Vanity Unfair
Photo from Jezebel I don’t know what it is with men and comedy that frequently manages to rankle me. I like men; I like comedy but the two together always result in big fat double […]
Nursing Like Cats and Dogs
Reuters photo If you thought I was sick of oddball animal pairings you would be very wrong. Cats taking in orphaned puppies is pretty boring in the scheme of this genre but you must take […]
The Swing Set
Ok, fuck the whole Brooklyn artisanal “movement.” I know where I can find fancy chocolate, pickles and cured meats in the borough. What I really want to know where on earth this swingers club is […]
This Blows
Kleenex’s Let it Out campaign doesn’t make me want to buy facial tissue so much as wonder what possesses people to air peculiar personal matters online (and this coming from a long-time chronicler of the […]
Dragon Breath
Why I was watching made-for-SCI FI's Wyvern on Saturday night is another issue, but I’m glad I sat through the Northern Exposure meets Reign of Fire schlock if only for this gratuitous vomit scene. Arctic […]
Always a Stalker, Never the Stalked
Sure, this is old news but Project Me!: Part 2 is no slave to timeliness or current events. I was curious just exactly which ladies Esquire was referring to when a few months ago they […]
Hair Apparent
I’m fascinated by all the freaked out Gawker commenters regarding a 1979 Lee Friedlander photo of Madonna at age 19 with full on armpit and pubic hair that just sold for $37,500 at a Christie’s […]
Kids These Days
I don’t know if people are more prudish now (getting worked up over things like peanuts, cupcakes and third-hand smoke around your children makes me say yes, pedophilia almost seems antiquated) but it just doesn’t […]
Middle Class is a State of Mind
Good timing, this was new Center for an Urban Future study details exactly what I was talking about yesterday. How New Yorkers that would have middle class salaries in most of the country are practically […]
You’d Better Shop Around
Photo from amsac via Flickr Some people get off on brownstones. Me, I could take or leave them. My real estate fantasy would be to live in a renovated Singaporean shop house, interestingly the subject […]