The Middle Ages: 35
I should’ve known that the middle-ages, or rather the midlife crisis, has been the subject of scientific study. Really, though, there’s nothing surprising about college kids thinking 35 is old. When I was in college […]
The Middle Ages: < Mid-50s
“In order to protect you from a more complicated reality, I want to pretend that droopy-fleshed women in deep middle age are lusted after by droves of men for their original and seasoned beauty.”—Deep middle […]
The Middle Ages: <47
Winner of the creepiest opening paragraph so far in 2011: "The first time they had sex, during that initial exploration of unfamiliar flesh, John Ross uttered words to Ann Maloney that would sound to her […]
Frankly
HPV has been having quite a year. It causes wives of Brooklyn authors to upset people on Twitter and now we all know that vaccinating against the virus will turn you retarded. For me (this […]
Grandpa-Aged
The middle ages have skipped to straight-up elderly. A new milestone in my social media world has been reached: the first person (I’m aware of) in my graduating class has become a grandparent. Cheers to […]
Mom-Aged
A site I like not so long ago used the phrase mom-aged totally innocently in reference to a woman over-40. I know what she meant but because I'm the kind of stickler who would not […]
New Yorkers
Carolita Johnson's tale of being tormented over the years due to her looks (having big lips in particular) is quite the read. I instantly recognized her, though, from a New York Times real estate article […]
Subway Doppelgangers
No matter how good I think I look when I leave the house (and I thought I looked pretty ok this morning) when I get a ghoulish, shadowy glimpse of my reflection in the subway […]
Hold Shelf Success
This morning an automated email from Brooklyn Public Library informed me that the system's single copy of The Puglist at Rest was waiting for me on the holds shelf at the Carroll Gardens branch. Coincidence, […]
Pugilism
Speaking of books (I think I just was), I rely on the Brooklyn Public Library for providing reading material. They’re pretty good (and even have a Gary Lutz book, not the short story collection I […]