On Jane Austen: Popular For The Wrong Reasons
What a class act. I wish she would do a video book (as opposed to an audio book) and punctuate everything with those little hand flourishes around me all the time.
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On Some People Send Angry Emails!
Why is everyone hating on poor Jack Kerouac? I guess Gavin and all y'all are more sophisticated than me, but I think anything that makes me feel as magical and totally OK with the world as his stuff made me feel in high school is something more than typing.
Also, I like drunks. Especially the ones drowning in their own bile.
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On Are People Really As Stupid As NYT Break-Up Article Suggests?
Right! I save my smut for the internet.
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On Are People Really As Stupid As NYT Break-Up Article Suggests?
I don't buy that they're shared "to build intimacy." Agreed. I think sharing passwords is a conscious or unconscious bid for SERIOUS DRAMA. So that when your favorite crime series goes on hiatus, you can spice things up with a sudden discovery of how high school ex-boyfriend Dave is having lunch with your wife on Friday.
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On Are People Really As Stupid As NYT Break-Up Article Suggests?
Erg, I have to say that I assume with my married friends that whatever I say to one is going straight to the other, joint email account or not. Which explains the content-less-ness of my conversations with them a lot.
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On The Sartorialist Speaks
Yup! It's just like the magic of silent movie glamour. Everything looks so much more perfect when it's on "mute"...
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On The Sartorialist Speaks
A bit repressed-frat-boyish, I thought.
One of the best career moves Kate Moss ever made was to stay mum. Almost always. Maybe Mr. Sart will go back to cool, glossy, and silent, too.
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On Manhattan's Vintage Stores Stay Eating It
My advice to coastal vintage lovers would be to take a vacation to the Midwest. (Come on, everyone has a friend or relative to visit who is languishing out there.) And stock up on fantastic clothes for something like $3 a pop at the thrifts there. For your bedbug-squeamish pleasure/horror: I one bought an awesome vintage Ralph Lauren polka-dotted bathing suit for $6. Didn't even wash it! Splash! Into the pool!
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On Alex Balk's New Year's Resolution
This is a good idea, and a resolution similar to my own. But here's what's been nagging me: What happens to one's sense of humor when the joy muscle gets flexed regularly? Is there a funny that isn't black? If I try to start regularly consuming non-black funny, will it taste like aspartame?
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On Everybody Has Less Than Somebody, So Let's All Kill Each Other
I've worked odd jobs for money off and on since I was 16, so I guess I understand where you're coming from with the whole "kids shoulda done had a better work ethic" thing. But I have a lot of friends who work in creative industries (graphic design, architecture, art publishing) and who have refused to do that. And I realize now that their arguments for going on unemployment rather than getting a temporary yet still full-time exhausting shit job made (and make) really good sense.
A lot of time has to go into producing the kinds of portfolios that those in the arts need to slowly build a career. I don't begrudge them for having the tenacity and the confidence to stick to what they do best and try to eventually get paid for it, using the kind of unemployment that the government set up for just such cases.