caroline contillo

today i am having tuna with relish, mayo, green olive tapenade, and dided cornichons, on 14-grain bread, with an orange and granola.  i have placed it in ziplock bags, and i’m taking it with me as i walk to long island city to eat on one of the piers in front of those unsightly condos. [...]

I came across this woman’s photography on flickr while i was searching for images of Haverstraw, NY to illustrate a post I was writing about my history as a diner waitress. Sometimes before work I would go on long drives up the Hudson River until I was almost lost and then walk around towns with [...]

So for anyone interested in what I am doing, academically, allow me to indulge. I was recently admitted into the Thomas Hunter Honors Program here at Hunter College. I just met with an advisor where we discussed my major and minor interest. I’m leaning, now, towards a major in Art History (which will appear on [...]

is the sort of oxymoronic myspace bulletin that will have you forcefully removed from my personal space dot com.
also I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for a disappointing lakc of content in the last week or so. i am floating atop a choppy sea of academic and work-oriented brain spasms that prevent [...]

so in lieu of actual content, here is a video from a dear friend of mine.

I’m going to hold back on any Scientology jokes since I think that’s just a cop out. But I would really like to know why Tom Cruise is going for either early 90’s lesbian chic or a Dumb & Dumber look? It is invading my nightmares and making me really uncomfortable.

My single favorite thing to look at is a building — a house or an apartment– dusted by crepuscular twilight, with the glow of lamplight emitting from a window. I would argue that this is not voyeuristic in nature, although half the pleasure is seeing the activity on the inside framed by the muffled luminescence [...]

New York has finally achieved that autumnal weather than increases the chances that I will emerge from my academically imposed hermitude to gather with like-minded persons of good cheer. There is a good amount of kewl krap going on this weekend. Here is a selection.
on friday:
The Third Annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Olympics
At Union Hall
702 Union [...]

 3:1  “if you keep shoving me from behind, i am only going to walk slower and may actually start backing up into you.”
7:1 various forms of decapitation in retaliation for nail clipping within ear-shot
13:1 “what is that smell?” pos. answers: fried fish, meatball sub, healthy or feverish body odor, poop.

So usually on Halloween night I become irritated at the fact that I am being forced to have fun in a particular way, being the cranky control freak that I am, and I give up on whatver costume I had been imagining. Luckily that did not happen this year.

Sarah and I [...]