January 2009
46 posts
Alison Lewis + Ashley Granata = Fashion Week Love! →
Ashley’s first show is in less than two weeks! Can’t wait.
Charitini Helps Children Pay For School. →
soupsoup:
A great idea and a great cause. Click the link for more information.
Thursday, January 29, 2009. The day that the...
“We believe that relationships change, and users should be able to have the friend list respect those changes without the pressure of a public notification,” Ms. Barker said.
Nor does Facebook care to be a party to what might be called punitive unfriending, banishing someone from your network for violating one or more of your personal rules of conduct. Perhaps someone annoys you by posting an...
Just fucking fuck me, already. [Best of... →
(via nickmcglynn)
So what’s the over/under on this post actually being written by a man?
“In a rare move, the president spent more than two hours meeting with the...”
– Obama, Visiting G.O.P. Lawmakers, Is Open to Some Compromise on Stimulus
Can any move be considered “rare” when the President’s been in office a week?
Watchjohncarney:
Lads and lasses: it is on.
(Adventures in slideshows. What happened on my first day working from home again.)
Weird Moments in the Presidential Transition. Part...
Former Fugee John Forte is out of prison. Thanks to George Bush and the Republican Senator from Utah, Orin Hatch.
First Day Out of Prison [Daily Beast]
““I feel like a homeless person without a cardboard box,” said one of the men,...”
– Has one verbal exchange ever so well encapsulated the special ennui that pervades the CraPennSta* neighborhood of New York City?
In Midtown, the Return of a Barfly’s Paradise [NYT]
*CrAPennSta (The Crap Around Penn Station) roughly covers the streets between 42nd and 30th and avenuess between...
Should Michelle Obama Get A Salary As First Lady? →
(More Frisky posting from me)
“dbaz
12:19
dude
james is getting kicked out of a bar right now for the best...”
– (via leted)
I finally saw Vicky Christina Barcelona tonight.
And I am so impressed with Woody Allen’s skill in adapting this Onion article to the big screen.
youngmanhattanite:
Rex Sorgatz did what you didn’t have the guts to do and that’s why you don’t like him.
Rex Sorgatz wrote this post.
“Such mopey, wide-eyed vulnerability—whether real or an act—would prove to be catnip to New York women.”
Proof: the female populace has been drugged.
Caroline Kennedy And Sarah Palin: They Are A Lot A... →
I write for The Frisky now.
City Girl
My piece on “The City” is up at Culture 11.
Watchcaro:
Carney: I put [my phone] on the table because my pockets are full. Alli: Of what? Carney: Money.
I believe the full quote was “Money … baby.”
Broken Window at the Unemployment Office
New York State is having trouble keeping up with the requests for unemployment. But at least unemployment office employees are finding work!
In early December, the state Labor Department doubled its staff of representatives who field calls about unemployment benefits and extended their working hours in response to growing wait times on the phone lines, Mr. Rosales said.
State’s Unemployment...
“‘I like the fact that people are sort of commenting on my...”
– Mark Jacobs, on his transformation into a buff John Waters. [Telegraph]
“A person who works six hours a day but with total focus has an enormous...”
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The Wrestler
soupsoup:
Highly overrated. I guess if you’re a hair metal, 80s conneissuer who digs wrestling it will be your Citizen Kane. If not, like me, you’ll likely find it to be on par with a bad Lifetime movie for washed up juiceheads.
I’m confused. You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Finally, a use for diet drinks. Things I've...
Times Square at New Year’s isn’t so bad, if you know someone who will let you walk onto 44th and Broadway at 11:40P on December 31. You can be a cougar at the ripe old age of 22. Pedicabs are incredibly useful for holiday drinking. Though you might want to bring a heater along in the winter. There are some people you need to see on New Year’s Eve/Day to make sure that...