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Gilly

I am here for Friends

About Me

I look at art. I listen to music. I ride a bicycle. I make stuff out of yarn and fabric. I make stuff out of other stuff. I love people, but paradoxically, hate them. I like random encounters. I will go on a road trip to just about anywhere with people I hardly know as long as I don't have to drive. I must eat regularly and I like to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. I like cookies. But who doesn't like cookies?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

This is a commercial, but it has pretty dresses and cupcakes and bicycles in Paris, and is produced by Sofia Coppola...Also, I like meeting new people, but please, if I don't know you send me a message rather than a friend request... give me a reason to be your friend!

My Blog

this is stupid and sort of morbid...

but what will happen to the internet when we get old and a significant portion of users are dying? Obviously there will be new users but will our usernames re-enter the public domain, our urls expung...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:05:00 GMT

money for biking to work

Apparently, part of the $700 billion bailout bill was a provision to give a $20 tax break each month to people who regularly cycle to work, to help defray the costs of riding a bike. Currently, there ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:09:00 GMT

stupid helmets?

I essentially don't drive. I bike every day. And I wear a helmet every time I ride. I'm pretty sure it kept me from major injury when my front wheel got caught in trolley tracks, and when a stick s...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:55:00 GMT

awesomesauce

Inspired by beautiful produce at Pumpkin Market, a small Philadelphia market that carries local organic food, I decided to make pizza topped with orange bell peppers and broiled white eggplant. I had...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:19:00 GMT

fake risotto

Tastes close enough to the real thing, but with less time (about 25 minutes vs 1 hour), less stirring and no canned broth (particularly useful if you keep around spices but not broth). Adapted from M...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:13:00 GMT

freak incident

Today, I was riding my bike to work and hit a stick that was about 6-8" long and 1" diameter. Somehow, the stick flipped into my spokes, thus forcing my bike to flip over, with me on it. I didn't ev...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:17:00 GMT

the nuns are out in full force

When I left for work this morning, I saw a nun at the end of my block inspecting a door. When I got home today, there was a nun looking at a gutter with a repair guy.I guess this is what happens when...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:21:00 GMT

moving

I moved 4 times last year. I'm not moving anytime soon, because... I bought a loom! I will stay in this house until I'm pried out.
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:22:00 GMT

30 mpg

What's up with car commercials advertising vehicles that get about 30 mpg? Half the time, they are sedans, and new sedans shouldn't be getting any worse than that anyways. Corporate Average Fuel Eco...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:24:00 GMT

it’s always sunny

I saw Danny DeVito and the guys from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia filming yesterday.
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:23:00 GMT