in case you didn't notice.

Mer de Clair(e) is on a wee bit of a hiatus!

Basically we are both really busy and lazy and struck by winter madness. We shall return soon with a new, improved version of the site. Well, not really. We'll just start blogging again. Loaf ewe!!! --MdC

birfday thirfday

Happy Birthday, Steve. I love ya!

unhhh...m.i.t.g.

if you watch one movie, it should be this

i demand to have some booze!!

two for tuesday: who would you rather?

Philosopher Phriday: Vol. XII

Dear Philosopher,

Every autumn an overwhelming sense of melancholy fills my spirit. I start having premonitions of my demise, and lately I have been smelling mothballs EVERYWHERE. Is this just a reaction to our protracted summer season or is my quandary of imperative gravity?

Autumn Death Sense

Dear Death Sense,

God should not concern us.
Death is not to be feared.
What is good is easy to obtain.
What is bad is easily avoided.

Mustache Monday Vol. 18

This weekend I saw The Darjeeling Limited. It was REALLY good. Much better than that one with the boat. Honestly, go see it. It re-ignited my love for Jason Schwartzman in a way I never thought possible. And he has the most amazing mustache. No spoilers, but he's a little scrappy bite-sized sex god, and I want to have like ten thousand of his babies!

(click pic to make beeeeger and expeeereeence true mustawsomeness)

Mustache Monday Vol. 17

a mustache makes a WORLD of difference. OBVS! look how much better these guys look with them! also, I will soon be launching the Mustache Monday street team!! that's right, randomly photographing and interviewing dudes around the way in Williamsburg and other NY locations...for the um, greater good of mustache aficionados everywhere.

glogging

i like BOOM and you like BOOM

http://merdeclair.blogspot.com/2007/06/and-well-make-songs-too.html

***email transmission of the day***

M: flight of the conchords is on our blawg. totally.

C: DUDE I am blawgging about how they are the perfect boyfriends for us

M: do i get the long haired one?
you know how i love dudes from New Zealand (*wink wink*nod nod*)
huh huh. i so need to go on another backpack holiday.

C: DUH of course I get Jermaine (with the glasses and funny looking)

M: ok. i only hook up with dudes from NZ with long hair and no glasses.
bonus points if they also shear sheep.

C: “SHEAR”

M: yeah, shearing is cool.
dudes who shear sheep have muscles in their arms i've never seen before.
OH MY GOD.

C: Ummmmmm email exchange of the day?

M: that's what i was thinking. only it made my mind go in the gutter a little bit.
kind of like how dairy queen makes me throw up in my mouth a little
but i eat it anyways, you know, for old times sake.

C: I just ate this:

Minus the Wii
It made me hurl a little.

M: it looks hurl-a-licious. i want to get l@*d.

insert inappropriate dialogue for work email involving being inappropriate with NZ b0yz

p.s. i totally kind of suck at rapping.

C: My d1ck is like Super Size

Your d1ck look like two fries

M: my d1ck VIP

your d1ck need ID

remember the Antietam rap? dude, that totally tanked.
maybe if they had tanks back then it wouldn't have sucked so bad
it's not as cool to rap about like bayonets and Stonewall Jackson
(secretly I think it is, see my last email)

C: Man I can’t remember ANYTHING.

M: yeah, well i just had a conversation with a work colleague about
sn0rt*ng the ammonium nitrate stuff (??) that is in urinal cakes.
also, i got white out on my face, and it won't come off.
i wasn't trying to sn0rt it.

C: You are!

Philosopher Phriday: Vol. XI

Dear Philosopher,
I think I am in love with Lapo Elkann, the stylish but brilliantly troubled heir to the Fiat empire. How do non-rich/model/celebrity but cute and awesome grrls like me get their hands on such a man? Are we relegated to normalcy forever?
Lover of Lapo

Dear LOL,
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means,then there is folly and blame.

...just as those who draw landscapes place themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature of the mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate the plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to understand that if princes it needs to be of the people.

withnail & i

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/12493769525206137149/Withnail-and-You

omg...there is a test regarding my favorite movie ever

you probably haven't seen it, but then again

you probably aren't as cool as barry

Philiosopher Phriday: Lazy, Irate Edition

Dear PHILOSOPHER:

NO ONE CARES ABOUT ME AND MY BLOG. WAAAAH!

-WHINY BLOGGER

Dear WB,

Dear Whiney Blogger,

I suppose your Nirvana has already peaked and descended, running along the approximate trajectory as the WB network, which closed on Sunday, September 17, 2006 with The Night of Favorites and Farewells, a block of their "signature" shows. It is pretty much down hill from here, so you might as well accept it. No one gives a crap about your "Philosopher Phriday" nonsense. Do yourself a favor, and go back to a small overpriced liberal arts college and get a degree in Philosophy. Now THAT would do a WORLD of good. Or Mer de Claire, you can just roll with your under-utilized fashion design and puppetry degrees and never fully realize yourself at all while engaging in self-destructive behavior and chasing boys that ultimately make you miserable anyhow. WOW...where did that rant come from? I mean, enlightenment, noble truths, eightfold path, blah blah blah...

-Ms. Disaster

p.s. i smell like a hippie, which must mean i am like, in touch with the universe.

send your whiney beetching to merdeclair@gmail.com

Mustache Monday Vol. 13 part 2

OHHHH The Edge. As most people know, Mer is the biggest U2 fan EVER. I just think they're ok. Well, better than ok, they're great but I'm not rabid. I'll tell ya what, though. That The Edge guy sure does have a comely mustache.

Observe:

Philosopher Phriday: Vol. VIII

Dear Philosopher,

I just have to have the latest movies on DVD before they hit the stores. There’s a Mexican lady who sells these dvds in the subway at 8th avenue. She brings her kids along to help her, and sometimes they have churros. I like churros. Where else can I get a $5 copy of the Simpsons movie AND a sweet rolled dough cinnamonny comestible delight? I guess my point is… is this morally indecent? Am I contributing to an underworld crime ring? If I alert the authorities to Marielena’s doings, am I sending her and her children to the flophouse? Does she rely on my purchase of that new Markie Mark j0int to send money home to Chihuahua? Please advise.

--Guilty Whitey
Dear GW,

I am at the end of my rope. I am nauseated by life; it is insipid, without salt and meaning. If I were hungrier than Pierrot I would not choose to eat the explanation people offer. One sticks a finger into the ground to smell what country one is in; I stick my finger into the world, it has no smell. Where am I? What does it mean to say: the world? What is the meaning of that word? Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here? Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn’t it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager? I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

Mustache Monday: Vol. 11

Welcome to merlikethesea's first m.m. contribution.

Irish Author Edition

Sorry Oscar Wilde, you were clean shaven, but still aces in my heart!

" When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."

i feel ya James...Dublin rules. it is so much fun in fact that for a while my HLM and i referred to having a keeck arse time as "Dublin".

WB Yeats

teh man who forever owns my soul, and author of my favorite poem...

When You Are Old

When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes once had, and of their shadows deep

How many love your moments of glad grace
And loved your beauty with love false or true
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face

And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars

Last, but never least.

John Millington Synge.

Brilliant playright, ethnographer, and back up plan if William Butler rejects me in teh afterlife...for he stole my heart.

"If one could only teach the English how to talk,

and the Irish how to listen,

society would be quite civilized."

Philosopher Phriday: Vol. VI

Dear Philosopher:

As of late, a couple of my close friends got engaged. Sounds awesome, right? Hell no. Surprisingly, their wedding bliss pisses me off in ten different ways. Why is this happening? Why do I feel like skipping the ceremony and just getting tanked instead?

single by choice in west by god virginia

Dear sbc,

He (Freud) remarks that this sentiment is the outgrowth of envy and jealousy. As some members of the social group jealously strive to protect their advantages, the less favored are moved by envy to take them away. Eventually everyone recognizes that they cannot maintain their hostile attitudes toward one another without injury to themselves. Thus as a compromise they settle upon the demand of equal treatment. The sense of justice is a reaction-formation: what was originally jealousy and envy is transformed into a social feeling, the sense of justice that insists upon equality for all.

teh 100th posting!

Claire is famous on teh internets!!!!!

http://www.nerve.com/regulars/sexadvicefrom/missedconnections/

What's a good technique for approaching an attractive stranger on the street?

Ask them where they got that sweatshirt/book/tattoo, and if the store where they got it is near their neighborhood, and then what their favorite spot is over there. Then post a Missed Connection.

I'm shy. How can I seem more gregarious and less withdrawn when speaking with someone I have a crush on?

I live by at least two or three cliché mottos involving regret: It's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do; do something everyday that scares you; it is better to have loved and lost . . . you get the picture. You really have nothing to lose. Realize that your crush is a normal person. It's like meeting celebrities — just be natural and don't freak out.

Can I give a fake phone number to someone if they ask me for mine but I don't want them to have it?

Absolutely. I once read that Marilyn Monroe would give people the number to the L.A. County morgue. I don't know if it's true, but I would do that in a heartbeat.

I just moved to a new city. How can I find a date without anyone to go out to the bars with?

Never underestimate going to the bar alone. Try the bathroom line for same-sex future wingmen. And "I just moved here" is gold — people are always happy to show off their city.

My boyfriend wants to have sex every night, but I'm more of a once-a-week girl. Can we reconcile this, or are we doomed?

You have to meet in the middle, or he might start looking elsewhere for his kicks. Film yourself jilling off for him to watch when you're not in the mood. I bet you won't be able to ignore him for long.

What phrase should one never include in an online ad?

"Long walks on the beach" as a form of irony is about as annoying as that guy at the Lightning Bolt show screaming, "FREE BIRD!"

craig guest "glogging"

mer is luna in a late-twenties format?

craig and mer, only with really bad taste in fashion