How Bisou fills her days

"The Squirrel and Rabbit Show" Disembodied poodle-head. How is this comfortable? "Who does your hair?" "I really ap...

Dressing on the side UPDATED

Ever since I've known of them, I've found fashion-and-style blogs a far superior way to follow that universe than reading fashion ma...

It's better to be Natalia Vodianova than fat

I'm glad to have helped Elizabeth Nolan Brown theorize about why the concept of "natural beauty" is a load of bunk. The deal ...

Gratuitous poodle photos

A new puppy is an event to be amply documented. So I wasn't thrilled when my camera broke. Now, however, my husband has one of those cam...

Scarves and stripes

-Fashion-advice columnist Hadley Freeman explains that contrary to what you might expect, she doesn't care about shoes, and that this i...

Over the weekend

-Saw the notorious, inescapable first episode of "Girls." It's definitely funny, as well as refreshing to have a self-deprecat...

A post that would be called "grass is greener" if today's date didn't give the wrong impression

Among my peers who started out in Teach for America or similar, law school is this immensely appealing road to higher pay and not so many ro...

Blonde brunettes

What do many brunettes considered to be great beauties have in common? They're naturally blond, or have gone from light brown to near-bl...

Times like these

-Seems I live in one of " the 20 best small towns in America ." Hmm. -In all seriousness, it sucks that Bar Refaeli was groped by...

Breaking news

-French children don't get fat . -American brides wish they weren't as fat, go to tragicomic lengths to lose weight. -Natalie Portm...

Women, eggs

-Sometimes, without knowing precisely what goes on at one, I'll announce my desire to run off to a spa. It sounds pleasant, right? Maybe...

Things that are on the Internet

- Two very different takes on male-female friendship, to be read side by side. -Food. A serious or frivolous topic, depending whether it...

A contrarian food-movement takedown

There's a new book out I'm intrigued by, even though what I know of it is that the NYT reviewer, Dwight Garner, hated it . Tyler Cow...

Day trips

An establishment claims that it "bakes the best bagels in the Lawrenceville, NJ area." I found this on one of my attempts at findi...

Eating, reading

-Consider this Social Qs  dilemma : When picking up takeout food at a restaurant, and being presented with the credit card bill, I leave the...

Burying the lede

There's a new Rufus Wainwright music video , for "Out of the Game." In it, three Rufuses make out at a library, with one anoth...

Marketable skills

Recently, at a beyond-academia event aimed at preemptively-despairing grad students who very much still want to be profs, I learned that one...

On this week's titillating Dear Prudence

Yet another reason why college room-sharing is a terrible idea . Prudie's advice - "Just think of this as one of those 'out o...

"A dishpan and piece of scotchbrite"

Regular readers know that two of my favorite things are dishwashers and online-newspaper comments. So what better than a combination of the ...

Don't mess with perfection

There is a perfect coffee shop, and I know this will come as a great surprise, but it's not in Princeton. Nothing against the coffee sho...