You’re welcome, America.
I think it’s fair that I take credit for this. (“The U.S. passed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation for the first time, lifted by its larger population and an interest in wine-and-cheese culture among young Americans.”)
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In Defense of Cat Ladies
Like Sloane Crosley, I am a New York City cat lady, at least insofar as I own one cat. Just one. And I wish he were a dog. But cats do make much more sense in the city.
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Fears
Like many of the folks over at NY Mag (and, I suspect, most New York City residents), I also wildly fear being pushed onto the subway tracks, being murdered in the back of a cab, being doored by a parked car, and finding rats in my cupboards. It has also crossed my mind that I [...]
...read moreThe Things We Carry
About four months ago I decided to move from my sunny apartment in San Francisco back to my seaside Maine homeland. Over the course of a month I packed up a life I’d created for myself and shipped it to the other side of the continent. During the packing process I went through a major [...]
...read moreI write like…
Well this is a fun little tool. I put in a variety of different blog posts, and it turns out that I always write like David Foster Wallace. I suppose I do love irony and extremely long sentences, so, I’ll take it.
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Things I would like to do, that I probably could do, but never will do.
-Be an urban bee-keeper. -Make my own ricotta. -Grow tomato plants on my roof. -Can, jar and pickle various things. -Raise chickens. -Keep an orchid alive for more than two weeks. -Be an early-morning runner. -Host dinner parties that involve food I actually cook myself. Barbecues don’t count. -Pot plants. -Prepare food more than 20 [...]
...read moreDating While Feminist
Oh I relate to this interview with Jaclyn Friedman so, so much. She talks about the difficulties of dating while feminist, and how hard it can be to negoatiate your beliefs with your lovelife. I mostly date dudes, and let me tell you: That shit is not easy. Outing oneself as a Feminist Blogger does [...]
...read moreJon and Kate. And Me.
I’ve never seen an episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight, but I’m completely obsessed with the tabloid coverage of their divorce and custody proceedings. Discuss.
...read moreYes Means Yes at Colgate University
Awesome news: Yes Means Yes, an anthology that Cara and I both contributed to, is being used as the basis for a sex education class at Colgate University. Colgate University has introduced an official sexual education class on campus. “Yes Means Yes” is a series of five non-credit classes held on Wednesday evenings over dinner [...]
...read moreShocking news of the day: Cats are useless.
It’s true. I am a notorious cat-hater who also happens to be a cat owner, and I think I can confirm that they have no actual utility beyond sleeping and pooping twice their body weight. Luckily, Percival is half puppy — he follows me around and always wants to cuddle — so I enjoy his [...]
...read moreOn GRITtv with Laura Flanders
The lovely Laura Flanders graciously had me on her show today, along with Mario Murillo and Russ Baker. In small-world strangeness, Mario was my first journalism professor at NYU. It was a great panel, and even though I say “you know” too much, I think it’s worth checking out, if only for the very insightful [...]
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