January 2011
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Icon of the Week: Coco Chanel
I kind of never knew that Coco Chanel was so beautiful.
It explains a lot about why she was so successful, however. Not that she wasn’t naturally talented, because she was, to the extreme. It’s just that she was born in 1883, the midst of the industrial age, to a market stall-holder and a laundrywoman with five other children.
Her upbringing was anything but pedigreed. It had...
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Who Needs Words When You Can Use Emoji?
I’ve discovered a new way of communicating, and it’s called Emoji Free!.
Emoji Free! is an emoticon keyboard application for iPhones. Like most things created by the Japanese, it is capable of generating ideas that are both unerringly exact and perversely filthy.
Given the chance, I could most definitely write a keitai shousetsu, otherwise known as a “cell phone...
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On Tana French and Truth in Art
I was speaking to a friend yesterday about art, and what makes something a great artwork. In a world that measures cultural weight (in literature, music, films, painting, etc) with commercial value, does the proverbial cream rise to the top? Is great art judged based on nothing but marketing and celebrity, or has art always been (and will always be) about the inexorable flow of history, in the...
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Oh My God, It's a Snowy Day Photo Album
It snowed last night in Brooklyn, and basically every amateur photographer who’s ever wielded an SLR camera or an iPhone is outside taking pictures of the aftermath. The streets are flooded with middle aged men with LowerPro fanny packs and super zoom lens taking snapshots of children. I’m not even kidding.
I know the snow storm itself didn’t break any records, but I would...
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On the Royal Wedding, Rod Liddle, and Sewage in...
(I’m using pictures from Diana’s wedding to illustrate this post because every image of Kate Middleton online is either a paparazzi shot of her walking down the street, or a photograph of her, red-nosed, wearing a stupid hat. WHEN IS THE VANITY FAIR COVER ARTICLE COMING OUT SO THAT MY ROYAL WEDDING IMAGE MISERY CAN BE OVER?)
Rony passed along an article from the British magazine...
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Dear: The MTA, You're Ruining My Life, Love: Brie
Dear MTA,
You’ve ruined my day so many times in the past few weeks, with your fare hikes and your delays, that I’ve come close, a few times, to hurling myself against the conductor’s door. Repeatedly. Until I break through the window and tear off the heads of one of your employees with my gigantic Irish, potato-digging fingers.
Today, I was running just on time for one of my...
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...Justified!
I usually share the same taste as my friend Matt Dreyer, who doesn’t want me to write his full name on my blog. He did say he would make an exception, however, if I accepted his request to open up an ING bank account, because if I do so, he’ll make $10. Cheap date.
You’ve got $10 coming your way, Matt Dreyer. Matt Dreyer. Matt Dreyer. Matt Dreyer.
A few months ago, he told...
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Poet of the WeeK: Richard Wilbur
When I first started keeping a journal four years ago, I was writing the dumbest shit in it. At the time, I wanted to be writer, but I didn’t “believe” in myself, and I didn’t have any professional experience. The journal became the vehicle where I took a stab (violently) at writing wordy, “lyrical” crap which I hoped someone would eventually read, and be...
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Justified: A Review
I usually share the same taste as my friend Matt Dreyer, who probably doesn’t want me to write his full name on my blog. A few months ago, he told me that I would really Justified, a show about a Federal Marshall based in modern-day Kentucky who administers justice like he’s a 19th century sheriff living in the wild wild west. It stars Timothy Olyphant, aka Seth Bullock from Deadwood,...
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The Past Two Centuries: The Best Restaurants in...
The Village Voice published a list of the “10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries”, which included, in order:
10. Rector’s 9. 21 Club 8. Restaurant at the Waldorf-Astoria 7. Barbetta 6. Coach House 5. Lutece 4. Delmonico’s 3. Bank Coffee House 2. Daniel 1. Le Pavillon
In all honesty, I think this list is a complete snoozefest. I’ve never ever heard of...
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Blue Valentine: A Review
Admittedly, I left the theater after watching Blue Valentine feeling profoundly, nauseously sad.
I kind of don’t want to write a good review about it, because every fucking hipster I know (I love most of you despite) has their panties in a bundle about how moving and beautiful and true-to-life it was, blah blah blah, and I honestly would have loved to hate it. I wanted it to be like The...
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My Thoughts: Golden Globes Fashion 2011
(January Jones+Versace=Moulin Rouge meets my dark twisted fantasy)
Basically the only thing that kept me from offing myself at my last three office jobs was style.com and the Hollywood awards season, so it was bittersweet to realize tonight that I’ve been so busy concentrating on not fucking around that I didn’t even realize it was the Golden Globes.
Three years ago, tomorrow...
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If I'm Not a Scorpio Anymore, Then Who the F—K Am...
All of my life, I’ve been a Scorpio.
I’ve used my star sign to explain away all of my character flaws, and to comfort myself when men have stopped calling me.
“He’s a Pisces, a Scorpio is just too much for him,” I’ve sobbed into the turquoise and lavender fur of the Sulley from Monsters Inc. stuffed animal I sleep with every night. I’m 28 years old.
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Restaurant Recap: Saying Good Bye to Seben
This past Saturday night was my last night working with Seben, my very handsome co-host at the restaurant, who has moved on to bigger, if not better things.
Anyway, it has gotten to the point that Seben will barely say anything to me, he’s so afraid I’ll take his words out of context on my blog. So basically all we did this past Saturday night was stand at the front of the...
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Icon of the Week: Severine in Belle Du Jour
I first watched Luis Buñuel’s Belle du Jour (1967), when I was the in the throes of my own middle class malaise. It’s a movie about Severine (played by Catherine Deneuve), a rich housewife who escapes her sexless marriage by becoming a prostitute at a brothel from 2-5pm every day.
I was negotiating my way through being an appropriate member of the society I was brought up in,...
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