On The Bookmobile: An Excerpt from "I Don't Care About Your Band"
I'm also recommending this book to a friend of mine who dates the WORST guys in the history of New York, so that she knows that she is not alone, and that other intelligent, attractive women have been there...something that should be obvious, but sometimes isn't...
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On The Bookmobile: An Excerpt from "I Don't Care About Your Band"
Holy shit, this was amazing. I am buying the book first thing tomorrow.
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On Mike Bloomberg Is Trying To Kill You With Healthiness
I definitely enjoy smoking while eating and drinking, and I think the smoking ban has had a terrible effect on the social interactions in this city -- being able to smoke while drinking is enjoyable for me in a way that standing outside of some bar in Manhattan, especially in cold weather, is not. The way you take puffs in between sips of a drink, and the way conversations go when both people are smoking, is completely different from two non-smokers in a bar or restaurant who can only focus on their food or drink while they're there. There's something tedious about making the culture of New York completely anti-pot and anti-smoking and letting the only legal actions be eating and drinking. And don't get me started on Nora Ephron, who calls herself a "foodie" but admitted to the NYTimes that she is on a very careful diet (similar to Tina Fey's "points" diet, I think).
At some point we have to say that it's none of Bloomberg's business what we eat or drink, and that's the end of it. He clearly does not believe in individual freedoms, and uses dubious secondhand smoke evidence and the rising obesity epidemic to govern our lives that way. And why don't restaurants have the right to decide who can do what on their private property? One important reason Bloomberg keeps winning elections is because the people who should know better somehow end up justifying the things he has done in the name of the health of the city. And yet I still haven't seen a convincing study that proves that secondhand smoke causes the number of deaths that the hardcore anti-smoking activists say it does.
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On Bed Bugs: Is No One Safe?
Oh God, I have been there. The air mattress that makes you feel like you don't have any right to sleep in your overpriced city apartment, worrying about what the guys you're dating will think of you if they find out about the bedbugs, then thinking, "should I be dating this person if I'm worried about them freaking out about my bedbug issue?", then thinking "I can't fucking believe that I'm overthinking my dating life (and choice of friends) because I'm afraid of how they'll react."
Living in fear after you've gotten rid of them ("gotten rid"), reading the horror stories on Bedbugger.com and then getting mad at yourself for doing that, not being able to do anything without thinking about them. I haven't met many people in New York who *aren't* afraid of getting them -- one of the few instances was a few weeks ago, when I met a woman who didn't even know they were a problem in New York. And I pictured her perfect life, free of bedbug worries (well, before she met me, at least) and I was so, so jealous.
Molly, thank you for being so pretty and making the bites look less creepy than they are...I'm amazed. Wtf is wrong with the commenters who are being insulting? A bedbug colony is headed for their box spring soon, if only because of karma.