted his arms behind his back, put him in handcuffs and threatened him because they felt that the articles insulted them and their officers.

Despite initial doubts, Marine commanders later encouraged the officers of 1st Reconnaissance to read the book and the articles to get an insight into the reality of war.

Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Fick went on to write his own book, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (2006).

Rudy Reyes plays himself in the mini series adaptation, driving the third humvee.

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