Gossip Girl, alpha version

Your namesake television show will return to online streaming after the new season premieres September 1st. Apparently, taking it off the internet didn’t cause the intended spike in real-live viewers; instead, it increased bootleg streaming online. I was worrying about what I’d watch during my bouts of insomnia once I’m caught up on Arrested Development, [...]

Women & Diminishing Returns

Last year, an enterprising, twenty-something female advertised herself on Craigslist as a potential wife for a wealthy (500k+/year) New Yorker. The ad was quickly re-posted on Dealbreaker, and attacked by self-righteous financiers. While her ad (re-posted below) was a total joke, the men’s responses were far more outrageous.
A male friend recently confessed to me that, [...]

A nice little interview from Times Sunday Styles Magazine with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant. She talks about her inspiration to become a costume designer, Mad Men clothing styles and the elegance of the period. If you haven’t been watching – you should just relegate yourself to total uncoolness. AMC 10:00 pm on Sundays.

Gender Hurdles

Surfing the web at 3:30 am this morning while watching “Groundhog Day” – which I found rather repetitive ; ) – I happened upon this very interesting and rather disturbing article about gender testing for the Olympic Games. In truth, I have always been wary of this international sports contest. I understand the amazing [...]

World’s Worst (and worst kept) Cultural Shame Secret

i didn’t go to amherst college…
-gg

Cultural Shame Secret

I used to want Obama to win  (while it still mattered in the primaries, but then I voted for HRC)
I HATE Sex and The City
I will come up with better ones soon.

Chick-lit hall of shame

I just picked up this great game from New York Mag’s Vulture blog- they’re calling it what’s your cultural secret shame?, and this post totally needs to turn into the chick-lit version of it. 
Here’s how it works:
You pick a category-for example, books-, then each player has to admit which book they’re embarassed to never have read [...]

It’s Spelled Blogher…

Maybe we should all start posting as men, George Eliot steez. Is it that we are women that our blogs aren’t taking off? Is it that we are bad writers? Or is it simply that we talk about things that (less than half) the population couldn’t give a shit about like breast-feeding?
Check it out in [...]

Major Article on the “Powerful” Women of F.L.D.S

Got to check out an article on F.L.D.S in the New York Times Sunday Mag preview, the slide show is great too. Consider whether these women are powerful or not in the eyes of the state, U.S. citizens and the men of their community.

Where did Holly go?

let’s see what our good friends over at the Times have to say about the newest batch of chicklit to hit the shelves…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/fashion/24PLOT.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“You can’t write a fashionable comedy about married girls who have two children and are approaching 40″ – truer words were ne’er spoken.