I Will Give the Show One Chance
There are times when you’re being a dick and you don’t even mean to. Like when I was a freshman in a basic drawing class critique and I asked why a woman had chosen to […]
Working For the Weekend
On the AirBART shuttle from the Coliseum station to the Oakland airport I spied a Carrow’s and a Red Lion, two chains I thought had ceased to exist just because I hadn’t encountered one in […]
What Hubris Will Get You
Turns out I’m not a genius after all (shocking, I know). My hair color only looked good for one week and despite using permanent dye, the warm tones have come back and the dark, blue-black-covered […]
Buses, Boats, Whatever
Ha, one of my first NYC humiliations was not knowing what a jitney was. Finding out when the earliest jitney left from the Upper West Side for a demanding celebrity landscape architect (to celebrities, I […]
The Middle Ages: 40
The Bell Jar at 40: Sylvia Plath's YA novel reaches middle age. Despite being as angsty as any teen, I never read The Bell Jar. Perhaps I should read it before next July 25th. I […]
What’s the Good Word?
Fashion magazines are best at the gym because I can barely read full sentences when sweating and dizzy on an elliptical machine. I end up skimming the same paragraph over and over again. If someone […]
Poorly Shod
I’ve barely owned these shoes for a month and I’ve already destroyed the cork heels. They're already in worse shape than the older version of these sandals I've worn for three years. What gives? I’m […]
Where the Story Ends
Last week while in Portland, Oregon I reluctantly read an article titled A Twee Grows in Brooklyn (and the twee keeps growing) about the Portlandification of said borough. I also turned 39 while in the […]
True Calling
I just wanted to say—quickly, I’m trying to get my shit together so I can wake up angrily at 4am to get to JFK for a 7:30am flight—that I am a hair genius. My blue […]
The Blue Hairs
I think I’m about to do something fucked up to my hair—and I’m going to bore you cross-eyed talking about it. Yes, I’m back on my let-it-go gray kick (though, this afternoon I caught a […]