2008

Can’t you just tell by the look of him that he’s...

mattlehrer: Two hundred thousand Germans and one candidate...

This is where it hurts.

“Giving them a bracelet isn’t as special as spending an...”
— A 35-year-old bride explains...

An Australian man's dare went horribly wrong...

The Great Black Hope graces Germany; "Zeit"...

Let this be a warning: music purchased online...

So sue me.  I lied.  (Buy me!)

[Last one, then back to work, I swear!]  I just have to say:...

For my rompah lovahs!  The auction ends in 28 hrs, and...

Just what I don’t need: I’ve stumbled upon an...

Guess who just got offered a FREE TICKET to the SPRINGSTEEN...

“China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents”...

Why did McCain cancel his planned trip to New Orleans...

I could also be into this one.

Hint hint hint HINT!!! My bday is (slowly)...

Edwards, Nunn on Obama's Veep List

What 72% of Americans don't know (and...

I took the Pew News IQ Quiz.  Got three questions wrong.  Scored a 76%, compared to the national...

California is doing its part to mitigate rising temperatures...

For a disappointed friend, proof that women like us have...

“By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and...”
— Ms. Dorothy Parker, my cynical...

Obama on the Brink

“There are some very wrong ways to fire people.”
— Rachelle Canter, a 20-year...

“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current...”
— Retired General Antonio...

Pig pile

On days like yesterday and (still??) this morning, I can’t help but think that tumblr is a...

Wait. Is the "National Enquirer" a source for...

Hey, remember McCain Watch?

Wait. Is the "National Enquirer" a source for...

Deep-frying platanos at Michael Cirino’s on Sunday. My...

Happened upon this in front of Borough Hall. Paraphrasing...

Michael Cirino Roasted a Pig; the Gods Smiled...

Forget the “I [heart] NY” t-shirt. The NYC...

Just me?

lovepuppy: OR IS TODAY SO AMAZINGLY BORING!!!!!!!!!!! Considering that I just posted an image of a...

Dad, you could be expecting this “Beehive Pizza...

“I can’t believe you wrote ovulating in all caps - what...”
— Andrea, in response to an...

From a wedding with a “Beatles go to India”...

Enticing, no?  From the new adaptation of Brideshead...

Marlon Brando and Ron Galella in New York. (1974) NYT.

Sam Cooke.

Nora,

complaints: You blog a lot. A true and valid complaint, one that I have heard not just from...

Lessons learned from NYC lemonade stand...

From SMOOT’s trip to the UFO museum in Roswell.

Georgie Greville, a film director, in her NYC bedroom.  From...

How To Get Twitter Wrong

John Carney’s analysis of Twitter — which places multi-way conversation at the crux...

“i am planning on meeting that [redacted] boy (from union...”
— A dear friend of mine, whom I...

"A leader turned ghost"

Listen

“If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I...”
— Christian Bale to E! Online...

“Instead of purchasing a couch for my now baron apartment,...”
— Meghan Asha. I should hope it...

Oh no! Christian Bale's on drugs, too?!

"The function of the imagination is not...

G. K. Chesterton, author of “The Man Who Was Thursday”

"Modeling is a bit brain-damaging."

Kate Moss, in “Vogue.”

I'm not as pretty as I think I am

But neither are you. Researchers have found that people identify images of themselves in a roundup...

“When people are made to be self-aware, they are likelier to...”
— Dr. Galen V. Bodenhausen, who...

“Trained and funded by the United States, Bolivian...

This time, I’m not joking.  That’s cocaine. From...

File under: duh!

I’ve discovered I don’t have to scroll through my archives when I want to find an old...

Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into...

This is the testicle of a bull.  It is best eaten breaded...

$14.84 versus $16.84

Wage cuts (and sexism) are reasons that women, once laid off, are staying out of the workforce: Pay...

Back to 1996

It’s not just assembly line workers that are getting pushed out of the workforce.  It’s...

“Women bring home about one-third of family income. And only...”
— Carolyn Maloney, Democrat of...

This is honeycomb tripe. It feels like rubber.

Re: stomaching cow stomach

Jane & Andrea: you’ve got a homemade dinner to look forward to! :)

Today I am facing my food blogger’s albatross: tripe...

“Where superior thinking overwhelms superior...

Terry Gross interviewed Christian Bale &...

"She's proved not to be a publicity...

Will Leitch on Madonna’s canny attention-grabbing A-Rod “scandal” (“New...

The 6th course. (Calm down, it’s powdered sugar.)

I need a new word for exhausted

Also, I may not cool down for about a month. But it’s a happy feeling of depletion.

Hot as it looks.

Andrea pulls ropa vieja.

Um … is that a gun?

omg you guys

I had an extremely vivid dream about going to an all-day hippie-ish music festival with like totally...

Not sure what I said to Matt to get that reaction.  But he...

Andrea.  My girl of summer.

Apes & Androids, last night.  The day-glo savages were...

"I'll be too busy looking good"

Racism in 1970s cinema.

We need emotional content.

Bruce Lee, “Enter the Dragon”

“Enter the Dragon” - “A good fight should...

Love this bridal store on Atlantic

Still waiting for the credits to roll: I...

Noisy, bloody, humorless, and 37 minutes too long (and counting). The bat’s embrace of sonar...

Kelli White, former world-class runner &...

“It takes a whole operation to make that person, the person I became. A coach. A massage...

Waiting for my savior: an AC’d bus.

"You see a rainbow, you're supposed to...

Gitty Grunwald, subject of the current “New York” cover story, remembers her Hasidic...

Oops, that’s more like it. Heat’s gone to my...

Andrea against an outdoor movie screen, Bushwick

This just in

Gena, consumate complainer, DOES get to go to So Cal this summer, AND take driver’s ed....

oats: Nick throws the hottest parties (via mattlehrer) True...

I am on a quest. A dating quest. I am dating out of my...

Liz plays the “define nerd game.” I drink a...

They had us remove covers so they can search & destroy...

Hey, I battled industrial-strength mold...

Yeah, I definitely shouldn’t have gone into my apt. But although they told me they’d be...

Extermination Chic

The silver lining to being bugziled

I forgot how cute all you Macbook coffee shop boys are!

"Basically you're just sittin' there for...

Novelist Richard Price on writing, in an interview with Terry Gross last March. Planning to read his...

Bridge-of-the-nose sweat

It’s one of those days when even wearing sunglasses feels like too much.

Grumble grumble

I’ve had to vacate my apt for like 5 hrs while the exterminators send our little bedbugs to...

File under: duh!

An AP/Yahoo News poll found that Obama supporters are more “fired up” for the election...

In defense of bread: my dad responds to...

“The bread Gena freaked out about this morning was my first effort at baking a loaf in the gas...

This knockout is my BDFF (Best Dublin Friend Forever):...

Get me through this, Lord, and I'll do...

“We should tax what we burn, not what we earn.”
— Al Gore argued today for taxes...

Jets? Yes! Sharks? ¡Sí! in Bilingual ‘West...

AS IF I know enough about bread baking

Maybe it’s ‘cause I couldn’t get my Gena-fix for a whole month while she was away...

simko: “Tell a Lie” Photoshop series by Henry Hadlow...

Nora

complaints: Has such smart posts. Thanks, smart ass.

A jihad to combat misuse of the term...

It’s only taken them about 7 years, but the Bush Administration is finally going to stop...

“I guess I’m not going to pay attention to boys anymore,...”
— Gena

Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble...

I’m kind of obsessed with the personal Website of...

Post-modern warship or luxury cruiser? The yacht-humping...

Meet LO, the woman behind a blog called LivingOprah. For one...

“What lesson should we take from this? No matter what, do...”
— Freakonomist Steven Levitt...

“There is nothing to do here. I can’t even drive. ...”
— Gena.  Sometimes I kind of...

Infectious Exuberance

'Black Widow' homeless killers jailed for...

“What’s the point of having a boyfriend if he...”
— Gena, again. Truer words were...

“Nora, we don’t say ‘ridiculous’ anymore....”
— Gena drops science.

Complaints of a 15-year-old

Gena does not want to be monitored 24-7. Gena does not want to go to Duluth for a bar mitvah this...

nickbennettusa: Found during image search for “smoking hot...

(via whatiwore) Tip #3 is KEY.  I’ve ruined skirts by...

Free iced coffee at Starbucks: today & next...

And I could do this for hours...

Armin of Brand New analyzes logo design and redesign, like...

Today is book recommendation day! Titles that have been...

I think white sunglasses are really unflattering.

So sinister

Since 1974, when Gerald Ford took office, we have had four left-handed presidents.  That’s...

Seriously, can someone please explain why Hassids are always...

"The new New York Jew?"

I am strangely fascinated by Hasidic Jews.  Writer Mark Jacobson (who identifies with the...

Confession, such as it is

I really enjoy flirting with lesbians.

Waiting for Spoon…rather paler than the Freddie...

Best part about tonight’s agenda?  I get to finally...

My sister’s back from a month at camp.  She went...

mascarah: maryrambin: With all of the resources and technologies we have available to us, why is it...

“At some point, a judgment must be made. Iraq is not going to...”
— Obama, speaking today at the...

“Fall in love in haste, repent at leisure.”
— Ben Stein, “Lessons in...

Crunchy peanut butter and toasted coconut: so unusual, so...

And as a fitting follow-up to the...

In July 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. That was the good...

So, I was fired from my food writing gig...

And it was over email.  An email sent at midnight.  This from a woman who joked she wished I was her...

This morning, waiting on the platform for the N train, I noticed a fairly attractive, youngish man...

“As for offshore drilling, it’s safe enough these days that...”
— John McCain This has been...