Entries Tagged as 'birthday'

“i don’t need a birthday cake,” i said.

September 12th, 2008 · 109 Comments

(my roommate disagreed.)

now it’s my turn: happy birthday, kim! (emoticon emoticon emoticon)
related: an occasion that blue mountain arts has yet to animate
extra credit: cake wrecks

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Tags: birthday · brooklyn · cake · new york · park slope · roommates · smiley

cloudy with a chance of hate mail

August 14th, 2008 · 239 Comments

for their daughter’s first birthday, mr. and mrs. schmidt decided it would be fun to throw a casual little backyard get-together at their home in rochester, minnesota.
like the good church-going minnesotans they are, the schmidts sent out this e-mail invite to their small-ish congregation of about 200 people, expecting maybe 20 or 30 to stop [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · birthday · minnesota · moms & dads · spelling and grammar police

an occasion that blue mountain arts has yet to animate

March 3rd, 2008 · 91 Comments

the “thanks for forgetting my birthday, asshole” thank-you note: because the only thing that would have made this e-mail from rebecca’s (32-year-old) brother any better is a midi file soundtrack and a dancing elephant or two.

adds rebecca: “my resulting apology just yielded more hate-filled e-mails from him — nevermind that i was camping and he [...]

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Tags: birthday · cry me a fuckin' river · e-mail · orlando · siblings · thanks (but not really)