"Positively Amish"

Is it " positively Amish " to get married at 25? How Amish was I, getting married at 27? Reform Amish, or Conservative? Anyway, I ...

Biohazard

Breaking with a long policy of I-don't-bring-food-to-class, I, yes, brought food to class. But nothing I, like, baked.  It was for vague...

The day thus far UPDATED

-Car and train trouble, both likely weather-related, but somehow made it to class on time. -Not just in time, but with time enough to inhal...

Serge Gainsbourg is not my style icon

Day 1 of 2 of oral exams. Most are today. Stamina so far so good, to be improved with (more) caffeine. Happier than usual not to be a Mormon...

How dare movies acknowledge the female gaze!

Max Read of Gawker brings our attention to (and nicely tears apart) a painfully misogynistic op-ed by Richard Cohen. Cohen doesn't lik...

On those who died for your $4.95 tank tops

Earlier, I sat in my office, a half-block or so away from the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire , and read about the modern-day equivalen...

Gute times UPDATED

The moment to read Robert Coleman's account of Berlin debauchery is probably not on one's way out the door to make an early commute...

Brands of nonsense

Black Friday. You wouldn't join a stampede for a flat-screen TV, right? If you're reading this, if you're someone I know on-blog...

What your great-grandmother recognized as de-frizzing serum UPDATED

-A Frenchwoman lectures an American audience on chic, which she humbly implies she was born with. A Frenchwoman in a track-suit . But she...

Man oh man UPDATED

A woman writes in to Prudence , insists that she's super duper tolerant, then confesses that she's not sure if she should stay with ...

OK, so I'll blog about Israel

First off, before proceeding, let me insist upon my lack of expertise  when it comes to the play-by-play appropriateness of individual Israe...

In defense of: bus riders

Am I missing something? Or wouldn't it seem that people who take the bus because they don't have/drive a car are overall travelling ...

A serious post about the world today

-OK, so poodles like to prance around on their hind legs . It's not (as some commenters appeared to believe) some Chinese conspiracy ma...

Of folk-singers and lactation consultants

Sarah Maslin Nir's somewhat controversial story about privilege and post-Sandy volunteering illustrates exactly where YPIS goes wrong. ...

WWPD reads the news (on her phone, while half-asleep on NJ Transit)

Just because it's not on WWPD doesn't mean I'm not following it. I too am watching the Middle East fall apart, and am not sure w...

Howdy, partner

Miss Self-Important has a humorous response to my post below . It's clever, but the point she's making seems very slippery-slope CCO...

Gettin' philosophical

One of my favorite college instructors, philosophy professor Eric Schliesser, posted the following dilemma : Let's imagine a "frien...

13.1

We have already discussed at great length , here at WWPD, the overlap between Hurricane Sandy and YPIS. More specifically, the almost inst...

Poodles and cashmere UPDATED

Dear Bisou, What was it that made you decide that pulling sweaters out of a drawer and shredding them is now your thing? Were you inspired b...

Dude

At NYC taco mini-chain Dos Toros, there's always this sign up about how you may only sit once you've gotten your food, i.e. no grabb...

Let them eat genetically-modified cake

So California won't be labeling its GMOs . I've been slightly following this, and it's a funny issue. On the one hand, those aga...

Strictly professional: Further reflections on the grown-up Facebook

-I'm kinda liking it. What I like most about Facebook, what keeps me on it, is the rolodex aspect. I'm not saying that's all I u...

Asians are the new Jews: political edition

Bloomberg has the scoop : Romney won among all voters making more than $100,000 a year by a margin of 54-44. Asian-Americans happen to be th...

WWPD Guides: complaining post-storm

Acceptable : -Your home was damaged, but not altogether swept away by the storm. -Your subway/train (or a viable alternative) continues to r...

"Exotic" Jews and more

-Electricity returned, Obama won. Lights are now flickering again. Is Romney, too, planning a surprise return? -A friend forwarded me Roy Gr...

Until further notice

It was Monday, October 29th in my French class (and all students showed up!), is Halloween in New Jersey, and is evidently November 5th on t...

Class, politics, class

All is back to normal-ish in these parts. Tree limbs are looking a bit less precarious, and I've calmed down some from my maniacal cooki...

Electricity, snooping

First, the lights came back on. Last night, just over four full days since they'd gone out. It was unreal. Then, a few hours later, the ...

In defense of: complaining about inconvenience

With the storm, there's been this immense outpouring of gratitude. Everyone on Facebook (my main contact with the outside world) is incr...

With tiny-violin music playing on the waahmbulence radio

Waah : -NYC-centrism and the storm: On the one hand, commenter Sigivald has noted that I no longer live in NYC, and should thus stop getting...