When the "Girls" backlash (and backlash to backlash...) first broke, and everyone was saying that the show was too white, my thoug...
When the "Girls" backlash (and backlash to backlash...) first broke, and everyone was saying that the show was too white, my thoug...
As I sit waiting for commenter Caryatis's mystery " suggestion about" my "writing style" (about which I'm of co...
The comments left on ancient blog posts here tend to be on the furious end of the spectrum. What inspires someone to leave a comment on a po...
Mark Bittman wants ( link !) an indoor food market to go where the Fulton Fish Market once was. Not that this would much benefit me at this ...
-New Brooklyn continues to represent aspirational farming by non-ethnic white people. On that front, we have Swedish Brooklyn obsession , a...
Sample sales. I grew up with them, and then, as an adult, basically lost track of them. Yes, it's possible to buy high-quality clothing ...
Caity Weaver of Gawker has written a hilarious but essentially mistaken take-down of a NYT real-estate-section profile of some parents bu...
Chris Schonberger, Nick Schonberger, and Foster Kamer wrote this endlessly compelling if somewhat NY-centric list of "20 Things Every...
-Yes, yes, the First Amendment, but whevs. I'm going to hereby advocate for a ban on the use of the word "fresh" to describe h...
Lena Dunham confirms what I've been saying since forever: everyone should wear eyeliner. It's always a good idea. Meanwhile, "...
Every so often, some piece of entertainment comes along that so resembles my own biography that I have trouble judging how it might be recei...
-A Frenchwoman lectures an American audience on chic, which she humbly implies she was born with. A Frenchwoman in a track-suit . But she...
Sarah Maslin Nir's somewhat controversial story about privilege and post-Sandy volunteering illustrates exactly where YPIS goes wrong. ...
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...
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...
Cropped for emphasis. The "are you Jewish" set were way off their game that day, going right past me twice and asking the questio...
-A missing-person sign up in and around Penn Station indicates that the young man "is not wearing a yarmulke." -One Facebook frien...
Two Australian (?) women on the subway, of a certain age and in the TOWIE/Real Housewives mold. One is telling the other about a certain ...
-Class itself: fun. Sorting out the mystery that is online homework: less so. A work in progress, but to be resolved, I estimate, in the nex...
Pros : -My four-leg-each-way journey would make for a fantastic RNC speech. -The train I take to get me in on time gets me in early. Early ...