“The type of fame that Elvis had, and that I think Michael Jackson has, the pressure of it, and the isolation that it seems to require, has gotta be really painful. I wasn’t gonna let that happen to me. I wasn’t gonna get to a place where I said, ‘I can’t go in here. I [...]
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Rawle: would a pat’s/geno’s lover use words like ‘opulent’?
me: if they’re mary they might
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If you’ve seen me the past few days, you’ve probably asked me (or at least yourself), “What happened to your face?” Or, in Lily’s case, “Did you get rhinoplasty?”
I didn’t, in fact, get a nose job. (And if I had, I wouldn’t have picked the schnoz that’s currently stuck on my mug.)
No.
I got hit in [...]
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Over the course of my reading life, I’ve come to enjoy book reviews. Especially the post-factum reading of such reviews, where I finish the book then pit my observational skills against those paid to have them.
Unfortunately, my review-reading life has had some hiccups. Some incessant, ugly and Brave New World-esque hiccups. I’ve stumbled upon a [...]
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A special conversation with Lesley, who is my favorite
Lesley: I am going on south beach, am doing well today except whatever sauces were in my salad today
me: me too i think. i had fruit for breakfast and a salad for lunch
but tonight i am having indian and wine. so there, as they say, goes that
Lesley: [...]
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Now, I love Anthropologie as much as the next girl suffering from delusions of what she can / cannot afford. But ever since I subscribed to their eNewsletter, I’ve come to realize that their copy writer must be the craziest devotchka in town.
For starters, note how the “travel trinkets” from South Africa and Swaziland crept [...]
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“Whole fish,” read the menu, “with mango salsa and broccoli.”
“Well that sounds superb,” I thought. “But whole fish…whole fish…they can’t mean bones and all,” I reasoned with my appetite, “because that would just ruin it.”
Here’s a classic example of Pish de Luxe not asking a question she doesn’t want the answer to.
The point is, if [...]
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