I was only 16 when the Beastie Boys came to the (now defunct) Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. A die hard Beasties fan during that time–I’d flip flop between pretending Adam Horovitz “Ad-Rock” was my boyfriend or that I was Ad-Rock in my fantasy all-girls rap band–and a slew of my guy friends who [...]
April 25, 2012
I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with Miri, because I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed, but HBO’s Girls, to me, is funny. As in LOL fucking laugh out loud uncomfortable disgustingly funny. Granted, I’m more with the gyno at the end who said “You couldn’t pay me enough to be 24 again.”–Lena Dunham shows the nasty [...]
February 14, 2012
Okay, I admit. On Valentine’s Day, I need some flowers. Sorry to disappoint you all who believe that Valentine’s Day is just another commercial holiday that we shouldn’t be buying into, but my desire for roses (I’ll even take a dandelion) stems from an ex-boyfriend who got himself a tattoo “for me” on Valentine’s Day [...]
February 13, 2012
Madonna was late for our appointment. Her assistant called…Something about a strained hamstring, an injury related to the Super Bowl halftime show. When she arrived I was surprised by how small she was. She’s like the size of a garden fairy- when she apologized for running late, she didn’t have a single wrinkle on her [...]
November 29, 2011
Adam’s kiss and Kristina’s reaction, the saga continued… if you didn’t get a chance to watch Parenthood this week, if you don’t have a job that entails watching crappy television and writing about it… here’s the summary: Adam admitted the kiss. Kristina freaked out. Kristina assumed Rachel (the young woman at Adam’s office) would be [...]
November 20, 2011
Parenthood, the NBC series rocked my utopian hour of television-Valium last night: Adam, as in the stable brother with the beautiful wife and three kids, kissed the young woman working for him. Earlier this week, Hayley watched Housewives of Beverly Hills and was prompted to write about domestic violence. Her piece spurred me to share my [...]
November 16, 2011
You know I love Tatum O’Neil. You know I worship Bob Forrest from Celebrity Rehab. Now my friends I’m going to confess my love for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills so that we can talk about this Taylor abuse situation that was unravelled on Monday night’s episode. For those of you not in the [...]
October 29, 2011
(Image: Fame) Discussions on the internet about all sorts of ways how girls and women behave. My little sociological pickings about the ladies. Here’s the roundup. Vixen, temptress, slut. Justine Musk wants to know what story are you telling. Women like to be all sexy-like. Don’t assume she’s dressing for you. Over at Feministe. It’s nice [...]
October 5, 2011
Living in the east coast bubble, I often say that I my kids are immune to childhood obesity. What obesity? My kid is a rail. His friends are rails. They’re over-scheduled and neurotic, yes. Obese, no. (Okay, that’s not totally true, according to the “How Obesity Threatens America Report, 2011″ New Jersey runs around the [...]
September 23, 2011
1. Thelma does her research. So she’s only eternally Thelma in our minds, but according to Geena Davis’s Institute on Gender Media, women aren’t doing much of anything in movies today except … getting barefoot and pregnant. According to Mashable: In her research, Davis found that most of the women portrayed in mainstream, family-friendly media [...]
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