backwards and in high heels.

Edvard Munchian

Book smart vs. Common Sense

On the heels of the “ghetto-party” drama at the esteemed University of California, San Diego this week—which I will be writing about shortly, believe you me, oh yes I will—my husband’s business partner found a note on the ground, lost by, presumably, one of the University’s fine, over-achieving students. It concerns me how this individual [...]

Dear John Mayer,

When Playboy asked you whether black women “throw themselves” at you, you said:
“I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.”
Well, jeeze. This is awkward but…dude! [...]

Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it

As I begin preparing to go on Euro Gallavant 2010—also known as Debt Fest 2.0.1.0, or Reinvent Yourself: The 21st Century Edition—I’ve been making contact with a few other writers with whom I’ll be sharing prosecco toasts and sunsets over the Amalfi Coast. I sure hope they’re not talkers, boy. I like my sunsets lonely [...]

I almost have it memorized

Next week is Staff Appreciation week at Ruby’s school and since everything seems to be about Ruby’s school these days, I thought I’d share this gem, sent to me by my friend The Lethal Weapon. You know who you are.

After searching for her hairbrush for 15 minutes

The Gaydi Project:  Oh! Here it is! It was in front of my face the whole time! Duh.
Sam: Why didn’t she just look there first?

Doppelgänger

Ira Glass is something else. He’s smart. He’s funny. He’s nerdy-sexy. Terrifically so.
In other words, my type.

But my husband defies all adjectives, without the glasses.

So you can imagine that when my mother-in-law told me—after I took this picture, panting, sweating, fanning myself—that she was giving these glasses to my nephew, Thanksgiving almost got ugly. Had [...]

My punkin’ across time

THEN…

AND NOW…

This is, like, totally bananas

I’m the recipient of The Honest Scrap Award, the only award that I have ever accepted on this blog. I don’t believe in these bloggy awards, much the same way I don’t believe in tiaras for women over the age of 12. But! I do quite like the bitch who presented the award and [...]

I just really love this guy

My favorite Facebook status update from today:
“Tim Wise thinks he understands the right-wing anger over the President’s education speech & the importance of hard work in school. See, they prefer the last President–the one who bragged at Yale commencement about being a lazy, mediocre C student, and told them how that was ok, because you [...]

It’s all about the equipment

My esteemed editor at CityBeat, Dave Rolland, ran his first 5k today. He announced his results on his Facebook page:

“My time was 26:12 (8:26 minutes per mile). I came in 171st overall (out of 1,217). I was 15th in my age/gender group (out of 39). And I think I was the only dude running in [...]

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