Local Menu Guidance
It's strange that when so much is online that old-fashioned print ads still show up at my door. Like this "Local Menu Report" um, which is just a compilation of 19 random (not truly random–the […]
Peace and Quite
While it's a supposedly fun thing that food types enjoy, I hate dining alone and can't help but feel self-conscious eating at a bar counter by myself. I tweeted as much Friday night. Saturday afternoon […]
Middle-Aged Stock Photography With Original Captions
Elegant middle aged woman with her arms crossed against white Irritated middleaged woman changing channels Middle Aged Woman Eating Fresh Fruit Salad and smiling Middle aged woman in creative thought with coworkers in the background […]
Vomitando
Once my mom mentioned that she thought Talladega Nights was funny, so I recommended Eastbound & Down. It was only later that I remembered that she hated raunchy humor (both my sister and I value […]
I Would Prefer an Outer-Borough Diet
Women have reacted strongly to last week’s Manhattan Diet nonsense, and rightly so. I did too, then had a slightly different takeaway beyond it is horrible to live a calorie-restricted life, let alone write a […]
Stomachs, Midsections, and Guts Only, Please
On the products with your name track, a high-end Korean bbq restaurant just opened in midtown called Kristalbelli, which excites me on one hand and skeeves me on the other because I hate the word […]
Hairy Situations
For reasons unclear to myself, I signed up last year for that Bumble and Bumble hair model thing and never committed to any appointments until this week when I responded to an email for a […]
Hello I Must Be Going
Just as getting excited about products bearing your name, mentioning celebrity lookalikes (and dreams–that goes without saying–though I will say that after taking a new blood pressure medication that knocks me out at night and […]
Rewarded
After years (maybe more like months–I haven't had a Chase checking account for much more than a year) of ignoring and deleting emails from Chase, I finally opened one to discover that I had a […]
Unblemished No More
Stopping birth control pills after 23 years (no, I'm not trying to get knocked up–I'm seeing if it helps my two-decades-plus of high blood pressure) has fucked my skin up. I've had plenty of issues […]